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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9843352" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Truenamer is legitimately the most broken class in 3.5e, which is a remarkable achievement given how bad 3.5e's design gets. However, unlike most broken things, it's broken because it genuinely doesn't work. Like it is actually unplayable as written. You have to bend or even occasionally break the class's own rules just to get something vaguely playable.So, yes, Truenamer is Bruno, we don't talk about it.Shadowcaster is just a somewhat pigeonholed themed caster, one amongst several in later-era 3.5e. It's not that we don't talk about it; it's that there's hardly much to talk about. Like the Dread Necromancer or Beguiler, it was much too little, far too late. Folks knew they could do better with just core classes, so the only people who went for these were the already-adventurous types.Well that's...sort of an unavoidable problem with this type of power?Because what you're doing is very literally telling the GM "Rewrite your divine casters' sheets whenever you like, however you like, as much as you like, and they aren't allowed to say no or even complain lest they lose all of their abilities completely." That only works as a default, everyone-does-this thing when you can be certain that nearly 100% of GMs will use that power exclusively for good ends, or avoid using it at all.I think you can see why that doesn't work. Even if only 20% of GMs abuse that power, it's 19.9 percentage points too many.</blockquote>

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