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The Devil's in the Details: Slavicsek reveals the Pit Fiend in all its glory
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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4020718" data-attributes="member: 1054"><p>A lot of it comes down to preference. Weird Alien Critters, esp. things like Slaads, might well give rise to odd mutations. A Death Storm is born a Death Storm; end of story. But when you say "Hobgoblin warcasters are the result of intense training", and the PC says "I want me some of that training!" and the DM has to say "Uh...no. Can't work. Take your wizard levels and LIKE them!", I have issues. (And if you say, "OK, suck down the ECL, if that's what you want", how do you then "upgrade" them to WarSouls?)</p><p></p><p>I admit we're talking taste here. And I know a lot of people don't hug themselves in glee over mountains-o-crunch the way I do. I'd be happy if someone said, "Well, there's a lot of Warcaster-like stuff in the 4e MM. But you know what? We didn't just pull it all out of our asses, and we've got 10 pages of rules for that, just for crunch-happy DMs, that will be posted on Gleemax once the book is released, so you can see how everything breaks down in ways you can use to build NPCs or PCs. Those who don't have crunchgasms can just fake it using the MM as a guideline."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4020718, member: 1054"] A lot of it comes down to preference. Weird Alien Critters, esp. things like Slaads, might well give rise to odd mutations. A Death Storm is born a Death Storm; end of story. But when you say "Hobgoblin warcasters are the result of intense training", and the PC says "I want me some of that training!" and the DM has to say "Uh...no. Can't work. Take your wizard levels and LIKE them!", I have issues. (And if you say, "OK, suck down the ECL, if that's what you want", how do you then "upgrade" them to WarSouls?) I admit we're talking taste here. And I know a lot of people don't hug themselves in glee over mountains-o-crunch the way I do. I'd be happy if someone said, "Well, there's a lot of Warcaster-like stuff in the 4e MM. But you know what? We didn't just pull it all out of our asses, and we've got 10 pages of rules for that, just for crunch-happy DMs, that will be posted on Gleemax once the book is released, so you can see how everything breaks down in ways you can use to build NPCs or PCs. Those who don't have crunchgasms can just fake it using the MM as a guideline." [/QUOTE]
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