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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2901744" data-attributes="member: 9410">Improvements Needed:Things that need to change with Oathbound (IMHO, of course!):First of all, bad decisions/game design.  Yes!  There are some!  As one example, any Prestige Class/Race which invalidates a large portion of a PC is bad, IMHO.  The Stalker PrC's ability to disappear while in the city seems to do this...  Regardless of the number of ranks in Spot, you can never see a Stalker?  That sits very poorly, with me (especially since my PC has the skill maxed out, and feels emasculated enough)!  You may disagree, but I call that bad game design!  (Yeah, in the good ol', skill-less, 1e days, Invisibility only gave you a -4 to hit... none of this "+20 to Hide, and you must beat the DC by 20 or more to know exactly where the Invisible creature is located" BS!)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  Blindfighting reduced it to -2, as well...  Paladins not being able to use their Detect Evil class ability without losing INT points is another example.The Setting Disagrees with Itself: This is just sloppiness, boys!  In the Oathbound hardback, Israfel punishes anyone causing a Sinking with instant death.  In Wrack & Ruin, IIRC, she is "secretly pleased" with it!  In the adventure in the same book, I believe, we see Colopitiron requiring a promise from the PCs to return his sword to him, and then they feel all tingly, and this is supposed to be an activation of a Binding Oath spell (whatever it's called), and yet... when we go and look that up, it requires a WRITTEN contract!  Also, in that same book, I believe, the PCs are exploring the maze when they come upon a light, and encounter a time anomoly to Annoxus' time, before he slew Colopitiron... but wait!  Isn't that supposed to be a setting secret?!?  How are the PCs supposed to know what to do, here?!?  There are many more similar situations spread out through the various books (and I have barely skimmed most of them)!  Israfel, etc., being able to Teleport, while PCs risk INT Damage to do the same is yet another example.Sodomy: Without getting into Grandma-unfriendly territory, here, I have often wondered who on the BP staff is the flaming gay (and not just when looking at Oathbound products, either - A&H gave me the same impression).  While I'm sure that there is 1/2 of 1% of gamers that this actually attracts, I'm also sure that there is 50% or so that it turns OFF.  Tone it down, at the very least!Prestige Classes/Races: My Least-Favorite part of 3.xe!  I want my PC classes to be pretigious,!!!  Why do I have to give up a level of my class to gain prestige, and become weaker than any other PC for refusing to?!?  This has long been a problem, for me.  I thought the original "Buy The Numbers" prestige "races" were a kind of solution to that problem... but no more!  Oh well!  I guess that's going to remain my problem, as long as I play 3.xe!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />The Whole "No One Can Know Their Alignment!" Thing:  Boundy... and his Flock...  C'mon, just admit that they have an Evil alignment, and get on with it.  Unbelievable (to me) that the GM's book (O<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />otF) doesn't even tell the GM!  How is he supposed to know how to RP the eight?!?I'm sure there are other problems, but those are the major ones that I can think of, right now...  It would be nice if some, most, or all of them could be fixed in a 3.5e update, if there ever is one!Good luck with the product line, and I hope to see Wi;dwood in print, soon (I have all the rest)!</blockquote>

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