Min/Max Boards

I've posted this on a thread at the gitp boards, as yesterday I had a burst of inspiration, so I'll repost that here, too.

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As for rogues, tough that could work for a lot of other classes, an idea is to give it a class ability, something akin to "always prepared". May be a bit too much metagaming, but other than that, it sounds fun.

It goes like this, when the rogue can spend some of his wealth(ahem, city visits, ye olde wandering magic shoppe too), he can invest some of it on his "always prepared" feature. That should be limited by his rogue levels, but I'm not too sure on the amount. Then, when adventuring, you can use that to "buy" stuff that would be handy.
Let's say your cleric got negative levels and someone(Or something) turned your wizard into stone, you could then, as you're always prepared, pull a scroll of stone to flesh out of your pocket and UMD that. There should be a limit on the number of items you can pull out with this trick, tough.

Sounds like fun, especially with all those situational mundane equipment that usually never sees the light of the day. Still, as I said, that'd be quite a bit of metagaming, but I like this feel of a guy who is ready for everything. Even if his player wasn't really ready for that.

That was written at 5 AM, just before going to sleep, so if anything is too off, please tell.

Cold Immunity

A creature with cold immunity never takes cold damage. It has vulnerability to fire, which means it takes half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from fire, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure.

...requiring the wearer to remove the armor and thaw it (this can also be done more quickly if the wearer is willing to be the target of a fire-based spell that does at least as much damage as the cold-based attack did).

Quote from: skydragonknight on November 11, 2011, 11:32:42 AM

Quote from: Basket Burner on November 11, 2011, 10:54:25 AM

Having a precision damage build come online at level 15 is like being 60 minutes late for a 1 hour meeting. You missed everything. You're late.

First one is a casual, one-trick pony build any novice could make at any table and be accepted. Late arrival is the unfortunate consequence of crazy BAB requirements for Bounding Assault and nothing granting Skirmish with Full BAB except a PrC that requires it to begin with.

That's the problem I'm afraid. Casual and non caster are like oil and water. They don't mix. But that's part of the problem with Spring Attack and similar. You lose damage by losing attacks, and don't really gain anything for it. There's pretty much nothing they do that Travel Devotion + Flyby Attack doesn't do much better and cheaper. The main problem though is only coming into its own right around the time where its thing stops working entirely.

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Second one is designed to follow the same principles as the first while not being a one-trick pony (and thus, better playability before the main trick), though it's still strongest when precision damage applies.

But it's Spring Attack...the most you can really do is make it suck less.

The second one is better. I'm not familiar with every component of it so I won't comment in depth. Still, you already know this so I am preaching to the choir.

Moon: They're not dying because of [basket weaver argument]. They're dying (or at least not helping) because their numbers are too low to hit the averages. In other words, they don't hit the baseline. The impartial baseline, that you can't blame others for, so stop trying to blame others for your own shortcomings.

And that means that at level 5 you might very well be taking on the Ogre Brothers, or a Manticore or something. And you're supposed to easily deal with them, so if they easily deal with you instead that's a problem with you.