Min/Max Boards

Necra follows silently. (or as silently as a giant steam robot can) Wary for attacks.

Just watched someone fall off a pier and into a lake playing pokemon go. Comedy gold.

Necra sees Hrothgar sheath his sword and stands down. Watching the newcomers with suspicion safe in the knowledge that drawing a weapon takes significantly more time than a claw attack.

It's mostly about standardizing the parts that are large quantities of numbers that are subtly different from each other. It would be nice to be able to tell roughly what you're getting when you talk about a dragon of age category X in terms of overall power level and pure statistics. There's still plenty of room for the basic dragon to be different and for dragon-specific features to scale up and grow more different with age, still enabling each dragon type to have its own distinct flavor and specialties.

I'm not trying to say dragons should be all the same. I'm just trying to have a sort of presentation that separates out the parts that are actually unique and doesn't try to mix them in with the things that are the same for everyone.

One thing I thought of for this idea is an expanded range of age categories with each racial type getting a +/- on where they start but they all cap at great wyrm.

That you have a unified lookup table for your dragons whilst maintaining the differences in power between variations.

Say the table has 20 sets of stats on it, dragons have 12 age categories. Have wyrmling white dragons start at set 1 and advance to set 12 and wyrmling gold dragons start at set 3 or 4 and advance. If it is designed with enough space you can even fit the Epic dragons on the table.

That said, it would only be useful for basic stat blocks. Size, ability scores etc. Each type of dragon would need to exist as a weird kind of template.

Well, I could impose a CL penalty on it if it's to much of a power bonus to casters. But that creates it'own problem...

As for the Int req... how about "Int, Cha, or Wis 16"... then it's equal opportunity for all casters..


Anyways how about if I add this:
"For every additional spell, past the first, cast in this way treat your Caster Level as 2 lower until the start of your next turn."

So if you only cast 1 spell using these feats you cast at your ful CL, but if you cast 2  or more you cast at -2 per spell to a maximum penalty of -6 at 4 spells?

There is really no way to balance this as it stands, it is wildly broken.
Quicken spell is the existing option and it is nowhere near as powerful as this, not even remotely.

The only way I can see of balancing this is forcing this to only apply to spontaneous spellcasters and applying incremental penalties to the spell level of the spells you are casting. That way it works as something like a super quicken spell and stops you from spamming maximum level spells.

Something along the lines of:

At the beginning of your turn you may announce that you are using a spell barrage. If you do, you may cast any number of spells as free actions this turn. Increase the spell level of each spell by 2 plus an additional 2 for each spell you have previously cast this turn.

That way a 20th level sorcerer could cast a 7th level spell (+2) a 5th level spell (+4) a 3rd level spell (+6) and a 1st level spell (+8) in one round but doing so would cost you 4 9th level spell slots.

Even that might be a bit much.

you go where the money is or criticism is little to nonexistent?

I resubbed to woW tonight....

I feel that pain, I resubbed last week to prepare for the new expansion... WoW is a vortex that eats time.

- To Necra: "How would you describe the sizzle of that soul-burning engine? Is it more of a 'sizzle-pop' or a 'waagh eternalagonyandutlimatedespair'? My ears are excellent, but there's an entirely different acoustic situation for an outside observer compared to you yourself with it happening inside your own body. And be honest, this is for posterity."

Think steam engine with the slightest hint of brief but unimaginable agony. Though only shortly after consuming a soul, most of the time its just a low rumble.

One plus side: if a deathjack kills someone you can be fairly certain they aren't coming back, having your soul consumed makes you difficult to resurrect.

You can fix the audio bug by disabling reverb in the options.