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« on: February 19, 2018, 06:30:28 PM »
The several areas areas I'm maintaining are outlined as follows.


Firstly the Metacompendium's 3e fixes:
  • Fluff & Optimization Background
  • RAW Reminders
  • RAW Variants
  • Dirty Trick Fixes
  • Campaign-based
  • Noncaster Buffs
  • WBL & Items
  • Caster Nerfs
The first batch aren't really fixes so they are the 0th category. The Campaign based grouping is group 1, followed by 2, 3, and 4. They get more in-depth and important from a balance point of view as you go along. It should be no surprise that nerfing casters requires the most work.




The following are the Resources part of the metacompendium. Mostly of them are player-centric as is normal for 3e, but DMs will find invaluable resources there too. Most all of the area is not my own work. I've collected these from other people, so feel free to 'add' in the discussion thread.
  • Attack Things
  • Caster Lists
  • Class Handbooks
  • Class Indexes
  • Empty Files
  • Feat Things
  • Form Changing
  • GP Things
  • Initiative
  • Miscellaneous
  • Noncaster Lists
  • Other Handbooks
  • Miscellaneous Indexes
  • PrC Stuff
  • Prereqs
  • Race things
  • Rolling
  • Source Things
  • Template things
  • XP Things
The penultimate folder, called 'What Copyright' houses full text listings that probably shouldn't be shared here all in one play to avoid a C&D. But I do have a zip of it, an email, and I respond to PMs. Wink Wink. It includes:
  • the old Crystal Keep PDFs (great for monster filtering)
  • the EVD
  • the psionic powers list
  • my sorting in excel of the full text of 3957 spells
  • The Storm seeker's class bible
  • The Storm seeker's feat bible
  • The Storm seeker's magic item bible
  • The Storm seeker's spell bible
  • All Drag Mag feats & flaws
  • Various screenshots of non-OGL content like the XP breakdowns
You'll want it just for the spell list. The ability to instantly sort every conjuration or every 3rd level spell, or every bard spell, or the highest to lowest spell level ranges is invaluable.





Lastly the Metacompendium also includes saved webpages of every single useful WotC page I could find. Basically if I've ever referenced it in the decades I've been doing 3rd edition optimization, it's in there. So some of the Eberron fluff pages aren't in there, nor are the little tournament summaries; things no one cares about. I have been told other people have a similar, guaranteed to be thorough copy of their own, but I have yet to see it. If someone can provide me a link, please PM me.

It also goes without saying that I have offline copies of the entirety of useful 3rd edition handbooks held in this website's handbook resource area. I offered it to our admins during our last crash. If you'd like the offline version, rather than just the links I use below, PM me.





Then there are things I've done that are outside the metacompendium. These are:
(Note to self, I'm on page 12/99)



tl;dr The metacompendium has 2 parts. One forces balance onto 3e, the other helps you build characters. This subforum additionally stows away things that not everyone might need, but that you might find useful and amusing.
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MetaCompendium Fixes
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2018, 06:36:00 PM »
Metacompendium Fixes Readme:
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Fluff & Optimization Background
1 Oberoni (Rule 0) Fallacy
2 On the Fly Rulings
3 Flavor is Mutable
4 Races Diversity
5 Stormwind (rollplay vs roleplay) Fallacy
6 Adventuring Duration Buffs
7 Job Diversity
8 Optimizer Levels
9 NonDeathmatch Encounters

RAW Reminders
0 Legal Sources
1 Methods of Gaining XP
2 Retraining Abuse
3 Leveling Order
4 Lower Half Tiers Free 1 LA
5 Monsters get better penalties
6 Weapon Sizing & Handedness
7 Stacking the Same Template
8 Spells that force Templates
9 LA Buyoff
10 Pounce doesn't Stack
11 Guidelines for DMPCs
12 Temperature Bands
13 Plane Shifting to Layers
14 Magic Mantle
15 Metaconcert
16 Psychofeedback
17 Power Stone nonRAW abuse
18 Mindsight
19 Sleep Deprivation
20 0th Level Available Spells
21 Genesis et al
22 Weirdstone Large towns
23 Free actions per Round
24 Idols
25 Complete Iconoclasm
26 Dysfunctional Rules Rulings
27 Kaorti Resin
28 All Core Creatures Have An LA Value
29 Leveling Via Scrolls vs WBL
30 WBL Maximum on One item

RAW Variants
Adding to UA Variants
Gestalt X = Non-Gestalt Y
Res Variant
Timestop & SR


Dirty Trick Fixes
The Dirty Trick Handbook Fixes community input. I have more below.
General Feat Nerfs:
Firre Eladrin
Fly By Breath
Lightning Maces is banned
Mantis Leap
Mark of Cania
Pawn in the Great Game
Maneuvers:
Aura of Chaos maneuver
White Raven Tactics is banned
Other:
1 Shadowpounce per Round
Canabilistic ability eaters
Factotum's Cunning Surge
Festering Anger disease
Kobold Age Categories
Phasm's alter self
Powerful Storms
Proficiencies
Regen slash X with X immunity
Save Crystal
Skill quickstep


Campaign-based
C8: (PM me for HTML a la SRD for C8-formatted OGL classes)
C8 (8 level Chassis)
PrCs in C8
Epic in Pre-Epic:
Epic Spells Pre-Epic
Official Classes Buffs:
Aberrant Paragon
Hexblade
Invisible Blade
Shadowcaster
Savage Progressions:
Kaorti Thrall
No LA entry and LA-- races and template interprations
Voidmind Savage Progression
Other:
Action Points are Banned
Base Class Tier Squeezes
Calculating & Comparing Racial ECL
A Finite Cosmology
A Full Cosmology
Damage Cap
DR Stacking
Fair PC LA for DMG2 'NPC' Templates
Feats that Should Be Free
Generic Classes
LA for LA-- Templates (Unfinished)
Monster Difficulty
PrC Tier Squeezing
Retroactive Int
Swarmfighting & Aid Another
Planar Time Traits
Weapon Statistic Reverse Engineering

Noncaster Buffs
Appraise
Armor Bonus PHB124 table
Chassis Changes
Craft, Perform & Profession
Defensiveness
Diplomacy
ECL Variant
Evasion for Non-Damage Effects
Free Improved TWF
Heal Skill
Iteratives
Lack of Spell Level Bonii
Martial Stance
Noncasters may count RHD towards LA Buyoff
Point Buy Discrimination
Wielding for Magic Items
Protection from Energy
Racial traits and Feature Options
Skill Point Flexibilitiy
Truenamer Fixes
Uncanny Dodge
Untrained Skills

WBL & Items
Major Artifacts
Ammo Enhancement
Dead Character Wealth
Dropping Items
Dust of Sneezing and Choking
Manyfanged Dagger
Minimum Caster Level
Mirror of Opposition, Aleax, et al
Monk's Belt
No Custom Items or Traps
Retributive Amulet
Slotless Item and Magic Stacking
Slotless Item Costs
Spellblade Tennis
Stacking Extra or Nondimensions
Starmantle Cloak
Strict WBL
Thought Bottle
Vow of Poverty
Wands, Scrolls, Staves, Djores
Weapons of Legacy

Caster Nerfs
Base Class Features:

Feats:

Polymorph Line:

PrCs:

Specific Spells:

Other:

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Re: Subforum Table of Contents
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2018, 12:53:17 PM »
Resources Index

Attack Things:

Caster Lists:
Spellcasting Requirements

Class Handbooks:

Class Indexes:

Empty Files:

Feat Things:

Form Changing:

GP Things:

Initiative:

Miscellaneous:

Noncaster Lists:

Other Handbooks:

Miscellaneous Indexes:

PrC Stuff:

Prereqs:

Race things:

Rolling:

Source Things:

Template things:

XP Things:

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Re: Subforum Table of Contents
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2018, 12:58:01 PM »
Full-text reproductions of copyrighted material are of course not available here, nor am I also not going to be rehosting all the WotC crunch webpages, nor am I going to try to host my copies of all the useful Handbooks already housed here.

So outside the metacompendium, here is an index of my useful threads:


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Re: Subforum Table of Contents
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2018, 01:01:12 PM »
Lastly here are quotes and unposted builds of mine (that I guess I'll slowly move to separate threads):


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Re: Subforum Table of Contents
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2018, 01:02:17 PM »
I would say this post is reserved, but it's not really. Go post in my centralized response thread, please. Just cut what you get when you hit the quote button, and paste it over there after you hit reply.

Halfway done with the fixes (yes the caster nerfs are 50+% of the total entries). 15 pages of fixes should be complete when I spend another twelve hours on this. And then the 3 browsers full of tabs. Then the other threads & posts. Then the folder of amassed D&D stuff. Oy.
      

Firing back up the engines #2:
It's been a month since I was told "I should stop caring so much" about this. I figured a month was a nice example of how I've still got the freight train stopped. It's still easy to hop off, for me.

Firing back up the engines #1:
Aaand test thread deleted. Getting shit on before I even start... So much for a light mood. And a migraine to boot. During the few hour wait, queue 30 posts of "THIS IS ALL YOU GOT?". Despite 600 files in the fixes section of what was already released... So I figured I'd start it off myself.

Actually that makes me want to purposely plop in all the non-metacompendium stuff first so to see how vulgar and over the top the responses get. Thanks for the demotivation osl