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Introduce Yourself / Re: Thanks for noticing me.

« on: March 06, 2012, 04:00:34 AM »

It seems I left this too bare.
Other games I have enjoyed. D20 Modern, White Wolf (Werewolf, Vampire, Demon), Various Steve Jackson Games, Settlers of Catan, Magic the Gathering (sold my cards a while back).
I enjoy the some computer RPG's mostly from my youth: Final Fantasy 1-6, CronoTrigger, Might and Magic series, Diablo series etc.
Authors I enjoy: Issac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Douglas Adams.
Musical Genres: Baroque, Classical, Death Metal, Industrial, New Wave
I am "working" towards undergrads in psychology, sociology, and criminal justice.
I enjoy theology though I am a skeptic and an atheist.
I am happily divorced.

Handbook Discussion / Re: The Marvelous Marshal Handbook Discussion

« on: March 06, 2012, 01:27:52 AM »

Small nitpick:

Quote from: StreamOfTheSky on March 05, 2012, 05:53:20 PM

Motivate Care: I know the boards like to say "AC is worthless, just get miss chance." But for a lot of groups and IME, AC is useful. You rate motivate attack highly, but for a party with typicla role variance, there will only be a few melee attackers, possibly a ranged, and some casters who may or may not melee at all. Motivate Care buffs everyone in the group constantly. And as an untyped AC bonus it should add to touch AC, which is always nice. It's my favorite major aura.

On page 13 of the Miniatures Handbook it states "All bonuses granted by a marshal's aura's are circumstance bonuses that do not stack with each other."
That said, it being a circumstance bonus it would stack with any other bonus including other circumstance bonuses to AC (providing they are not from another marshal with the same aura). So it should apply to overall, touch, and flat-footed AC

Introduce Yourself / Thanks for noticing me.

« on: March 06, 2012, 12:50:40 AM »

This is my required post to gain the right to make non-required posts.
I am currently in the Indianapolis Indiana area.
I play D&D 3.5 but I have been known to enjoy a few other tabletop rpg's.
I enjoy power gaming mid tier classes.
My hobbies include: smoking tobacco, ~~screaming at~~ building computers, wishing I had a better job, and pretending like I am going to finish my degree.
I don't like social media sites.