Quote from: Omen of Peace on February 11, 2014, 09:45:50 AMThe Dreaming Blindfold (MIC):"If you are also wearing a psicrown (EPH169), you can target the recipient of the dream or nightmare with a single psionic power generated by the psicrown as if you were adjacent to that creature. However, the power costs twice the normal number of power points and renders the dreaming blindfold inert for seven days."It seems like a nice way to assassinate someone from afar. You probably can't use powers that require you to touch the creature, which makes me sad because I'd have liked to be able to teleport the target as well (sleeping implies willing).But note that technically it works even if the target is protected against mind-affecting effects, and doesn't sleep: you just need to target it with Dream (which might fail immediately).You can do the same thing via the Remote Viewing power. They do need to fail the initial save for Remote Viewing, but since you have a virtual presence there (and can even be attacked), I'd think you could use touch spells (or just about anything).
The Dreaming Blindfold (MIC):"If you are also wearing a psicrown (EPH169), you can target the recipient of the dream or nightmare with a single psionic power generated by the psicrown as if you were adjacent to that creature. However, the power costs twice the normal number of power points and renders the dreaming blindfold inert for seven days."It seems like a nice way to assassinate someone from afar. You probably can't use powers that require you to touch the creature, which makes me sad because I'd have liked to be able to teleport the target as well (sleeping implies willing).But note that technically it works even if the target is protected against mind-affecting effects, and doesn't sleep: you just need to target it with Dream (which might fail immediately).
SRD is 2004http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35Divine Abilities and FeatsFEATSDeities can obtain the feats described here, in addition to any standard feats.My interpretation:Deities can take the 'unerrata'/OP versionPlayers are left with the errata'd sword and fist version
Is there an updated version of Knock-down? I'm asking because I don't see it talked about often but I think its good as fuck.
Quote from: Garryl on January 02, 2014, 03:04:18 PMQuote from: Nytemare3701 on January 02, 2014, 12:57:31 PMQuote from: Meiliken on January 02, 2014, 12:50:05 PMQuote from: Garryl on January 02, 2014, 12:30:05 PMNo, it's ECL +2, which, since it includes 2 RHD, is equivalent to LA +0. That's how it was written in 3.0. Races didn't differentiate between RHD and LA, they just gave it to you as one lump sum. I remember seeing some races somewhere that even had ECL modifiers less than their total RHD, which would mean a negative LA in 3.5 terms.Personally I always thought the differences between LA and RHD never did make sense. Like one that takes half dragon with LA +3 but no RHD. Yeah they have all these nifty abilities, but oh no, you sneeze in their direction and they're dead. Starting ECL of 4th, but as a lvl 1 character, means you've pathetic HD. I've always ruled it as being whatever the LA is, that's how many RHD they get, otherwise, the entire LA/RHD system is broken in a bad way, not a good way.I like this idea. How does it work normally? (My group has a running ban on anything with RHD since nobody understood them)Normally, both RHD and LA count towards your character level when determining your ECL (and thus how much xp you earn and how much it takes to level up). However, RHD are like actual character levels in a class with no class features (you get HP, skills, BAB, and saves according to your creature type, and they count towards feats, skill rank maximums, not dying to Cloudkill, etc.). If you only have 1 RHD at character creation, you can even trade it in for a full-fledged class level. However, if you have more than that (2+ RHD), you're stuck with them, and they come first before any class levels so your low level feats can't use your class features for prerequisites (since you won't have them yet), and it's your RHD's skill points that are multiplied by 4 at 1st level, not your first class's skill points. Some things with enough RHD can get you high enough level to meet the prerequisites for some PrCs, letting you skip taking base classes entirely.LA is just a blank, where you get nothing (no HP, skills, BAB, saves, feats, max ranks, etc.). On the other hand, you can buy off your LA if you use the rules in Unearthed Arcana, which involves spending extra experience points at certain levels (the exact nature of which I kinda understand, sort of, but not well enough to explain).Neither LA nor RHD count against you for multiclass penalties if you use them. You could have, say, 10 RHD, +5 LA, and 1 level each of Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard (not that you should ever do this), and you'll still get your full experience, albeit only the experience that a level 18 character would earn.Ok, so we WERE doing it right, it just sucked that hard.
Quote from: Nytemare3701 on January 02, 2014, 12:57:31 PMQuote from: Meiliken on January 02, 2014, 12:50:05 PMQuote from: Garryl on January 02, 2014, 12:30:05 PMNo, it's ECL +2, which, since it includes 2 RHD, is equivalent to LA +0. That's how it was written in 3.0. Races didn't differentiate between RHD and LA, they just gave it to you as one lump sum. I remember seeing some races somewhere that even had ECL modifiers less than their total RHD, which would mean a negative LA in 3.5 terms.Personally I always thought the differences between LA and RHD never did make sense. Like one that takes half dragon with LA +3 but no RHD. Yeah they have all these nifty abilities, but oh no, you sneeze in their direction and they're dead. Starting ECL of 4th, but as a lvl 1 character, means you've pathetic HD. I've always ruled it as being whatever the LA is, that's how many RHD they get, otherwise, the entire LA/RHD system is broken in a bad way, not a good way.I like this idea. How does it work normally? (My group has a running ban on anything with RHD since nobody understood them)Normally, both RHD and LA count towards your character level when determining your ECL (and thus how much xp you earn and how much it takes to level up). However, RHD are like actual character levels in a class with no class features (you get HP, skills, BAB, and saves according to your creature type, and they count towards feats, skill rank maximums, not dying to Cloudkill, etc.). If you only have 1 RHD at character creation, you can even trade it in for a full-fledged class level. However, if you have more than that (2+ RHD), you're stuck with them, and they come first before any class levels so your low level feats can't use your class features for prerequisites (since you won't have them yet), and it's your RHD's skill points that are multiplied by 4 at 1st level, not your first class's skill points. Some things with enough RHD can get you high enough level to meet the prerequisites for some PrCs, letting you skip taking base classes entirely.LA is just a blank, where you get nothing (no HP, skills, BAB, saves, feats, max ranks, etc.). On the other hand, you can buy off your LA if you use the rules in Unearthed Arcana, which involves spending extra experience points at certain levels (the exact nature of which I kinda understand, sort of, but not well enough to explain).Neither LA nor RHD count against you for multiclass penalties if you use them. You could have, say, 10 RHD, +5 LA, and 1 level each of Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard (not that you should ever do this), and you'll still get your full experience, albeit only the experience that a level 18 character would earn.
Quote from: Meiliken on January 02, 2014, 12:50:05 PMQuote from: Garryl on January 02, 2014, 12:30:05 PMNo, it's ECL +2, which, since it includes 2 RHD, is equivalent to LA +0. That's how it was written in 3.0. Races didn't differentiate between RHD and LA, they just gave it to you as one lump sum. I remember seeing some races somewhere that even had ECL modifiers less than their total RHD, which would mean a negative LA in 3.5 terms.Personally I always thought the differences between LA and RHD never did make sense. Like one that takes half dragon with LA +3 but no RHD. Yeah they have all these nifty abilities, but oh no, you sneeze in their direction and they're dead. Starting ECL of 4th, but as a lvl 1 character, means you've pathetic HD. I've always ruled it as being whatever the LA is, that's how many RHD they get, otherwise, the entire LA/RHD system is broken in a bad way, not a good way.I like this idea. How does it work normally? (My group has a running ban on anything with RHD since nobody understood them)
Quote from: Garryl on January 02, 2014, 12:30:05 PMNo, it's ECL +2, which, since it includes 2 RHD, is equivalent to LA +0. That's how it was written in 3.0. Races didn't differentiate between RHD and LA, they just gave it to you as one lump sum. I remember seeing some races somewhere that even had ECL modifiers less than their total RHD, which would mean a negative LA in 3.5 terms.Personally I always thought the differences between LA and RHD never did make sense. Like one that takes half dragon with LA +3 but no RHD. Yeah they have all these nifty abilities, but oh no, you sneeze in their direction and they're dead. Starting ECL of 4th, but as a lvl 1 character, means you've pathetic HD. I've always ruled it as being whatever the LA is, that's how many RHD they get, otherwise, the entire LA/RHD system is broken in a bad way, not a good way.
No, it's ECL +2, which, since it includes 2 RHD, is equivalent to LA +0. That's how it was written in 3.0. Races didn't differentiate between RHD and LA, they just gave it to you as one lump sum. I remember seeing some races somewhere that even had ECL modifiers less than their total RHD, which would mean a negative LA in 3.5 terms.
Going back to the Uncanny Trickster/Legacy Champion talk... Apply one to Abjurant Champion, and the other to the one applied to AC. Proceed to laugh at how huge the bonuses from Abjurant Armor get on the right spells.
Quote from: Jackinthegreen on February 12, 2014, 10:32:06 PMGoing back to the Uncanny Trickster/Legacy Champion talk... Apply one to Abjurant Champion, and the other to the one applied to AC. Proceed to laugh at how huge the bonuses from Abjurant Armor get on the right spells.Congratulations! 1/20 of the time you get hit by a sword, no effect on touch AC.
Quote from: Raineh Daze on February 12, 2014, 10:35:53 PMQuote from: Jackinthegreen on February 12, 2014, 10:32:06 PMGoing back to the Uncanny Trickster/Legacy Champion talk... Apply one to Abjurant Champion, and the other to the one applied to AC. Proceed to laugh at how huge the bonuses from Abjurant Armor get on the right spells.Congratulations! 1/20 of the time you get hit by a sword, no effect on touch AC. Yup, pretty much!Now if only there was a PrC that boosted the AC gains from spells that grant Deflection bonuses.
A yurian’s favored class is barbar-ian. Yurian spellcasters are usuallyadepts or druids. Their few clericsrevere ancestral spirits, and canchoose from the domains of Heal-ing, Luck, Protection, and Water.A yurian PC’s effective charac-ter level (ECL) is equal to its classlevel +4. Thus, a 1st-level yurian barbarian hasan ECL of 5 and is the equivalent of a 5th-level character.
Fun Find: Yurians from Fiend Folio have 3 racial HD and a +4 LA, and are overall kinda crappy.No, what's important about them is the "Yurian characters" section of their write-up:QuoteA yurian’s favored class is barbar-ian. Yurian spellcasters are usuallyadepts or druids. Their few clericsrevere ancestral spirits, and canchoose from the domains of Heal-ing, Luck, Protection, and Water.A yurian PC’s effective charac-ter level (ECL) is equal to its classlevel +4. Thus, a 1st-level yurian barbarian hasan ECL of 5 and is the equivalent of a 5th-level character.Looks like Plz was right, in at least one case...
Fiend Folio has LA in it, so does Savage Species, both are 3.25 bookswhereas, Manual of the Planes and Miniatures Handbook have LAs, and those are hardcore 3.0 books
What do I win?
An awesome-five for mentioning Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness.
