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[phaedrusxy]

Just saw this and wondering... is it you?
https://kotaku.com/d-d-player-mods-hundreds-of-monsters-into-playable-char-1821776481/amp

Clicked ng the link in the link leads to it saying it's for 5th edition

Oh.... whoops.

[Yasahiro]

Where's Entropic creature template you guys?

[TC X0 Lt 0X]

I did want to do one since I did the Vivacious Creature, but I have not had much free time for vanity projects for the past year =P

[Yasahiro]

I did want to do one since I did the Vivacious Creature, but I have not had much free time for vanity projects for the past year =P

How much encouragement and motivation I can provide you to attempt that now
Especially since, even with regular SRD templates you can stack Entropic and then put Vivacious ON that, so a feat or some extra PRC, like how Vivisector has the Scizor one, that requires both of em. Just ideas.

At the very least the Entropic template would be easier, only two levels

[TC X0 Lt 0X]

Eh I might be done with the work I have been doing at the end of the month.

I do want to get back into brewing some monster classes though, we will see.

[rferries]

Apologies for the tangent, but may I ask why you (Oslecamo) were banned from the GITP forum? I ran across your (groundbreaking IMHO) stuff there but as far as I can tell your last posts weren't acrimonious at all. Absolutely no worries if you'd rather not discuss it, I just had an academic curiosity.

I made a post there but nobody seems to know why (though a couple other people have PM'd me to say they're interested too, if you're comfortable with me reporting back).

[oslecamo]

(groundbreaking IMHO)

Thank you!

I made a post there but nobody seems to know why (though a couple other people have PM'd me to say they're interested too, if you're comfortable with me reporting back).

It's no surprise nobody stepped forward to comment since they would risk being banned themselves.

Still I made my peace with that long ago and the gitp mods can't exactly make me more banned, so I can do it.

I can't say for sure the "why" since the mods didn't exactly present a final report. The only bit where they were clear was some infractions for stuff like calling people "son" and using the term "rawtard" during a discussion. Seems like I reached the three infractions limit and that was worth a ban.

Also I should point out several other prolific posters got the axe just before and after I was banned like Cubey and the Vorpal Tribble, plus I believe there had been a bunch of new mods assigned just before the ban wave started, so I guess they were quite a more draconian bunch and/or had personal grudges to settle. Nowadays when I check the gitp forums (great to see people keep using my homebrew over there) I see plenty of stuff that would've been basically an auto-infraction back in my day.

[rferries]

(groundbreaking IMHO)

Thank you!

I made a post there but nobody seems to know why (though a couple other people have PM'd me to say they're interested too, if you're comfortable with me reporting back).

It's no surprise nobody stepped forward to comment since they would risk being banned themselves.

Still I made my peace with that long ago and the gitp mods can't exactly make me more banned, so I can do it.

I can't say for sure the "why" since the mods didn't exactly present a final report. The only bit where they were clear was some infractions for stuff like calling people "son" and using the term "rawtard" during a discussion. Seems like I reached the three infractions limit and that was worth a ban.

Also I should point out several other prolific posters got the axe just before and after I was banned like Cubey and the Vorpal Tribble, plus I believe there had been a bunch of new mods assigned just before the ban wave started, so I guess they were quite a more draconian bunch and/or had personal grudges to settle. Nowadays when I check the gitp forums (great to see people keep using my homebrew over there) I see plenty of stuff that would've been basically an auto-infraction back in my day.

A great pity, but it seems like you've made a great sub-forum here. Thanks for the reply!

[Raineh Daze]

If you're brought to life after your essence was harvested, you must consume treasure equal to the average treasure for your level (or WBL if you're a PC or named NPC that isn't somebody's cohort/minion) to regain your Savage bonus, until then you're too weakened to fully unleash your abilities.

Looking at this (and the Pilot equivalent) isn't it a bit steep? Until you manage to get cumulative wealth equal to your entire playtime again, you get nothing as there's no incrementality. Since you can't hoard money, there's no way to prepare for this. So you'd need to try and get a huge amount of WBL whilst having the equivalent of no items or bonuses.

Maybe you should regain abilities equal to the amount of treasure you've already consumed? It's more bookkeeping on the player (and being killed and harvested and then resurrected is already a bit unlikely) but it's less "well, you're horribly weak and need to obtain a massive lump sum of gold".

[oslecamo]

Good idea, added gradual recovery option for Savage and Child Soldier.

[ketaro]

But that still leaves the question of how do you get any money for these recovery options when you are explicitly not allowed to have money?

[oslecamo]

The traits don't stop you from having money, you just need to spend your fair share on them. So basically either you get a donation, or you steal borrow extra from somebody else.

Yeah it's not gonna be easy, but if a normal character got killed, looted and then ressurected naked, recovering won't be any easier for them either.

[ketaro]

Hmm, I forgot this isn't actually much of a concern because the dm looting killed PCs doesn't actually happen 

If it has, it was definitely a party wipe and nobody is left to drag your corpses back for a res anyways.

[Sweetiebot]

God SkinGod DomainGod MagicGod Senses-Double the range of your senses (including darkvisiona and low-light vision if you have them). If you have 20 or more HD, they extend out to a radius of one mile per Divine Rank. This doesn't allow you to see trough solid objects.

I feel like this is not how things are supposed to be. There's also something similar in the first Salient Abilities thing, and possibly in the other one.

[oslecamo]

If you quote the post the original text should still there, just that the forum code suddenly doesn't seem to recognize certain special characters, showing them as  "�" and "deletes" stuff between them. Here's hoping the mods will fix it otherwise I'll need to do some deep cleaning up when I have the time (don't have it now).

[SorO_Lost]

I feel like this is not how things are supposed to be. There's also something similar in the first Salient Abilities thing, and possibly in the other one.

I'm not sure about the deletion but Oslecamo pretty much nailed it on the head.

Everything is stored as bytes and has to be interpreted. Like for a Microsoft Windows example, Notepad defaults to ASCII character encoding instead of Unicode so when you try to save something in notepad using characters recognized as non-ASCII it tells you to pick a different encoding or replace the letters. SMF's web pages use UTF-8 for display, but the database it's self can use a different encoding set just as the user may submit a different encoding set too. Updates and changes to the interpreters can naturally mess with this, like maybe the host moving the site's data to a different server, or running certain forum maintenance commands, or w/e is the recent string of events.

Mortals and other deities of lower rank can resist the aura�s effects with successful Will saves; the DC is 10 +1/2 HD +Charisma modifier. Deities are immune to the auras of deities of equal or lower Divine rank. Any being who makes a successful saving throw  against a deity�s aura power becomes immune to that deity�s aura power for one day.

Osl didn't use the U+0027 apostrophe. Due to localization he probably used a character that looks like it and gets converted into an error when everything is said and done.

[Nanshork]

This will probably be looked into no earlier than Thursday.

[Mr. Meatball]

I was looking into the Animated Object monster class/race and the Intelligent Item class, and both of them have things I like, like how levels of Intelligent Item can be levels of sorcerer or initiator levels, but I like the idea of being able to hop around like the characters from beauty and the beast, or the hat from Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap. I also like the Animated Object blind or grappling abilities. I just wish there was a way to mix the two! Any ideas?   

[ketaro]

The feats thread is has here has two feats, monster blooded and monster hybrid, that when both taken let you take levels in two different racial classes here.

[oslecamo]

What Ketaro said, with the monster feats you could pick the Animated Object base race then take levels in Intelligent Item.