@Novian: regarding Anarchic Initiate, if you want to enter it and your DM is being obnoxious about the prereqs, just be a Psion with Overchannel. Psions are better than Wilders and Overchannel is better than Wild Surge. I recommend against Anarchic Initiate because it is awfully designed, but it is awfully designed because it is a PrC that seems designed for Wilders that is much, much better for Psions, and because it breaks major tenets of Psionic design by being full-manifesting; i.e. too good
@BrianBallsun-Stanton: so, for your game, I just read this question/answer and I'd be interested in doing something along these lines:
Many classes/ builds allow one to fulfill multiple party roles. For example, a Paladin is a hybrid leader/defender. What classes/builds are a good way to handle striker/controller? I'm looking for a class/build that will allow a character to attack enemies, dealing damage, and applying debuff/...
Would you be willing to help a newbie out with this stuff? I followed most of it but I'm not familiar with the options you're throwing out by name, and there are some abbreviations I'm unfamiliar with
@Novian: Also, updated my answer to suggest an Apprentice (Manifester) feat -- just like Apprentice (Spellcaster) but for Psionics. If your DM balks at that, you need a new DM.
(well, assuming he would have allowed any other Apprentice feat, anyway)
@novian Ok I was a little bit wrong. 130 was because I had a 123 in my mind and I was tricked into thinking it was the modifier, and I assumed a medium roll of 10 123 was a result that was rolled with a good dice. However:
Human, starting charisma 18 + 5 from levels +5 from tome + 4 from scepter of wonders/marvel/whatever it's called +6 from ability boost. Total 38. +14. 24 ranks at level 21 (totals +38) +2 from versatile performer (+40) +15 from divine intuition (+55) +10 from that bard spell that lets you add half your caster level (20 from chameleon) to several rolls (+65)
ok it continues eating me several lines of text. the final modifier at level 21 is of 105 (with some DM fiat on a spell that boosts anything as long as it's used to change your position in the diplomacy table)
you could probably actually beat that DC consistently with moment of perfect mind and similar shenanigans to the ones you're using, but for Concentration
moment of perfect mind is a 1st-level Diamond Mind counter that allows you to replace one Will save with a Concentration check at the same DC, but since it's a martial maneuver, you need to recover it after using it
the Idiot Crusader recovers every round, which means he can use it every round
but Swordsages and Warblades need to use actions in the following round to recover it
...actually, if that was all the Swordsage was doing, he could do it 1/round too
because it uses different actions
non-Idiot Crusaders would have to wait several rounds before re-using it
+3 regional feat, +5 from other feats, +4 from a fancy lab, +2 from me helping and then my ideas on how to raise that spellcraft check for long enough are over. Anyhow. ToB makes my webmaster cry in pain, so no crusaders. Especially, no 1d2 crusaders.
and really, 3.5 is a terrible system for that because it's so wildly variable and when you have that many people there's no way they can be on an even playing field
The most common use of shift is that every creature can take a move action to shift 1 square (exactly like 3.5), but many classes and creatures have powers or features that let them shift under different circumstances (goblins get to shift 1 square when you miss them with a melee attack) or shift greater distances (monks have access to powers that grant insane shifts, like your-speed-plus-Wis-mod).
So it's useful to have a generic term for that kind of movement, rather than the extremely specific five-foot-step.
Hi, @Zachiel
@LitheOhm You'll find a lot of other terms like that in the MM3 monster blocks that aren't defined in the glossary because they're very basic 4e terms.
@Zachiel Honestly, strong is a term that's almost impossible to define precisely in these contexts. Generally things like "dealing a lot of damage" and "being hard to kill" are considered strong, but versatile utility can trump those if handled creatively.
I can totally see not allowing 3.0. Later 3.5 books though... I get the impression your GM subscribes to the idea that the GM is in competition with the PCs, and is limiting the ammunition available to you.
I see that a comment can be flagged but I take that as a function for comments that are offensive in some way. In cases where a comment is not relevant because the question/answer has morphed in to something else, what is done to weed out comments that are no longer useful?
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A GM can always kill the PCs at the slightest provocation; using tactics and restricting PC access to the tools to deal with those tactics is... petty, really. If he doesn't want you to have access to certain abilities, he shouldn't overuse tactics that exploit that lack.
But then, that's my opinions about running a game and I know they're far from universal.
@besw we don't have a GM. we have a full staff of GMs. The ammo limiting is because we all starrted core only and then little by little every time someone founded a new website he maybe added something he wanted to use
the game changes a lot by changing the allowed manuals
Many classes/ builds allow one to fulfill multiple party roles. For example, a Paladin is a hybrid leader/defender. What classes/builds are a good way to handle striker/controller? I'm looking for a class/build that will allow a character to attack enemies, dealing damage, and applying debuff/...
I see that a comment can be flagged but I take that as a function for comments that are offensive in some way. In cases where a comment is not relevant because the question/answer has morphed in to something else, what is done to weed out comments that are no longer useful?
As example: Crime In...
