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That's why you need to look at the other specialist bonus. Conjurer increased AC is really good (I made an elf Ranger/Conjurer and the bonus AC allowed me to be effective at combat without needing armor)

That's how it works:

Specialists choose spells for those bonus spells based on their specialist school.

Generalist wizards choose spells from any school.

You can't change the spells that you choose.

Nice looking one.

And the +1 to HP or Skills only happens if you keep at that base class, it doesn't happens when you take a PrC, meaning that the intention of that bonus is to force a decision to continue with your base class or take a PrC.

After the Abjurant Champion came out, I was kinda hoping to see a series of School-themed Fighter/Mages. A Shadow Champion who relied on Illusions or a 'Death Knight' who combined Necromancy with the fighting arts or a 'Pokemon Trainer' who specialized in fighting alongside a Conjured Companion.

Even a Divination-themed Fighter/Mage could be pretty scary, focusing his arcane sight on his opponent to gain Insight bonuses to Attack or AC, for instance, based on his success at 'reading' them.

Wow, that actually sounds very good.

Alediran wrote:

I leave you this blog: http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

And remember it's a blog, which means it is automatically correct

I never implied that. I only wanted to give him another point of view, which, as all points of view are, subjective. But it may give him another angle of the problem that he never thought off (yes, I'm that annoying when it comes to points of view, when somebody else comes with only the vision of this blog and nothing else I'll post a blog that is opposite of that one)

Russ Taylor wrote:

Garydee wrote:

Hate to tell you this but we're not the bad guys. Extreme Islamic fundamentalism is. Yes, drilling is the answer. We can't conserve our way out of this situation and alternative resources are a few years away. The best plan is to keep using oil until alternative technology catches up. I agree with you on one thing though. Long live Prpg!

The best (i.e. cooked) estimates for getting oil out of ANWAR are 5 years, ten years or longer is more likely. Even then, there won't be enough production to really offset the price increases. Coastal oil may have more potential - there's more there than in ANWAR. Coastal rigs take 3-4 years to get going.

Basically, we're not going to produce our way out of today's crunch, though we might be somewhere in a decade.

I see your point. What I think will happen though is the minute we open drilling, you will see the price of oil drop like a rock. The only reason prices are high is because the Middle East is sticking to us because they know they can. I don't think free market forces are in play here.

The price is rising for ever and it's not going to get better because the worldwide oil production is reaching the Hubbert Peak, which is the point where the easiest-extractable half of a non-renovable resource is exausted. Oil's peak is stated to happen between 2008 and 2010. If you want to read more about it I leave you this blog: http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

Well, to be fair, one cannot be blamed for what the gov't does...

If one does not want to buy foreign products, that is ones choice... and it is taking money away from the foreign company no matter how you look at it.

As far as flag waving goes, where I come from it is called patriotism.
And if we could only get rid of the left-wing, liberal, enviro-weenies, perhaps America would drill for it's own oil. But thank the democrats for hamstringing any attempts at energy independence.
If you think the economy is bad now, wait until a Democrat becomes President... that frightens me... really...

Sorry for the political discourse. All of the above is my opinion only. Feel free to disagree...

Wow, then you don't have any idea about Peak Oil then. A couple more decades and the lifestyle you like so much is going to be permanently destroyed.

I preffer how the Staff of the Magi works on respect to that. 1 charge per spell level that you make it absorb. It helps to stop the 15 minutes-day if the spellcasters can use more magic per day.

That's how I'm going to put the staff rules and disregard anything different that comes in the books.

If we vote with our dollars (or other, more valuable currencies) we can make Pathfinder a success. Table-top gamers have always been a niche crowd, considered by many to be geeky. I LIKE being geeky. However, now I can have a side order of subversive, anti- big business coolness with my platter of D&D geekiness.

I will have fond memories of WotC, but they burned me too often. I was mad at having to upgrade to 3.5, but at least it was an improvement. But taking Dragon Magazine away and this 4ed fiasco is something I cannot forgive.

I'm voting for change. Paizo is a great company that deserves to survive.

That's what happened to me also, except most of my hate to WotC comes from the destruction brought to Forgotten Realms.

Too bad you don't work with .NET technologies. I'm a Microsoft 4 stars .NET developer from Argentina. It would be awesome to participate in something so wonderful.

Not only that, but skipping the entire dungeon and treasure means that they'll need to pull that trick many times during many days to earn the same level of experience that the whole dungeon would give. Not even mentioning that just killing the boss is not the way to end an adventure. There are thousand ways that the characters still fail at acomplishing the mission even when they kill the "boss" (videogame mentallity causes this perception that just killing the boss lets you "win"), the monsters in the dungeon could be set free by a spell tied to the boss life and it sets those creatures to destroy the village, the very thing the characters were trying to prevent.

If you still plan dungeons for characters at that level range like they where low-levels then you aren't doing your job right.

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Changing ideas again Mark?

I love Elaine Cunningham. I've read all her Forgotten Realms novels at least three times, only Ed Greenwood himself made FR novels I've re-read.

What I've felt after reading the classes is: I'm a character that does something. It looks different from the other class but at the core is the same thing.

FR, no setting has the complexity of the Realms. Like one of the Board members on WotC's FR board said: If you scratch the surface of a setting, you see your leg. If you scratch the surface of FR you find more, if you scratch it, you find more, there is no limit of scratching you can do. And as member of the Elven Netbook proyect I can only agree with him, since the begining of the proyect I've learned lots of things about the elves of Faerun I had no idea, even being the elf fan I'm.