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A (semi-) odd story came to mind, if you want to borrow from it:

-Mars Millenium Falcon Starcruiser
-Mercury Constellation Starcruiser
-Jupiter Laserblaster Starcruiser
-Galaxy Kittyhawk Starcruiser

Four siblings, children of a man who changed his last name to Starcruiser because he was a Sci-Fi nut. Mercury ran away from home and joined the navy. We read about this way back when in my Sci-Fi class.

*4 years later* my co-worker was talking about this guy he used to work with with a weird name. I decided to google the name and found this thread. He was in the navy and worked with Mercury.

SPORTS!

What if the finale attack added precision damage based on how much you could set it up. Say, it added your Studied Strike dice for each successful hit or combat maneuver against that opponent since you initiated, and you can discharge it partway through on any hit as a free action. Now you have a choice to make--if you hit on the second to last round, will you be greedy and keep going for a bigger combo? Or will you discharge now for the certainty of landing a finale...

That actually sounds kinda cool.

one of the things that studied combat aims for is to grant an increase in accuracy building up to a finale with sudden strike.

And I love that part of the machanic.

Turkus Longfist wrote:

Chris Parker wrote:

The only problems with studied combat is how long it takes to get it and how low the actual bonuses are. You've still got three levels where you're useless in a fight, and you still need 18 INT to get better than a +1 bonus - meaning that as far as the bonuses are concerned there's no difference between INT 5 and INT 17. My only suggestions would be to let you get it at level 1, and let you have your full INT bonus up to a maximum of your Investigator level for those bonuses.

Well, that and more Talents to let you do more things with it, as someone else already suggested.

Ok, 4th level is a little rough, I'll give you that. As far as the INT goes either im not understanding the ability of you arnt. At level 4 with a INT of 14 it would get a +2 bonus for 1 round (2 rounds with the change) right? That is how i am reading it.

As written, it's not just duration, it's also the bonus that's only half your INT bonus. The duration has improved, but the bonus doesn't hit +2 until 18 INT, +3 at 22, and without magic of some description you'll never see +4...

It says the bonus is half your Investigator level.

The only problems with studied combat is how long it takes to get it and how low the actual bonuses are. You've still got three levels where you're useless in a fight, and you still need 18 INT to get better than a +1 bonus - meaning that as far as the bonuses are concerned there's no difference between INT 5 and INT 17. My only suggestions would be to let you get it at level 1, and let you have your full INT bonus up to a maximum of your Investigator level for those bonuses.

Well, that and more Talents to let you do more things with it, as someone else already suggested.

Ok, 4th level is a little rough, I'll give you that. As far as the INT goes either im not understanding the ability of you arnt. At level 4 with a INT of 14 it would get a +2 bonus for 1 round (2 rounds with the change) right? That is how i am reading it.

With the exception of the 24 hour limit and the half INT duration (which has already been set to change to full INT, whoo). I like the studied abilities. Spend a standard action and get a bonus to attack for a couple rounds then finish it off with a "sneak attack". I think the bonus to attack is really going to help poison use and its not a complete rogue ripoff. Add Inspiration in and things can get a little crazy.

I like the poison use but I find the resistance and immunity a little to specialized. I like being able to disable magic traps but the extra skill bonus is a bit much and starts to overshadow the rogue. These abilities allow them to do a little extra but i think the skill boost should come from inspiration.

I think the slayer will have a favored enemy, sneak attack, smite evil mashup ability.
Pick a sworn enemy and do crazy damage.

dragon slayer
giant slayer
demon slayer
so on and so on

CHARACTER CONCEPT HO!

Whoo! a $30 book for my new players to chew on for most of thier questions instead of my $50 core rulebook! My core books will last so much longer now.

Didn't read most of this. I think a the fact that the bounty system only activates in high sec areas is a cool idea. Bandits can still be bandits and cities are safe. What would be really cool I think is abilities that make it less likely that you trigger the system in high sec (like having a 40% chance you won't trigger it). So assassinations are possible but very risky.

I have all the DDs. You know the drill.

Taken

I'm thinking something along the lines of

When stabilizing a target using a heal check, the target regains hit points equal to 1/2 your caster level (min 1). This spell cannot raise the targets hit points above 0.

using the same info as cure light wounds with the exception of level (it being 0) and casting time (swift action.

Psychopompoccurred to me but I kept to the bestiary. Still, it would be interesting.

I think Axiomite is my favorite for lawful.

With the recent books Blood of Fiends and Blood of Angels and even before there has been a redefinition of Teiflings and Aasimar. A Teifling now describes a individual whose linage traces back to a evil outsider and Aasimar to good outsiders. But what about Neutral? We have seen NG and NE but this still excludes LN,N,and CN outsiders.
The possible bloodlines I've pulled together are
Aeon (N) Bestiary 2
Axiomite (LN) Bestiary 2
Protean (CN) Bestiary 2
Mercane (LN) Bestiary 2
Valkyrie (CN) Bestiary 3
and possibly even
Caulborn (N) Bestiary 3
Shinigami (LN) Bestiary 3
Nephilim (N) Bestiary 3
Witchwyrd (LN) Bestiary 2
I think some of these could be really cool. Any other additions are very welcome.

Just picked up this book earlier today and have been obsessing over it since. One thing that occurs to me is that many a DM will not allow the custom races. It would be sad to see all this amazing content lost on them and ultimately robs me of the opportunity to use it. I think a 9th level spell that allows the caster to customize a targets race would be great and it would allow for slightly more use of these awesome additions.