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    Quote Originally Posted by Troacctid View Post
    Prestige class: Thrall of Fraz-Urb'luu. Have you seen that 10th level ability? It lets you turn an illusion into reality. That's free magic items with Nystul's magic aura right there. Plus it adds a bunch of illusion spells to your spell list, or, if you're a warlock, even better, gives them to you as SLAs, which means no material components for simulacrum and ice assassin.
    I've never seen that class before, but it looks so cool. It may lose three caster levels, but that's not too big a deal for warlocks (especially with the ruling that practiced spellcaster boosts blast damage). But man, these are some nice class features. With Naberius, that's infinite charges on all staffs as early as level 12. Christ.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Viscount View Post
    You've done it now, Venger. Our round 100's going to be Ballisteer now.
    "Infused Shot (Su): The ballisteer's ammo becomes infused with psionic energy as it is used in a ranged attack. His ranged attacks now do additional energy damage equal to that of the ammo used. For example, a thrown dagger now does 1d4 points of damage + 1d4 points of psionic energy damage + any other bonuses. Infused shots can be enhanced with energy shot or explosive shot."

    Somebody's going to just straight ignore the entire rest of the class and bring in a Ballisteer + Hulking Hurler to try to optimize this.

    (Not even that hard to make it 3.5 compatible, just.. completely disregard any reference to 'psionic attack and defense modes' and update Psionic Sidestep to 'must maintain Psionic Focus', assuming that wasn't already done in some other material somewhere.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Troacctid View Post
    So you're saying the version you quoted was not actually from a D&D book but rather from another totally separate d20 system book.
    No, I’m not saying that. You’re saying that. I don’t know why you’re saying that. Why are you saying that?

    Y’know what. You didn’t even say that before.

    Someone else, on the first page of this thread, mentioned the following:

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    Item: The Dastana and Chahar-Aina from Oriental Adventures. An additional +1 stacking armor bonus each for bargain-bin prices. Slap on masterwork to reduce the penalty and you've got an item any character with light armor can use.
    Did you question the legality of Oriental Adventures then?

    Oriental Adventures is literally 3.0 legal which is why it had an update to bring some of it into 3.5.

    Quote Originally Posted by Troacctid View Post
    Except it's even further from canon than that, because those were at least 1st party supplements for alternative systems, whereas Rokugan Campaign Setting isn't even from Wizards of the Coast
    The book I cited was literally grandfathered into 3.5 because it is 3.0 material.

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    it's a piece of content that already has an official version that should supersede
    — except they’re not the same entry and not the same content and that was pointed out in the initial post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tyckspoon View Post
    "Infused Shot (Su): The ballisteer's ammo becomes infused with psionic energy as it is used in a ranged attack. His ranged attacks now do additional energy damage equal to that of the ammo used. For example, a thrown dagger now does 1d4 points of damage + 1d4 points of psionic energy damage + any other bonuses. Infused shots can be enhanced with energy shot or explosive shot."

    Somebody's going to just straight ignore the entire rest of the class and bring in a Ballisteer + Hulking Hurler to try to optimize this.

    (Not even that hard to make it 3.5 compatible, just.. completely disregard any reference to 'psionic attack and defense modes' and update Psionic Sidestep to 'must maintain Psionic Focus', assuming that wasn't already done in some other material somewhere.)
    Hurling Hurler?

    What about monk unarmed strike with throwing shenanigans? If you include dragon magazine, Hello beast strike feat.

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    I made a ballisteer once. It works on a human. Death attacks from a mile away!

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    I probably said this at the actual time, but that build is a thing of beauty. Makes spoons mcgee look like a wimp.

    Quote Originally Posted by tyckspoon View Post
    "Infused Shot (Su): The ballisteer's ammo becomes infused with psionic energy as it is used in a ranged attack. His ranged attacks now do additional energy damage equal to that of the ammo used. For example, a thrown dagger now does 1d4 points of damage + 1d4 points of psionic energy damage + any other bonuses. Infused shots can be enhanced with energy shot or explosive shot."

    Somebody's going to just straight ignore the entire rest of the class and bring in a Ballisteer + Hulking Hurler to try to optimize this.

    (Not even that hard to make it 3.5 compatible, just.. completely disregard any reference to 'psionic attack and defense modes' and update Psionic Sidestep to 'must maintain Psionic Focus', assuming that wasn't already done in some other material somewhere.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Troacctid View Post
    Prestige class: Thrall of Fraz-Urb'luu. Have you seen that 10th level ability? It lets you turn an illusion into reality. That's free magic items with Nystul's magic aura right there.
    Just an item that genuinely has those magical auras, but no other effect, surely?

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    So what page of OA is that Naga found in? When I looked in mine all I saw were the Shinomen Nagas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Meditation View Post
    No, I’m not saying that. You’re saying that. I don’t know why you’re saying that. Why are you saying that?

    Y’know what. You didn’t even say that before.

    Someone else, on the first page of this thread, mentioned the following:



    Did you question the legality of Oriental Adventures then?

    Oriental Adventures is literally 3.0 legal which is why it had an update to bring some of it into 3.5.



    The book I cited was literally grandfathered into 3.5 because it is 3.0 material.



    — except they’re not the same entry and not the same content and that was pointed out in the initial post.
    I think you may be confusing the Rokugan Campaign Setting with OA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by animewatcha View Post
    Hurling Hurler?

    What about monk unarmed strike with throwing shenanigans? If you include dragon magazine, Hello beast strike feat.
    Hulking Hurler gets bigger damage dice than anything with sufficient optimization, but that could be entertaining along with the incorporeal/ethereal/phasing shot abilities if you go with the 'you throw your entire body' interpretation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meditation View Post
    No, I’m not saying that. You’re saying that. I don’t know why you’re saying that. Why are you saying that?.
    You literally cited L5R d20.

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    . There are two mechanically and editorially different suites of game assets called Naga in Oriental Adventures (L5R d20)
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    Quote Originally Posted by animewatcha View Post
    Hurling Hurler?

    What about monk unarmed strike with throwing shenanigans?
    That sort of shenanigans where monk is treated as weapon? Like adding Crystal of Adamant Weaponry could grant a monk hardness value.
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    Talaire is an interesting race made of 6 houses, each with its own psi like ability. They're found in Complete Psionic right after Synad, and I didn't see them the first time around because instead of being laid out like a normal race they're interlaced with the fluff and long history.
    Isn't this just a human but they choose your bonus feat for you? The fluff is good (I plan to make use of it in a future game), but I could have sworn that was it.

    Sorry if this discussion has already been had, I can't read the whole thread ATM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luccan View Post
    Isn't this just a human but they choose your bonus feat for you? The fluff is good (I plan to make use of it in a future game), but I could have sworn that was it.

    Sorry if this discussion has already been had, I can't read the whole thread ATM.
    I had initially thought that, but the way they set them up is misleading. For reasons I cannot fathom they label the feat as "Wild Talent ([house])" but the benefit instead of the normal 2 pp is that the Talaire gains 1 pp and a psi-like-ability once per day (psionic minor creation, burst, psionic charm, control object, precognition, or vigor, depending on house). To the best of my knowledge this is not an ability you can mimic with a feat.
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    Speaking of online only classes, here's a list I once made. AFAIK, It's complete.

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    The Guide to free D&D has most (all?) links to online materials (or at least, the old links before they were archived), including web-article only materials.

    Hope that's useful.

    If I find myself at a loose end, I'll see if I can dig up active links for the online only PrCs.

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    Speaking of online only classes, here's a list I once made. AFAIK, It's complete.
    Unless there’s a source that I’m not aware of, this is missing Psychic Rogue.
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    wow, what a great post. I've heard of like six of those. time to read
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    Unless there’s a source that I’m not aware of, this is missing Psychic Rogue.
    Is that a base class, or a PrC?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luccan View Post
    Isn't this just a human but they choose your bonus feat for you? The fluff is good (I plan to make use of it in a future game), but I could have sworn that was it.

    Sorry if this discussion has already been had, I can't read the whole thread ATM.
    There's also a sidebar that I don't think has been mentioned yet about discovering your Talaire heritage later on in life, in which case you can trade away any feat you like (say your otherwise not very useful Endurance feat as a Ranger) for your Talaire Wild Talent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thurbane View Post
    Is that a base class, or a PrC?
    Base class:

    http://archive.wizards.com/default.a.../psm/20040723bhttp://archive.wizards.com/default.a.../psm/20040723b

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Viscount View Post
    I had initially thought that, but the way they set them up is misleading. For reasons I cannot fathom they label the feat as "Wild Talent ([house])" but the benefit instead of the normal 2 pp is that the Talaire gains 1 pp and a psi-like-ability once per day (psionic minor creation, burst, psionic charm, control object, precognition, or vigor, depending on house). To the best of my knowledge this is not an ability you can mimic with a feat.
    Huh. Weird. But looking at House Adon (the one freely available online for some reason) backs up your point. For some reason my brain just went "oh they must have meant Hidden Talent" and then skipped over the once-per-day line. Which also makes them weaker than a human who took Hidden Talent, weirdly.
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    Is that a base class, or a PrC?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luccan View Post
    Huh. Weird. But looking at House Adon (the one freely available online for some reason) backs up your point. For some reason my brain just went "oh they must have meant Hidden Talent" and then skipped over the once-per-day line. Which also makes them weaker than a human who took Hidden Talent, weirdly.
    Hidden Talent gives you a power off the psion/wilder list. Talaires get discipline powers. None of the houses' signature powers is available through Hidden Talent IIRC.

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    No, I’m not saying that. You’re saying that. I don’t know why you’re saying that. Why are you saying that?

    Y’know what. You didn’t even say that before.

    Someone else, on the first page of this thread, mentioned the following:



    Did you question the legality of Oriental Adventures then?

    Oriental Adventures is literally 3.0 legal which is why it had an update to bring some of it into 3.5.



    The book I cited was literally grandfathered into 3.5 because it is 3.0 material.



    — except they’re not the same entry and not the same content and that was pointed out in the initial post.
    Oriental Adventures is a D&D sourcebook published by Wizards of the Coast. It was published during the 3.0 era and later updated to D&D 3.5 in Dragon 318. Rokugan Campaign Setting is a d20 Rokugan sourcebook published by AEG. Totally different book. Since it uses the d20 system, it's compatible with D&D, which puts it in the same league as d20 Modern, d20 Star Wars, and Ponyfinder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troacctid View Post
    Hidden Talent gives you a power off the psion/wilder list. Talaires get discipline powers. None of the houses' signature powers is available through Hidden Talent IIRC.

    Hidden Talent gives you a power from "any psionic class list" which makes it much more powerful/versatile than if it was only a general psion/wilder power.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troacctid View Post
    Oriental Adventures is a D&D sourcebook published by Wizards of the Coast. It was published during the 3.0 era and later updated to D&D 3.5 in Dragon 318. Rokugan Campaign Setting is a d20 Rokugan sourcebook published by AEG. Totally different book. Since it uses the d20 system, it's compatible with D&D, which puts it in the same league as d20 Modern, d20 Star Wars, and Ponyfinder.
    But Meditation never mentioned Rokugan Campaign Setting. You're the one that brought that up. Meditation has been talking about Oriental Adventures all along.
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    Conductivity. I really want to like this feat, it seems very cool, but I think unless you made multiple characters in mind for one to have it, it'd never get used. When hit by an electrical attack, you can shoot an arc of lightning for half the damage you just took at any target within 30 feet. I can see a couple ways a party could use it, or maybe some hijinks if you get it on an advanced shocker lizard familiar, depending on how you interpret the feat's damage to work with a electrical-immune creature. But most of the time, it just won't be useful.

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    @Meditation Can I get a page quote for Oriental Adventures where a PC Naga race appears that isn't one of the five Shinomen Naga monsters on pg 172? I can't seem to find it.

    EDIT: It's entirely possible you've already mentioned a page quote at some point in the argument, so my apologies if this is just asking you to repeat yourself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Heliomance View Post
    But Meditation never mentioned Rokugan Campaign Setting. You're the one that brought that up. Meditation has been talking about Oriental Adventures all along.
    As I quoted above (and Meditation posted originally), he cited L5R d20. L5R includes Rokugan Campaign Setting, I believe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrMotives View Post
    Conductivity. I really want to like this feat, it seems very cool, but I think unless you made multiple characters in mind for one to have it, it'd never get used. When hit by an electrical attack, you can shoot an arc of lightning for half the damage you just took at any target within 30 feet. I can see a couple ways a party could use it, or maybe some hijinks if you get it on an advanced shocker lizard familiar, depending on how you interpret the feat's damage to work with a electrical-immune creature. But most of the time, it just won't be useful.
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    As I quoted above (and Meditation posted originally), he cited L5R d20. L5R includes Rokugan Campaign Setting, I believe.
    Oriental Adventures was a port of the Rokugan setting to D&D. It is an official D&D supplement, and is also perfectly validly described by the phrase "L5R d20". I was unaware of the existence of a separate L5R d20 system, and it wouldn't surprise me if Meditation was too. But they were only ever referring to Oriental Adventures, that being the only book on the Rokugan setting that is WotC-published and thus first party D&D 3.5.

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    The Naga. Specifically, the Naga as described in Oriental Adventures: Rokugan Campaign Setting. The Naga are the only large, 0 LA race around in 3x. The complication is that there are two Naga races: one is a monster described in the Oriental Adventures Supplement and updated in Dragon magazine and the other the aforementioned race. The race description explicitly calls out its entry as a PC race, noting that the other entry is too costly for most players, and, since it did not receive any updates to 3.5, it is still RAW-legal in 3.5, though it is explicitly 3.0 material so its acceptance will be table-dependent. The Naga have bloodlines, a suite of sub-racial stats. Several of the bloodlines have LAs; of the ones without, one has bonus stats at the expense of heavy stat penalties and the other two have minor bonuses. Base stats are Con/Wis penalizing Cha.
    You're all right, Meditation did indeed refer to the Rokugan Campaign Setting, which is a different book to Oriental Adventures and is not first party. Any naga described in that book are therefore not official first party content, and the stats in Oriental Adventures, later updated in Dragon, are the only official ones.

    The naga Meditation is referring to are found on page 26 of the Rokugan Campaign Setting, and the three variants that don't have LA are really really good. They absolutely should have LA+1. The one that has LA+1 is worth it, the one that has LA+2 probably isn't, but would be a very good LA+1.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Heliomance View Post
    Oriental Adventures was a port of the Rokugan setting to D&D. It is an official D&D supplement, and is also perfectly validly described by the phrase "L5R d20". I was unaware of the existence of a separate L5R d20 system, and it wouldn't surprise me if Meditation was too. But they were only ever referring to Oriental Adventures, that being the only book on the Rokugan setting that is WotC-published and thus first party D&D 3.5.

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    You're all right, Meditation did indeed refer to the Rokugan Campaign Setting, which is a different book to Oriental Adventures and is not first party. Any naga described in that book are therefore not official first party content, and the stats in Oriental Adventures, later updated in Dragon, are the only official ones.

    The naga Meditation is referring to are found on page 26 of the Rokugan Campaign Setting, and the three variants that don't have LA are really really good. They absolutely should have LA+1. The one that has LA+1 is worth it, the one that has LA+2 probably isn't, but would be a very good LA+1.
    I own the book. They’re really nice races. I like the Nezumi options too. But it’s not first party.
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