Post/Author/DateTime	Post
chirocmorg 05-23-05, 11:28 AM	Wanted to know if there was a enchantment that can be used to lower arcane spell failure. I have a wizard that just found a sweet set of Half-plate that I would like to use without using Still Spell, or PrC's. Appreciate any help.
tarkin 05-23-05, 12:03 PM	Twilight Enchantment. +1 -10% chance of ASF. (Book of Exalted Deeds, pg 112, Useable ONCE - no stacking)
tiercel 05-23-05, 07:31 PM	*hmph* The infamous Twilight Mithral Shirt +1 (+5 armor bonus, 0% ASF, -0 ACP), retailing at a local Magi-Mart near you for the low low price of 5100 gp. One of the consequences of introducing the Book of Exalted Deeds into your campaign (besides lots of really poor monks and druids wandering around) is that every mage in the world above a certain level has the Twilight Mithral Shirt (for comparison, bracers of armor +4 cost 16000gp; even bracers of armor +2 are 4000gp). For higher level mages, the TMS is relatively cheap to upgrade -- either raising its enhancement bonus, or leaving that for your cleric buddy's magic vestment and instead investing in something tasty like fortification (light, for +5000gp, or moderate, for +21000gp).
Frozen Yakman 05-23-05, 08:57 PM	Wanted to know if there was a enchantment that can be used to lower arcane spell failure. I have a wizard that just found a sweet set of Half-plate that I would like to use without using Still Spell, or PrC's. Appreciate any help. Is there any particular reason you can't just spend the 2 brain cells it takes to make one up?
DM Zoc 05-23-05, 09:31 PM	Is there any particular reason you can't just spend the 2 brain cells it takes to make one up? Most DMs won't allow anything that's not from an official WotC source. The things in the books have been checked and double-checked to not be unbalanced in ways that other products are not(though they aren't subjected to the CO boards, even though they should). House rules are nice, but they always mean that you can't come to these boards anymore. If every post was prefaced by a list of house rules to take into consideration when reading, nobody would ever help anyone else.
Frozen Yakman 05-24-05, 01:48 AM	Most DMs won't allow anything that's not from an official WotC source. The things in the books have been checked and double-checked to not be unbalanced in ways that other products are not(though they aren't subjected to the CO boards, even though they should). House rules are nice, but they always mean that you can't come to these boards anymore. If every post was prefaced by a list of house rules to take into consideration when reading, nobody would ever help anyone else. Official is such a thing of artificial importance. It's DM's volunteering to be braindead. WotC doesn't have a monopoly on quality or balance. You have to be a really lazy DM if you can't create something balanced for your own game and play style. And YES you can come to these baords and talk about house rules, that's one of the main reasons for their existance. Oficialitis and RAWism are one of the worst things to come out of these boards.
JadeSpider9643 05-24-05, 02:13 AM	Official is such a thing of artificial importance. It's DM's volunteering to be braindead. WotC doesn't have a monopoly on quality or balance. You have to be a really lazy DM if you can't create something balanced for your own game and play style. And YES you can come to these baords and talk about house rules, that's one of the main reasons for their existance. Oficialitis and RAWism are one of the worst things to come out of these boards. Offical is a DM wanting his players to be able to think for themselves and being able to actually know the rules, rather than having to consult a new table and entirely unique combat system for every campaign. "For this campaign we will use a fish-armor based combat system, instead of AC you will wear a number of fish of different types, each time your hit you lose 1 tuna, or if your rich enough to afford mackral armor, a mackral can take 5 hits before it falls off. When your fish count reaches 0 the next attack kills you. Alternitively a druid can wear squirrel-based armor and retain the benefits while fish-shaped(another new feature)" See that? it took 2 seconds and half as many brain cells to come up with homebrewed crap. And you know what?! It's crap! NO ONE would play a campaign with that stupid system. People like offical because it's Balanced, it's simplistic, it works, and it's fun. Sure you can make your own additions, but most likly it won't have all four of the aforementioned qualities. Because Players did not spend their lives actually growing up inside your homebrew campaign, they need source material to tell them what exists in your world. And the DM filters that material for a homebrew setting. If you just make it up on the fly, the DM will one day realize your all more powerful than his fish-armor can accomidate, and you'll find some magical radish-armor in your next dungeon crawl.
Frozen Yakman 05-24-05, 02:36 AM	Great invent a bad example of what nobody would ever do to try (and fail) to refute my point. EDIT: BTW, you should pitch your Fish/Squirrel/Raddish Armor to Nintendo, I'm sure they'd love to put it in their next Mario.