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This doesn't make any sense unless you look at what a Favored Class Ability is (emphasis mine):
Instead of receiving an additional skill rank or hit point whenever they gain a level in a Favored Class, some races have the option of choosing from a number of other bonuses, depending upon their Favored Classes.
So what this means is that, because you're ...
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It is a fractional bonus, as described in the rules. These types of bonuses were introduced in the advanced player's guide.
... some of these alternate favored class benefits only add +1/2, +1/3, +1/4, or +1/6 to a roll (rather than +1) each time the benefit is selected; when applying this result to the die roll, round down (minimum 0). For example, a ...
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It depends on the exact wording of the Goliath's Powerful Build, which I believe states that they count as Large whenever it would benefit them. Since counting as Large for the purposes of Monkey Grip benefits you, they would stack.
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Starting wounds depend on your homeworld, and can be found in the section starting on page 17 of the core rulebook.
For example, Deathworld characters start with (2 x Toughness) + (1d5 + 2)
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Actually a hacker, whatever his style, can use any commlink he wants to connect to multiple nodes. You could buy a billion commlink to overload nodes, slowing CI, Analyze program etc... So yeah, a technomancer can use his living persona and the one from his commlink at the same time.
You could enslave your commlink to your living persona to avoid having to ...
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As discussed in the comments on your question, there are two broad ways to answer this question. The equally broad answer to both is to examine how ensemble cast stories in TV, movie, and book series handle character backstories. Then decide which of the two methods you want to use.
Option 1: Integrate all the characters' backstories into a single ...
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Its difficult to actually say "how to" on such a broad and subjective subject, so I want to try to answer the question the other way around - "how not to".
First of all, dont use short meaningless background. Ive had a lot of players for whom creating their background story was just a chore, and trying to tie those "stories" to my capmpaigns was a pain and ...
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Already had a mute character at my table (gobelin ninja was his name, quite sums it up). In 2070 it's so easy to fix physical mutism that it can't be compensated with points. It's also very cheap and easy to get a voice simulator (most humanoid drones come with it). So it's really a matter of personal choice. That said, if you persist with your idea, and you ...
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Truth be told, it's all in the GM's style. Ultimately, I would personally classify it as an RP issue as you are never far from a device with a speaker. Now, should someone go through painstaking preparations to not let a decker/rigger do anything then that would make for an interesting session.
Mechanically, I cannot seem to find anything that would ...
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No skills would be needed for anything that the character owns and has usual access to. If you wanted to project from someone else's commlink or device that would start getting dicey.
I would probably ask your GM what the cost for a wirelessly enabled speaker-system to carry on your person. If your character had a hardware skill, you could probably build ...
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My build for Gandulf Stormcrow is as follows:
Wizard 1
Druid 3
Divine Oracle 8
Lore Master 6
Eldritch Knight 2
He is a 9th level wizard, 7th level druid with a CR 21. His animal companion is a white light horse named Shadowfax.
I gave him the template of an Outsider for dark vision and martial weapon proficiency. Otherwise, he just looks like a human of ...
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What I have done when I running games that don't have this built in is to introduce the concept of tags. In other games, they're called different things, and it's a fairly common technique, though perhaps presented in a different manner.
Each PC when writing his background, tags it with the most important parts of the background from his perspective. ...
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Find the interesting or salient points of each background story and put them in your campaign / adventure. These could be people, places, or things. If it makes sense, the same person, place, or thing could be matched to more than one PC's background info point, or points from multiple PC backgrounds could be combined into a single setting. For instance, ...
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The off-hand attack is a single attack at your full BAB.
You then need to factor in the penalties from 2-weapon-fighting (as explained in the manual).
For example, when fighting with an off-hand light weapon, a BAB of +9/+4, the 2WF feat and no other bonuses from abilities, magic, other feats or weapons, it would be +7/+2 from your main and +7 from your ...
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No, they do not stack.
The reason they don't is that both the racial trait and the feat reference your normal size category.
Powerful Build:
A Goliath can use weapons designed for a creature one size larger without penalty
Monkey Grip:
You can use melee weapons one size category larger than you are
In the case of a Goliath with Monkey Grip, ...
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You get both.
the convention is that you get everything from the super-domain except for the features the sub-domain explicitly says get replaced.
I couldn't find any great sources to cite. This is the closest I could find:
Each subdomain replaces a granted power and a number of spells in the
domain’s granted spell list.
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The Good domain allows you to cast spells with a +1 caster level. While by itself, the power is hardly impressive, it has excellent synergy with the Aligned Spellcaster ACF (DR357). You sacrifice gaining a familiar to add the [Good] descriptor to all of your spells (in addition to a further CL bonus vs evil aligned/subtype creatures). This means that every ...
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Dominant Ideal
Mind’s Eye
The Dominant Ideal ACF for Ardents reduces the Metapsionic cost by 2 PP, and eliminates the need to expend Psionic Focus, when manifesting powers from the chosen Mantle. This is extremely powerful, especially with the Mantle Substitution options also suggested in that article.
Midnight Augmentation
Magic of Incarnum
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TV Tropes calls this situation mean character, nice actor (and vice versa). It's quite common in the drama world but doesn't seem to have an established term beyond acting. You sometimes hear playing against type for this, although that's more about a difference from your previous roles, not your own personality.
The specific case of an opposite-sex ...
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The terms I've heard most often are "roleplaying challenge" or a "stretch."
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Technically every creature in the game has Hit Dice.
Psicrystals have their master's number of Hit Dice, therefore, being intelligent creatures, they receive 1 feat at 1st HD, 1 feat at 3rd HD and 1 feat each 3 HD thereafter.
d20SRD:
Hit Dice: As master’s HD (hp 1/2 master’s)
While you do change some of the statictics as listed in psion class ...
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