Lokathor

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I am a person who often reads things, and sometimes writes other things down.

I can program alright in Java, rustily in Python, and I know enough Haskell to look at a function and possibly know what it's doing.

	611 reputation	bio	website	facebook.com/lokathor	visits	member for	2 years, 8 months
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Sep 22	awarded	Yearling
Jul 1	answered	Does an attack with Psionic Weapon Feat inflict extra damage to undead?
Jul 1	comment	How can a D&D 3.5 fighter defeat CR-appropriate challenges without magic weapons? Numerically, if you were just given an enhancement bonus to attack and damage equal to 1/3rd your level, probably rounded up, but down works too, then you'd at least be able to hit things of your level range an appropriate amount of the time. Spin it as a divine gift from the Magic-Hating God because of your refusal to use magic, or whatever you care to say. Same bonus goes to Armor and Shield (if you're using a shield). You won't have any fancy abilities, but you'll have the right numbers for your level range at least.
Jul 1	comment	Combining Base Attack Bonuses Note, however, that monsters using natural weapons don't gain the additional attacks (aka "Iterative Attacks"). You only gain iterative attacks with manufactured weapons.
Sep 23	awarded	Yearling
Mar 16	awarded	Necromancer
Nov 15	answered	Simulating physical combat in-Matrix?
Nov 13	awarded	Nice Answer
Nov 13	comment	What is the disadvantage of raise dead+restoration against true resurrection? When you're high enough level to properly cast True Resurrection on your own, a difference of 20k gp here or there is small change; high level characters have absurd quantities of wealth to throw about. Remember that money that you spend so that you don't keep it (food, bribes, spell components, etc) is to be eventually rewarded again to keep your wealth by level up.
Nov 12	awarded	Commentator
Nov 12	comment	Calculating and balancing challenge ratings Ah, yes, EL not ECL, my mistake. Write it wrong once and keep making the same mistake the whole way through, silly me. As to the idea that "EL doesn't exist in Pathfinder", well that's just absurd. Pathfinder is based on 3.5 with a million little edits. There aren't enough changes to the fundamental math to affect how the CR system works (that would break backwards compatibility), and so the same rules apply to all of 3.0/3.5/PF.
Nov 12	revised	Calculating and balancing challenge ratings deleted 10 characters in body
Nov 11	answered	Calculating and balancing challenge ratings
Nov 4	comment	How does a DM define a Skill Check value? This is of course for 4e. In 3e there were suggested DCs for each skill based on the specific task you wanted to accomplish, and the DCs were not level dependent. In 2e and earlier there wasn't really much of a skill system, but the optional skill systems provided in the book generally had you try to roll under your stat.
Oct 23	comment	Produce high-contrast numbers on un-painted dice? After you've used whiteout to fill in all the numbers, scrape a knife blade along the surface of the die to scratch away all the excess whiteout that gets outside the number. This is both slightly harmful to the blade (use a blade you don't care about as much) and will produce minor scratches in your die (won't affect rolling).
Oct 23	answered	What alternatives are there to replace orcs, kobolds, and hobgoblins in low-level encounters?
Oct 23	comment	What are the most important differences for a 1st Edition AD&D Dungeon Master learning to run D&D 4E? The options are more diverse than 1e had in a slightly confusing way. To give the players the ability to affect the plot you need to go outside the rules and make it up just like you did in 1e, but 4e fills in more of the combat playspace and so it's less obvious that you should just go outside the rules in the book, and 4e players don't generally expect that it will happen as much.
Oct 21	awarded	Enthusiast
Oct 20	comment	What can I learn from playtesters? If they're not playing to break the game, then how are they being honest? People will play to break the game eventually, you might as well face that from the start.
Oct 17	answered	Any sites or periodicals dedicated to campaign ideas/concepts?