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Thesis/Project/Recital Procedures
For Music Dept. Graduate Students
- Prior to initial registration for thesis credits (MUS 700):
- Diagnostic examinations and/or remedial theory and history work must be completed.
- MUS 521, Methods of Music Research, must be completed prior to or taken concurrently with the first quarter of thesis registration.
- During the quarter of initial registration for thesis credits (MUS 700), an initial thesisplanning meeting with the Adviser will take place prior to or no later than the end of the Add/Drop period of the quarter. The purpose of this meeting is to:
- Discuss revisions to Course of Study, if appropriate (original Course of Study was submitted before 25 credits were earned).
- Identify Thesis Committee members.
- Develop a plan for the thesis project or activity and covering paper.
A maximum of 4 credits of MUS 700 may be taken during this quarter.
The graduate student will take the responsibility of securing the appropriate signatures on the Thesis Timetable (TT) form to provide verification that the above steps (Items I and II) are completed. The chair will drop the student's registration for MUS 700 if the completed form is not submitted to the music office by the end of the Add/Drop period.
- During the initial quarter:
- Committee members will be identified.
- The official Graduate Committee and Option Approval Form are completed and submitted to the Graduate Office.
- A meeting of the committee members and the candidate will be held. The purpose of this meeting is to review the thesis plan, discuss the roles of committee members, review deadlines based on anticipated graduation date and decide on final exam expectations and format. The result of this meeting will be a completed, signed thesis option form. The completed thesis form will be submitted to the Graduate Office by the end of this quarter.
- In the intervening time, the candidate is to work on the written project, meet with adviser and complete at least one draft.
Completion of the items in #3 is requisite for subsequent enrollment in MUS 700
- Normally, the final credits of MUS 700 will be taken during the quarter when graduation is anticipated. During the quarter when MUS 700 credits are completed a completed first draft of the written project must be submitted to the adviser for comments no later then the end of the Add/Drop period of this quarter before sending it to the rest of committee.
The graduate student will take the responsibility to secure the appropriate signatures on the Thesis Timetable form (TT) to provide verification to the department chair that the first draft has been completed. The chair will drop the student's registration for MUS 700 if item #IV of the TT form is not completed and submitted to the music office before the end of the Add/Drop period.
- During this quarter:
- Six weeks before desired time for oral examination a revised draft must be sent to the committee members.
- B. Final draft must be submitted to committee members a minimum of two weeks before the oral examination. If it is determined that more work is needed, the completion of this work and its impact on the student's graduation will be discussed at the oral examination. Final signatures may be withheld until all final documents are submitted.
- C. Recitals presented for the degree can be given only after the committee is formed. Recital previews must be given with committee members present at least two weeks before the recital performance. All committee members must be contacted regarding the scheduling of the previews and degree recitals such that every reasonable attempt is made to allow all committee members to be present. Committee members must make every attempt to attend. If unable to be present, committee members must be provided with recordings of the preview and recital as soon as they are available.
- Other Graduate Office requirements concerning the Abstract, Application for the degree, etc. must be followed according to published deadlines.
- Upon completion of all degree requirements, copies of all relevant thesis materials (written work and/or recital programs and recordings) must be submitted to the adviser, the Music Office, and any committee members who want a copy. Upon receipt of these copies, final approval/signatures will be given to graduate.


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Vietnam Stock Index May Drop Below 300, MHB Securities Says
Hoang Thach Lan, head of the brokerage unit at Ho Chi Minh City-based MHB Securities Co., the equity investment arm of Mekong Housing Bank, comments on the local stock market.
The benchmark VN Index on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange dropped for a fifth day, losing 0.7 percent to 374.52.
On the stock market:
"The stock market will extend losses and may go below 300 by the Lunar New Year holiday in late January." That would be the lowest since April 2009, according to Bloomberg data.
"Investors are quite negative about corporate earnings this year and in doubt about the possibility of economic improvement next year. About 80 percent of stocks on the Ho Chi Minh exchange have seen their trading volumes plunge to a few thousand shares a day.
''However, both stocks and properties will rebound if the government makes any moves to support the markets, since there are many investors who still have money but just don't know where and when to invest.''
On securities companies:
''Declines in the stock market have meant almost all securities companies face financial difficulties. More than 50 percent of securities firms will have losses this year.
''There are about 50 to 60 securities companies seeking to sell stakes to overseas investors for strategic partnerships, so you will see more and more mergers and acquisitions next year.''
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It is given that the random sample of 25 countries was selected. The sample included the South American country of Suriname where the start time is 694 days.
The given information provides the complete start time data of a random sample of 25 countries. And the outlier is Suriname.
Here, we want to find the mean including the outlier (Suriname data). Including the outlier will show that the mean increases. To find the mean, we want to add all cases together and divide by the number of cases there are.
The formula to find the mean is. With our data, it looks like this:
Thus, the mean is given by
Therefore, the mean is 63.64.
Thus, the required sample mean is 64 (rounded). So we can conclude that the mean for original sample including outlier (Suriname) increased to 64 days.


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I booked this hotel as I was attending a concert nearby and wanted something that looked safe, clean and comfortable.
Admittedly I had difficulty finding something to book, but My One Hotel had an offer £62 instead of £175... the photo's looked good and the price seemed good in comparison to the other accommodations available in the same price range.
Arriving at the hotel I had difficulty parking, the road leading up to and from the hotel is about a mile long I would think and I couldn't find a single space, it's a one way road so for every journey up there not finding a space I was having to do a 3 mile round trip to get back onto the same road (which is one way).
Eventually I found a space which was pay and display from 8am to 8pm and made my way into the hotel (I had my mum and dog with me) we were greeted by the friendly staff so seemed to all be bilingual.
The Check-in was pretty simple and straight forward.
The hotel lobby looked very minimalist and 'shiny', although it did look nicer in the photo's than in real life not that that should really have much impact on mine or your stay.
I was handed the key card to my room and jumped into the lift/elevator, normally I would check the room number off the paper card simply because I'm trying to do a few things at once and often miss the number when a receptionist says it. Realising the room number wasn't written onto the card in all our fluster with rushing after the parking fiasco and so forth but all was fine we did have the correct room number - the only point here really was that writing the room number on the card would be pretty useful.
The room was quite small but with a large double bed as well as a table with a tv on and enough room to put a laptop, make up etc on, there was also a mini fridge with drinks and a waffer bar in I only found it as we were leaving but didn't notice any price lists for it. The bathroom was clean with a shower and a few useful amenities.
I only had time to put my bags in the room before we needed to go on to the concert venue.
We came back to the hotel around 3am and again had difficulty parking, we ended up having to park in what seemed to be a no park zone. We mentioned this to the guy on reception who told us they have a parking garage which we could use for €15... no one had mentioned this earlier to us but we were happy we could park up without any worry of getting a ticket. We were in the process of sorting it out when he mentioned it would only fit small cars in, we have a large 4X4 so couldn't use the parking facility in the end... The guy on reception was quite helpful however and told us that the car would be fine where it was but we'd need to move it by 8am.
By the time we'd sorted or not sorted the parking out we were pretty tired and went straight to bed. The bed was the most uncomfortable bed I've ever slept in, I try to be fair in my reviews and wanted to say something nice about the bed but honestly I couldn't... it was like sleeping on a hard table with a sheet on top and to add to that the bathroom seemed to have some stale water in it which would waft over the room every so often smelling of something best described as 'really bad breath'.
So between the hard bed, stench and not to mention the thin top sheet I probably had about 3-4 hours of broken sleep.
Overall I'm not sure how to sum up this review, I was only here for a concert and providing I have a safe roof over my head I'm generally happy but I will just say this the staff were very friendly and can't really be faulted, unfortunately the bed was so uncomfortable that I can't even fathom the idea of anyone paying the full £175 to stay here.
I would say stay here if there's a good price offer but really anything above £60 right now I don't think would be worth it.
*We didn't go out in the town area itself but it seemed to be well located
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Rocketship school is the right choice for our kids
We are proud parents of students at Rocketship Southside Community Prep. Like all parents, we want the best for our kids, and we know that starts with an excellent education. We also know that finding an excellent education in Milwaukee's public schools can be a challenge.
We found Rocketship, and we are so glad we did. In its first school year of operations in Milwaukee, Rocketship Southside Community Prep has helped its Rocketeers achieve nearly two years of academic growth in both reading and math. We've seen these results firsthand in our kids.
Rocketship Southside Community Prep has opened the eyes of our sons and daughters so much. There is no "impossible" for them now. When we see that confidence in our children's eyes, we know it will stay with them long after they leave the school. Rocketship has brought students, parents and the community together to shape the lives of future generations. That is the reality of Rocketship.
On May 11, an op-ed attacking Rocketship was published in the Journal Sentinel ("Rocketship program is a model for inequality in education opportunity," Crossroads). The op-ed was written by an associate professor at the University of Oregon's Labor Education and Research Center who has spent very little time in our school and did not speak to any of us as parents of some of the 300 Rocketeers thriving at Rocketship Southside Community Prep.
In fact, he seemed to suggest that he thinks Rocketship parents made a bad choice for our kids. He clearly does not understand or did not care to represent what is really happening each and every day in our school.
Brittany Kinser, our principal, and her team of school leaders, teachers and staff have created a school community that not only provides an excellent education but teaches our children to be persistent, responsible and empathetic members of their community. And they remind our children that they are preparing for college and beyond each and every day in everything they do. These educators are the reason this school is so successful. They are the reason we enrolled our students in a Rocketship school.
Sadly, education always has been a difficult political issue in Milwaukee. Countless interest groups with many different agendas and ideas about what's important have tried to control the debate. But we hope our voices, as Milwaukee parents working hard to do the very best for our kids, will be heard as loudly as the voices of those playing politics. And our voices are united: Rocketship Southside Community Prep has been the right choice for our kids and our community.
The frightening reality is that only 20% of Milwaukee kids are at grade level in math and an even more alarming 16% of kids are reading at grade level. Milwaukee continues to be plagued by the one of the largest racial achievement gaps in the country. Our kids deserve better, and they found it at Rocketship Southside Community Prep.
This op-ed was submitted by: Robert Montemayor, Diana Ramirez, Moises Ramirez Torres, Magdalena Des Osio and Salvador Vasquez.
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Copywriter: Eric Wittstock
Photographer: Michael Meyersfeld
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If you think this photoshop work is terrible, I shudder to think what your work must look like. Easy comment to make now prove it GUEST. You don't even have the balls to sign in. LOSER
I see you're also making that comment under GUEST. Not the sharpest tool in the photoshop box, are you? Or is that your name at the end of your comment - the last word in caps?
Good idea well exicuted, unlike the other one - which looks like someone taking sneaky camera flash pictures from behind a tree!
credits the viewer with little knowlegde of night time photography.
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Nice guys, I really dig these ads...much better than tooth fairy. V.nice indeed. Steve
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Five College Registration
Effective for Fall 2016 registration: courses at UMass will be awarded the credit value assigned by that institution. For example, a UMass course bearing 3.00 credits will be recorded on the Smith transcript at 3.00 credits.
For more information see Course Credits on the Guidelines page.
- First-semester first-year students must obtain the permission of the class dean before enrolling in a Five College course.
- Traditional students must be enrolled in a minimum of eight credits at Smith in any semester
- Adas may not take more than half of their total course load off campus in any semester.
- Only students in good academic standing may enroll in a Five College course.
- Students may not register for more than two courses at any one institution.
Applications to take a course through the Five College Interchange are processed electronically through BannerWeb. If you are interested in participating in the interchange follow, the procedures outlined below.
Check the Five College Calendar
Openings and closings of semesters on the five campuses vary, particularly in the spring semester and may overlap with the Smith Interterm. Students should make their academic and travel plans accordingly.
Five College bus service: For more information, students should consult the Five college website.
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Consult the Five College course guides to find a course at one of the other colleges. Please be aware that some courses may not be open to Five College students.
4. Approval of Five College courses
Not all Five College courses are approved for credit toward the Smith degree. Courses will be reviewed by the registrar at the time the course request is submitted through BannerWeb.
We encourage requesting prior approval by submitting a course description or syllabus to the registrar's office for review. Normally only those courses falling within the scope of Smith's liberal arts curriculum will be approved.
Courses offered through UMass Continuing and Professional Education are not part of the Five College Interchange.
Students interested the Five College Supervised Independent Language Program (FCSILP) must obtain permission and should consult their Web site for instructions. Credit for level I courses is not awarded until completion of levels II or higher.
Please note: Some introductory language courses require completion of a full year (normally two semesters) before credit is granted.
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A link to the online Five College request form can be found at the bottom of the BannerWeb course registration page.
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Scale 1:600,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 17.8 At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey, A. D. Bache, Supdt. Chart of the Gulf coast from Pensacola Bay to the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo del Norte) showing soundings and bottom contours at 6, 12, and 18 feet. "Note: In portions of this chart where no soundings have yet been made by the Coast Survey, ...
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Though the score may not reflect it, North Pulaski had one of its best outings in the first half of a 40-6 loss to Little Rock Christian last week.
"Actually, we played better and were down 17-6 at the half," North Pulaski Coach Teodis Ingram said. "The first half was one of our better halves all year."
In the first half, Ingram said the Falcons (0-5, 0-2 5A-Central) had their best half of moving the football. Additionally, the defense made adjustments after Little Rock Christian moved the ball on it the first two series. That allowed the defense to shut down the Warriors and even make a goal line stand.
However, injuries plagued them and showed up the third quarter.
"We came out in the third quarter, and some kids were banged up," Ingram said. "We put in some kids who haven't had a lot of reps. Once we figured out what we were doing, when the kids got banged up, we got out of rhythm. We couldn't do a whole lot."
Defensive back Jessie Baltimore is out for the year with a broken leg. Running back Fred Thomas has a strained meniscus and will miss this week's game.
"Thomas does so much," Ingram said. "He's a receiver and running back and touches the ball quite a lot."
Ingram feels the Falcons are definitely making progress and are starting to come together. The injuries are tough, but that is part of football. When North Pulaski hosts Little Rock Mills (4-1, 1-1) on Friday, the backups will have had reps this week and will be ready.
"Mills is big and fast, and as far as speed is the fastest since Maumelle," Ingram said. "They do a good job of running the read offense, and we'll have to play assignment football."


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Treating Behavior Problems in Dogs (cont.)
Medicines for the Treatment of Sudden or Severe Fear and Panic
Some dogs experience fear only in specific situations, such as during fireworks or other events with loud noises. The benzodiazepines can help in these situations by reducing fear as needed right when these situations occur. Benzodiazepines take effect quickly, so they can treat impending fear within a short period of time-the same way an aspirin relieves a headache shortly after you take it. In contrast, most other drugs for alleviating fear need to be taken daily for several weeks before they produce results-just like antibiotics need to be taken a few days before they begin to fight bacteria. A minor drawback is that BZs must be given to the dog before the fearful event begins. Optimally, the medicine should be given one hour before the beginning of the scary event, or at minimum, it should be given before the dog shows any signs of fear or worry, such as stress panting, trembling, tail tucking, pupil dilation, sweating paw pads, etc.
Some common benzodiazepines are diazepam (Valium®), alprazolam (Xanax®), chlordiazepoxide (Librium®), lorazepam (Ativan®) and clonazepam (Klonopin®). Benzodiazepines work by increasing the activity of a chemical in the brain that interferes with activation of the fear networks.
Dose Effects
You can only know if a drug is working if you have an idea of what effects to expect. The following list provides the expected reactions in dogs to different doses of benzodiazepines:
Side Effects
Benzodiazepines have some unwanted side effects, including increased appetite and sleeplessness. Sleeplessness may seem contradictory, but this medicine can actually produce increased anxiety in some dogs. Although not common, this side effect seems to occur most often when the medicine is given after the dog has already begun to show signs of anxiety.
Benzodiazepines are also inappropriate for the treatment of aggression, because they can sometimes reduce inhibition. This means that although the dog may not react as quickly to a frightening or disturbing event, if he does react he might behave aggressively. Lastly, benzodiazepines can cause addiction if they are given many times a day for more than three weeks.
Benzodiazepines can also interfere with learning and memory, so they aren't good choices for long-term use with training and behavior modification. Because of this, if a benzodiazepine is necessary because of excessive anxiety or fear, this type of medicine is best used initially and then gradually discontinued.
Health Issues
Benzodiazepines are metabolized in the liver and excreted through a dog's kidneys, so if your veterinarian advises you to treat your dog's fear with a benzodiazepine, she should check with a simple blood test to make sure that these organs are working well before beginning treatment. If your dog has had problems with his kidneys or liver, be sure to let your veterinarian know.


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Update 3/27: Per request, I've attached the code I used for this guy.
This is my next little object-avoider, made from spare parts from around the house. I actually made this guy a while ago, but I wanted to try to program a fun personality for it. Since that never happened, I'll just post it and move on.
Parts: Since the bot is powered by low-torque pager motors (yes, with pepsi caps for wheels), the body needed to be lightweight. So i made it out of some old CD cases. I accidentally stepped on the plastic partway through the process, so I ended up with lots of little plastic parts. no biggie; now the shell is just made from lots of little parts. The buck-teeth are made from an outlet cover.
This project also used my first robot part ever: my picaxe project board. While creating my own "Start Here F-type" robot, I accidentally soldered the A/B motor ports into oblivion. So as you can see, I bypassed them, and soldered pins directly to the motor driver chip outs. the rest of the chip is plugged into the board.
Code: I haven't had much success with servos, so I wanted to make an object avoider that didn't use one. To avoid getting snagged on the "blind spots"to either side of the sonar sensor, I made it wiggle from side to side as it moves forward. (I noticed that crabs, who can't move their heads, do the same thing). The goal was to make the bumper switches unnecessary.
Instead of programming "turn left / turn right" subroutines, i made a single "turn" that either went left or right based on a "direction" bit variable. The main loop then includes an "inc direction" line that toggles which way to go. That way I only have to say "go forward for X, then turn" instead of "go forward for x, turn left, go forward for x, turn right".
QUAB also has a speaker that beep-bop-boops one of dozens of little sounds when he encounters objects, in an effort to give him some personality. But there was a lot of background noise in the movie, so you'll have to take my word for it.
The top of the shell is taken from the same scrapped toy that provided my other bot's housing.
Looks tough, doesn't it? The treads are extra Tamiya treads from the infamous gearbox.
I vant to avoid your object. blah!
my jimmy-rigged h-bridge (blue wires).
I like the use of the safety
Way cool, good compact design.
Good observation on the
Good observation on the crabs. I'll have to remember taht one. I also like the front view as he appears to be lop-sided - excellent character.
You are developing a style,
Looks good, moves great!
Hey, perhaps you could
TWSS? Ok I'm done... I will
TWSS? Ok I'm done... I will admit I had the ZZ Top song in my head when I read the post.
I like the idea of reusing parts from around the house. Did your bumper switches have leads that long or did you add something? I got a couple with roller wheels on the end but they are much shorter.


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Bcl-2 siRNA Augments Taxol Mediated Apoptotic Death in Human Glioblastoma U138MG and U251MG Cells
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- , Naren L. BanikAffiliated withDepartment of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina
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The anti-neoplastic drug taxol binds to β-tubulin to prevent tumor cell division, promoting cell death. However, high dose taxol treatment may induce cell death in normal cells too. The anti-apoptotic molecule Bcl-2 is upregulated in many cancer cells to protect them from apoptosis. In the current study, we knocked down Bcl-2 expression using cognate siRNA during low-dose taxol treatment to induce apoptosis in two human glioblastoma U138MG and U251MG cell lines. The cells were treated with either 100 nM taxol or 100 nM Bcl-2 siRNA or both for 72 h. Immunofluorescent stainings for calpain and active caspase-3 showed increases in expression and co-localization of these proteases in apoptotic cells. Fluorometric assays demonstrated increases in intracellular free [Ca2+], calpain, and caspase-3 indicating augmentation of apoptosis. Western blotting demonstrated dramatic increases in the levels of Bax, Bak, tBid, active caspases, DNA fragmentation factor-40 (DFF40), cleaved fragments of lamin, fodrin, and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) during apoptosis. The events related to apoptosis were prominent more in combination therapy than in either treatment alone. Our current study demonstrated that Bcl-2 siRNA significantly augmented taxol mediated apoptosis in different human glioblastoma cells through induction of calpain and caspase proteolytic activities. Thus, combination of taxol and Bcl-2 siRNA offers a novel therapeutic strategy for controlling the malignant growth of human glioblastoma cells.
KeywordsApoptosis Bcl-2 siRNA Calpain Glioblastoma Taxol
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"Bitcoin has taken a big step towards being accepted into the mainstream," says Katherine Rushton in the Daily Telegraph. New York regulators are considering creating a "BitLicence" for companies using virtual currencies - to help tame a market "still in its Wild West phase" but which could "end up being an integral part of the global financial system".
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What should be the Chancellor's key priority on tax, asks Ian King in The Times. According to a Baker Tilly poll, most Britons think it should be ensuring that multinationals pay "a fair amount of tax in the UK". Next most popular was a cut in employers' NI contributions, followed by tackling offshore tax evaders and cutting VAT in restaurants and for tourist attractions. "The least popular option was restoring the 50p top rate of income tax." Eds Balls and Miliband should take note.
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That all having been said, my ideal simple solution to "core 3.5 is what we want to run, but the lower-tier classes are kind of weak and that's no fun :(" is to use the Trailblazer rules. They fix what needs fixing, in straightforward ways (taking some great ideas from Pathfinder and adding a whole bunch of their own, rather ingenious, innovations).
(My ideal solution, period, is to design my own variant system. But I can't recommend this option to anyone else, because it's staggeringly effort-intensive.)
False comparison. You must compare Core 3.5 to Core PF, or "3.5 + splat" to "PF with Advanced *, Ultimate *, setting, etc.".
It's simply absurd to compare Core 3.5 to "PF with all the splat" — but that's what you're doing when you bring in archetypes. Under the proper comparisons, a 3.5 character can easily win. To wit:
Core vs. Core:
1. 3.5 druid beats any PF class. (Wild shape and animal companions both worked very differently in 3.5.)
2. Certain martial builds were better in 3.5; for example, a 3.5 spiked chain tripper is superior in almost every way to his PF counterpart.
3. Bards had certain advantages in 3.5 due to the way song effect durations worked.
Splat vs. Splat:
1. PF simply doesn't have some of the game-breaking combos that 3.5 splat allowed.
2. Certain magical spells and effects (polymorph / shapechange is just one example) were way, way more open to crazy-power-level exploits in 3.5.
3. The far, far greater selection / diversity, and much lower level of standardization, of prestige classes and certain other kinds of content (items, spells, etc.) in 3.5 meant that some truly titanic builds were possible: nightsticks and Divine Metamagic is not a thing in PF, for example; nor is Vow of Poverty; nor is Mindrape / Love's Pain for unavoidable infinite-range ignores-all-defenses assassination; etc., etc.
Edit: In short, if you allow both all 3.5 material and all PF material, and someone builds a PF character and someone else builds a 3.5 character (both at high optimization levels), the PF character doesn't stand a ghost of a chance.
Edit 2: Of course, you could bring in 3pp stuff to help the PF guy out, while still sticking to WotC-only for the 3.5 side; but I am reasonably sure that even then, the PF guy gets stomped easily.
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Is that available publicly anywhere?
I'm afraid not. But DriveThruRPG does sell it for less than $5.
It's well worth it.
Umbral Reaver wrote:
I highly recommend looking into the Trailblazer combat reaction rules.
Some quick math with some (more or less arbitrarily selected) monsters:
Small Air Elemental
- current AC 17
- new AC 16
Small Earth Elemental
Giant Spider (Medium)
- current AC 19
- new AC 16
Bearded Devil
Gibbering Mouther
Dire Lion
- current AC 22
- new AC 16
Cryohydra, 9-headed
Young Adult Black Dragon
Fire Giant
Rakshasa, common
Mature Adult Red Dragon
- current AC 32
- new AC 20
Marut Inevitable
Gare Linnorm
Jotund Troll
One thing that strikes me about the effect of these rules is that monsters gain touch AC and lose regular AC[1] (while gaining DR). This favors big hitters (two-handed weapon types) while disfavoring people who hit more times but for less damage, as well as anyone who relied on touch attacks (such as some casters).
It seems that, past a certain level, monsters at CR = APL will be essentially auto-hittable with this rule. At roughly what level will this actually happen? My estimate is approx. level 6-8. Which you may be totally ok with, given that you're doing E6; this would actually let you throw higher-CR monsters at the party, and have them be challenging (due to lots of HP/DR, attacks, etc.) without being unhittable by the party.
But, if it becomes a problem (PCs hitting monsters too easily), one thing that might make combats a little more interesting is either some sort of "active defense" (e.g. the Trailblazer combat reaction rules that let someone attempt to dodge individual attacks), or some way of converting attack bonus to more damage (in the vein of Power Attack) or some other effect like bleed, or both.
[1] To be clear, what I mean by this is that monsters become easier to hit with things that are "attacks vs. regular AC" in the standard system, while becoming harder to hit with things that are "attacks vs. touch AC" in the standard system.
Edit: I am still thinking about this and rewriting as I go
Question: in your system, do you differentiate between touch AC and regular AC?
(Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I am not familiar with Paizo's take on this variant; I know it from 3.5's Unearthed Arcana, and my own version of it.)
Also, do monster hit dice figure into this at all? Or do you more or less assume that a monster has (in its official stats) appropriate nat. armor for its CR/HD and its role, and then just convert the nat. armor into Defense bonus and DR, without considering its CR or HD?
Another question re: monsters: how does the DR they gain from nat. armor conversion interact with any DR they might already have? Does it just overlap?
What sort of total Defense numbers do monsters at various CRs end up with?
I've played around with similar rules for a low-magic variant system I'm working on. This is similar to how I approached it. Some thoughts:
You say "This bonus does not apply to CMD", but wouldn't it actually be simpler to use the Base Defense Bonus instead of BAB in the CMD calculation? With just a little adjustment, couldn't you unify Defense and CMD into one stat that way? (In another variant system I'm designing, I've already unified attack bonus and CMB, and it's definitely simpler that way.)
Re: shields: the way I did it, shields provide a Defense bonus rather than DR; +1 for buckler, +2 for light, +4 for heavy, +6 for tower.
(Caveat: I haven't playtested this, just done a lot of theorycraft and thinking.)
P.S. I'm glad to see someone working on this, this is a variant I've always found appealing!
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I've got an idea for one for my homebrew campaign, but I have no idea where to start. Any suggestions welcome!
There is a psionic lich template in Bruce Cordell's excellent adventure module If Thoughts Could Kill. It's for 3.5, but it shouldn't be hard to adapt it for Pathfinder and Dreamscarred Press's psionics rules.
One of the villains of the adventure is a pretty badass psionic lich. (His base of operations is a mini-dungeon built into the dimensionally-expanded inside of a Huge skeletal bear. Sort of an undead-bear-TARDIS. The lich rides in the bear's head and blasts his enemies with psionic powers through the bear's eye sockets.)
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d8 with rerolling 1s:
(4.5 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8) / 8 = 4.9375
d8 with rerolling 1s and 2s:
(4.5 + 4.5 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8) / 8 = 5.25
Seems better than with d6s, actually.
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Just a note — the distribution of d20 rolls is not the normal (Gaussian) distribution, but the uniform distribution. (This makes a difference; the normal distribution has many 10s and 11s but few 1s and 20s; the uniform distribution has as many 1s as 20s as 10s as 15s etc.)
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Oh my god, that's EXACTLY the movie that popped into my mind when I wrote this!
Yeah, I like my settings to be rather more... organic. As you described. The idea that the PCs just never have the option of doing anything interesting in a city, for example, is offputting.
Yeah, I've always thought the West Marches concept is silly, for more or less this reason (and related ones):
1. There's no plot (or metaplot).
Come to think of it, West Marches might be interesting as a sort of existential horror campaign, where the PCs slowly realize that the world they are in is not real, has no existence outside of this one region; that even the "city" doesn't exist beyond the small trade district they've seen; and that they can't... ever... escape... no matter how much they try...
This thing here — an item set consisting of five items (two gauntlets, pair of boots, breastplate, helm). It was one of the major focusing points of an entire years-long campaign. (Detailed item powers redacted for length.)
The Grand Sultan of the efreet wore the Armor into battle during his campaign of interplanar conquest, but he was defeated by an alliance of Good-aligned heroes and creatures. The Armor was scattered across the planes; but many years later, parts of it began to find their way to the Material Plane...
The Armor of the Grand Sultan: Created by the late, half-human Grand Sultan of the efreeti to grant himself power and control over his recalcitrant subjects, and composed of several semi-independent parts, this armor is impressive indeed. Though the individual and synergistic powers of the set pieces are described at length below, wearing the entire armor grants several formidable and unique powers to its fortunate owner.
For one, the unified armor magically binds itself to its wearer, and maintains this bond regardless of distance. The first person to don the entire set becomes the armor's recognized owner; thenceforth, he may take a standard action to recall the armor to him, provided he is located on the same plane as all its parts. (Otherwise this power functions as the called armor enhancement.) The only way to unbind the armor from its owner is to kill him, then scatter the armor's parts throughout the planes.
When the entire armor is worn, all the onyx gems set into it (one in each glove and each boot, one in the breastplate, and three in the helm) are searing hot to the touch, and a bright fire can be seen burning in their centers.
Breastplate: This +5 breastplate is made of brass, but due to the intense process of its creation, is hardened to provide a +5 bonus to AC (+10 total with the enhancement bonus). The entire armor provides a +7 bonus to AC (+12 total with enhancement bonus). The surface is engraved with various arcane symbols describing powerful abjurations, and is decorated with flames dancing around the armor's edges. A large onyx gem is set into the center, directly above a human wearer's heart.
The breastplate's primary function being protective, it has a variety of functions related to shielding the wearer from the fiery doom that the other parts of the armor are designed to inflict.
Helmet: This elaborate brass helmet, which is set with three onyx gems, seems mostly decorative, and does not provide much protection. It is crafted, however, in such a way as not to obscure vision, and it is a comfortable fit for any Medium-sized wearer. When worn, the helm appears to burst into flame, giving off a continual flame effect, and making it effectively impossible to hide. This effect cannot be dispelled, and is not suppressed in any sort of magical darkness.
The simplest power of the helmet becomes obvious the first time the wearer lights a bonfire; the helm permits the wearer to see through mundane or magical fire and smoke of any kind perfectly; opponents obscured by such smoke do not benefit from any concealment against the helm's wearer.
The primary purpose of the helmet is control. It serves to focus the energies of the rest of the armor into coherent powers. When worn separately from the entirety of the armor, this controlling magic attempts to exert itself in strange ways.
Boots: These tall, almost knee-high boots are made of brass, and engraved with images of fire and smoke. Though they are entirely metallic, they are nonetheless comfortable for any Medium-sized wearer. A small onyx gem is set deep into the heel of each boot. When when the boots are worn, small wisps of dark smoke rise from them continuously, giving off a faint sulfuric odor.
Inspired and powered by the Paraelemental Plane of Smoke, the boots were designed by the Grand Sultan to aid in travel and, should the situation require it, escape.
Gloves: These brass gauntlets are too thin and flimsy to provide any real protective value, and a character wielding them is not considered armed. However, they are quite ornate, and a highly polished black onyx gem is set into the middle of the palm of each glove.
The purpose of the gloves is offensive in nature: the Grand Sultan imbued with them with the ability to generate elemental energy. The Quasielemental Planes of Radiance and Ash are the inspiration and source of the gloves' power.
Yes, this seems to work.
Ok, let's clarify, to make sure I understand what's going on. The character starts out Medium. The bastard sword starts out Large.
The Rules said wrote:
As I understand it, your player's argument (with my commentary in parentheses) is like this:
1. The bastard sword is a one-handed weapon, with which he is, by default, not proficient. (He cannot wield it in one hand, even with a -4 nonproficiency penalty; this is different from the way nonproficiency works with most weapons. See http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment---final/weapons/weapon-descriptions/sword -bastard.)
When he enlarges with the weapon in hand, it enlarges with him; since the difference in the size category of weapon and wielder does not change, the above reasoning likewise stays unchanged.
Then, when he throws it, and it reduces in size, it comes back to him, now a Large weapon on a Large wielder. It remains a one-handed weapon by default (as bastard swords always are); he remains proficient with it (thus able, by default, to wield it one-handed); and it is now the same size as he is, thus not changing either of those things from their defaults. He can now wield the sword as a one-handed weapon with no penalty; he does not (while enlarged) incur the -2 penalty from wielding an inappropriately sized weapon.
As for the damage calculation... his Strength bonus is +5. (+6 when enlarged). Thrown weapons add 1x Strength modifier to damage. On a critical hit, that would be +12. Four levels of fighter get him Weapon Specialization (I assume), for another +2 (+4 on crit). That's +16. Where are we getting the other +8?
That aside, keep in mind that if your player were using a longsword instead of a bastard sword, those numbers would be very similar; a Large longsword does 2d6 damage, and a Huge one does 3d6. I'm not quite sure that I'd spend a feat on EWP, given those numbers, but otherwise, and contingent on the damage calculation being correct, the trick seems to work.
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
And as a side note, I just love how this thread has become a RT debate rather than a 'Let's fix broken spells' discussion. Let's partay like it's 2000!
Right you are. Let us waste no more breath on rope trick. Instead:
Other things that need fixed.
I think that spells that grant immunity to things should go. Pretty much all of them. (I am open to individual exceptions, but can't think of any offhand.)
I refer to spells such as:
freedom of movement
In 3.5, these made you outright immune to grappling, death effects and energy drain, and mind-affecting effects and most divinations, respectively.
Pathfinder did a bit of nerfing. Death ward now makes you immune only to negative energy, not death effects (against which it only provides a save); mind blank gives a bonus to saves against mind-affecting. Freedom of movement still makes you immune to grappling.
I say all these spells should be nerfed; they should grant immunity to nothing. Spells, especially if they last a minute per level, 10 minutes per level, or 24 hours, should not just make you immune to things. Immunities are uninteresting; they just eliminate a whole swath of possible tactics. They disregard the relative power levels of opponents; they contribute to the annoying issue of fights with casters always, tediously, opening with dispels.
At a certain level, you are of course going to go into every major battle with freedom of movement, which means that grappling is entirely eliminated as a category of threat; many mid-to-high level creatures have grapple-based powers, which are all rendered entirely moot by this spell. You don't have to adjust your tactics to compensate; you don't have to plan with them in mind; you just cast this one buff, as part of your standard buff routine, and put it out of your mind. Mind blank? Of course you have it on; put it on your martials, and now an entire massive category of threats (all mind-affecting spells, of which there are lots and lots and lots) is eliminated from consideration. Expect any chance at all of facing undead? Death ward yourself, just in case. Why not? Now a whole swath of creatures can't harm you, at all, with their primary, defining powers.
Instead, these spells should function as either bonuses to saves, or buffers, or some combination thereof. Freedom of movement might give a +8 bonus to CMD and EA vs. grapples, for instance. Death ward, rather than granting immunity to negative energy, might function more like 3.0 negative energy protection, where the warded creature may roll a check against the attack, which, if successful, negates it (and deals positive energy damage to the attacker). Or it could be a buffer, similar to protection from energy, being discharged after some number of negative energy attacks. And so forth. I don't know, I'm just throwing out ideas. The point is, outright immunities: no.
Oh, and:
The point isn't that the spell is problematic for doing exactly what it's supposed to do (like, uh, almost all spells...), the point is that what the spell does is inherently problematic.
Remy Balster wrote:
Exactly how much do people get done in 5 minutes?
Quite a bit, considering that 5-15 minutes is enough to cast all of your short-duration buffs and have several big fights, if you can get to them quickly enough. (Which, past a certain level, is trivial. Especially in a dungeon.)
My Kingmaker group cleared a small dungeon in less than 10 minutes recently. It was maybe 3-5 fights, of which a couple were large-ish.
And how fun is it to spend, literally the entire day, sitting in an empty void with nothing to do?
Who cares?
"How much fun (for the characters) is it to do this overpowered thing" is not any kind of a good argument. If the overpowered thing provides a massive advantage, then the players will do it. It's not like they're the ones who have to sit there the whole day; the characters are sitting there the whole day, while in real life, only as much time passes as it takes to say "we sit in the rope trick the whole day".
Besides, maybe they play cards. Maybe the bard entertains them all with songs. Maybe they get real creative with the munchkinry and the wizard scribes some scrolls while the archer fletches some arrows. Sky's the limit!
And who in their right mind would ever do that all the time? Or... like, ever?
Many people, much of the time. This is a thing people do.
Every minute you spend sitting on your butt doing absolutely nothing is a minute the world continues to tick on by, stuff happens while PCs waste time. Usually it is 'bad stuff'.
Usually irrelevant if it's a dungeon. (Most dungeons aren't very reactive.) And in general, not all adventures are that time-constrained.
And even if you are time-constrained, the constraint often is: how many big, buffed boss fights can you get done in a day? Continuing to adventure and generally walk around after you've expended your daily resources doesn't help you get more big fights done in a single day (in fact it increases the probability that you'll get into a fight and lose due to lack of resources, and death really cuts into your schedule) so you lose nothing, time-wise, by safely hiding in a rope trick.
And... the rope trick can be spotted, too. "The rope cannot be removed or hidden." So it isn't exactly the best possible way to hide. It is useful, certainly... but hardly problematic.
Well, keep in mind this wasn't true in 3.5. So yes, Pathfinder nerfed it a bit. (Although see my comments earlier in the thread about cutting the rope and so forth.)
Bad guys can just crawl on up into your rope trick while the party is all fast asleep. And then more 'bad stuff' happens.
Obviously you put someone on watch. Come on.
And since only one person can climb the rope at a time, and they can't even see the extradimensional window (and you CAN see them coming), it's almost trivially easy to surprise them with a nice gang-up the moment they poke their head into the space. After the first orc pokes his head up into nowhere, is promptly murdered, and falls off the rope, his face and head mangled nearly to unrecognizability with a combination of blades and spell blasts... how eager will the other orcs be to proceed? (And even if they are, you can go ahead and keep murdering them, too.)
Climbing up into a rope trick with the intent of assaulting the occupants is pretty much the worst idea, in short. Now, if you'd said: "A cleric comes by and dispels the rope trick" — ok, then we have a more interesting scenario. Still not spell-nerfingly catastrophic — but interesting.
Um, guys, the point is not that you use rope trick to regain spells more than once a day. That's crazy; no one is suggesting that (except you two, apparently), it's never been considered legal, and it's certainly not the source of rope trick's brokenness.
The reason the spell is broken is because you regain spells, go out and nova things for 15 minutes, and then spend the rest of the day just hanging out. And then when it comes time to sleep, or if anything threatening comes your way, you climb into the rope trick and sleep / relax in there.
To go back to my previous Ravenloft example, one of the things that are supposed to make that adventure scary is that spending the night in the castle is anywhere from spooky to terrifying; all manner of things roam the halls of Ravenloft at night, and they will come upon you while you sleep, quietly subdue whoever's on watch, and feast on your delicious blood / life energy / etc.
But if you've got rope trick, then all of that is moot. Anytime you feel like not exploring anymore, you just plop yourself down wherever you are and hang out, and when it's time to sleep, you all climb into the extradimensional space and sleep soundly, knowing that you're immune to anything and everything that might walk by. Heck, you can prepare three rope tricks (or make some scrolls) and have 24 hours of coverage at level 8! You are exposed to the dangers of the scary world of adventuring for exactly as many minutes in a day as you choose to be, and not one second more.
This whole business with regaining spells twice a day or what have you is one colossal red herring.
Night attacks aren't dickery, they are a completely reasonable threat when you're resting in enemy territory.
Meanwhile, the whole "the rope cannot be removed or hidden" stipulation is actually kinda strange, when you think about it*. Ok, so 16,000 pounds of force pulls the rope free. Then what? Does the spell end when that happens? Or what? What if, instead of pulling at the rope, you cut it? It's a regular rope, right? Just take your sword to it, cut it off? Or is the rope invulnerable somehow? If not, how close to the dimensional boundary can you make that cut? Can you just have a millimeter of rope dangling out? That seems like it'd be hard to spot, yeah?
*As is most magic-related rules text that says "you can't X", rather than "if X happens, then Y results".
The Arcatraz dungeon from World of Warcraft (Burning Crusade) could be a source of ideas.
See, the Arcatraz is an alien prison ship, once crewed by good-aligned aliens (who were forced to abandon ship), and inside are kept various creatures — demons, aliens, criminals. Some are in stasis (and the PCs might inadvertently, or intentionally, let them loose). Some have broken free, allied with others, and entrenched themselves in parts of the ship. Some are simply rampaging. There are also security robots, some of which are malfunctioning and berserk.
The aesthetics of the place are also pretty cool — all crystals and force fields and light.
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
Heh. Yeah, I don't actually advocate solving rope trick that way; it's just the simplest way to solve it without house ruling.
My favorite rope trick solution was one I instituted in a Ravenloft (original module, not setting) game I ran. You see,
Ravenloft is filled with this evil mist that, once you breathe it, you need to keep breathing to survive; if you leave Ravenloft before defeating Strahd, you immediately start to choke from the absence of the mist, and soon suffocate. (Destroying Strahd causes the mist to disperse and the affliction to be cured.)
So when the PCs cast a rope trick and climbed in, I told them they start choking. Turns out (thus I ruled), the mist won't diffuse past the dimensional boundary. There sure was weeping and gnashing of teeth that day, I tell ya what.
Wait, banning things is finicky? Or do you mean duration-nerfing? I don't actually think there's a way to boost things to 24hrs in PF, by the way, but if there is, then that's where the actual problem lies — balancing things by making them short-duration should be a thing, and an ability that lets you ignore the duration limitations of a broad spectrum of things is not balanced.
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
As to what value RT has beyond breaking the game's already shaky balance -- it was originally merely another of the wizard's tricks, which may or may not have proven useful on any given day. It lasted mere minutes, so it could be a temporary escape from threats that didn't know the party's exact location, or as a means to spy on monsters who wandered by the invisible door, or even as a means to reach otherwise unreachable ledges and surfaces.
Hm, yeah, that all seems pretty situationally useful (and open to creative use, which is good). I think nerfing the duration would be a simple, straightforward, and therefore (imo) desirable fix.
Yes, yes, yes, and...er, gazebos are by definition open on all sides, so I don't know how to answer that last one. I'm being imprecise here because I've never actually used this house rule; if you did, presumably you'd be more precise. The point is to create a world where people know how to build fortifications in such a way as to block teleportation. And a campaign in which you, the DM, don't have to worry about the PCs teleporting directly into the BBEG's throne room.
My point there wasn't so much to ask you to peg specific cases (although just what architectural details demarcate the boundary between "house with large, open windows" and "gazebo" is an obvious remaining question), but to point out that your proposed solution requires the DM to come up with such details. I am not a fan of "finicky" solutions, ones that force me to make such detailed determinations, and to rethink and redesign things as basic as how houses are built; plus, do you really look forward to having your players ask you for the precise architectural descriptions of every location they find themselves in? I sure don't. I far prefer simple, "cut-the-knot" style solutions.
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
"Enclosed", you say. How enclosed does "enclosed" have to be? Parapet of a castle: not enclosed? House with open windows: enclosed? Cavern system with no doors, open to the surface in places: enclosed? Interior of a gazebo (with thick walls): not enclosed?
I read it, I just didn't make the connection to the discussion of hazards and whatnot. I get it now.
It seems to me that a DM is well within his right to point out the "hazards" phrasing the first time the PCs ever use rope trick; and if they subsequently use it without stowing their bags of holding elsewhere, to hit the party with a planar rift — the closest rule-covered situation, after all, is the bag-hole interaction.
That said, if I were starting a campaign now, I'd ban rope trick outright. I admit there are modifications of it that would make it balanced — yours possibly among them (I haven't thought about it hard enough to make up my mind) — but unless it becomes clear to me what value the spell has other than a place to rest safely, I would simply avoid the work of balancing it, and just toss it.
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
2. I see PF edited out the vague reference to 'hazards' in the rope trick spell, which is a step forward. (How many inane debates did we endure during 3.x involving the interpretation of 'hazard'?)
To what do you refer, here? I've never seen such a debate in any group I've been in, and I am curious what it could be about. Is it the bit about taking extradimensional spaces into the rope trick?
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
So... you can't teleport out of your house. Or into your friend's house. You can only teleport from outdoors to outdoors. But wait. Isn't there wood, metal, or stone between any two sufficiently distant outdoor locations? Like, trees? Rocks? The ground? Are we handwaving all of that away?
This has potential, but I get a "this will surely have issues that I can't think of right now" feeling from it. Bears consideration.
williamoak wrote:
1. What is required to create the scroll? Where do you have to be? On the spot? How long does it take? Does it cost anything?
As for banning... I generally agree with not removing variety... but those two spells don't add variety in any meaningful sense. They just add power. They're not interesting. (In my opinion.)
And there's a bigger issue: if you commit to not removing variety, and also allow all Paizo material, then you make yourself a slave to the continual addition of variety (or "variety"). At some point, more variety is too much. Also, there lies power creep.
I think you can say "I will stick to core, and not remove variety", or you can say "I will allow non-core material, but I will be selective about all material I allow, core included"; but saying "I will allow all material, nonselectively" is setting yourself up for trouble.
StreamOfTheSky wrote:
Wait, what? My copy of UM has no such component... what are you referring to?
williamoak wrote:
What do you think of my proposals? [...]
Let's see...
Teleport, coordinate scrolls: I confess I don't understand the mechanic. Could you clarify, maybe provide an example?
My immediate reaction is: this is too complex / too hard to understand a mechanic. I like simple, straightforward solutions.
Blood money: ban it.
Paragon surge: ban it.
There's no need for complex solutions to spells that aren't compelling enough to keep and do nothing interesting but add power to casters.
Charm, Dominate: requires more thought. Rich Burlew's Diplomacy rules may be part of the solution; I sort-of-use them myself.
Holy crap, that article is so bad. A DM instituting a set of suggestions like that would make me really angry. I would definitely not play in a game like that.
The only thing I like is the "ley lines" modification to teleport. Otherwise... UGH.
However, I do agree that there are problematic spells. When I'm not hurrying to catch a bus, I'll see about a list, with some suggestions.
Hendelbolaf wrote:
Yes, the conversions of the White Plume Mountain weapons, and other old stuff, is one of the reasons why I love the A&EG like, this much.
(Also the vehicle rules.)
andreww wrote:
Oh, that's unfortunate! If this is a change, it's definitely one for the worse... I don't suppose you have a link to the relevant FAQ entry?
Snorter wrote:
I disagree. I don't think the rules support it (sans feat), and with good reason. In fact, I'd say the RAW clearly disallows it. It definitely takes a house rule to make this work baseline.
In the campaign I run, one of the players created this item:
And its magical version:
It's not a stretch to make it work with rods also. You might convince your DM to let you have such a thing.
Ravingdork wrote:
I came to this thread for exactly this. Good work, Ravingdork.
CWheezy wrote:
Good point! Combat Expertise also!
Right, if you are modifying the monster, then the BAB is important to know; if you're using it as-is, then it's not.
This is because BAB is one of those stats that is not used directly in any calculations or rolls during combat; what you actually use are stats derived from it, like total attack bonus, CMB, CMD, etc.
Other parts of a stat block that are "irrelevant" in similar fashion are unconditional* racial skill modifiers (because they are already rolled into the total skill modifier); the hit die line (i.e. a tarrasque's 30d10+360; all you need to know in combat is the actual hp total); and, interestingly, the creature's ability scores (excepting the rare case of needing to make a bare ability check; in combat this occurs infrequently at best).
*Note that conditional racial skill modifiers, such as a hyena's +4 racial bonus to Stealth checks in tall grass, remain relevant.


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