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Post by laurk on May 14, 2009 12:58:20 GMT -5
Nothing says "sexy" like scales, venom sacks, and a dislocatable jaw for swollowing prey whole!
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Post by keeing on May 14, 2009 13:58:54 GMT -5
As they stand right now, Yuan-ti are way overpowered. If they are allowed as a player race, I expect them to become the most played race very quickly. they're the exact same as drow except less hated and more sexy. Erm, no. Please check your information next time. Drow get +2 to Dexterity, Intelligence and Charisma and -2 to Constitution. Yuan Ti get the same benefits WITHOUT the Constitution penalty. In addition, they get Blind Fight and Alertness feats FOR FREE and Scaled Skin feat, which grants them +1 to natural armor, that is effectively Armor Skin feat FOR FREE. Drow get some skill bonuses and keen senses, and Spell Resistances are the same. But Drow also get Light Blindness, which gives them -1 to attack, saving throw and skill checks when outside. With ECL of +2 to both races, I think Yuan Ti wins the day, even moreso with the Ranger as the favored class instead of Wizard for Drow, beacause the bonuses and SR gets along better with a Ranger.
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Post by raenir on May 14, 2009 15:04:55 GMT -5
Nothing says "sexy" like scales, venom sacks, and a dislocatable jaw for swollowing prey whole! you got thr p and the e right but mising nis and having r and y too many.
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Post by raenir on May 14, 2009 15:11:37 GMT -5
they're the exact same as drow except less hated and more sexy. Erm, no. Please check your information next time. Drow get +2 to Dexterity, Intelligence and Charisma and -2 to Constitution. Yuan Ti get the same benefits WITHOUT the Constitution penalty. In addition, they get Blind Fight and Alertness feats FOR FREE and Scaled Skin feat, which grants them +1 to natural armor, that is effectively Armor Skin feat FOR FREE. Drow get some skill bonuses and keen senses, and Spell Resistances are the same. But Drow also get Light Blindness, which gives them -1 to attack, saving throw and skill checks when outside. With ECL of +2 to both races, I think Yuan Ti wins the day, even moreso with the Ranger as the favored class instead of Wizard for Drow, beacause the bonuses and SR gets along better with a Ranger. For one thing the "free" feats like Blind Fight and Alertness I'm dubious as those seem kind of like the feats no one ever picks and less the useful in a PW setting, the +1 for armor is not free it comes with a whooping +2 LA. Light Blindness I think is of no serious impediment to high level characters. If anything the the Yuanti actually earn the +2 LA while the Drow ar emore like +1.
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Post by joleda on May 14, 2009 15:26:44 GMT -5
AFAIK, nearly every serious melee player takes Blind Fight. So, it is taken on PW's.
Spell Resistance should be worth ECL +2 by itself. SR makes you basically immune to some spells cast by non-pure mages and many many monsters.
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Post by raenir on May 14, 2009 15:48:20 GMT -5
ya but if your not a pure mage then you should be a gish or an arcane archer, you shouldt be relying on magic for offense if your not a pure mage or at leas t buy a rod of assay.
They should make a separate area for Yuanti like with drow and underdark with a single boat to go back and forth then.
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Post by keeing on May 14, 2009 19:41:30 GMT -5
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For one thing the "free" feats like Blind Fight and Alertness I'm dubious as those seem kind of like the feats no one ever picks and less the useful in a PW setting, the +1 for armor is not free it comes with a whooping +2 LA. Light Blindness I think is of no serious impediment to high level characters.
If anything the the Yuanti actually earn the +2 LA while the Drow ar emore like +1.[/quote]
I was pointing to the fact that Yuan Ti is a stronger race than Drow as they both have the same ECL, its not that Yuan Ti have +2 and Drow "are more" like +1. They're both +2. Fact.
And Blind Fight is a must take for any combat oriented character, melee or ranged alike.
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Post by c2k on May 15, 2009 1:02:28 GMT -5
The PnP Yuan-ti Pureblood is ECL +5, so the Yuan-ti Pureblood in NWN2 is actually a nerfed version of the real thing. Yuan-ti Purebloods are really powerful.
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Post by raenir on May 15, 2009 7:01:22 GMT -5
The PnP Yuan-ti Pureblood is ECL +5, so the Yuan-ti Pureblood in NWN2 is actually a nerfed version of the real thing. Yuan-ti Purebloods are really powerful. actually thats not the case in the source book that expands upon them, House of Serpents or something they're +2 now.
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