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As an example, let's say that you had a manifester (class doesn't really matter for this,) that wanted to be able to efficiently destroy unattended objects, doors and walls. What would be the best power for a low-to-mid level manifester, mostly in terms of it's power point cost-to-damage ratio? I mean, psionic disintegrate is pretty tasty, but that's a 6th level power. I'm hoping for something of a lower level. I know that the ones that deal sonic damage most often ignore object hardness, but I can't figure out which one would be best, or if there's a non-elemental power that would work better. No explosions are required, but would not necessarily be frowned upon. TIA!

As the title, trying to create a user-editable flair to go next to their usernames when they post/comment, but I cannot create the new flair. When I click on the box where you'd type in what you want the flair to initially show up as, it will not let me click on the box or enter text in it. Obviously, this is sorta holding the process up. How do I fix this?

Edit: Nevermind, I just had to go into old reddit for it to work. Are they ever going to fix 'new' reddit?

Edit: Okay, so I went in and made a new user-editable flair that currently says "Edit this one for your own, keep it appropriate/SFW" so that way, people can add whatever descriptor they think fits themself best, but without me having to go in and add a whole bunch of new flairs. Even adding that one was a big enough pain since I had to use old reddit to do it. But again, keep whatever description that you choose as appropriate to the content of this sub and also SFW. But also, some of the other pre-existing flairs, like "Atheist" and "Theist" are (and have always been) user-editable.

The original post:
A request was made to add a new flair to the sub for a particular brand of movie-based atheist, at least, that's the way I understand what it is. It got me to thinking, what self-identification flair(s) would you like to see added to the sub to give people the choice to better identify themselves? Please keep things reasonably SFW and appropriate to the subject matter of the sub. Stuff like Naturalist, Materialist, Secular Humanist, as well as identifiers for specific real-world religious sects won't be a problem. Cenobite, Last Thursdayist and Jediism are ones I would probably be willing to allow depending on the number of people who want them, but not so much with something like "Adonitologist", despite my own personal devotion. IYKYK (but also: /s.)

Let's try to avoid duplicate entries. As we get comments on this post, please read through all the high-level replies to see if the one you want has already been listed by someone else. If it has, give it an upvote and/or comment. The ones that get the most upvotes/comments will probably get added first.

Okay, so I used to run plasma damage, almost exclusively. But when the Hysperian Intel Battlecruiser came out, I absolutely fell in love with the Five Magics trait and the Dragonsblood Flame Reactor. So I switched up my build and have been running disruptor damage and various consoles/boff abilities/traits/whatever that either boost disruptor damage or add in radiation, electric, cold or fire damage. Plus, I just really like my clickies. Psionic is pretty much left out because it's a pain to add it to the build and just doesn't seem worth it.

As sort of a leftover from my plasma days, and the three consoles I'm looking to replace, I've been running the Cutting Tractor Beam, the Retrofitted Assimilator consoles, and a Plasma-Generating Weapon Signature Nullifier.

On the Cutting Tractor Beam, I liked it mainly because of the temp boost to damage on other Universal Consoles, although the Hull Restoration and Energized Hull Plating plus the kinetic damage that it does aren't anything to sneeze at. For the Retrofitted Assimilator, having a new little friend wasn't bad, but Exotic Particle Generator and Control Expertise were the real draw. With the Plasma-Generating Weapon Signature Nullifier, it was always about the Control Expertise boost, but the little bit of extra damage from the plasma explosions was okay, too. But also, I used to think it was really important to minimize threat generation, but anymore, it doesn't super seem to be an issue.

Ultimately, I think I would like to replace all three of those consoles, but I'm not sure what to replace them with. I already have my fill of the Isomagnetic Plasma Distribution Manifolds, so I'm not wanting to add any more of those.

What consoles would you recommend that would boost EPG, CRTX and maybe provide some additional synergy with Five Magicks/Dragonsblood Flame Reactor?

Edit: Clarity, I think.

Here's the text from the Mind's Eye article where it was introduced:

>Personal Space
You have an extradimensional storage pocket available.
Level: 1st.
Replaces: The bonus feat at 1st level.
Benefit: You gain an extradimensional storage space within your body. You can access it as a psi-like ability by expending your psionic focus. You may send an item to it or retrieve an item as you wish. The size of the storage space grows with your own power. At 1st level it is equivalent to a belt pouch, at 5th level it equals a sack, at 10th level it is the size of a backpack, at 15th level it is the size of a chest, and at 20th level it is the size of a Medium creature.
You cannot store anything that has extradimensional properties, such as a bag of holding , within your personal space. Any attempt will fail.

Bold, mine. As you can see, it specifies that you can't put extradimensional spaces in your personal extradimensional space. But, what if you tried to go into an extradimensional space? It doesn't say anything about that? Would normal astral breech rules apply? Personally, I'd be more inclined to say that it would fail until you emptied your personal extradimensional space out and 'dismissed' it. You could then later expend your psionic focus to re-open it.

Ideas?

Trying to do the The Kuvah-Magh for daily progress and the new mission rewards, and I got stuck on the objective "Regroup with the Doctor." The clock counted down, and currently shows 0:00 and Singh is next to the transporter room, but I can't find any options/objects/people to interact with. I beamed out and tried to continue, but it's still stuck. What do I do?

Edit: So, after this issue happened this morning, I beamed up and left the mission active. I went and did Defense of Starbase One, just so I could get the event progress. I waited until after maintenance was done and got the patch, then I tried to resume the mission, got stuck at the same spot. So, I beamed up, dropped the mission, and then completely restarted it. Same problem as before. I get to the final room with the enhanced Gorn, where Singh is off in another room by the transporter pad and I'm supposed to Regroup with The Doctor and the timer is at 0:00. The Doctor is just following me around and I'm not being given any prompts or anything I can interact with.

Okay, so I've got a Gne25jskcfss french door refrigerator (freezer on the bottom), and the water isn't working in it, anymore. One day, I just went in to get some water, and it quit dispensing. At about the same time, it quit making ice. When you press the button to dispense water, there's the 'normal' click sound, plus a hissing sound sort of like it should make when dispensing, but nothing comes out. For a while after it stopped making ice, it it would make noises like it was trying to make ice, but no water flowed in and no ice was ever dispensed, so I turned off the ice maker.

I've replaced the water filter and used the bypass plug. I've checked the lines as best I can and they seem clear. I've defrosted the fridge multiple times. I've checked the water line to the fridge and it seems clear. Today, I was in the fridge getting food, and the fridge kicked on (the compressor, I think,) and there was a weird noise that came from the water filter. So, I reached over and hit the water dispenser button, and a brief jet of water shot out, but then it stopped, again. Any suggestions would be much appreciated, and moreso if it means I don't have to start taking stuff apart.

Okay, so I've got a Gne25jskcfss french door refrigerator (freezer on the bottom), and the water isn't working in it, anymore. One day, I just went in to get some water, and it quit dispensing. At about the same time, it quit making ice. When you press the button to dispense water, there's the 'normal' click sound, plus a hissing sound sort of like it should make when dispensing, but nothing comes out. For a while after it stopped making ice, it it would make noises like it was trying to make ice, but no water flowed in and no ice was ever dispensed, so I turned off the ice maker.

I've replaced the water filter and used the bypass plug. I've checked the lines as best I can and they seem clear. I've defrosted the fridge multiple times. I've checked the water line to the fridge and it seems clear. Today, I was in the fridge getting food, and the fridge kicked on (the compressor, I think,) and there was a weird noise that came from the water filter. So, I reached over and hit the water dispenser button, and a brief jet of water shot out, but then it stopped, again. Any suggestions would be much appreciated, and moreso if it means I don't have to start taking stuff apart.

Let me preface this by stating that this is a ECL 10 build that will likely never see play, there is no DM, and this is purely for boredom-mitigation. I'm mostly talking through this in my head as I'm typing this out, but I would very much appreciate input on what you think would work the best.

I've been watching the Predator movies, and I was thinking it might be fun to build 'The Ultimate Hunter', or at least, one that's good at hunting prey that can hunt him back. I know about the Zern race, but frankly, that's a bit much, both LA and racial HD-wise. So, I'd like to go with a race/template combo that has, at most, a +1 LA. I might be willing to go with a +2 LA if it was really good. The problem is, no race/template combo really sounds good, right now. I mean, Feral has great abilities and would fit really well thematically, but the gut-punch to Intelligence is painful. Plus, I'm not sure what kind of race I'd want to even start with, other than human for the extra feat/skill points. Some of the jungle racial variants, like halfling or goblin, don't sound bad either, despite them ending up as small creatures. Jungle halfling for the poison use, and jungle goblin for the climb speed.

For the class, I was thinking ranger or barbarian, leaning ranger, and possibly doing a slight reflavor on the Forest Reeve PrC for the 4th lvl Camouflage ability. The Forest Reeve seems like it'd be the closest PrC, flavor-wise that would give Hide in Plain Sight (or a similar ability) at or below an ECL of 10. Plus, increased movement speed, some healing, unhindered by undergrowth, faster tracking speed, etc from that PrC sound like a really good fit.

I would probably also take at least two of the following feats, mostly for flavor: Snatch Trophy, Trophy Collector and Trophy Hunter. I'd also have to give him Endurance to qualify for Forest Reeve, but Track is a bonus feat from Ranger. Part of the reflavor I might do for Forest Reeve would be to change the requirement for Endurance to Heat Endurance, since the Yautja are depicted as very hot-climate creatures. But also, he gets the bonus feat for his chosen weapon style, and now that I'm re-reading the Ranger class description, he'd also get the Endurance feat as a bonus feat. Still, I don't think a smattering of homebrew to change that to Heat Endurance would be horribly out of the question.

Many of the common Predator weapons are covered by simple and martial weapon proficiencies, but I want to work in proficiency with the chakram, shuriken and nets. For the plasma caster, I'd probably just give him the Stone Spitter Maug graft with the Flaming enhancement and some special ammunition.

So, if you were going to do a Predator-inspired build that didn't necessarily have to replicate every single little detail perfectly, but was trying to be at least moderately faithful to what the Yautja are and what they do, what would you build them as? What race/template, class/prestige class, and feat combinations would you pick for such a hunter?

I have no idea why this is going on, but a whole lot of comments are being removed from this sub. Many of them are being incorrectly flagged by reddit's hate and harassment filters, but some are just being flagged as "Removed by Reddit" with no explanation of any kind. If this happens to you, just be patient, please, and I'll get your comments restored as soon as I check the "Removed" section of the Mod Log.

But also, as a side note: If you make a post on this sub and it gets removed for breaking the sub's rules, you should be aware that any subsequent attempts to re-post the same thing are unlikely to be approved.

Pretty much the title of the post, but in MoE and ECS, the quori embedded dragonshards don't ever really specify (as far as I could find) what kind of abilities their effects are. A page reference would be awesome, too, please.

If you take a look at the sidebar of the sub, you'll notice a new rule, "8 Post-and-Ghost". It says: "There is an expectation on this sub that when you make a post, that you will make an effort to reply to at least some of the comments you get on your post. "Some" is entirely a subjective term that depends various factors like the subject matter of your post and the number of replies on it."

Emphasis added, here, because the mod settings wouldn't let me add bolded or italicized text in the actual rule. This topic has been discussed multiple times on this sub since I took it over, and I thought it was a reasonable (and obvious) enough expectation that it didn't need to be an official rule of the sub. However, it was recently brought to my attention that it was not laid out clearly enough, for which I apologize. Hopefully this will clear things up.

And while this is not a debate sub, it is a discussion sub.

Also, I don't know for sure, but it sure seems like reddit is tightening up their filters when it comes to stuff getting removed for 'Potential Harassment'. I would rather that the sub didn't get restricted or whatever because of people being disrespectful, insulting or hateful towards each other, so I'd also like to remind you folks of rule 1 - Be Respectful, which can also be found in the sidebar. I don't normally go looking for comments that violate that rule, and I rely on reports from you all to take care of what needs taking care of. But an increasing number of comments have been showing up in the mod log as 'Removed by Reddit.'

So yeah, if someone is being disrespectful, definitely report it, but let's all try to remember that this sub is for asking questions, discussion, and communication.

Not tagging a specific edition because I'm curious to find out how this would work, in general.

Okay, so a Tremere tracks down a lower-generation Salubri, gets the jump on them and drains them to the point of final death, but they keep sucking and manage to suck the soul out of the Salubri. Huzzah. Then there is some sort of contest (Willpower, I think,) where the two souls fight over control of the diablerist's body.

If the Tremere wins, they consume the Salubri's soul, get the weird vibe-thing, the black streaks in their aura, and maybe end up lowering their generation, among other possible effects. But what happens if the Tremere fails and the Salubri takes over the Tremere's body? Does their third eye open on the Tremere's body? Do they absorb any knowledge or information from the Tremere? Do they end up with black streaks in their aura, or, do they get the weird vibes thing? Do they test positive to thaumaturgical tests that would sniff out diablerie? I mean, the Salubri isn't the one who committed diablerie.

Tibbits are a race from the Dragon Compendium that are sort of a feline-coded halfling-adjacent race that can turn into house cats. From their entry in the book:

>Feline Transformation: At will, as a standard action, a tibbit can transform into a house cat. This effect is similar to the spell polymorph but with a number of key changes.
...
A tibbit can transform from a cat back to her humanoid form as a full-round action. She must wait 1 hour to turn back into a cat after reverting to her humanoid form.
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So, turning into a cat is moderately quicker than turning back into a humanoid and there's a delay before being able to turn back into a cat. The ellipses in the middle and at the end cover all the rest of the details about the transformation, but I left them out because the actions to transform and the delay before being able to turn back into a cat are what I'm mostly concerned with. What I would like to do, is formulate some sort of racial feat for tibbits that would make it faster to turn from humanoid to cat and vice versa, and to cut down the length of the delay to be able to turn into a cat again. I do sort of like the way that Raptorans (RotW) get their flight in stages based on their HD, so I'm basing this, somewhat, on that. This would mainly be for balance and to make it accessible with just one feat. Here's my initial pass at it:

>Faster Transformation (Racial)
Prerequisites: Tibbit, 3HD.
Benefit: Taking this feat will speed up your changes in form granted by the Feline Transformation ability, and eventually, decrease the delay you must wait before being able to change into cat form.
At 3HD and above, you can change into your cat form as a move action.
At 6HD and above, you can change back into your humanoid form as a standard action.
At 9HD and above, the time you must wait before switching from humanoid form back to cat form is reduced to 10 minutes.
Normal: Normally, changing from humanoid to cat form takes a standard action, while changing from cat form to humanoid form takes a full-round action, and a tibbit must wait 1 hour after transforming into humanoid form before they can turn back into their cat form.

Does this sound reasonable? Overpowered? Underpowered?

Desktop. When I go to the Mod Tools for my sub, it takes me automatically to the Queue. There's used to always be a button to the left of where it says "Queue" at the top, that looked sorta like a door, but also sorta like columns on a spreadsheet. When I would click on that, it'd take me to the mod menu, where I could see the sub rules, settings, mod log, etc. Now, that button rarely shows up, and when it does, it disappears as soon as I click on it and I can no longer get to the mod menu. Is this a change with reddit, or a bug, or am I doing something wrong? I was able to get to the moderator list for my sub and my permissions have not changed, if that matters.

How good do you all think a multiclass would be between like 8 or 9 levels of Dragonfire Adept and probably 1 level of the Shapeshifter Druid from PHB2? I ask, because as I was flipping through the books, I was going over that Druid ACF and though it might be kind of neat to have such a character running around in their Predator form, breathing fire. I'm pretty sure that sort of thing should work as the ACF says you keep your Extraordinary, Supernatural and Spell-like attacks, as long as the form you assume has the requisite body parts. So I can see how the DFA's invocations with somatic components wouldn't function, but the breath weapon clearly should. Am I right about that, though? Would this be a reasonably viable multiclass combo, generally speaking?