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3 years ago ::
Jan 28, 2010 - 12:41PM
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Which race is considered the most inventive? I need the most mechanical/engineer-ish type race.
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3 years ago ::
Jan 28, 2010 - 1:03PM
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Gnomes, with dwarfs proably as a second.
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F-111 Interdictor Long (200+ squares) distance ally teleporter. With some warlord stuff. Broken in a plot way, not a power way.
Thought Switch Higher level build that grants upto 14 attacks on turn 1. If your allies play along, it's broken.
Elven Critters Crit op with crit generation. 5 of these will end anything. Broken.
King Fisher Does an excellent job at keeping an enemy disabled in a few ways. Strong.
Boominator Fun catch-22 booming blade build with either strong or completely broken damage depending on your reading.
Very Distracting Warlock Lot's of dazing and major penalties to hit. Overpowered.
Pocket Protector Pixie Stealth Knight. Maximizing the defender's aura by being in an ally's/enemy's square.
Yakuza NinjIntimiAdin: Perma-stealth Striker that offers a little protection for ally's, and can intimidate bloodied enemies. Very Strong.
Chargeburgler with cheese Ranged attacks at the end of a charge along with perma-stealth. Solid, could be overpowered if tweaked.
Void Defender Defends giving a penalty to hit anyone but him, then removing himself from play. Can get somewhat broken in epic.
Scry and Die Attacking from around corners, while staying hidden. Moderate to broken, depending on the situation.
Skimisher Fly in, attack, and fly away. Also prevents enemies from coming close. Moderate to Broken depending on the enemy, but shouldn't make the game un-fun, as the rest of your team is at risk, and you have enough weaknesses.
Indestructible Simply won't die, even if you sleep though combat.
Sir Robin (Bravely Charge Away) He automatically slows and pushes an enemy (5 squares), while charging away. Hard to rate it's power level, since it's terrain dependent.
Death's Gatekeeper A fun twist on a healic, making your party "unkillable". Overpowered to Broken, but shouldn't actually make the game un-fun, just TPK proof.
Death's Gatekeeper mk2, (Stealth Edition) Make your party "unkillable", and you hidden, while doing solid damage. Stronger then the above, but also easier for a DM to shut down. Broken, until your DM get's enough of it.
Domination and Death Dominate everything then kill them quickly. Only works @ 30, but is broken multiple ways.
Battlemind Mc Prone-Daze Protecting your allies by keeping enemies away. Quite powerful.
The Retaliator Getting hit deals more damage to the enemy then you receive yourself, and you can take plenty of hits. Heavy item dependency, Broken.
Dead Kobold Transit Teleports 98 squares a turn, and can bring someone along for the ride. Not fully built, so i can't judge the power
Psilent Guardian Protect your allies, while being invisible. Overpowered, possibly broken
Unnamed Avenger|Runepriest/Hammer of Vengance Do lot's of damage while boosting your teams. Strong to slightly overpowered.
Charedent BarrageA charging ardent. Fine in a normal team, overpowered if there are 2 together, and easily broken in teams of 5.
Super Knight A tough, sticky, high damage knight. Strong.
Super Duper Knight Basically the same as super knight, only far more broken.
Mora, the unkillable avenger Solid damage, while being neigh indestuctable. Overpowered, but not broken.
Swordburst Maximus At-Will Close Burst 3 that slide and prones. Protects allies with off actions. Strong, possibly over powered with the right party.
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3 years ago ::
Jan 28, 2010 - 1:10PM
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Add humans to that list!
Might just be my bias as a *human* mechanical engineer, but they're supposed to be good at everything and highly persistant.
With a little flavor, almost any race can be a tinkerer, but some fit better than others. A tiefling tries to rebuild glories past from Baal Turath, a Deva gets sudden inspiration from inventions in past lives, a Warforged struggles to understand his composition.
Probably not Half-Orcs though. Stupid green-skins.
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3 years ago ::
Jan 28, 2010 - 2:06PM
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Gnomes kind of got the psudo-eladrin treatment, which I personally prefer, but it wouldn't be hard to make him the mad-scientist-esque character from previous editions.
Dwarves kind of seem to me more structural engineering-ish to me, more about architecture rather than anything, but its not a stretch to imagine one who enjoys constructing complicated mechanical traps, or clockwork guardians, ect.
Humans are pretty much a given, as well as the psuedo-humans, Half-Elves, Tieflings, Shadar'kai, Half-Orcs, ect.
I think its more about a characters background than the race per se, since a technilogically savvy character more than likely had training somewhere along the line, or at least grew up around it somehow.
Edit: Blahhhh! I can't type......or it was a freudian slip. >_>
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3 years ago ::
Jan 28, 2010 - 3:04PM
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The Artificer text in Eberron references humans, then gnomes, then dwarves.
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3 years ago ::
Jan 28, 2010 - 9:31PM
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Jul 10, 2003
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Githyanki
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3 years ago ::
Jan 28, 2010 - 10:47PM
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I would say it depends on the setting.
In the default setting, Githyanki have some hi-tech stuff and so do Dwarves and Humans
Kobolds are not hi-tech by any means but they are kinda techy with all their traps and stuff.
And in the default setting Gnomes are by no means a techie race, it even says so in their fluff "they have little interest or aptitude for the kind of technology found in human cities"
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3 years ago ::
Jan 29, 2010 - 6:02AM
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Dwarves kind of seem to me more structural engineering-ish to me, more about architecture rather than anything, but its not a stretch to imagine one who enjoys constructing complicated mechanical traps, or cockwork guardians, ect.
Where can I get a cockwork guardian? My girlfriend would love one of those!
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3 years ago ::
Jan 29, 2010 - 7:11AM
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Depending on the setting Warforged could be very knowledgeable about mechanics. Perhaps they have lost technological secrets from when they were created.
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3 years ago ::
Jan 29, 2010 - 7:35AM
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Date Joined:
Feb 22, 2007
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Dwarves. Pull lever, flood world with lava.
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