Mithral Armor?

[*Itikar]

Pretty sure the Hebdomad is not affiliated with the Catholic Church.

Gotta check Wikipedia but I recall they were genderless in Islam and Zoroastrianism too.

[*Mr_Otyugh]

Yeah, the problem of Mithral armor is that it's just strictly speaking superior in every way, and even a "lite" version of it would still be simply superior. It's probably better to just scrap the whole idea of mithral armor, and instead make new different armors, since it's the same armorrulesstats.2da that can determine them. Could even improve some of the existing armor types like scalemails or hide armors to make them actually usable.

I personally don't really want to make existing armors moot, just by introducing a superior armor, I'd rather make some of the existing never used armors more relevant in turn. Or if we really want to support warrior sorts, then you could make a new armor type which could be like... I dunno? 10/1 and be heavier, and also could only be used if you have a full high BAB progression or something. That is compare character level to BAB and so forth.

[*Mander]

P. S. Great Unknown is just a god the same way, other gods are. those are just Athar, who believe, otherwise.

Not true. The GU is able to grant any domain and seemingly isn't "sentient" from all sources.

[*Gazoo]

only truly bad build is a core-race rogue without caster levels who tries to solo

Such a hurtful Admin :P

More-or-less the build of my Main now (no Hips, big bluff, epic dodge, precision). It was created in response to one of DarkRob's occasional RP theme-challenges.

It's actually pretty fun. Umd is pretty helpful for scrolls that fill in the holes (ethereal, shades...etc; classic hide skills that can get you around if you use them while not in battle. It's a bit low AC(34) when not buffed due to the equipment compromises needed for bluff skill - but really those extra buffs are not needed unless you are heading into one of the big&nasty zones. And I'm not too proud to step aside and to let someone else prove their prowess, either.

(I'm slowly seeing which areas I can wander around and initiate combat with absolutely no buffs at all. So far = most areas except boss zones and Carceri/Maze/Plateau/Inside Nifl.

Conclusion: everything is viable, depending on how you define "viable".

[*rapsam2003]

The problem is that everyone is so greedy for L30 that they're set to gatecrasher 100% of the time. When you put the game on hard mode, it's going to get hard.

I've actually had more fun sometimes setting to Cutter or Planeswalker than trying GC. I mean, yeah...the xp isn't as high. So what? It's fun. Isn't that's what this game, any game, is about? Fun? Rushing to CL30 just cheapens the experience, imho.