Still not Quite Dead Yet (OOC)

Like bluff, I usually prefer to play diplomacy by what is said too, so some approachs won't work against some people or will suffer major penalties. I preffer forcing you to figure out which approach works with which NPC (and there is in almost all cases going to be an approach or two that works especially well and one or two that make things worse (you've found one). A sense motive check could be used to provide hints on which this is, especially in the case of more minor NPCs).

The diplomacy result of 47 saved you from becoming a desk ornament immediately.
She didn't lie just to spite you or stab you, etc..

Killing the order off stuff again, but I feel like posting this character portrait. Again, note it's not finished, and probably won't be for a while because I have to make graded art too. (ears aren't cleaned up, arms aren't shaded, no jewlery, no hands (again) messy painting, incorrect or missing shadows, etc, etc. etc.)

http://zheshishemme.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/yebena-ap-ezeya/

To further clarify this, I've also made the folowing changes to cannon about fiends reforming and PC death in general. Death is not intended to be as much of an obstacle in this game as some other factors are (politics, power, bieng summouned or coerced, etc.). This provides RPing oportunties and a chance for PCs to weigh whether they want to risk being left for dead by the rest of the party. Annother balancving factor is that they apply equally or more so to your enemies, and time dead will be very important in this game.

It is still possible to die though, and certainly not something to mess around with (it's also really expensive), but the following changes have been made:

-Devils: see above quote. They reform in a matter of hours, but the time it takes for them to face a disciplinary hearing varies from days to years. 1d6 rounds to use revive outsider before the body vanishes except on Baator (the body stays indefintely).

-Demons: Greater, True, and Lesser all reform depending on the result of a will save. Failing the save results in thier destruction. They still die permanently on the abyss, and there is a chance they will die permanantly from holy weapons. 1d6 rounds to use revive outsider before the body vanishes except on the abyss (the body stays indefintely).

-Nycaloths and ultraloths: Die permanently when killed on Ghenna, Carcerai, and Hades, reform in a number of days equal to 2x thier base outsider HD with negative levels equal to thier base outsider HD which dissapear at the rate of 1 per day. Nycaloths can sometimes die from holy weapons like demons or devils. 1d6 rounds to use revive outsider before the body vanishes except on Ghenna, Carcerai, and Hades (the body stays indefintely).

-Arcanaloths: can only be killed on Ghenna, ptherwise identical to other greater Yugloths reform in 24 day with 12 negative levels which dissapear at the rate of 1 per day. 1d6 rounds to use revive outsider before the body vanishes except on Ghenna (the body stays indefintely).

-Dhergoloths: will reform in a few days if killed somewher other than Ghenna, Carcerai, or Hades. Otherwise they die dead.

-Mortals: Raise dead bestows 1d10 temporary negative levels and ressurection bestows 1d6 temporary negative levels. If there are more negative levels than HD, the character can't be ressurected by anything short of a true ressurection. Negative levels heal at the rate of 1 per day and can't be healed magically.

-Other outsiders: As mortals, but can't be raised (ressurection, true ressurection, and revive outsider work (revive outsider bestows 1d10 temporary negative levels as raise dead does)

-all ressurections (except true ressurections and clones) can go wrong somehow, this is DM fiat, expect something strange and irritating if you keep dying

-material components for all resurections cost double what they do in the PHB or MoTP

-Clone bestows 1d6 temporary nagative levels which disabear at the rate of 1/day

Got them. I dont have two of the spell-like abilities.

Have it.

Personally, I'm a big Life and Death fan. You gotta love an alchoholic grim reaper called Steve who kills people with a cricket bat and wears a trafic cone as a wizard's hat.

Good guess, Zim, but it isn't that.

As it is, the benifit of the system is that you can use more higher level spells, which doesn't affect SR, unfortunately. Practiced spellcaster would count towards caster level checks, I think. If it doesn't, it now does, because you need to be able to succesfully target stuff.

I reckon for any casters who don't have a full progression (that is, everyone except Bruce) that spell penetration would be a really good choice of feats given that most of your enemies will have decent SR.