Oh yeah, it's wildly abusive of the DM's tolerance. Its just an exercise in rules-lawyering; most DMs would probably punch you if you insisted on trying to do it.

The Smart class is a d20 Modern class. There's mixing of d20 Modern and d20 D&D stuff in that write-up.

I good GM would just have a high level assassin kill of the characters, hired by the local salt traders guild.

Okay, I once again pose the question to all of you: How is this an unacceptable undertaking that needs to be fixed and balanced? Look again at the character performing this task. Look at the convoluted arrangement of multitasking.

Now look at epic level spellcasting, epic magic items, epic feats, and epic uses of skills, and consider what other level 38 characters are capable of without needing to take on a 40% experience penalty for multiclassing. (Assuming the two Unearthed Arcana classes are base classes, and that Smart class is a prestige class - I really can't be bothered to go look).

I really don't see an issue with anything presented there, aside from the fact that it's a totally moronic build. For an attempt at min/maxing, he's failed at the "max" part. There's a whole lot of wasted effort in there. As a great sorcerer lich once said, power equals power. It doesn't really matter what power. Everything's oddly balanced like that.

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Nah, just have them encounter the Enterprise on their test flight.

A Victory-class star destroyer could take on dozens of Enterprises with little difficulty.

Maybe, but only because the writers of Star Trek don't understand the implications of the technology they've given the Federation...

More like the fact that practially everything in Star Wars can simply put out and soak up far more energy yield that anything in Star Trek can.

Star Wars is to Star Trek what Star Trek is to, say, D&D, in terms of levels of technological advancement. People make the mistake of assuming they're comparable because they're both more advanced than our society, and both are science fiction, but in reality they represent two completely different aspects of science fiction. One is about a nation still very much in its infancy as an intersteller society that has had FTL for a few hundred years at most, the other is about a society that spans an entire galaxy and has had FTL for more than 25,000 years.

Trying to pit them against each other is no more fair than pitting D&D characters against the Enterprise.

Yes but there was this obscure and often touted by trekkies reference that lasers wouldn't even penetrate the radiation shielding of a galaxy starship. Someone even had it in their sig for a while. My attempt was to poke fun at the intense Enterprise/Vicstar Rivalry.

Part of the problem here is that Star Wars is space opera. The "technology" of Star Wars follows pretty much the same guidelines as magic.

Indeed, this is the problem. However, it assumes that turbolasers are, indeed, lasers, when their illustrated behavior is anything but. It's far more likely that it's some kind of plasma stream illuminated by lasers as a tracer, considering the fact that they travel at a speed observable with the naked eye.

More like the fact that practially everything in Star Wars can simply put out and soak up far more energy yield that anything in Star Trek can.

Star Wars is to Star Trek what Star Trek is to, say, D&D, in terms of levels of technological advancement. People make the mistake of assuming they're comparable because they're both more advanced than our society, and both are science fiction, but in reality they represent two completely different aspects of science fiction. One is about a nation still very much in its infancy as an intersteller society that has had FTL for a few hundred years at most, the other is about a society that spans an entire galaxy and has had FTL for more than 25,000 years.

Trying to pit them against each other is no more fair than pitting D&D characters against the Enterprise.