Recent content by Matrixryu

Pathfinder is coming up with an Alchemist class which can create potions and explosives and such (some of which only he can use). It is still in the playtesting phase, but that means that it is free at the very least, and it might be worth looking at...

Lol, yea, I do tend to type too much when explaining things. The funny thing is, that's actually the same as my version since both assume that a gesalt paying double exp is the same as a normal character. I just spent a lot of time trying to explain why it is balanced, and tried to come up...

No prestige classes, and adding in full multiclassing? That sounds like a pretty big change, it would be interesting to see how it works out. The only thing I would suggest is that you might want to increase the distance between the single class and multiclass PC at higher levels (2-3 behind...

Let's see, to quicken the argument I'm going to skip to the key parts I think. The orge thing doesn't really matter to me, that was just an example. I could just as easily replace that with a smarter creature like a dragon which should be easily able to take sorceror levels, but for some reason...

In real life, maybe. But in D&D, things seem to get harder to learn as you gain experience in them. Your first level costs 1000 exp, and your tenth level costs 10,000. The reason why I came up with this system is because I thought it was silly that an orge or something, would have to pay 10,000...

Hmm, that title is a mouthful. I'm about to experiment with something similar D&D 2.0 multiclassing in my 3.5/pathfinder game. Simply put, this is a way of allowing a gestalt character (with some restrictions) into a normal party, and holding back his level just enough that I believe that it...

This is exactly what bothers me about these feats, lol. Aiming for a person's weak spot really should be doing more damage, not less. The idea that Disemboweling and beating someone over the head can somehow do LESS damage... Though, this is related to the problem of 'how do people in this...

Is it just me, or are the ambush feats in Complete Scoundrel just not worth it? For example, Disemboweling Strike, you can give up 4d6 sneak attack damage to do 1d4 constitution damage to a target. I can see how that might be useful in some situations against very high level opponents...but...

Yea, it is all quite true. And the game designers seem to randomly move abilities into each of those "bags" whenever they see fit anyway, so I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to either ;) The only thing I'm trying to watch out for is letting players switch out abilities for much...

Personally, I'm just using the pathfinder still system at the moment. It actually has a lot of the ideas that you've already listed here and now all the skills actually feel useful. The only thing that bothers me about it is that spellcraft and concentration were combined together. That kinda...

Those work pretty well too. Though, aren't the blackguard abilities supposed to replace preexisting Paladin abilities (like he has paladin powers, then loses them)? I'm not quite sure how that would work with this system. I've been experimenting with this a bit, but there are two things that...

I like the multi-class system of Dnd 3.5, but some stuff about the way prestige classes work have been starting to bother me. Things like uneven power progression (prestige class powers start weak, become strong very quickly, and then stop growing after 10 lvls) and overlaping abilities (a...

Hmmm, either not very many pathfinder players care about this Incarnum class, or I messed this up so much that no one is replying, haha. Anyway, I'm thinking I'm going to remove shadow illusion since it doesn't really fit with the other incarnum class abilities in the book.

I've started a new campaign with pathfinder classes and rules lately, and I've really liked the changes so far. However, I also want to use some Incarnum rules, so I've been toying with converting some of the Incarnum using classes for pathfinder rules. I had a player who wanted to make a...

It isn't homebrew, doesn't have higher BAB, and is a little more complex, but have you tried looking at the pathfinder variant of the monk? The tweeks in that version of the class look pretty good to me, they get a few more feats and have a ki pool to spend on their various special abilities...