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This thread is an open obituary for anyone who wishes to express grief at the death of Veteran's Armor. Yes, it needed to happen. I understand this. As a firm supporter of a rule-balanced system, I support its passing. But as a twink and a min/maxer, I will mourn its loss. I would also like to...

My immediate instinct upon reading Horizon Walker was that it was the most broken thing I'd ever seen (and keep in mind, I'd just finished reading the beastmaster, so the bar is probably a little high) and my next instinct was ...oh God, and I'm only on page 65. Look at this: Wanderer’s Action...

Okay, I do not trust the words in front of me, so I thought I would check in here, since you all know what you're doing. So as I read this, assuming that casting the spell was a wizard's first action, then he should have 1 move action and 1 minor action left this turn, and 1 standard action, 1...

Okay guys, background first. I'm pretty much redoing everything (though not, necessarily, in ways that are entirely new) to create a system that suits my needs; I suppose that I've just had it with every system I've played in. But each of these systems has, fundamentally, added things to what I...

The following is my start of an attempt to change the magic system. Good for a read, a bit of humor, but not much here yet. Introduction “Magic cannot be inferred; it cannot be understood, analyzed or manipulated unless one has a firm grasp of mathematics, physics and logic. Mathematics because...

I guess this goes here. I don't know. Anyway: You have four classes. Ignore everything about them except what is presented below. All four classes have a strong fortitude save and a d10 hit die. They are all designed to be close-range melee fighters. (edit: though not necessarily meat-shields)...

Hit Point Separation Zones This is something that seems too complicated to implement, but with all the talk of “accurately representing hit points” recently, I asked myself: okay, Chris, how would you do it? Separate hit points into how people take hits. 1st zone: Hits Dodged. These would be...

Herein lies my inherent problem with EXP components for item creation. In everything that we, as FRP gamers do, I believe we should consider, to some degree or another, two elements: the story and the game. EXP is balanced in terms of the game. It ensures that people must expend energy to gain...

What would be the negative repercussions power-wise of adding this rule; is it too strong: Uncanny Dodge and Improved Uncanny Dodge: If a character already has improved uncanny dodge when he gains this bonus feature, he may instead choose to gain any bonus feat with a Dexterity prerequisite...

So I'm doing this thing where I make racial bonuses more important in the long run. I'm completely overhauling almost all of the classes (bumping the ECL up to +1), and I'm almost through with them. But I get stuck on dwarves. What the hell am I supposed to do to make them more powerful...

Hey Guys, Well, so I'm in a game right now and we just had a new player join. And he was really hoping to play an assassin, but we already have a rogue in the group. This means, unfortunately, that there would be role overlap, and you know how well rogues handle that. Basically, it all revolves...

Increase of skills gained per level My goal in this is to increase skill points for all characters, link skill points to associated ability scores, and (as a tertiary goal) somewhat force characters to stay with classes, thinking carefully about multi-classing so freely. At first level...

Spell theory This is an idea that has been bouncing around in my head for a long time. I don’t know if it’s ever been done before. I fully recognize that it will make mages more powerful. Basically, my qualm with magic as it stands now is that I personally believe that there is an unreasonable...

This is mostly for those who have read Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series. If you remember, in their dark era (Age of Chaos maybe?), they came up with some ridiculous methods of warfare, coming close in potency to our own atomic bomb, The two best known of these were clingfire and bonedust...

Ok, so when I heard about the spell-thief, I was psyched. A similar idea had been bouncing around in my brain for years, but I had never really had the motivation to get around to doing it. So I read it and.... well, it was fine. But it wasn't what I had been looking for in a class. So after...

Creative Differences [psionic] Prerequisites: Int 13, Mind Blade, shape mind blade Benefit: choose two light or one-handed piercing or slashing melee weapons that you are proficient with. Alternatively, choose one two handed weapon that you are have proficiency for. You can now shape your mind...

Now I saw this feat a whle ago, however after a brief battle with Google, find that I am unable to rediscover its location on the internet. However, knowing simply how many people reside in a typical forum, I thought that one of you might know something about it. It went something like this...