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I'm looking at altering the races for a campaign world that I am building, that I am hoping to get to run soon (though that may be unlikely, since I move across the country in a month). My main goal is to ensure that a character's race remains relevant through their entire career as a PC...

I'm looking at trying to put together a homebrewed class focused on protecting others, but am having trouble coming up with ideas for reasonable features to grant the class. I am looking primarily for conceptual ideas or examples from other classes (PrC or base) at the moment. What I have come...

So I've been reading the Dune series over the summer (currently on book 4), and have thought, at several points, that elements of the setting in the books would work well in a D&D campaign. The problem I'm running into is that I can't figure out what elements of the setting would translate well...

Forked from: Pathfinder Sneak Peeks OK, so I realize this may have been addressed already, but I was unable to find it. If it has been addressed, please point me to where it has been addressed and then feel free to lock or delete this thread. My question is this: For several of the characters...

Forked from: Done buying? Like many others, I have decided that 4e is not for me. That's not to say 4e is bad, but it isn't the game I want to play. I'm going to stick with 3.5, using Pathfinder and house rules to keep the game balanced and interesting. But, like Hobo mentions, I've got a...

I'm working on a new campaign world (despite having been working on it for longer than I'd like to admit, I'm still not entirely happy with it), and have run into some issues finishing up the fluff on a few of the races. My current thought (and feel free to comment on this as well as the racial...

Because of how severely combat gets bogged down at higher levels, due in no small part (though not entirely) to iterative attacks, I am looking for alternatives, without drawing out combats unnecessarily (which would happen if iterative attacks were simply removed). This becomes even more...

As the title suggests, I'm trying to get at a fairly simple, although potentially hard to define, concept: what makes System A better than System B? I'm looking for answers as basic as "it should be balanced" or more involved, such as whether it's an advantage or disadvantage to have 3 different...

My initial inspiration for this attempt came from a combination of seeing something similar done for the 4e PHB classes and the feat point system: instead of picking a class, you get X points to spend on class features (BAB, saves, skill points, and Class Features). Each feature costs Y points...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, and if it's not, I apologize. What I'm looking for is an alternative to the Vancian system. The group I play with has come to the conclusion that selecting spells (especially for a Cleric-type, who can prepare any spells that appear on their...

I'm planning on starting a campaign this summer (probably using 4e rules, but we'll see), and I want to use a Prison Escape as the first session of the game (after making chars, of course). I am currently planning to use the Saltmarsh Garrison map (DMG2, p141), but am unsure of how harsh I...

I've been lurking on the forums for a while trying to get a feel for how 4e's going to work, but I haven't posted until now. Moving on to my actual question, I've noticed that a lot of the monster stat blocks that have been released have modifiers that don't seem to follow from the 'standard'...