Favorite Variant/House Rules

[genshou]

Have you done anything else to balance the class? There are spontaneous-cast cleric variants out there (one of which is in a WotC book, can't remember which), and most of them limit spell selection to make the cleric more like a sorceror.

One of my favorite spontaneous divine casters is the Shugenja base class from Oriental Adventures. It is very similar to sorcerer, with a higher casting rate but fewer spells known.

I've also played a standard cleric with spontaneous casting, and if it was unbalancing, I didn't really notice. I was just having fun playing my character.

 

[FreeTheSlaves]

My campaign aside, hit points & abilities are never generated as per the RAW. This is clearly shared by a large section of the community, if not the majority, & that indicates that it is something that needs to be fixed by 4th edition.

 

[pntbllr]

Have you done anything else to balance the class? There are spontaneous-cast cleric variants out there (one of which is in a WotC book, can't remember which), and most of them limit spell selection to make the cleric more like a sorceror.

I haven't run into a problem with balance, however one of my clerics is played by a first time player and the other is played by a longtime player more interasted in the story than in power gaming. If I start having problems I can adjudicate a loss of contact with, or diminished influence of the diety granting the spell. Might bend some noses doing this but I think I can explain why I'm doing it.

 

[Eternalknight]

My campaign aside, hit points & abilities are never generated as per the RAW. This is clearly shared by a large section of the community, if not the majority, & that indicates that it is something that needs to be fixed by 4th edition.

I dunno... nearly every group I have played in has generated them as per the rules. In fact, I personally have never seen hit points done any other way, though I do know of those who do average rolls for hit points.

 

[Eternalknight]

Actually, my favourite isn't really a house rule, but is how ability scores are generated in the Lone Wolf RPG. 1D8+10 for each ability, assign as desired.

 

[Sravoff]

Actually, my favourite isn't really a house rule, but is how ability scores are generated in the Lone Wolf RPG. 1D8+10 for each ability, assign as desired.

Wow, that is so simplistic its genius! Glad I got my hands on that one.....

-Sravoff

 

[Kryndal Levik]

Glad I got my hands on that one.....

-Sravoff

That's pretty much why I started the thread in the first place; I'm getting ready to start a new campaign, and I'm looking for fresh new ideas.

 

[Eternalknight]

Wow, that is so simplistic its genius! Glad I got my hands on that one.....

-Sravoff

And you know what? My stupid fingers got the numbers the wrong way around. It should be 1D10+8, for a range of 9-18, not 11-18.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Actually, my favourite isn't really a house rule, but is how ability scores are generated in the Lone Wolf RPG. 1D8+10 for each ability, assign as desired.

Been doing that since 1e days...it's a great quick and dirty NPC creation method.

 

[Sravoff]

And you know what? My stupid fingers got the numbers the wrong way around. It should be 1D10+8, for a range of 9-18, not 11-18.

Darn, and I thought I had the perfect super character creater! 1d10+8 is still good, I think I will definitly use this. I used 1d20, reroll if less than three or more than 18. <-Usually makes charcterts with one avg. stat, two low, and two high.

-Sravoff