Recent content by craftyrat

Our group plays Pathfinder without feats, archetypes, rogue talents/rage powers/etc, and 5 foot steps. We limit attacks of opportunity to 2 situations: engaging a creature with reach, and moving away from a creature you had engaged in melee (or had engaged you). We took the conditions and...

Nice to see a few librarians replying. I"m also a librarian, although it has been a decade since I worked in public libraries. A lot depends on the knowledge of the librarians who do the ordering. Many librarians know nothing about rpgs, or think of them as just a game (which they usually...

I'm working on describing a city to use as a ongoing base and source of adventures for our group. Of course, the first step in any creative work is to pillage ideas from others. Does anyone have suggestions of online rpg cities (medieval/fantasy) that they would recommend? I think I know...

Amazon.com: Evolution of Fantasy Role-playing Games (9780786458950): Michael J. Tresca: Books Has anyone read this book, or know anything about it? According to Amazon it was published Sept 3rd. craftyrat

Updated I've updated the first post for classes/races from today back to Jan 1/2009. craftyrat

The Logic of Life, by Tim Harford. Tim is an economist who looks for logical patterns in things most people consider to be illogical (or at least not based on logic). craftyrat

Eddings The Belgariad/Malloreon would seem to be an obvious candidate. While you can argue about the quality, they were very popular. I just checked on amazon and they have a sales rank of under 10,000 - pretty good for books of that age and type. craftyrat

Everquest 2 Everquest 2 has Frostfell: http://eq2players.station.sony.com/news_archive_content.vm?id=1478&section=News&locale=en_US craftyrat

I'm running the giant series now, updated to 3.5, raised to 16th level, and fairly heavily modfied - currently part way through G1. We are planning to do all of GDQ. craftyrat

Ancient Dead Here is some of my homebrew stuff (this is not play tested) for an undead race. Like suggested above, I modified the undead type to tone it down a bit. I give races special abilities as they level (this is a low magic item campaign), so ignore that part. I also power up races...

I'm working on the rules for a low magic campaign, and how to handle healing. I already have modified the heal skill so that it can be used to restore hit points (with signficant limitations). But I am also thinking of a post fight recovery system. If hit points represent (at least to a...

Although it is a bit more math, I was thinking about replacing extra attacks with a % bonus to damage to a single attack on a full attack action. So at BAB +6 a full attack is a single attack with a 50% bonus to damage (+100% at +11, and +150% at +16). As much as possible this would be...

I'm preparing for a low magic item game (pretty much no magic items, perhaps except potions, and only one class that can cast spells). One way I am going to keep the power level closer to normal is with more powerful races. So I need ideas on how to make the core races a bit better. I want to...

From the OED: Halfling: Sc. and north, also haflin, hawflin, halflin A. sb. 1. One not fully grown, a stripling 2. the half of a silverling or old silver penny B. adj. Not fully grown, about the age of 15 with quotes from 1794 and 1815 however, there is also an entry for Halfling (adv.), Now...

Save or die I too have a dislike for the save or die, so I am considering a +4 bonus to any save or die spell, effect, or whatever, in the campaign. The possibility, and thus the tension, is still there, but the chance is lessened (for both players and npcs). As it is, we tend to avoid using...