Recent content by Disparue

Warrior, expert, spellcaster. Three classes, apply CleverNickName's skill trees. Why separate the cleric and the wizard?

Instead of multi-classing in the 3E sense, I think we may see multi-classing either supported by feats, or a system similar to hybrids in 4E, or perhaps both. Multi-classing in the 3E vein is actually limited to that edition (as far as I know), and 2E shared more in common with hybrid classes...

We ended up going this way after checking out the generic character classes from Unearthed Arcana. We went about condensing classes down to a few feats and allowing class-building this way. We got rid of multi-classing though since the class abilities could be purchased via feats. It probably...

I came into RPGs from HeroQuest. My friends and I kept making more and more rules and magic items for that game. One of my friends made a huge grid-map on sheets of bristol board. Now imagine our amazement when we found the AD&D dungeon masters guide at the local library. I can see a very...

1. They can't remove +X weapons and make this quote nonsense to new players. 2. (somewhat unrelated) I loved the random treasure tables from AD&D where you would get sometimes get truly insane treasures on an odd roll.

Iron Heroes had a pretty decent system. Instead of penalizing for non-class skills it just made it easier for you to take class skills. -No class skills -You get a few skill groups -If you spend a point on any skill in a skill group they all go up one point -You can still put points into any...