Recent content by Essex

Actually I've since posted it up on my website. This was created under D20 3.0 rules, long before 3.5 came out. I'm actually in the process of revamping and updating the whole thing to bring it more in line with D&D 3.5, Star Wars, and Unearthed Arcana, but if you still want to see it, you can...

Hmm, could be interesting. I'd like to see it. I myself have done what I call D20 Modern Heroic, which took the prestige classes from D20 Modern, and turned then in 20-level core classes, incorporating the Talent Trees and such into them. It also included some templates for use in a...

Hmm I hadn't noticed the 3 level spread, only the 2 level spread. Oh well, there went that argument...

I cannot argue about the Divine Grace boost, but I'm not talking from a Power Gamer/Number-Crunch POV. It seems to me that a Paladin would have a strong will to begin, just to BECOME a paladin. I can't envision a 1st level Paladin having a crappy Will Save. I have long felt that the "you can...

I tend to go with the Start Small & Build approach. I personally never liked how frontloaded the Paladin is, nor the fac that a class with Wisdom and Charisma as recommended attributes has such a crappy Will Save, but the tweaks I would make would "unbalance" related to other classes. Of...

Actually the Paladin Spell Level tends to span 2 levels of Cleric. For example, if you check the entire 4th level Spell list, some like Restoration are 4th level Cleric Spells and a couple like Dispel Evil/Chaos are 5th level Cleric spells. I saw nothing wrong with grabbing a couple of 6th...

I'm creating a paladin variant for my Eberron campaign that removes the Special Mount in favor of a somewhat improved spellcasting ability. Basically it adds a 5th level of paladins spells and lets you use spellcasting as early as 2nd level instead of 4th if you have a high enough wisdom score...

My biggest sources of inspiration are Roger Zelazny and Joss Whedon. Roger for the quick crisp way in which he paces everything. Joss for the gut-wrenching drama and off-the-wall humor I like to lace the games with to keep the players personally involved in their characters.

You'd be right if I meant Star Trek Five. I meant Star Trek Voyager. :) My bad... I should have been clearer on my acronyms. Depends on which source you use. According to the movie, Ra was the only one, and he looked like a white, glowing Grey with teeth. The TV series butchered the...

Heya, chief. Our thoughts are one. *shakes head* Sorry shouldn't be watching ST:V - Dark Frontier as I type this. I see most of the rank and file Goa'uld as just carriers for the genetic memory, nothing special. The average system lord (Apophis, Heru-Ur, Cronos) as being Quasi-Deity. Ra...

This is probably premature, given the impending release of this long-awaited supplement (i've been lurking here for years; even posted way back when Noah still ran the place). I'm running a D20 Modern game leaning a bit more to DnD and I've hit upon a question and I'm curious to see how you'd...

One additional point: you say you want an accurate Dracula-style vampire. Dracula can go out in the daytime. Its in the novel and the Copolla movie. In fact, many of the original lore from Romania surrounding their idea of the vampire bears this out as not being for just the Impaler himself...

Sorry about the delayed reply. Damn my ISP... So far, what you've got looks good. I'm trying to decide if I should replace the Nosferatu with your bloodline, or introduce them as a separate one. I may just use your vampyrs as another bloodline. In a small nod to White Wolf, I'm using the...

I've been lurking around this thread for quite a bit. I must say,this is the best Alt.Sorcerer class I've seen yet. If you can find it, check out the old alt.sorcerer.domain for a rather comprehensive list of bloodlines/heredity spell lists, that would give some ideas for other heredities...

If you want a more powerful version of it, check out Denizens of Darkness for Ravenloft 3.5 Edition. I can't reprint it here since its not open material, but they are essentially how White Wolf/Sword & Sorcery wrote up Dracula-style vampires. I can't remember all the powers off the top of my...