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The rules I have for PC wishes back in 2e/3e: 1. The wish must be a single sentence, and can have only one subject and one object. It can have any number of clauses affecting those terms, but a wish can only really do ONE thing. 2. Once you know the spell wish, and you tell me (the DM) you're...

Hmm. I think if I was going to do a revised system, I'd go: (Tier #)(Type Letter)\((Abbrev)\)[.Part #][Setting Letter)[- Index #] Where: Tier # == The rough level tier for the entry; 0 = 0-3; 1 = 4-8; 2 = 9 - 12; 3 = 13-16; 4 = 17-20; 5 = 20+/Epic Type Letter == A for Adventure Path/Series, C...

So the thing with Haste and extra spells boils down to novas (i.e. blowing everything you have in a few encounters). To counter this: Quickened spells are expensive, if you're not using the metamagic staves. (Which, come to think of it, might be a 3.5 thing.) If you only allow quickened...

Not 1e; B/X. The progression from pure veteran fighter to called paladin lines up very neatly with the advanced classes of that system.

Yeah, 2e psionics was a lot better. It's my favorite, flavor-wise. Mechanically, it was a bit wonky. Most of the wonkiness could be avoided just be every avoid just by everyone being reasonable in their power use. But even so, there were a couple of powers that were ... imbalanced. And...

No, in fairness, 1e psionics was broken mechanically. In large part because psionics was wildly different than magic, it was a "tacked on" subsystem, and characters didn't have anything approaching default defenses against psionics according to the subsystem. And the psionic monsters (like the...

I should caveat that while I want psionics, I don't want just a reflavoring. The closer the psionics system captures the flavor of the Deryni novels the better I like it, flavor-wise. (Or Norton's Witchworld's.) But mechanically, it has to fit into the same power structure as the existing...

It's long been established that the length of the average campaign is approximately 6 months. Or, if meeting every week, 24 sessions. At a 4 session/level pace (which is what's recommended), that's 6 levels. That's simply just not enough time to climb up to the higher levels. Now, I don't...

I answered "Not Sure." But that's an incomplete answer. It's "Not Sure" because 1) We're not currently using 5e (PF2e Remaster for the current campaign); 2) The current campaign is FAR from over (probably another 2+ years at their current pace). 3) I'm the Forever GM, and I'm not sure the next...

This is getting harder, as many of the obvious stances have already been used. LG: The Law Protects. LN: Obey the Law. LE: The law serves my needs. NG: There is Good, and there is Evil. It's not hard to tell them apart. N: Not my circus, not my monkey, not my problem. NE: My needs matter, yours...

The only ones I ever retained were the Magic-User/Wizard ones, since they can/do correspond to Spell Level increases. Looking at these, I homebrewed the titles a lot more than I remembered. I use Wizard 1st-Level Spells: Apprentice 2nd-Level Spells: Journeyman 3rd-Level Spells: Magician...

Re: D&D General - The D&D Memes Thread You can charge extra if you teach it to dance. As long as it isn't the chicken dance.

Halfling Paladin

For new GMs/DMs/referees? My hard won advice - Don't Panic. EVERY time I've made a decision I've regretted. It's because I panicked. Panic lead directly to the ending of my first campaign. (Which was my first campaign, but still.) 2nd bit - to avoid railroading, don't write or require...

Heh. Probably not what you're looking for, but this site has some articles by Jonathan Tweet about the Road to 3e. You can find it towrds the bottom of the Columns menu.