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Series: DS9 TNG TOS ENT(yes, this is THE hill I am willing to die on) SNW Picard Season 3, aka TNG season 8 VOY ... ... ... Picard season 1&2 STD movies: Wrath of Khan 1st contact Undiscovered country ... ... ... Kelvinverse Nemesis Final frontier

we left the level difference back in 2002/2003, together with XP tracking, never looked back. it was bad then(in 3.0), it is bad now. someone missed a session or two? who cares about "free" XP? they missed out on the fun of D&D, that is all the punishment they need to get for missing out a...

you can always say that feats require natural ability score if you want to pick them.

agree with most of it, that is why I kept the fixed amount that items give, but reduced it to reduce cheese builds. if item gives on +2, it will not be that useful to someone with 8STR, but 14 is a nice STR score for someone that was weak naturally. item then can be a nice way to "patch up"...

one fine solution is to remove all 6+ level spells from the game. you can keep uscasting if you want or not, maybe some iconic 6th level spells can be moved to 5th level, Arcane gate, Create undead, Mass suggestion, Harm, Heal, Summon fiend True seeing are all good 6th level candidates to be...

this is main way to see higher levels. start at levels 5-7, level up every 3 or 4 sessions. if you play biweekly, for a year, that is around 8 level-ups. and most campaigns survive for about a year.

for this simple reason, I have changed the "ability" items. belt of giant STR, various types. +2 STR(max +2) or 14 STR, whatever is higher +4 STR(max +4) or 16 STR, whatever is higher +6 STR(max +6) or 18 STR, whatever is higher

will there be a cheaper book without all the "artwork"?

there is not ASIs later at all, so it is gritty. this is worse that commoner. why would you play a commoner? in d&d world, you would not survive 3rd level with this array

Cleric murdered a 5yo boy as a sacrifice for his god, rest of the party managed to track down the grave in the woods, now we have to metagame how not to execute cleric on the spot for it. Someone is making new character(s) for the next session...

I do not think that it would change much in combat. there would be an increase in utility(rituals). in combat everyone casts same 2 or 3 spells of a given level. druids and clerics can prepare any spell and yes maybe one spell is changed every long rest. maybe.

this is only rolling method that I like, now we are in the game where we rolled stats. My sorcerer is doing fine; 10,16,14,13,14,20 fellow rogue is even a little better; 12,20,14,14,16,14 however, the cleric got shafted: 15,13,16,10,16,10 barbarian is also doing great: 20,16,16,12,14,12...

little of a necro here but, for 2014 version; Gloomstalker/Assassin Lore bard/Aberrant Mind As mentioned Bear totem/Vengeance pala Bear totem/Moon druid Artificer armorer/Abjurer wizard Gloomstalker/Samurai for all attacks in the 1st round with advantage. Elven accuracy for extra cheese...

why would you create a warrior that does not sleep and not give it ability to see in the dark, not to mention general liability of needing light source in a military action?