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In my campaigns I have seen several characters who were primarily other classes take four levels of fighter just for the weapon specialization. As my players think that weapon specialization is that powerful, I would not allow it as a general feat. -- Retan

Most european monks were quite different from the monks in the PHB. They typically had little combat training but were at times fairly powerful in the church hierarchy (At least powerful enough that donations from nobles who wanted to escape the "purifying fire" (I don't know its exact name in...

When I first switched from 2e to 3e, one of the things that I didn't like at first was that all the clerics were pretty much the same. They had some domains that gave some minor special abilities, but nothing resembling the 2e spheres. Later I realized that this was partially because it would...

2. After around 8th level, my players never slept in an ordinary inn. They would fly far out to sea, cast a rope trick, get everyone inside the rope trick and pull the rope after them. In this fashion, they made it impossible for any enemies to find them. (If the enemies scried them, they would...

I have DM-ed a group up to 16th level, and what I saw was this: When they wanted to attack an enemy fortress / dungeon, they would cast all 1 hour/level spells (such as double-empowered stat-boosters, magic vestment and greater magic weapon) before going to bed the day before and then memorize...

I think that 1d10 rounds between breath weapon uses is too random. I would suggest either four rounds (fixed), or 1d4+1 rounds (slightly worse than an actual dragon) Additionally, I thought that your wording of the tail slap attack was a bit confusing. An actual dragon attacks with its tail at...

Analysis of the abilities I created this class primarily for an arcane spellcaster, so I will analyse its abilities in that context: HD: 1d6 This is not a combat-heavy class. However, I figured that a class that emulates the abilities of a dragon should have a higher HD than a pure wizard or...

Although the elemental savant from tome and blood does turn your character into an elemental, I don't think that it is appropriate to this character due to its poor combat ability. If I remember correctly, it gets a HD of 1d4 and a wizard's attack bonus progression. I unfortunately don't know...

I cannot think of any reason why it would be overpowered to allow pearls of power to work for spontaneous casters in the way you describe. -- Retan

This prestige class is an attempt to recreate the old Dracologist from the BD&D Glantri Gazetteer for third edition. I see him as a spellcaster who uses magic to protect himself from dragons and emulate their abilities. Unlike the Dragon Disciple from tome and blood, he does not actually become...

Thanks for a long and thoughful response to my prestige classes, Elder-Basilisk. Here are some comments on your last post. That depends. If you use a full spellcasting advancement, then you do not want to make it easy for clerics to enter. However, if the class uses its own spell list like I...

I have now looked at the templar class. This class is in my opinion only slightly overpowered. I have done a slight revision of it, which is posted below. Essentially, I have removed the bonus feats and pushed the special abilities up to make the class less front-loaded. Templar Requirements...

Thank you for your replies. Felix I kept the requirements as they were in DotF. Looking closer at them, they do seem a bit odd for a protector of hospitals and the sick. One suggestion might be this: BAB: +5 Heal: 5 ranks Great Fortitude (to better resist disease yourself) Elder-Basilisk The...

I have tried to redesign some of the prestige classes from defenders of the faith that either I or my players found to be unbalanced. Brief writeups are given below. What do you think of them? 1: Consecrated Harrier I felt that several of the abilities of this class, particularly "blessing of...

I would say that this would depend on how many of the players were paralyzed. When I DM, the monsters usually concentrate on the threats that are active and ignore paralyzed opponents (who cannot hurt them) until the active ones are down. If everyone is either paralyzed or down, then the...

There are some weird probabilities in Vampire, but I didn't find that to be too much of a problem when I and my group were playing it. Notice also that we were basically D&D players who were playing a Vampire campaign (Giovanni Chronicles) for a change of pace, so we were used to a rules-heavy...