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Hong's suggestion is the "official" way to handle it, and I'd stick as close to that in spirit as possible. Perhaps you can let the human player start at 1st and force the others to use the Apprentice rules from the DMG (effectively starting at zero level). Advance them lock-step with the other...

Me too please! I'd love copies of all your docs please! j.avery@sympatico.ca Thanks!

Some good stuff here.... just a quick comment. We had similiar issue in our campaign, and introduced the following feat. Armored Casting Prerequisite: Ability to cast arcane spells Benefit: Reduce arcane failure by 10% (not per piece of armor, but total for that character). ... then we gave it...

S'mon-- BTW until I came across Skip's unique take on Empower I couldn't understand why people thought Magic Missile was an overpowered spell for its level. ---- Maybe if I read the PHB with the eyes of a power-hungry player rather than as a GM (even when I play, I still think like a GM) I too...

For arcane casters, it can be a very useful thing to have a single-level of a different class - either to flush out a character concept, or add some flexibility. My wizard has a few levels as a cleric of Oghma (clr3/wiz10), since it fit his character concept. He has great flexibility, but is...

I'd say "no". I think it's unfair to allow a character to change skill lists retroactively. Would you let a character remove ranks from a skill that he used, even if that skill may have been significant in the past? How do you deal with the inconsistency? I think this also hurts characters...

--Macbrea---- How did it make your job easier? I would think it would be harder since you have to keep a sewperate list of all items personally created by the wizard. ------ Don't do it this way, just take it as a "net gain" in wealth for the wizard (or the party depending on their point of...

--Mistwell-- The "more reasonable compromise" you mention was exactly the content I had linked to (you just didn't bother to look at it). I never said the link contained the entire book! ---- The link was removed by the admins before I saw this post, so I had no way of reading it. I did jump to...

<quote> But of course, I agree that the ripping of somebodys livelyhood is a bad thing. </quote> Agreed, and this is the salient point. Here's a thought for you Mistwell: If there's _any_ chance that someone will use the material you post, instead of paying Monte $5, then you should refrain...

Themed spell lists can work well. I'm currently playing a half-elf bard turned sorcerer, who's focussing on enchantments and alterations. A few key spells (plus Extend and Chain spell feats later!) make him pretty potent. Core spells include: 0. daze 1. charm person, sleep 2. blindness, detect...

Do I fudge as a DM? Sure, sometimes - as hong points out, much of the time, NPCs don't have the opportunity to use a full set of abilities. I'm very careful though to err on the side of giving NPCs fewer abilities/resources than the party. Much of a player's fun comes from fleshing out a...

--kreynolds--- Any decent DM knows it's ludicrous to allow item creating classes to use twice as much gear as everyone else, which is exactly what you, Spikey, and the others want to do. ---------- So now I'm a bad DM too? Wow, talk about waking up on the wrong side of the thread... Item...

--Weeble-- huh? --- Err, umm, sorry - unclear example on my part. Just trying to illustrate the inconsistency of this interpretation. If crafted items count as full-cost items for the purposes of this calculation, then a PC would be much smarter to not bother taking items. Take the wealth...

Thought for discussion. DM -> Ok, you have 9000 gp based on your character level. What do you do with it? Player -> How much are items if I buy them, vs create them? DM -> The same price. Player -> Ok, I won't bother buying anything. I'll take 9000 gp in cash. DM -> Hmm, alright.... You're...

>> Contrary to what? Nowhere in that quote does it state "All characters capable of creating their own equipment get to carry around twice as much crap as everyone else." Then why would I ever take item creation feats? The advantage to (a) taking a feat, and (b) spending precious experience is...

--Tobold Hornblower-- So he knows exactly what he's doing. He's a troll, and you've all been had. Good job, Azlan, you've caught a bag of holding full of suckers. ---------------------------- Hmm, all I've seen is a lot of negative reactions and personal attacks on someone. Maybe you don't...

Umm, what?! >> My sympathies, but there isn't much of a case here. Just using >> your side of the case, there seems adequite grounds for >> assuming you had retired the PC and the DM was free to use >> him as desired. Several months on the shelf looks pretty >> abandoned. Why do so many...

Been there... I signed up for Camelot about a week after the launch, and was a fairly dedicated player up to a month or so ago. I can agree with some of the other comments, it's possibly the "best of the breed" for massive fantasy RPGs. Having said that, I don't find it terribly exciting...

As Archer pointed out, there's no official way to do this. It seems to be a fairly common house rule to allow it at a cost equal to the creation cost of the item * the percentage of charges that need to be added. e.g. the base cost of a wand of magic missiles (5th level) would be 750gp *...

You've got it right The spell DC is supposed to be (10 + spell level + ability mod). Caster level doesn't factor into this. If you want higher DCs, you should be casting higher level spells: the Heighten Spell feat allows you to prepare spells at a higher level (and use the higher level DC)...