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True, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I rather like the fact that a player can't automatically assume that they will succeed in a fight against a given opponent because they know the opponent can only do X damage per round, and they have X number of hit points. That certainty can lead to...

My group sees Conviction as the "new" hit points in True20. Since the number you have are level based, higher-level characters will have more to spend during those long and dangerous combats. Ergo, higher level characters have a higher survivability factor by virtue of their Conviction. This...

I think part of the problem is familiarity with d20. True20 is built on largely on recognizable rules from d20, but is just different enough, especially where combat and damage are concerned, as to add a bit of a re-learning curve. Differences in rules have blindsided a few of my players and...

I saw the movie 2 weeks ago, and I saw one fellow with a moray eel sticking out of his stomach. (He can be seen over Will Turner's shoulder when he sits down to play dice with Davy Jones). Eel: Your stomach is an empty hole that has become the nest of a moray eel. Once per round, this eel can...

That's what I've found to be the best course, and I am a consummate house-ruler and home brewr. The more I tinkered and house ruled, the more I realized that I didn't really need to. After my first few read-throughs, I came up with a few alternate house rules, a new role, etc. and all of that...

AAMOF there is a VERY active "True Force" thread on the current True20 boards. Several contributors are tinkering with it. http://true20.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=488 And you can get their collaborative PDF here: http://www.angelfire.com/planet/stasis/TrueForce_New.pdf

My group initially sort of balked at the Toughness save concept, but have really started getting into it. They often even take over the narrative from me when they make Toughness saves, describing what happens to their character as they make or fail or spend Conviction on their Toughness save...

I would definitely suggest stressing the importance of things like cover, defensive stance, and total defense to keep characters alive. They are much more important in True20 than in core d20 because characters just don't have a lot of hit points to whittle through. As you noted, it's dreadfully...

I thought about that, but if you go with a set amount of Dex loss you are also automatically cancelling out some of the AC bonus given by the coral encrustation. With a random Dex loss, the effect on AC would vary from creature to creature. Alternately, we can just make the coral encrustation...

Coral Encrustation: Part of the creature's body is encased in coral. This provides a +4 bonus to Armor Class. Reduce the creature's Dexterity by 1d4. Spit Sand: 3/day, the creature can spew wet globs of sand at an opponent within 15 feet. On a failed Reflex save, the opponent is blinded for 1d4...

True, true, but it is a lot easier to do it this way than to try to figure out how to drop the hostile environment onto the Space Marines ... :p

D'OH! ... um ... I mean ... why, yes, they are! Why do ask? :)

Someone requested my Skull Child (from Mongoose's Necromancy: Beyond the Grave) as a template. Here it is! Note: I can't reference the Monster Manual page number in the OGC portion of the stat block, but the size change rules are on pg. 291. Skull Child (Template) “Skull child” is an acquired...

Well ... to make the skull child a template, you'd first have to decide what the stats should be for the juvenile version of the base humanoid. I suppose that could be built into the template, though; a decrease in size category and stats, etc. I'll see what I can come up with. :D

I think "D&D" as a term is about to cross that threshold that Coke, Band-Aids, Kleenex, Oreos, and Xerox each crossed long ago. It is a trademarked brand name, to be sure, but it's also become somewhat generic as a representative of similar successful products. When I tell people I am into...

Heehee ... wrong Rudy ... :D

I once did stats for Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, but not in his capacity as "Santa Claus." To account for all the miracles St. Nick was said to have performed in his lifetime, he had to be a 14th level cleric (for example, he needed to be able to bring three dead boys back to life at the...

As for the cause of the zombies, what about having Nanites be the culprit? These tiny little robots could, for whatever reason you decide, swarm all over the medula oblongata (or cerebral cortex or whichever part of the brain it is that is supposed to be the most primitive, etc.) and reanimate...

Ah, okie doke.

Sent! I also sent them to you, LuckyNumber, but IIRC Hotmail has a 1Mb limit on file size. If the mail bounces back to me as undeliverable, I'll resend them one at a time.