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Another option is to find out what she likes about bards and try to essentially write a new class that combines the two features. I mean, start with a wizard (or sorcerer), drop the familiar, drop the bonus feats, add bardic knowledge and maybe up skill points? If she likes having cure spells...

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I'd love to see a 'trickster' type, someone who can do odd stunts. Not quite a swashbuckler so much as, oh, Indiana Jones. I've tried to pull it off with rogues before (hello, Indiar Jonis), but it often doesn't feel right.

You could houserule that ACP applies to Listen and Spot, or maybe ACP/2 or something. Though if you go that route and want to preserve balance I'd probably provide some extra.

If you're going to reroll anything under 8, how about 2d12, pick best, add 8?

The problem was two very different ideas about balancing Prestige Classes. The first was 'if it's hard to get into, the rewards should be great!' The second was 'it should be balanced with core classes, but give different options.' The first idea was TERRIBLE, and lead to absurd stupid sh*...

'Deities and the SRD' (looks puzzled) What? Edit: Huh. The subject looks different depending on where you view it. That's weird. Ok, fair enough.

Steinhauser: Most monster abilities follow the format DC = 10 + half HD + Ability modifier Poison, for example: Special Abilities :: d20srd.org Mind you, most monster abilities say 'racial HD,' but it's natural to extend that to class levels.

I agree with the oracle and witch. It's funny, initially I looked at the witch and went 'what??' It looked... quirky and dumb. Then I sat down and went over the spell list and bonus spells by familiars carefully. OoooooOOoooh! It's like a PC-level adept or a base class mystic theurge. Which...

Uh huh. How do you determine values for defense and so forth?

I eagerly bought Iron Heroes, as it was billed as taking a new direction on a bunch of stuff that often annoyed me in 3e. I then found out it's answer to all the problems I had was... to march way off in a direction I didn't like (mainly, all that resource management). Well, fine, that's a...

Ooooooh. I was frankly open-mouthed in astonishment at the idea of giving up Ray of Enfeeblement until I read this bit. I feel for you. :/

I'm a fan of using existing material as much as possible. Making yet another new system of alchemy or whatnot is messy and runs considerable risks of being unbalanced as hell. Houserule: Skills as caster levels Certain skill ranks 'count' as caster levels to qualify for a craft feat. Alchemy...

As for conditional modifiers, I don't think it's that big a deal, myself. A lot of the modifiers for monsters are already conditional, like 'Lions have a +4 racial bonus on Balance, Hide, and Move Silently checks. *In areas of tall grass or heavy undergrowth, the Hide bonus improves to +12. '...

I REALLY like this idea. I had come up with a somewhat more cumbersome related idea at one point (basically letting one of Knowledge/Craft/Profession be used for similar other skills at various penalties), but this is a lot simpler. YOINK As part of my (overcomplicated) idea, I'd also be...

Is it me, or does almost every DM houserule 'must be a cleric of a deity'? I think next time I run I'll try to avoid that. Heh.

Agree totally. I'd love to see two druid variants: the guy with just druid spellcasting, and the guy with just druid wild shaping. In the second case, maybe full BAB and bonus feats or something. As a related aside, am I the only one who thought it strange they didn't rewrite lycanthropes to...

Heh, ok, 'core' as in 'part of the main gameline from the publisher' rather than 'some crazy :):):):) some third party guy in a basement slapped together.'

Interestingly, in Pathfinder they made giants a subtype of humanoid... though centaurs are still monstrous humanoids. (I've been thinking of retyping them as Humanoid (augmented human) )

What do you mean? If you mean the spell-like abilities of the pixie, that's a handful of sorcerer spells. Seems more 'appropriate' to just be a sorcerer pixie.