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  1. Machiavelli

    Replace Turning Undead

    I've always liked the divine feats from Complete Divine for campaigns light on undead. The idea there is that the same divinely-inspired energies that usually repulse or control the undead can (in my campaigns only with your diety's blessing, of course) instead be channeled by the highly...
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    Casting Defensively as an Opposed Roll

    If you're especially worried about stabbing spellcasters in the jaw, take Magekiller. The name is appropriate, because spellcasters tend to flinch in fear of it, and die shortly thereafter. If the fighter is worth his armor, he'll trip the spellcaster (should be relatively easy) or grapple...
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    Improving the hexblade.

    While I do (really very much) like what you've done with the Hexblade's Curse, raoul, I think Dog Moon nailed it: the Hexblade's bonus feats, small reserve of spells, and useful-but-weak special abilities would lend themselves nicely to a variety of enhancement feats and spells specific to the...
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    Rationalising HP: a simple fix?

    ABSOLUTELY! Anything worse than a superficial flesh wound will bleed out and kill a human being (or potentially mythical races, if they can be assumed to made out of roughly the same flesh and blood) unless quickly healed. I've always figured heroes of the D&D world can heal themselves to a...
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    Blasting Spell (metamagic feat)

    I found the Explosive Spell metamagic for my Geomancer and (as promptly as I could) squeezed in Widen Spell and Divine Metamagic. Now a few of his fireballs have a radius of 40 feet and do up to 10d6 fire + 4d6 bludgeoning, knocking opponents prone quite far away from me (or next to the...
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    Elymasti, an arctic bird/reptile people

    Here's a race I fleshed out pretty thoroughly a few years ago, so it's a helluva long read if you don't skip over the descriptive section (I wrote this like an entry in the PH). I loved it to death at the time. I'd say despite the flying ability, it's not worthy of a +1 LA, but I'll leave that...
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    is this balanced?

    I'm not sure if you're actually looking for replies, so you may wish to ask for explanations of opinions. As for mine, I'd say your tweaks are fairly well balanced, if perhaps somewhat underbalanced. The spontaneous healing is quite a potent tool, expecially for lower-level characters who can...
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    Shield Feats

    I particularly like the feats for use weapons while using a shield. If a well-trained Hoplite can carry around a Heavy shield equivalent while wielding and even manipulating a 14-foot spear, why can't a D&D character with the proper training (a la feats) do the same? Alright, admittedly that...
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    New race, opinions welcome!

    This may be the first cat-race that I've liked. I may need to look into them more deeply, but usually with cat-races my first impression is that someone wanted to drag their love of cats into their fantasy game, and didn't care much about how they did it. This, though... this looks rather...
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