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For the game design thing, I think what they wanted was to free game designers somewhat of worrying about munchkin players. If I'm a designer and want to create a beast on the molds of say, a giant lizard, that regenerates I have no need to make it a Magical Beast - so that druids can't...

You can look at feinting (PHB, p. 64, under bluff). Not an excellent tactic as it is now, but an interesting change. Check, of course, the uses for tumbling (not a class skill for the fighter, but a must have skill, if you have spare skill points invest here!). For creative fighting, you can...

I witnessed a handful of bizarre rolls at the time I GMed Earthdawn. In that system, each time you roll the maximum in a die, you roll that die again and keep rolling until it is not the maximum. The most impressive time was a 54 with a d12. That's not very impressive. But on the dice throwing...

I DMed a couple of games in which players I had players with Monte's Alt. Ranger, I played Monte's Alt. Sorcerer myself and created one of his Bards as an NPC allied to the group. I had complains from some players that the Alt. Ranger was too powerful, but that same player stated that with a D8...

I would think his point is that now a Wiz or Sor character can also take the Alertness feat and effectively have the benefit of both.

My definetly preferred take on Monks would be that of "Beyond Monks" by chainmail bikini. I greatly appreciated Mindscapes but for a totally different, and very compelling, take on psionics you could try Kenneth Hood's skills-and-feats variant. Its at...

To be honest, I own more books than I can manage to read. In special for the Mongoose base classes, I mostly picked up the names from their webpage. I skimmed the Knight book from a friend and found it was really more into flavor than in seeking for a new and interesting take on mechanics. As...

Variants and web classes For what is worth it, I wholehartedly agree with you on classes taken from the web: quality varies too much to be worth including. And as for Monte Cook's variants, I would, personally, include them as I really liked most of his takes on classes. Anyways, his Arcana...

Tons of Mages Also, AEG has a nice book called Magic, which details 14 magical styles, each one with its own base class (and a PrC to boot). (In addition to Mongoose, AEG also seems to be dealing with a ton new classes. It seems in there Swashbuckling Adventures book, which I don't have, there...

Mongoose classes Well, Mongoose publishing recently started a new series of theirs (the "Power Claases" books) dedicated to creating new base classes. Knowing how prolific these guys are, we can expect that list to grow fast! From MGP Power Classes: Assassin Gladiator Exorcist Noble Knight...