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I agree. You're probably right but seeing as the default is 2 I don't see it being too much of an issue. Since the setting will be more condusive to socially based characters physical hardiness may not be as much of gem as in your usual adventuring type games. Of the six sample characters...

This is the key right here. The perception of the games events through the gloss of rules is just as much in the hands of the players as the rules themselves. There are many cases in the game where you just have to accept that things are the way they are for purposes of playability. Hit points...

I have found versatility and True20 is its name. d20 Modern was a fine product back in the day but once True20 got played for awhile it became the universal d20 handbook. Which is not to say that it is the master of all genres but that it can handle most any genre with aplomb. If you have both...

If you want increased lethality use the Massive Damage rules. My own tinkerings have led me to a condition track/reserve point hybrid. All but the most negligible hits result in some manner of wound effect until the character recovers with his reserve. This takes some sort of action during...

This right here. I find when making these adjudications the simplest ruling is the best. By your own statement the bias is toward core classes. Prestige classes, by design, are their own reward.

You've stated that your primary goal is to reduce dependance on magical healing to stay in line with a low magic campaign. I would suggest that you are also concerned with lethality since that is a by-product of the Vitality/Wound system. There are two systems in the SRD that might provide the...

Yes there are two main methods to bypass or diminish armor. All weapons have an Armor Penetration rating. This ranges from 1 (dagger) to 8 (pole-axe). The wielder adds their strength bonus to this. The final number is compared to the DR provided by the target's armor which ranges from 3...

The Hyborian Age presents rules alterations to standard d20 D&D to make things a bit more Conan-esque. I would say that even though d20 Conan does change many rules the core remains the same and most rules changes are not so far removed from the SRD. A deconstruction. Character creation and...

Snipped for brevity not relevance. I totally agree with you. When the Planar Handbook came out and had so many familiar faction prestige classes I was excited to play some 3e Planescape. On further examination it just seemed like a lot of shoe-horning was required to give the characters the...

Conan is a great game. If you have the budget pick up the class splats. There are three. They all detail each class multi-classing with each other class in a way that is so wickedly cool I just can't describe it. They can even rationalize Nomad/Pirate which I found rather humorous. For the most...

It really depends on the system but I'm inclined to give almost anything a whirl, particularly if there's a masterful GM at the wheel. I can only think of a small handful of games that it would take a really hard sell to convince me on. I can count on one hand games that I will adamantly never...

The warforged scout is small and built for stealth like a goblin. I've played several goblin games. One was really low power. The early adventures were mostly about stealing chickens. This eventually evolved into a divided tribal war over who would replace the chieftain that had just died of a...

PS: Torment is very good. I'm really surprised no one has mentioned ES3: Morrowind. The main story was really good, the sub-plots were generally pretty well thought out and involved, and the game world as a whole was incredibly well developed. The 1000+ pages of in-game books alone made for...

Sausages. Nobody but the butcher really knows what's in a sausage. Andouillettes are the shiz, son, and a prepared sausage fetches a lot more than a gutted corpse. Oooh... go to the town butcher. Sell him carcasses and your sausage plan. Then when business is booming it's blackmail time. Tell...

Talislanta 4e which is the Omni system. It's d20... with a twist! FUDGE And recently Sorcerer.

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You may wanna reword that. Deadly in the hands of a sneak attacker. But that was probably the point, right? Did you account for the free, or maybe swift, action use in the pricing? I'm tempted to say they should just be priced as +3 weapons but I'm notoriously ham-fisted when it comes to...

Talislanta 4e. It's skweezabley soft.

The only published campaign I've run, start to finish, is ToEE and I found the magic items lacking. As I remember it many of the magic items in that adventure were keyed toward worshipers of the Elemental Evils. I liked that at the time because the antagonists could have a kick-ass weapon...

I don't have a problem with people creating items, per se, but I think there should be some serious GM control in the process. There should also be a drastic diminishing return for selling magic items. Too many times I've received magic item proposals that are totally legal but also totally...