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I'd like to jump in on the BE discussion. In 3E, a +1 BE weapon was severely inferior to a +5 weapon primarily because of its DR problems and because you'd need to Power Attack for 4 just to make up the lost damage. So, the break-even point was at least a +8 Armor AC. How many people have an...

Since the thread was started by someone with way more posts than the rest of us combined and who writes homebrews and story hours, I think we can leave off the usual "they're just GUIDELINES!" rant. It's been stated enough times. Anyway, IMO this is just yet another spell to add to the list of...

But that's never been the case, even if you ignore non-evil Undead. Sure, MOST of the things that Detect Evil can also be smited, but there's always been several cases that violated this: > Neutral clerics of an evil deity > a non-evil character who has been enchanted with a spell containing...

If you want to keep spellcasters rare without diluting the power of the individual too much, require all casters to spend a Feat to "unlock" their magical power. For example, the Arcane Affinity feat might require INT 15+, give the Wizard's cantrip abilities, and allow access to the Wizard...

I understand you meant the original post. I was just pointing out that while you CAN simply replace "horse" with "hawk" in the PHB mount rules, it often tends to result in a suboptimal creature, since some of the abilities are intended for mounts. Actually, there's a bigger concern I'd have...

It's not that it's "abuseable". Abilities intended to make a horse into a better mount don't always translate well; a Hawk doesn't need a STR boost so much, for example. That was part of why we created the system I linked; if you want the magical enhancement to be more about DEX and Resists...

Here's the version we used IMC, first posted here about a year ago: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=48419 It's not exactly in the final form, but it's close. Anyway, the point is, you don't need a horse, it's just any animal or beast. IMC we had someone who used these rules...

The Sun is pulled across the sky by a guy in a chariot. Clearly, sunlight is magical as a result. By the rules as written, holy water should be nonmagical. You can't dispel it, you can't Detect it, and it doesn't have a duration. It's not in the Magic Items section of the DMG, it's in the...

Well, I'd be careful with this, because it really depends on how you do PrCs in general. There's several distinct issues, here, IMO: 1> Many PrCs are more powerful than the core classes, as compensation for the cost of the prerequisites. Prime example: all those "+1 to spellcasting class"...

The current setup is pretty arbitrary. Spells are sometimes put into certain schools just for balance purposes, so that an Evocation specialist doesn't get bored and a Divination specialist doesn't get hosed. Unfortunately, this leads to a bad compromise, IMO. You get specialists that can do...

Just because these can be described in one sentence doesn't make them "flat". The increase in power due to Empower will still equal ~50% of the base spell's power. This, of course, scales with the spell modified. If Empower said "the spell deals +2d6 damage of the previous damage type", then...

Well, it's been said that when mixing Maximize and Empower, the Empowered part isn't maximized (so it'd be 60+5d6 for Fireball), so I'd assume the same applies here. By that precedent, a Maximized Twinned would be one Fireball that does 60, plus another that does 10d6.

But I'd argue that it's not supposed to be. If a Quickened 4th-level spell was equal in power to an 8th-level spell, there'd be no reason to learn 8th-level spells. Everyone would just be using their newbie spells, metamagicked like crazy. Most metamagics seem to cost double what they should...

IMO, the current, "exponential" level system is a little too prohibitive. A 9th-level spell can't be metamagicked at all unless you go Epic, and the fact that Wizards have to decide beforehand which metamagics to apply prevents them from being used well. Note I said "a little"; while Quicken...

Preferably the Ivory King. And really, when the people involved have access to Wish and are friends with various and sundry deities, how exactly do you keep them from coming back? When Valdek was killed by the Trillith, wasn't his permadeath because the player was moving to the West Coast or...

Ah. I was reading it as an "all but TN" sort of thing. I know, but Smite Evil works on the vast majority of opponents the party faces. I've had Paladin players complain when I throw a non-Evil opponent at them, because they accidentally waste a Smite. In their eyes, "Smite Evil" had become...

Longer explanations of the 8 categories: Bladed: Swords, duh. Almost always close-range slashing weapons. Hafted: Axes, Picks, and most Polearms. At one point we called this the "Chopping" group. Blunt: Maces, Staves, Clubs, chains, and Hammers. While in a lot of ways these are used like the...

I've done something similar IMC, except I restricted it to the four extreme alignments (LG, LE, CG, CE). That made it easier to balance the codes of conduct; otherwise, the NG one would be less restrictive than the LG. The term "Paladin" refers to all four subclasses; they're Guardian...

I knew a DM who had a laptop computer with him at all times. He had a program running that just rolled each type of die every ten seconds or so. So, if he ever felt the need to roll dice secretly, he'd just glance at the screen and read off the last entry in the appropriate column. Since he...

As opposed to any other skill in the game, where the DM sets a DC and people roll a d20 and add a modifier? It's not any more complex than standard skill checks, and it'd only come up in the RARE situation where you don't share any languages with the person you're talking to. The point is, any...