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At the risk of derailing the thread... None of those reflect the basic arugment of this threat--that better attack skill should also reflect better attack defense. (Also, Full Defense seems to have vanished from 3.5...) Ok, so if you're 5th level or lower, you can translate BAB to...

Full Defense is a full-round action (i.e., not an attack action) and it never increases as you go up in level. A "block" attack action -- i.e, spend an attack action to gain a bonus to your AC against a single attack equal to your BaB -- works and feels differently, and nicely shows the result...

If that's the case, you'll do fine. IMC your alingment has next-to-no game effect. You automatically get the Good or Evil subtypes (and, thus, being affeected by holy or unholy weapons) if your alingment and religion match, but a simple spell does the same thing.

Armor works. It's simply bad design to create a game where wearing a full suit of plate will have a negative or zero effect on the deadliness of a sword swinging at you. But, if that's not gonig to convince you and you're really set on the hollywood-style "armor as costume" feel, you should...

You did notice. You complained about Daniel's miraculous recovery, when he had half of a 90-minute episode just on that fact alone. In SG-1 awhile back, they found an Atalantian puddle jumper with a time travel device. in SG-Atlantis, they have puddle jumpers, and there was a time-loop...

Did you miss last week's episode? He died, he had a chance to ascend, he refused, and the Ancients put him back after he tied up a rather irritating loose end for them. And this time travel bit is a setup for next season, and the result of forshadowing once this season in SG-1 and twice in...

Why not just call up / e-mail / send a letter to one of the MANY folk that actually make armor? I'd peg it at five weeks, full out--which, as you've noted, is impossible unless you can manage 3,000 sp a week.

The same way that he did the last time he died? Daniel Jackson as a Merlin-type for the next season would be, well, interesting. The whole "genius who was a demigod but can't remember anything" bit is kind of weak.

Do you mean this page? And, more importantly, what version of Frontpage are you using? 2003 (which I use at work) is a great HTML editor that can do drop-down menus et al. Not to mention having some fair "snazzy graphic" capabilities, even if you stick with what it gives you. Try adding...

I wish Time Warner would record and report what shows I record and watch. That way, the rest of TV land would stop cancelling them!

Spell design in D&D is a very, very far cry from anything systematic. You've got the only real hard rules down already; don't worry too much about the exact balance, just make some spells that are neither better nor worse than all the other spells of a given level. Now, if you ARE looking for...

Correction: the little dog coup de grace's the fighter, and he fails his saving throw. A 20th level fighter who dissed his cleric would spend ranks on heal immediatly. If you assume he's a typical human adventurer, he can get two ranks a level, meaning that, at worst, he'll be up to snuff...

There's so many... let me sort out the house rules for a second... Polymorph spells give you the ability modifiers, not the "average ability score", and they carry the same LA that you would have if you were naturally that way. Magic Jar got totally re-done: in essense, you can outlive your...

Because they can only accellerate so fast before they bust their ship. That, and warp speed doesn't have a great amount of inertia tied to it, since the ship actually folds space around it to move so fast. (The tech geeks among us will get all kinds of interesting theories about how intertial...

I use a system that's entirely based on XP purchasing. Instead of characters having ever-increasing XP pools, they have ever-increasing costs to level up. Buying a new class level (or template!) costs 1,000 XP per your effective character level, and increases your base level by 1...

With higher-level variants of Enlarge and a ring of anti-magic. If you can turn yourself into a gargantuan you, you can grapple a dragon. If you can negate the minor magical items that caster has, you can grapple him into the ground. FWIW, though, grappling big creatures is probably never...

Ugh. I think that takes it too far. Why would I want a longsword and a dagger to have the same damage? Why would I want to change the scale of numbers I use for everything in the game? rycanada just wanted to get rid of the damgae roll. Easiest way to do that is to just not roll and...

super simple? Y'know, that's not simple at all. "super simple" would be to give each weapon a flat damage value equal to half its die size, and use the standard rules as-written. So instead of your fighter doing 1d8+4 damage with each hit, he just always does 8 damage when he hits and 16...

You & the Mrs. should probably look for exclusive titles for each console that you would buy and want to play. If you can't find any, go with the Gamecube -- the least expensive of the three, because they don't have to pay any dollars at all for DVD licensing. (And, if my geographically wonky...

Hold? Just a few seconds, until you get to know her. Even if she's got the most gorgeous eyes in the whole world, staring and not saying "Could I possibly have a name, to go with the most beautiful face I've ever seen" is a bad idea. However, you should be making eye contact for the...