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minor update * reset bestiary Potential settings * basic conversion of Xorn

What your question really seems to be about is whether certain abilities should have a high level of exclusivity--in this case, by limiting them to a certain class. The consequence, of course, is that in order to have the ability at all, a character must tediously take every other aspect of the...

In the real world, do animals have off-hand penalties?

even more updates! As usual, all files available free-to-download at www.freewebs.com/d20elements Latest Updates: 2004-Oct-13 * Expanded information on Senses and the levels of sense-ability * Revised skills. Added Danger Sense. Folded Bard songs into Perform. Revised many feats. Moved more...

I think game balance is an illusion. There is just so much stuff out there that nothing can truly be evaluated for balance. Part of the difficulty is synergy. Even in a partial point-system that 3E and 3.5E are using, you can have better or worse combinations. And when a player puts together a...

latest update and Skills experiment As usual, all files available free-to-download at www.freewebs.com/d20elements Latest Updates: 2004-Oct-9 * changes to cleave feat * changed Bestiary writeups to use tables instead of tabs 2004-Oct-8 * Finished draft of "D10 Skills" * Folded some D20...

Is there a very good site for: (a) animal stats - including size (length, height at shoulder, etc...) and mass (b) vehicle stats - preferably including pictures; including size (bounding box dimensions) and mass

IMO, the question is really one of Campaign Tone. Do you want Gritty and realistic, or do you want Heroic and Campy? Campaign Tone really determines a lot of such things, and I really wonder why RPGs don't address it more. About your question specifically: Forcing confirmation of a crit is...

In some ways, it's a cosmetic change. However, I wanted to highlight moving away from the concept of classes as it is now. Also, if you are familiar with WHFRP at all, the Career system proposed is conceptually similar. Careers do not follow levels at all. You can have a full career at level 1...

Latest Updates As usual, all files available free-to-download at ww.freewebs.com/d20elements Latest Updates: 2004-Oct-1 * Added optional rule: Additional Dice on Critical Success * Added optional rule: Direct Hits * Adjusted Sneak Attack feats 2004-Sep-29 * Added more feats, updated several...

If the intent is to stop archers / spell casters from stepping back, why not simply have a feat that expands the criteria of what triggers an AoO? As written, your feat essentially expands the threat radius of the character by 1 square. However, because he has to move, the character with this...

Actually, I wasn't looking to turn it into a feat. Rather, I was thinking of making it part of everyone's repetoire of options, as one of the possible combat options, and I was wondering what the consequences might be. It would allow more skilled warriors to go on a true "Total Defense", and at...

I've been toying with the idea of allowing as a basic maneuver a Rolemaster-style parry: A character may reduce his BAB by d points and receive a +d Dodge AC bonus against one opponent. He may do this for multiple opponents. He cannot reduce his BAB to less than 0. Reducing his BAB in this way...

This _appears_ to just give someone an additional 0-7 hitpoints (depending on thier Con modifier). Only it's less useful because none of these hitpoints kick in until the person is virtually helpless, being at a negative hp situation. It's unbalanced because it is useless. Sorry. I don't see...

Not worth it With three prerequisite feats, this feat seems underpowered for what it offers, which may _occasionally_ be only that an opponent needs to make one additional swing at your dying and helpless body before you really die. At higher levels of play--a level where you can finally take...

Fighting Fantasy By slimming down D&D via taking away rules, we are altering the nature of D&D itself. D&D presents a level of complexity that is somehow satisfying because it has a high level of control over the character by giving a certain level of detail to both a character and a...

Latest updates! Latest Updates to my house rules, "D10" (available free to view or download at http://www.freewebs.com/d20elements) 2004-Sep-20 * Major change to Armour Penetration * Firearms! * Important note regarding Campaign Tone and Dice Ranks 2004-Sep-18 * Overhauled Weapon Mastery *...

D20 Elements is now D10! Update! * D20 Elements is now D10! Check out the chapter on "Concepts". All files renamed. * Miscellaneous updates to the main house rule file "D10 Elements", and to "D10 Feats". * Content will slowly be converted to the "D10" version of D20 gaming as work on D10...

Update! The free-to-download Fairy Dreaming setting has been updated! For anyone daunted by the 1.4M Word file, this has now been split up into a file for the setting, and a separate file for the world map, both of which are less than 300K. A zipped file is also available. NEW: Fiction "The...