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The problem, here, is that you don't really know what the cost for these rituals is. It may be that they're not worth the trouble most times, so while they'd be available, people could use them but not abuse them ( and it was often the case in 3e ). Furthermore, if the PCs can use those spells...

Yeah. Or...well, like spring attack?

Uhm, a basic attack roll, depending on the power of the illusion itself, against passive perception scores? Then, if they notice something unusual, you set different DCs and resolve the whole thing with Search/Arcane knowledge/an active perception roll, depending on what the pcs come up with...

Love the change. I've always wondered why, say, a good deity should grant a cleric the power to resurrect an evil companion, just because he's a friend of him. And the fact that the average mid level adventurer died and was resurrected a couple of times per week was something I always hated. It...

Well, that 11th level character was a playtest character; if you want to playtest something ( namely, magic items ), you have to actually have someone using them. It doesn't mean that every 11th level adventurer is assumed to have all those magic items: in another playtest report, for example...

Yeah, but if I didn't, I wouldn't have solved the christmas tree effect in the first place, because the PCs would have simply bought what they needed ;) Sure, but again, you can't say that it's the ruleset that's working. In fact, you can pretty much play any game in any way you wish and have...

I tried a game without spellcasting classes in the party at all, and no "magic mart". I'd say that it's exactly how your house rules would play if nobody chose to play a spellcaster in the party. Sure, but it's a huge part. A DM can generally make anything happen, so you can say that your game...

Well, protection from arrows works "until discharged", and in a game where a spellcaster can't buff his AC through magic items, I don't see how such a buff could last long :) Furthermore, as I said, I assumed average damage. So, even if they're not focus firing one character, there's still a...

Sure, but these sound like more house rules to me. (BTW, this is an interesting concept and would make for a fine theme in a low magic campaign...consider your idea stolen, if you don't mind :) ) The assumption was that this game only needs one house rule: spellcasters gain half the level...

Ok, now care to show us how the US marines, any local police force or any bodyguard organization uses such countermeasures in our world? :)

I don't see why all the attacks shouldn't be feasible, since short bows have a 60ft range increments, goblins have darkvision 60 ft, and the cave is 60ftx60ft. Furthermore, the ones armed with melee weapons could just charge and attack. That's 40ft they're moving, and some of them have reach...

Uhm...Polymorph (anything with high AC will do ) + Protection from non-magical arrows means the wizard will probably breeze through the encounter unscathed. Conversely, if the goblin focus-fire one of the rogues, (+3 to hit, 1d6 damage) they'll hit his average 18 magic-less AC 30% of the time...

Assume the aforementioned fighter 20. Two Rogues 20. Wizard 20 ( houseruled for half CL). ...and? The fact that you need metagaming to make the game work means that something doesn't work in the first place. In high magic settings, for example, you don't need this much downtime and you don't...

care to make a specific example with a monster taken straight from the MM? Not about the deathtrap, that's easy. I mean, of a challenge that would be balanced for high level characters without magic? This is metagaming. If my character is resting in bed, why should he be bothered if the rest...

So, wait...are you really saying "well, at 20th level you don't fight, so it doesn't matter that anything can beat the crap out of you"? O.o This has no implication when discussing game balance. I took a 20th level character as an example not because it was advantageous to me, but because he had...

Keep going is not an option. As I said earlier, assume 150 as average HP ( 20th level fighter with 14 con). I'm using an Ice Giant ( CR 9 ) as his opponent. Average damage every round is 23x80% + 23x55%= 31.5. So you can face an opponent in combat for 4 rounds before you die. If you risk, rest...

I'd agree if they had any chance to avoid or defend against a blow aside from HP, at higher levels. However said 20th level fighter will have 110+ 40 = 150 HP without magic items, on average, assuming he has a 14 Con. This means he'd better have as much HP as he can when he enters combat...

Missed this one :P Not so easy if: 1) Your party is not in town and 2) Your teammates are not, in fact, forced to rest and want to do something else while you're just stuck recovering your lost HP.

Well, not IME. The average hit from a CR 9 opponent ( Ice Giant ) deals 23 damage. An Ice Giant will hit a 20th level fighter without magic items ( AC 23 on average, with a tower shield, as I said earlier ) 80% of the time. This means that a 20th level fighter will need 1 day for being in combat...

I agree... and I think the same is true for magic items. They imported most of the iconic magic items, so we had tons of AC boosting items and very few giving to hit bonuses. Furthermore, in 2e the stacking rules were far more restrictive. Had these been balanced in the first place, we'd...