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I'd say it's probably about 50% 4e, 35% 3e, and 15% old school. As was mentioned before, most old school players don't fiddle with things like OP. I have serious doubts about WotC's claims of 4e's wild popularity. The anecdotal evidence seems to indicate it's the least successful edition to date.

I always allowed barbarians to trade out their rage abilities for feats, but nobody ever took me up on it. Rage is simply much better than feats.

It doesn't make them nearly as powerful as going up in levels would. There's no 4th level spells, there's no jumping like the Hulk, there's no +20 BAB, etc. A fighter 6/Rogue 4/Duelist 4 has a +6 BAB (same as f6), 6d10 hips (same as f6), a +5 Fort (same as a f6), a +4 reflex (same as a f6 with...

I allow characters to choose between a gestalt level and a bonus feat, though no character may ever have more than one class above level 4. This includes prestige classes. If a character reaches 6th level and desides to prestige he can only attain 4th level in that prestige class. If he...

I think every DM has that problem, I currently have 7 camnpaign pages on my Obsidian Portal account and I'm only running one as a pbp. I had a lot more that I deleted. If I sat down and started counting God knows how many campaign ideas that I never got around to there are. Too bad we have...

Perhaps you aren't aware of the fact that rules cannot be copyrighted, which is why all the 1e clones are out there now. A cheatsheet containing all of the rules without any of the fluff is 100% legal, calling it stealing over and over doesn't make it so. It's not a simple conversion. Just...

Who said anything about stealing anything? Rules can't be copyrighted and how long do you think it would take for crib notes to end up at alternityrpg.net? It's all perfectly legal, I couldn't care less about the filler. And it would pretty much double the size because we aren't talking about...

That didn't seem to work out so well when AEG released books containing both d20 and 7th Sea rules, and those were just splat books. Doing what you would suggest would simply result in doubling the size of the book and a significant cost increase. I wouldn't buy it, I'd just acquire the rules...

This is the copyright notice from the book: To me it seems like the copyright does not apply to the text, only the pictures, logos, and presentation.

I agree with this to a point. I think D20 is a great system, my problems with 3e/4e is mainly in the details. E6 fixes most of those problems for me. I think that's one of the great things about Alternity, walking in a straight line is extremely easy but we've still all tripped many times in...

It sounds to me like you want the D20 system. Replace bonus dice with static modifiers and higher=better, that's D20 in a nutshell.

Heh, I wrote my last post before reading yours. Pretty much what you said.

I've always wanted to strip out all the copyrightable fluff so I could have an Alternity SRD, but the Alternity races are unfortunately copyrighted (unlike most DND races). That means I had to rename the races, so I stripped the fluff out completely and just left them as groups of abilities and...

Nobody had to throw out their character sheet because a new setting book came out. How has this thread gotten this big when the very first response showed the premise of the OP to be false?

I'd also like to see a campaign book, with each chapter dedicated to a different progress level. The chapter's as I'd prefer: PL 0: 10,000 B.C. (as in the movie) PL 1: Mythic Greece PL 2: Lord of the Rings (like that'd ever happen) PL 3: Swashbuckling Adventures PL 4: Old West Adventures...

There seems to be a lot of confusion in this thread on what Alternity is. Alternity is the GAME ENGINE. Star*Drive, Dark Matter, Gamma World, and Star Craft were the CAMPAIGNS released for Alternity. If you create a game that's backwards compatible with Star Wars Saga or SWRCR then it's D20...

That link is about skill synergies and advanced skills. If discussion about feats and rank benefits is buried somewhere in that thread I'm certainly not going to read all 5 pages of posts. Under the current rules 3 ranks in Ranged Weapons-Pistol grants the quick draw rank benefit. Your...

Apples to Apples Anything from Cheap Ass Games. Backup campaigns. Risk. Etc.

Looking at my copy of S2S, it appears that the only thing that isn't designated as open content is the artwork; the pdf contains that artwork and therefore the posting of that link is a violation of the owner's copyright. (nvm, didn't notice that the link was already removed.)

I'm not asking how optional rank benefits are different from standard rank benefits, I'm asking how optional rank benefits (which I assume you would have to purchase, otherwise why not take every one you can) is different from purchasing feats. How is gaining a specific rank benefit for x...