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I'm at a loss as to how to create this prestige class. The inspiration for it was from a piece of fiction. In the story, the Keeper of Scrolls was your basic wizardly archetype with the caveat that all his magic use required the reading of a scroll. Now, in D&D such a spellcasting restriction...

I'm not advocating trees over feats, or the other way around, but I don't see how a tree is more complicated. Can you give an example of what you mean? jolt

I don't know why, but the idea that my players should get more XP because they're blithering idiots is very amusing. jolt

The Monster Level system was okay back when the 'dungeon' was considered the default (and by far the most common) adventure type. There, what dungeon level a monster was typically encountered on was a useful piece of information. Not so much anymore though. Outdoor and urban adventures are...

Agreed. In fact, I think that party composition and location are essential in accurately determining the EL of an encounter. A party of four wizards is going to be challenged by different things than one of four barbarians. A wyvern is a significantly different when encountered outdoors as...

They aren't 100% exclusive. You need characters to fight in your Action orientated game. And your need a world and a story for you Character orientated game so that their backstory's have context and meaning. jolt

I play in a homebrew world that I've spent a lot of time on. So for me, Story and World aren't really seperable. I also work with the players to set up their background so that it makes sense withing the world so that's hard to seperate too. (As an aside, we've been playing in this world for...

And this is why, IMO, there will be complaints no matter what "model" you use for your magic system. And even if all the changes presented here happen, magic will still be the most house-ruled aspect fo the game. In the end, many of the people who aren't currently happy will be and many who...

This was the original post in case anyone's forgotten. A lot of tangental topics have sprung up as a result. This isn't, inherently, a bad thing. However, medievlaism, feudalism, the plague and the Renaissance have all been researched exhaustively by credible historians for a long time...

We don't use the half races at all. Since almost everything in D&D can (apparently) breed with almost everything else, why just the half-elf, why not a half-gnome? Why just a half-orc, why not a half-kobold/goblin/bugbear/gnoll etc.? And why do "half's" always have to be part human? What...

I'd call it the Defender or Guardian or some other synonym like that. Anything more specific and it'll sound like a Prestige Class. I thought the Complete X versions of the OA characters was, at worst, passable (except for the aforementioned Samurai; as others have said, the Complete version...

GH was pretty much the only published setting I ever liked. Kingdoms of Kalamar wasn't bad but I bought it mainly because it was the setting that most reminded me of Greyhawk. I still think Greyhawk is a viable setting for publication (though WotC clearly disagrees). There is absolutely no...

I do basically the same. Also, I sometimes find myself looking at the CR of a given encounter/monster and thinking, "What the...!?!?!" This is more true for 3rd party material but even in WotC/RPGA stuff some things just seem off. jolt

And let's not forget the blatant Tolkien ripoffs either. But I agree, OD&D was basically medieval europe with a fantasy overlay. However, I believe that this has become less so with each edition of the game. Now, the rules aren't trying to simulate medieval Europe at all, their trying to...

The seeds of the Renaissance period were planted during the crusades. At this point, the Europeans invasion of the Holy Land brought them into contact with spices and other trade good material that they had never seen before. Also, they saw a nation/culture with a more advanced mathematical...

That's true for gold. But copper is the bread & butter of even the meanest dirt farmer. Incorporating bartering as a system of purchase or paying taxes with livestock/produce is an interesting concept and certainly doable but the economic model presented in the core books assumes you're using...

I voted demi-god. However, my world is homebrew and my cosmology doesn't really resemble any of the current models. Demi-gods are a dime-a-dozen in my world; there are no churches dedicated to them, (though raggedy prophets shouting out messages, from a "god" that no one else has ever heard of...

The multiclass option presented above seems good to me. The Warlock alone can make a decent blaster and the Warmage is basically a modified Invoker (or so it's always seemed to me anyways). Depending on what abilities he wants to have/focus on will determine how he'll need to distribute his...