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A lot of that is down to GM advice. In 3.5, the GM advice for a medusa is to have them avoid becoming known, and when they encounter adventurers to approach them in disguise (being impossible to tell from normal humans until within 30 feet, less if cloaked and/or hooded) before suddenly pulling...

Lots of reasons. The most obvious is if you're going for Gaming, without much roleplay. It's not gritty, because that's about the roleplay, it's just deadly, because that makes the game more fun. But there are other reasons too.

What if the sleep spell did the following: "If the target is not currently involved in a life-or-death situation (eg. combat) they immediately fall asleep. Otherwise, they are first slowed by lethargy, and then may fall asleep if they allow the lethargy to overtake their force of will" Seems...

Yes, the logic IS clear. You claimed that some classes would be unavailable for organised play. Hmm, have they banned the runepriest? No. Didn't think so. So, umm, yeah. Your claim, the claim that you wouldn't be able to play non-vancian classes at organised games, was wrong. I don't deny...

Ummm.... No. Magic system is one of the things that is PC-side modular. PC-side things are all, naturally, able to co-exist unless explicitly banned. They're not going to ban Warlocks in organised play. You're being far more pessimistic than you have any cause to be.

The spell list would be 3-5 spells per level. You get access to all the ones that fit your class, but that's no-where near as many as in the full version. Magic Missile would be 1st level, Fireball would be at the top of the starter set (so, level 5ish?)

Even just having some saves be int-based could do it. But honestly I don't think a wizard has a stronger grip on their soul than a fighter anyway. The wizard messes in matters beyond the ken of normal men. Which means they open themselves up to such things. I can only really see them having an...

I'd rather see: The medusa's gaze forces people to make a constitution save. On a failed save they take 2d12+12 damage and are slowed.* If this reduces them to 25 or less hitpoints they are instead turned to stone.

It will. Which is why the baseline power level for the simple classes/subclasses needs to be higher. Well, one of the reasons

With racial levels the two could be one and the same. A shifter is either a descendant of a werewolf, or someone who's been bitten but not changed fully. As you level in the racial class, you learn to unlock, but also to control, the beast within. If you take a different class: you stay as a...

So you refuse to play 3.x then I take it?

This is one reason why I prefer not having the "your powers vanish" option. It means the GM can treat the patron/god as just another NPC. If they find out you're betraying them (with what that means depending on the patron) they react according to their personality and capabilities (with what...

Maybe have sample patrons along with the sample gods used for divine characters, listing what they generally want from their followers?

Being turned to stone is incapacitated, not dead. I like the idea of people being restored when a medusa dies. If implemented, that would help. It makes more sense than being able to brew a potion using their bodyparts. (what does a medusa feed on? In my cosmology, it's the tortured souls of...

It's easy enough to keep track of if the thresholds are always multiples of ten. If not, then it becomes harder for most people.

That works for me. By roleplaying the patronage, you ensure both GM and player know what it entails. Yeah, I think that would be the best way to go about it.

I think pure SoDs need to be a module, because no-one I know will touch them. And that means there needs to be some other way to represent medusae etc. because those are cool creatures. Having a mechanic like the low-hp one makes it easy to swap in and out the SoD rules. Any HP threshold power...

I'd have the gaze attack/save, as always, with a slowing effect+damage. If you drop below the HP boundary, the gaze petrifies you instead, but it isn't completely irrelevant before then.

If you made a deal (in-character) with a powerful NPC would you want the GM to go meta and say "Here's a precise list of the units that NPC controls, here are the ways they'll react to your disobedience, here are the limits of their patience, and here are all the ways they may choose to aid your...

I like the idea of clerics having two ability types: Blessings and Miracles. Blessings are at-will or encounter abilities, ways the cleric is blessed and can pass it on. Generally relatively minor. If a healing surges are in, granting the use of a surge would be a blessing. A Pelorite having a...