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Yeah. He's got a thread here and it's also available for download here.

What about all the folks who are doing indie 3.75 projects, but aren't publishing them? Surely they deserve a place on the list as well... You've got Raven Crowking's Fantasy Game, Project Phoenix, and likely a few others that are more or less complete. There's a wealth of revised piecemeal...

That was a big thing for me - I thought it was silly that ALL clerics, regardless of god, could turn undead. Giving it to specific ones made it a bit more thematic. BTW, I meant to give Death clerics the command undead ability, but I forgot - that's why they have death touch as a granted power...

As it happens, someone on another forum brought up the idea of valuing feats not long ago, so I posted my notes for him. That got me mildly interested, so went back over it, made some tweaks, and actually processed a dozen or so feats. It's changed a lot since my initial post; I set the base...

I'd just make it x times per encounter - that would be more than enough for most encounters, IMO. x per enemy means the paladin would be doing nothing BUT smiting if he comes up against evil enemies (which, granted, would be fairly realistic, but not very fun gameplay-wise - the rest of the...

Awhile back, I was thinking about what to do with the cleric. For some reason, I thought about what Pathfinder had done with domains; I did something similar with my revised wizard and it worked out well. The problem with the PF cleric, though, is that they gain ALL the abilities from ALL the...

I think the damage itself is fine - what's NOT fine is how many times/day they can use it. At 5/day, it's a very weak ability. If they could use it, say, 1/round, that would be a powerful ability. Or, hell, let's say 1/minute - that's basically an encounter power, where he gets +Cha to attack...

I'd have to agree - you're making this far too complicated. Just go to an ECL-based system; it's a lot easier and more accurate. Minotaurs are ECL 6, so a minotaur PC with 1 level is ECL 7. See? Simple. All you do is give them what's listed in the book, add the ECL to their class levels, and...

That's a good idea, now that I think about it - it doesn't make a lot of sense that you've been a rogue for 10 levels, you take a level in fighter, and all of a sudden you know how to use all martial weapons. Course, I did away with the "I know how to use all weapons" thing anyway; I went with...

When I went over the monsters for Project Phoenix (my 3.5 revision), I had to overhaul the creation guidelines. Here's what I came up with. I went over the process of creating a monster from scratch, step-by-step, with examples using one of the ones on the site. Hope it helps.

No... in the case of someone with no rogue levels, just rule it an auto-crit. What? I never once mentioned the word "realistic" in my post, nor did I imply it. And no, they're not - they're quite realistic. If Bruce Lee doesn't know you're there, he's flat-footed. That's it. If you're a rogue...

That's called a sneak attack. At most, I'd let the attacker get an auto-crit, if he can't SA/DA, but not have the target make a Fort save. For "flanking" to be effective, the defender must be distracted by something opposite the attacker. The rogue/follower is a good example - the fighter...

You can't be serious. A coup de grace? Against an active, not-dying foe? Come on. I'd either go with "he's flat-footed" or just give the follower a +4 bonus.

If you're interested in a Craft-type mechanic, check this out. Even if you don't use it whole cloth, it should give you some ideas.

Here's what I did for crits/sneaks: Most creatures* that formerly immune to crits/sneaks now gain resistance. There are three levels: lesser, moderate, and greater. Lesser resistance crits are reduced by 1 multiplier (a x4 weapon deals x3), and sneak attacks deal 1/2 damage (total damage, not...

Wow, Hawk, that was harsh even for you. :( Ark: There have been numerous and varied observances by many players that LA is a broken system. As Hawk pointed out, the abilities gained rarely scale and usually become useless after a few levels, leaving the PC with racial levels perpetually lagging...

For magic items, I used a variant of the Craft skill: Craft (artificing). For spells, I use ability burn.

You do know that 6-10 and 7-15 overlap, right? And, this is assuming that 20th level is the highest any mortal can achieve, the absolute pinnacle of perfection. If it's not (as it isn't in a lot of campaigns) that scale goes out the window. I want to design a level layout something like this...

Yeah. It's like gaining classes in general - you can either be really good at one or two, or have fewer levels in several classes, but you can't gain lots of levels in lots of classes. Ohhh... I forgot to put in a penalty for attempting to read something that's above your proficiency level...

Sure, if you play E6. If you're a maestro at L5, where do you go from there? You could... I think the other skills lend themselves better to scalability, though. Speak Language is a fairly binary skill, and Perform is largely so - there's little benefit for having a huge score, unless you make...