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Pretty much, yeah. Prep spells beforehand, set slots/levels, etc. I play a wizard in our current campaign, and I've certainly run into that problem too. But... if you give everyone spontaneous casting, it makes the sorcerer superfluous. Which is fine if you ditched the sorcerer entirely, but I...

Sorry, didn't mean to come off so snarky. Yeah, I suppose so. You remind me of the person who posted a few years ago either here or on the Wizards boards about having a couple pages of text on the teleport spell - what you can and can't do, what happens in a given situation, etc. IMHO, a spell...

Why not just make it a PrC? You're already halfway there. Plus, if a sorcerer takes this template (no-brainer), he'd get a huge boost, at least for hit points and saves.

Yeah... but covering every possible situation leads to really large spell descriptions. Speaking from a designer POV, it's best to just cover the most common ones and let the individual groups figure out any problems. See, I don't see the point of having stuff like this in the description -...

I was thinking about this a bit last night, and I came up with something new. A stronghold or domain's population is based on its owner's Leadership score, as noted below. All extra personnel are assumed to be families, servants, hirelings, etc. - not actual followers. Stronghold Domain...

I'm one of those folks who never saw anything wrong with the Vancian system. I've seen/used other systems over the years (including psionics), but I stick with it. My wizard is pretty much a simple revision - not a lot changed, except that it gets more abilities based on specialization (a reason...

I think I'd switch Mentalism and Divination. Forcing your will on another is more a matter of Presence (Charisma), and divinations have long been the province of Intelligence (gaining knowledge).

I'm not really worried about PCs or even humanoid races like drow; they get so few SLAs that it's a non-issue. I also meant to mention that if you have SLAs and levels in a spellcasting class, that's fine - one is innate, and the other is learned. Innate spellcasting levels are another thing...

Yeah, it would probably work - it's not much different from a DM assigning skill DCs based on the PCs' totals rather than a set DC, so that he can choose whether or not something will provide a challenge.

Not sure. All text appears white to me, but my IE is borked up - everything appears in Arial font. Ah, okay. By giving more stat boosts over the course of level advancement, you eliminate the need for racial adjustments. I'm assuming Fort is the save, not a replacement for Con? Edena of Neith...

It's.... odd. I read this in the House Rules forum, and I wasn't sure what to think then either, but I decided I should post something. I did much the same thing with poisons and diseases - I dissociated (natural) poison DCs from monster strength/power, because it made no sense - some of the...

I was thinking about monsters with both SLAs and integrated spellcasting (i.e., they can cast spells as an x level whatever) the other day, and I came to a decision: you can have one or the other, but not both. The reason? Well, there are a couple. First and foremost, they're the same thing...

Greetings! You must have seen the link in my sig. Welcome to the Society. Just a couple quick questions/comments... How are you going to make races flexible enough that they don't need stat adjustments? I'd love to see a way to make this work, personally. 2 feats/level sounds like a bit much...

<spam>Project Phoenix might be what you're looking for. It's got a lot of what you mentioned, and more.

I'm sure this will get moved to the "Other RPG Discussion" section, but that's okay :p. Since you asked about other folks' systems, I've done a 3.5 revision of my own called Project Phoenix. I, like you, preferred 3.5 to 4E, so I decided to fix what was wrong with the system and make adjustments...

They have similar rules in the 1E DMG - prices for every little thing down to arrowslits and shutters. See, that's what I was thinking too - if he's a million in the hole, he's not going to recoup that money quickly, even if he's adventuring and getting income from his domain. That would be...

Finally popped over here from GD. I don't play 4E, nor am I familiar with the mechanics, so I'll just offer general comments. Like I said before, I'd like to convert this to 3E when it's done. Yeah, that book did it really well, and I agree - if DMs/players want to delve into the minutiae of...

That's exactly what I'm doing. Although I've found that pricing it more like staff spells works better - 100% for the highest level, 75% for the second, and 50% for all others. That's not the problem, though - the problem is combining the effects. If a spell deals energy damage AND raises the...

Oh yeah - forgot about the TWF thing. There's a table on page 160 of the PHB (3.5) that shows all the various penalties for TWF. The lowest penalty is "Offhand weapon is light and TWF feat" - that's -2/-2. I'm sure there's a feat out there somewhere that negates this penalty, but I don't know of...

I was going to quote a few passages, but other posters have pretty well covered what I wanted to say, so I'll just add a few comments of my own. Firstly, you shouldn't assume things. We all know what assuming things does to you. :) Second, the 1:1 skill system allows for PCs to have a...