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That's what I'm trying to do too - combine the effects of mass inflict wounds, ice storm, and animate dead. Or are you talking about making one spell (the evocation effect) that deals cold/negative energy damage, then a second that takes effect one round later (the necromancy effect) that raises...

Yes and no. I think that maybe the players didn't have enough access... but there was also too much of the goodness. 3E/3.5 suffered from the same problem 2E had - supplement glut. 110 pages of feats is just an example of the sheer amount of material we, as players, have to choose from. The core...

I need some help. I'm trying to revise the animus blast/blizzard spells, and I'm banging my head against the wall. The original spells deal cold damage in a 20-ft. radius; up to 5 or 10 creatures slain rise as skeletons or zombies under the caster's control. My system combines spells and...

I would say the entire thing. Upgrading by adding on components would be akin to upgrading a normal magic item.

I already included that in the Improved Grab description: Good catch, though.

Actually, once you hit name level, you build/acquire a stronghold and attract followers. Ah, I see what you're saying. I like that idea. Maybe reduce the number of followers overall, but have them give benefits instead of just being followers that do nothing. We're thinking along the same...

In cases like that, it's a matter of rewriting the spell itself to be not so broken, not (just) changing the level.

This thread will probably pretty well summarize everything you want to know. I don't think importing things from 1E/2E into PF would be any harder than doing it into 3E (and it's certainly easy to convert 3E/3.5; they're very similar). Three feats per level? :confused: Good lord. I wouldn't...

I think this is a fantastic idea. I'd love to see something like this done for 3E/3.5, but I could easily adapt the rules for it myself. One minor quibble: Those other 100 followers are effectively henchmen and hirelings - guardsmen, apprentices, servants, and whatnot. They're not really...

I used to have a doc with about 30 revised spells in it, which I made a couple years ago. I have since incorporated all the changes into Project Phoenix and I can't find it anymore, but I can give you a list of major changes I made in PP: "Animal buffs": Duration increased to 10...

I've added new monster creation guidelines and more user-friendly falling object rules. I owe credit for both of these to Upper Krust; I incorporated some of his monster creation guidelines into my own rules, and the damage for falling objects into my own system, which I revised to be easier to...

Very interesting. Back in 1E, in the module C5 Bane of Llewellyn, the PCs get a divine aura of sorts right before a battle with demons; it gives them a bonus to AC/saves, but if the demon hits them, it must make a save or be blasted back to the Abyss. I made a spell out of it for 3.5 and a...

No, I made it a subtype. The vermiurge is a Vermin (Abomination) - I listed those backwards in my previous post. :p On a side note, abominations are pretty well in a class of their own, so I treated them as a monster type when I made up my monster design rules - they fall under "Unnatural"...

There's still an epic board? I thought it had gone away after they changed over to "Gleemax". I used to frequent the old epic forums, but I'm not sure I'd want to with the new system anyway - I could never log in.

There's nothing really "wrong" with Aberration; it's certainly nonstandard in form, though very close to an actual creature. I just can't quite wrap my mind around those things living on the Prime, wandering around the wilderness. I dunno... maybe it's just me, but something that's described as...

I'm almost to the end of the epic monster conversions... and I come across the vermiurge. It's a really interesting monster - one of the better ones in the book - but I can't pin down its type. The book says aberration, but it's a 10-foot-long scorpion with four pincers and wings that has a...

As someone who's done a variant system with a lot of similar changes, I can tell you that a) revising skills (especially monster skills) is a LOT easier; b) revising classes is a bit harder, because of all the new abilities. The fighter and sorcerer are probably the worst because they didn't...

Point 1: There are several online NPC generators you could use (free, even!) that cut down on time a LOT. Point 2: Aberzanz has a point, but I like the idea of individual awards. In light of his point, though, I'd change my suggestion to award XP to players with especially good ideas, or...

That's why I wrote the Rule of Three - because once the skill bonus exceeds the range of a d20, success increasingly becomes a foregone conclusion, rendering a roll meaningless. It was intended to maintain a degree of chance at all levels - even Carl Lewis screws up sometimes, whether because...

It's from the ELH. You talked about the Perfect MWF feat here and said that it was broken because it treats all the hands as offhands. Your example used a marilith; with six arms and four feats (MWF, Greater MWF, Improved MWF, and Perfect MWF), she'd have 24 attacks/round. Your suggestion was...