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I would say no. PrCs can never be favored classes. OTOH, Force has a good idea - you shouldn't punish the players for choosing a class that fits their PCs' archetype.

Ever wondered exactly how many coins you could stuff into that belt pouch, or how much a portable hole really holds? Wonder no longer! I've come up with an elegant system for determining capacity based on the container's size and strength. I've been playing Oblivion for about a year and a half...

Yeah... having to check against all those spells, and recalc all those bonuses is a bit PITA. An area dispel, however, works against ONE spell per target - that seems to be something people forget. Once it dispels one effect, it stops working against that target. You could even have it work...

It's a good idea, but are you suggesting eliminating dispel et al as spells entirely? I.e., they can't be used for anything besides counterspelling? How would you dispel other things, then? Course, I don't really see dispel ever being used except in traps and combat, so the point might be moot...

That is a difficult problem to find a solution for. Pathfinder does something similar, except SoD spells like FoD deal hit point damage. Reaction to that "fix" is rather mixed - some people like it, and some think it's goofy. The rule I use is that a failed save = reduced to -1d4, -1d6, or -1d8...

This means we'll see it sometime around April. :p You should. All the others were free downloads; I didn't see why you were holding this one back for inclusion into Godsend.

I suppose so... but the players in question wouldn't have built their characters like that if they didn't want to be thrust into that role.

Yes and no. Imagine, if you will, a mage bad guy with a load of minions. The PC mage is in the back of the group, countering the bad guy's spells so the PC fighters/rogues can take care of the minions without the bad guy raining down spells on them. I've seen this in action, many times - I used...

That's pretty much what I did - reduce the number of types of bonuses (I ditched alchemical and sacred/profane), then I adapted something RangerWickett came up with in the General RPG forum and refined it with a little help. This is the result: The end result is that only ONE type of bonus...

Yeah, it was 172 I meant. That's the one that had Skullport in it, too (which was later expanded into its own supplement, as someone mentioned). I think 227 was the one that mentioned the temple of Loviatar and such. And I have to agree with various other posters - UMT is best used as a toolkit...

For the 20th anniversary of D&D, Bruce Cordell (writing for TSR) wrote an adventure called Labyrinth of Madness. It's an awesome mod designed for a 20th level party, which (of course) features the number 20 prominently in its design - they have to find 20 symbols to progress through the dungeon...

This is almost exactly how I do it. My version goes something like this: 0 hit points, you're disabled. -1 hp, you're dying. at negative Con score (death threshold), you're dead. If you're dying, make a DC 10 Constitution check. If you succeed by 4 or less, there's no change. If you succeed...

Undermountain (the whole thing, not just the areas covered) consists of 9 main levels and something like 14 sublevels. Only 6 main levels and 3 sublevels were detailed, though Wizards did run a series of articles detailing single rooms. Several Dragon Magazines also had updates in the form of...

We did a short session yesterday, just wrapping up the adventure. The BBEG ended up being a redcap (evil fey, CR 3). As before, my wizard ran out of spells and was forced to get into melee - though the dice were rolling hot for us, and we handily beat the three thugs we were fighting. Not much...

Heh, sorry. That was me agreeing.

I was thinking about this again last night, because I've been going over the epic magic items and I really want to get the new SR system in place. I came up with (I think) a much simpler, cleaner rule for this, incorporating a lot of what we've already done. There are four levels of SR: Minor...

A Google search for D&D generators turned up something called Role Playing Master right here on ENWorld. It looks to be really useful - resources for the DM and players (inc. PC generation), and totally customizable.

The penalties are straight from the PHB. If you've got, say, a marilith feinting against a human, common sense should come into play here - the marilith has likely fought many, many humanoid foes and would know how they react, so she'd suffer no penalty (or at best a reduced one). If it were a...

Oh yeah... I knew you'd done feats as they related to ECL, but I hadn't thought of using that system. I.e., a feat is 0.2 ECL. A skill point is 0.02 ECL, so it's 0.1 feat. I think that's the problem we (I and the other guy with the original idea) are having - we're using whole numbers for the...

KnightErrantJR posted some concerns and comments in his blog. It pretty well hits on what a lot of people are thinking, judging from the comments in the thread on the Paizo boards.