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I rather agree -- we each design our own worlds, that's why we're DMing. Still, I'm interested in how everyone addresses the issues, because they might do it better or at least give me ideas. I think that everyone discussing it can benefit. I can explain the greater gods, if it would help...

Happy new year, Gary! I hope you're feeling better!

How would that work? Surely not "they regenerate all damage, since damage won't be unholy in an antimagic field"?

My campaign is medium roleplay-heavy and very strong in Knowledge skills*, and yet we still find the bad weak. I made some changes to the bard to make it stronger in combat (modeled after the skalds), giving it 3.0 skills but fighter base attack, and now it's sometimes played -- but perhaps...

How does everyone here handle pantheons (or whatever you call your groupings of gods, whether social, political, or other) that are unbalanced in some way? For example, my pantheon has two greater gods who wish to destroy the undead and no greater or intermediate gods who champion them. What...

All of your methods are essentially the same: treat a god of each rank as F times more powerful than the rank before, where F is one of {2, 3, 10} for your three systems. The power of a god is then F^p, where p is the power level (0 = hero, 1 = quasi, 2 = demi, etc.). It would be easy enough...

Not at all [is it necessary to have a static pantheon if there's a maximum total power]. I have a very dynamic pantheon, but it's limited in terms of total power and power at each level. This is the hard limit, though, and it's not currently matched. There's a certain amount of untapped power...

Extra strength gives you more muscular control and the ability to whip the sword about faster. Attacking recklessly, like attempting great overhead swings or the like, makes it harder to hit. The first isn't about changing your attack, just doing it better;the second is about changing the way...

+13/+8 normal +11/+6 and +11 TWF +11/+6 and +11/+6 ITWF At 11th level, you'll get Greater Two-Weapon Fighting: +14/+9/+4 normal +12/+7/+2 and +12 TWF +12/+7/+2 and +12/+7 ITWF +12/+7/+2 and +12/+7/+2 ITWF

It strikes me as weak.

U_K, I can't say because I don't understand the justification behind your rule of 72 (not to be confused with the interest estimation rule). Is it just a limit on how much total power can be 'out there', or what? If so then in general I'd think it should apply; if not, I'd have to hear more...

Yes, certainly I think so.

YES! With Moradin finally gone, I can turn to Heironeous, the last one I can't stand. I'd be happy with either Hextor or Wee Jas, frankly.

Or Point Blank Shot, which is better than any comparable melee feat? I just didn't want to go too deep. There are levels, there are counters, there's a lot of complexity in the system -- and doubly so if you use non-core sources. My list was just a quick overview. Charging doesn't generally...

No, that should be fine.

I have two quick questions. What's the conceptual difference between a quasi-god and a hero-god, if any? Would there be any serious effects if I decided only to use one of the two and had a step skipped in the progression?

Yes, I have major problems with it. Ranged combat has several serious advantages over melee combat: It's easier to get off full attacks. It's easier to spread out your attacks to multiple targets Dex is generally a stronger stat than Str It's easier to get off ranged attacks than melee ones...

I agree. I would make it a Necromancy and have it affect a body no older than a week. Further, I think I'd drop the bard level to 2 (while keeping the others at level 3). Looks good, cool idea!

Yeah, sorry. I'm not much of a video game player -- sometimes I play a computer game, but not often, and I don't own a console. I've seen maybe a dozen different anime shows (had a friend who was into it) and didn't like a one.

No. Since you can only put half ranks in, this still doesn't work. I think it's for conceptualizing the levels of ability better - there are the unskilled, the semi-skilled, the skilled, and the very skilled. It would be harder to keep track of what every class gets otherwise. Like the...