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This is a very interesting thread. Both sides of the fence seem to have good arguments to me. I use fumbles. Roll to confirm with highest attack bonus after a natural 1. If you roll another natural 1 you're screwed. Basically I decide what would be the worst circumstance the fumbler could be...

Check out the Eclipse: Codex Persona at RPGnow. There's a shareware version for free download. I found it to be a bit intensive as a pdf but I'd definitely use it if I had a hard copy. The character creation seems very well thought out and probably is pretty near limitless as advertised. I can't...

Careful dude, I hear the OD&D moderator is pretty swing-happy with that banhammer of his. :whisper: I think he might be sick, y'know, in the head :whisper:

What he said. There is some pretty good elf literature out there. It may not all jibe with your vision of 4e but it's good to mine everywhere. -3.5e Races of the Wild has some decent elf stuff -3e Races of Faerun as well -2e Complete Book of Elves, broken mechanically but not without some...

The Magic Rating optional rule from UA is pretty good for this. It gives a reasonable balance for caster/non-caster multi-classing and a good option if you don't want divine and arcane magics to stack. The caster level problem was never really an issue in any of my games. Not vocally so anyway...

Curse you, Philotomy Jurament, and you're keen eye for written grammar. I'm sure there's some sort of hanging nuts joke here somewhere but I'm not going to make it. Where is that SSquirrel character?

Omigod. I don't think LOL does justice to what I just did.

I was really hoping it was going to be Irony. Then I could really explore the high sardonic genre with proper verisimilitude.

Dude, your nuts. I hear Chaosium is offering to upgrade your OD&D game to RuneQuest if you give them your OD&D box set. It's totally the high-fantasy game I'm looking for and their d100 system is way better than Chainmail's dice pool. 1e is not the game I started this hobby with. I think TSR...

As long as we're digging up artifacts shouldn't there be sub-forums for Gamma World (or is it Metamorphosis Alpha), Star Frontiers, Boot Hill, and Top Secret? I think I still have some Role-Aids supplements laying around. Are we allowed to talk about those. The Angry Wizard is my favorite. What...

I see you are correct. I was referencing the Crystal Keep pdf which is incorrect. Looking it up in RoD I see that the skill costs only one point per rank but is still cross-class and has the reduced rank cap.

April fool's, right? :p That's a lot of crunch you got into a smooth system my friend. I have a late meeting but I'll get back to this later today. I like DR, too but I think you've barreled headlong into a few of the Armor as DR pitfalls.

From the City of Brass to Dead-Orc Pass...

Walnut cream? Sounds like a dessert. Something that would go with pears I think.

Please, someone explain what this means. I've seen the term but don't know what it's referring to. Clerics and Druids or something. Help me out here, people!

You are correct. There was a feat called Cosmopolitan that would allow you to choose a cross-class skill to become in-class. It was altered for the Player's Guide to Faerun (3.5) to give +2 to Bluff, Gather Information, and Sense Motive. Here's the weird thing though. The original feat allowed...

I miss my 1e DMG. The original with the battle at the City of Brass not the Easley with the wizard. The only good 1e originals I have are the Cthulhu/Moorcock Deities and Demi-gods and three (WTF?) copies of Fiend Folio. And I'd sooner part with my left walnut than those.

Ok. That I get. My fix for that is to simply work off of the BAB of the animal when it comes to grappling unless the stat block says otherwise. I can understand your peeve though, it is pretty unclear. Does Multi-attack even exist as a feat anymore or is that just assumed for creatures that have...

The only one I can find is Able Learner from Races of Destiny. 1st level only, available to Humans and Dopplegangers, makes all skills in-class. I'm sure I saw one somewhere that allowed you to choose any skill to become in-class and gave you a +2 bonus. It musn't be WotC. Maybe the Mongoose or...

Can you clarify? What are you referring to specifically? I like the concept behind recharge magic but isn't it just another layer of complex bookkeeping? I've never tried it myself but I'm familiar with it by reading. It looks finicky to implement.