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What people said before are right. You can substitute different dice rolling techniques as long as they have the same probability distribution. Rolling a d4 is equivalent to rolling 1-25 on d% because the probability distribution is the same (again, assuming it is fair). Your argument that...

I agree with most of what Spatzimaus said, although I think the druidlike abilities aren't super important at high levels and shouldn't count much in terms of balance. I always thought favored enemy was kind of stupid unless your DM does a fantastic job working this into the storyline without...

Of course, you are right. Energy drain in any form is lethal to low level characters, but my other point is still valid. It makes Good Fort save characters almost immune to energy drain at high levels and makes it more deadly to weak Fort save characters. The existing negative level mechanic...

Yes, you may be right. Low level characters will find it difficult to do anything, while it makes high level characters almost immune to energy drain. The DCs can always be adjusted and the numbers fudged, but the idea is so different and interesting that it is worth further consideration and...

I agree. This is very innovative, Jeph. I am trying not to have too many house rules, but this variant is extremely tempting and may even model the intent of a negative level even better than the original mechanic. Well done.

I think there are some balance issues here. Probably the closest thing to compare this class to is the monk. I would change the Deflect Arrows requirement (which doesn't seem to fit with the flavor of the class) to the Run feat (which makes more sense given the class abilities granted (fast...

Acutally, by the rules, just about anything could climb a normal rope with at least a 30% chance of success since Climb is an untrained skill and climbing a normal rope is DC 15 (a rope created by the rope trick spell is only DC 5). So by the rules, an elephant, a hippopotamus, a horse, a...

That's kind of odd, IMO. And yes, I agree with you from a game perspective, but it doesn't seem to jive with reality. Maybe bears are a little better than I thought in real life, but the actual infromation I got about bears climbing in the real world is based on the Encarta article about...

Wow. I really don't like to make changes to important core mechanics like this very often, but the averaging approach just makes so much sense and the reasoning behind it is so sound that it is VERY tempting to do so. I think this is how it should have been done all along.

I agree with everyone. Bears can't possibly climb a rope. Bears, in general, just aren't good climbers, even under ideal conditions. Although all but the largest bears are capable of climbing trees in real life, their stability in climbing (i.e., their grip strength) largely depends on...

Oooooooooh, I like that. :D

It makes sense to me that a creature with fast healing or renegeration should be able to heal/regen wounding damage fast enough to make it "immune" to a weapon of wounding. In game terms, you can just say that the creature is effectively healing the bleeding wounds just a little faster than...

This reminds me of a 2E campaign I played in. We were fighting an extremely stubborn vampire. My fighter/mage told the party illusionist to get out his decanter of endless water and crank it up full blast while the fighter/mage cast metamorphose liquids (acid) and touched the stream of water...

I'll send you a private e-mail with this information, but I thought I would post my reply to your questions so that any lurkers would get to see the answers as well. I want to reiterate to other lurkers out there that people interested in playing in my campaign should reply even if they don't...

AuraSeer makes a very good point. There are indeed a number of ways to adjudicate this since the phrase "immune to disease" is not precisely defined. How about this for a house rule? When you are immune to disease (by wearing a periapt of health or from some other ability), the following...

I did say "in the case of a strength bow" before I described the two options. Granted, to be more clear. I should have "in the case of a mighty bow", but I did have the qualifying statement there..

Remember, whether something is a melee or ranged weapon is determined totally by how it is used. In the case of a strength bow: If you use your longbow to shoot an enemy with an arrow, you do only normal (+ Str bonus) damage because the bow is used as a ranged weapon. If you actually strike...

Getting back to the original question, about whether the character would be "cured" of the disease or poison if they level up --- 1. There are definitely no official rules on this. 2. I think you could possibly make a logical argument either way. As warhookdm states, immune is immune. So I...

I don't know if this is what you mean, but in many cases, when free feats are awarded, it specifically states that the prerequisites are waived. For example, monks get Deflect Arrows at 2nd level for free, even if they don't meet the prerequisites. I would handle Weapon Focus for War domain...

Yeah.. there are quite a few gaping omissions in the description for Blade Barrier that should be there, don't you think? If I carefully read the description of the spell in the SRD and try to interpret things literally, I don't know what to think. It's all a jumbled, confusing mess of...