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My initial thought is that it is overpowered. However, I am not even sure that I have a clear mental picture of what the class is supposed to model. I would probably remove the heavy armor proficiency (doesn't mix well with uncanny dodge in my opinion) as well as the shield proficiency (or at...

Gestalt is extremely powerful in regards to how effective a character can be at achieving a specific character concept. So the question is, what are you hoping to achieve by having the players make gestalt characters? The important thing to understand is, all characters are still limited by...

In my homebrew games all skills are class skills for all classes. The first reason being, I hate keeping track of half ranks, it is just stupid. The second reason being, now when the character doesn't have the skill it is because the player chose not to have the skill, instead of the...

I think it is a brilliant idea. I am not sure how many other DMs do this, but in almost all instances, if I pull a monster out of the monster manual, I dump all of it's feats and pick new ones. It keeps the PCs on their edge for one, but also lets me customize the monster to better fit the role...

I think many people, myself included have looked at this before, and this is where it broke down for me. What is the value of a feat in terms of XP cost, well, the answer is, it depends on what class the character that is taking it is. For example, Toughness, a 3hp boost for a wizard is in...

Crusaders use Charisma, Swordsages use Wisdom and Warblades use Intelligence. I figured why saddle them with the burden of MAD. Excellent point about the swordsage in armor, I hadn't thought about that, i will probably allow them to gain the bonus in light or no armor. Yeah in regards to your...

Since they are a spell level behind an actual wizard, I am having the caster level be equal to their martial adapt level. They need to have full strength spells for it to be a viable choice I think.

I am gearing up to run a homebrew campaign with very limited class selection, (crusader, swordsage, warblade, specialist wizards, and the binder). The campaign is going to be a blend of Bo9S, Tome of Magic (Binder stuff only) and Magic of Incarnum. My question is, has anyone removed the...

For nearly three years my gaming group has consistent of a DM and two players. It is not uncommon for us to each make two characters and have one or two of the characters take leadership so that we can get up to five or six characters. What usually happens is the cohort ends up being some sort...

Blue Rose is a romantic fantasy rpg that included sentient animals as playable races, included were the statistics for a sentient horse. Blue Rose was the precursor to the True20 system. If you are familiar with True20 there are only a couple of minor differences between the two systems.

Harkins, thanks for the links, the last two worked at least. I am glad to hear you are curious, especially since I really haven't posted that much about it. I have been revising the damage system a bit to make it more variable. Also been tweaking initiative to take into account both a...

Just my two cents here. I have done a half dozen or so freelance projects for Reality Deviants, and while I certainly haven't gotten rich off of my projects, I have made enough in royalties to fund my habit, I mean hobby completely, including the purchase all the 4e stuff that came out. In...

I play D&D because I get to do things in the game that I cannot do in life. I realize there are people in the real world that can dual wield bastard swords and look good doing it, but I am not one of them. All I am saying is, my triple digit IQ understands the difference between reality and...

Thanks. I have about another couple weeks of writing to get it finished up. Then it will be time for some serious playtesting to get the kinks worked out. After any necessary rewriting it will be time for layout and artwork. So theoretically it might be ready towards the end of the year.

It doesn't appear like there are any other objections to the Cardsharp name so that is reassuring.

In contrast to Deadlands, my game uses no dice. The resolution system works of off using one of two types of hands. A Draw, is being dealt two cards and comparing their value to either a set value or an opposed value. In some instances you have the ability to pull a bonus card to add to the...

Hmmm, good question, I am obviously not a computer programmer. I have never abbreviated the word Cardsharp, and I like the correlation between the game and the definition of cardsharp, not that I am enticing people to cheat, but I have never played with a group in any game system that didn't...

After doing several different writing projects for D&D 3.5, D20 Modern, and True20, I decided I really wanted to try my hand at creating a new non-d20 system. I am calling it the Cardsharp system. Here are some of the key points to it. I am using decks of playing cards to execute every aspect...

Thanks for fixing my account!!!

Mine for user account wolfpunk has not been updated. I bought the pay for two years get four year and I thought I posted that it wasn't working awhile ago, but I can't find the thread in the general forum anymore. Anyway, can you check into this for you. Web Accept Payment Sent (Unique...