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This looks like the system presented in the Omega World article of Polyhedron quite a while back. The alternative to low magic/no cleric campaigns is the Wound Point/Vitality Point system currently used in the Star Wars d20 RPG. Unearthed Arcana will have a WP/VP system usuable with D&D. In...

Altran l'accopagne avec sa lanterne.

Altran dit: «Pour avancer, il semble que nous devons nous rejoindre à Valishan. Si les habitants de Jzadirune n'ont pas accès à ces portes, nous n'aurons rien à craindre de l'arrière. A mon avis, nous avons trois options. Nous pourrions essayer de sauter à l'autre côté du fossé. Valishan et...

I live in Kansas City, MO, and my Dragon #15 is about 4 days late. A friend of mine on the Kansas side of the KC metro area got his 3 days ago.

Altran dit: «Essayons-nous de nous rejoindre à Valishan de l'autre coté de cette porte? Si c'est le seul moyen d'éviter la trappe, nous devrons passer par là de toute façon.»

I don't think so. Hide is such a nebulously defined skill - the designers probably didn't want to be any more specific than they had to be.

OMG! Return to the Lost City! The first campaign setting I ever played in!

Ultron

Agreed.

True, but ability scores have some concrete concepts attached to them. Strength gives you a concrete lifting ability. The average ability score for humans is concretely defined as being 10 to 11, while the maximum ability score a human can begin adulthood with is concretely 18. When you see...

Wow! Great thinking about what a D&D world might actually look like.

I think the assumption this system makes is that all people in the world have the natural ability to become superhuman. "In real life", anyone with a score of 18 is rare, and scores of 16 and 17 are exceptional. If the campaign is low magic, I don't think it makes sense. If the campaign is...

I never said that in game terms they are "Mind-Affecting." In practical terms, there is a mental component, unless you consider perception to be unrelated to the mind. The figment acts on the perceptions of the observer. It has no objective reality itself, as say does a Wall of Force...

Wow! That's really cool! My take on gnomes is that they should be treated as an exotic dwarvish sub-race that live in very specific locations. I don't think it makes sense for gnomes to compose 1% of the population of every human city - would you want to live among non-magical giant people...

I understand how D&D defines these kinds of magic, but Figments do have a mental component. They are not holograms. Consider how they work. Three people encounter the figment of a dire wolf. All three see the same thing. The figment dire wolf is guarding the entrance to a cave. After...

1st point: the character is trying to learn new spells. This is a different process from scribing new spells. It takes a day (presumably 8 hours) to learn a spell and then another whole 24 hours to scribe it into a spellbook. The character is only trying to read the spellbook to learn the...

The next time I run FR I'm dropping Common. I don't really see the need for it, especially since Chondathan and Damaran each cover such large expanses of land. Since the game is going to be in Vaasa and Damara, it's simple enough to say all the characters have to speak Damaran. If a humanoid...

I think there should be a class of illusion that is pure manipulation of light and sound, which Mirror Image seems to be. The closest thing to that is the "Glamer" classification of illusions. Such an illusion type would not have a Will save associated with it, since the illusion would not...

I like "Dryocracy" a lot. Another possibility: Sylvocracy - rule of the forest (silvus - woods, forest)

The spell should be a Glamer, not a Figment.