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"Charisma reflects the creature's sense of self and ability to influence other creatures for good or for ill" (MM p298) Wisdom reflects, among other things, sense of one's surroundings. If I were going to use Action Points, I'd give bonus points for Charisma, and it was something I was...

I'm going to be starting up a new D&D campaign in the next month or so, and am considering the following house rules for my game. Has anybody used any rules like these before? Charisma · Characters with a score of 12 or higher in Charisma gain a bonus feat at 1st level and depending on the...

I'd have to disagree and go in other direction to say that it's unfortunate that WotC didn't put enough mechanical benefit into a stat that, according to the rules, encompasses self-awareness, self-confidence, sense of purpose and ability to draw on one's talents. In that regard, I can see...

I noticed that the UA Racial Paragon special abilities pretty much build on racial traits a character of that race already gets, except for the Half-Orc Racial Paragon. In my next campaign, I'm planning on giving Half-Orcs the Half-Orc Paragon's Rage and Monstrous Mien abilities as racial...

I think that while the text for Trapfinding mentions that the Scout can use Disable Device to bypass or disarm a trap, the idea is that the Scout's role is searching out an area unseen and quickly reporting back to the rest of the party, whereas the role of actually bypassing and disarming traps...

It would also work nicely with the variant CG Paladin in UA.

Gotta be a pretty charismatic Halfling to overcome the -4 penalty to intimidation he has for size (assuming the bartender is medium-sized). More likely, the Halfling has Ranks of Intimidate up the wazoo. If the Half-Orc put the same skill points into Intimidate as the Halfling did, he would have...

Are the new deities in the book deities of the new Dwarf and Gnome subraces?

That's a good point. Castrati had high voices because they were castrated before puberty, so it would be appropriate for a castrato-type eunuch to be handled by a Template, Trait or Background Feat, whereas a Harem Guard or Eunuch Warlock are appropriate for PrCs (since the character doesn't...

I agree with you up until you mentioned the target character's family, friends and associates. Someone who has the power to visit horrors on a target character's family and friends is going to have the target character's cooperation for much longer than the time they're in the target character's...

Dragonlance has a Noble class. It's very similar to the SWRPG (revised) Noble, but it's given a D&D treatment (and it has Bluff as a class skill).

Neat. I'm looking forward to receiving that issue. Unfortunately, I still haven't received issues 316 and 317. I used to receive my copy in the first week of the month - often before American subscribers - and I live in Japan, but now Paizo has this "8 week delay on international subscriptions"...

In a large size city or larger, characters can find minor potions and scrolls (and some minor wondrous items and wands) for sale. In a city they can commission magic items if they can find someone to craft them. Spellcasters aren't pumping out +1 swords and rings of protection, though. Most...

Basically, there is no downside. The implication is that you get a bonus spell slot dedicated to a bonus spell that you cast as one level higher - although, the description doesn't actually say "spell slot". It could be a typo, though. No, but it will make Wizards more powerful than Wizards and...

You brought up a good point. And, that's another thing to take into consideration in porting the WP/VP system to D&D if one goes by the "VP damage =! a hit" approach. In SWRPG, a poisoned arrow only requires a Fortitude save if the arrow does Wound damage (i.e. a critical hit, or the defender is...

Yeah, one line of flavor text says that "losing vitality points from a blaster shot doesn't mean the blaster hits you..." but it's really taking liberties to suggest that as long as the damage is deducted from VP it means you haven't been hit. After all, the same flavor text also describes VP...

I mentioned this in the UA thread, but it's probably more appropriate here. Sneak Attack damage isn't multiplied by a critical hit because it's already assumed to be hitting a vital area. If it only does Vitality damage on a critical hit, it sounds more like you've redefined Sneak Attack to mean...

Although the justification behind SA damage not multiplying in a HP system is that it's doing the bonus damage already because it's hitting an especially vital area. It would seem odd if SA didn't do any Wound damage in a critical hit using the WP/VP system, unless you've changed the definition...

I started up a thread on something pretty much like that >Here<. I feel the same way about defensive abilities vis a vis D&D. I think it's more of an issue in 3e because the d20 system is open ended so there's more of a call for boosting items. But eventually it gets to the point that most...

I'm definitely getting it (I have it on order). From what I've read, I'll probably wind up using a lot of stuff, especially the things that give my players more options (for example, some of the variant races and classes, monk fighting styles, traits and flaws) but not the systems that change...