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What if you want the DC to be based on the difficulty of the situation, not based on the power of the PCs? So if they come back and face the same challenge in another situation, the DC didn't raise itself to compensate for their power. I had to quote this since it's a nice thing to remember...

Hmm, I've noticed alot of issues with the feats myself. this is a new approach, and it might work better than the one I've been doing. I accepted that feats are static, and they usually become less useful as you gain levels, but was working on ranking them in terms of usefulness and power, and...

If you look at UK's CR Guide, all the things youre estimating have determined values, which tend to be pretty accurate. That being said, your estimations aren't that far off. Your system is kindof like my Idea of how to break it down into a class + race, but less standardized, and would likely...

I could have sworn I already clarified this. If you take an AoO against someone, there are 2 issues there. 1. If the NPC Provoked an AoO, The one who takes it isn't provoking an AoO from him, just from everyone else. Otherwise it would just be ridiculous. and 2. Odds are the action that provoked...

The second change I made, which people are overlooking, is just what you can DO with an attack of opportunity (possiblydue o wording) I'm going to clarify the mechanic. - It's a free standard action. This means that if an AoO comes up, the mage can cast a standard-action casting time spell...

I Gotta ask, why do you want to get rid of AoOs? Is it to speed up gameplay? I took this in the opposite direction. Every creature has 1 attack of opportunity they can make per round. If a character is open to attacks of opportunity they are unable to make attacks of opportunity. This is a...

Thank you Dannyalcatraz. That's a pretty good way to explain what I was trying to say. I'd like to do something similar for a bunch of monsters (ALL the SRD Monsters that have HD or LA) over time. And set up animals too. Have a base animal suitable for a familiar, then animal companion, then...

Look at how I broke it down. +8 Str is bigger than the skill bonuses. Agreed. That's why they were spread out the way they were. That's why I used UK's CR Guide to decide how to spread them out. that's why I gave them 7HD instead of 6, so that their class abilities wouldnt take them way over the...

The concept of a base race is that you're MAKING a 0HD, 0 LA Race. And then all of the other racial abilities are gained over the racial levels. The Idea is you put as many of the most important traits to make it as what it is as possible in the Base race, and drop the rest into the levels. Hmm...

Hmm. You make a good point, it's definitely a good alternative to the standard HD + LA. I was doing it the way I did it so the player could easily decide whether they go for the whole set of abilities or just some of them, without any fairness issues. That's why there is a base-race, plus a...

Soo.. Your minotaur class gets ALL of his attribute bonuses at start game? What do you do if the Minotaur's player wants his first level to be in Barbarian/Fighter (instead of his first level in Minotaur)? (This is the reason for a basic Race, before Racial Class Levels.) Have you thought...

It's not that they CAN gain new proficiencies at every level that I don't like, it's that they *HAVE TO*. I totally agree. It's just the Idea that learning a couple martial weapons making you proficient in unrelated ones (etc) that annoys me. If one were to drop Simple, Martial, and Exotic, and...

Completely Unrelated Post: Kerrick: On the Project Phoenix site you mention a revised copy of UK's CR Rules. You also mention that they're in the Monsters Zip. That Zip File is a dead link though. On a related note, I'm liking this system you've come up with, mostly because coming up with new...

Hmm. I see your point, my system is too complex, and requires far too much bookkeeping. But your system doesn't work so great either. 1. Players will gain new weapon proficiencies and armor proficiencies at every level. 2. Because of your system of acquiring "Whole Groups", (Something I would...

I'd probably say the chicken wouldn't count (though I likely would watch my players attack the chicken first for the wacky in-game consequences) and then say how close the encounter has to be in terms of EL. Also, I forgot to mention, that I would let players learn to use weapons in downtime...

Weapon Proficiencies: Weapon Proficiencies are worth very little, far less than a feat. Here is a proposed alternative to weapon proficiencies. -------------------------- At level 1, each character gets a number of weapon proficiencies. The number they get will be much less than the standard...

Hey Kerrick! I just thought I'd let you know, someone did Feat Points. Sean K. Reynolds (He wrote most of Savage Species, and a bunch of other 3.0 books) has a feat point system on his site. the downside is his are ranked 1-10. On the other hand though, you could multiply his values by .6 and...

Fair enough. I plan on using the Pathfinder SRD Monsters to do it, then any SRD monsters that aren't in the Pathfinder MM. I'll probably convert over some monsters from the SRD before the Pathfinder one comes out, and I just might keep mine if there isn't a signifixant change. I'll put those in...

That sortof works (Minotaur ECL becomes 7 if they have PC Equipment.) That's how I'm getting the total ECL to begin with, but it still doesn't make them playable at lower levels. This would make the monsters playable from level 1. It also means you could easily run a lesser version of the...

Yeah, that's basically what I figured. If he hasn't done the SRD Monsters though, they still need to be done before they can be usable. :P I think I need to evaluate the CRs of the Pathfinder classes to get an average CR to base each monster level on. I did the above based on 3.5e sources, but...