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Plain wizard is certainly viable. You can squeeze out more raw power with various combinations of PrC's - just look at the "optimization" discussions - but its a big part of the game masters job to reign in the power-seekers and make sure that everyone has something useful to do anyway. "Power"...

Well, it isn't really related to learning and problem-solving, social-relationship, prescision and reaction speed, or raw muscular power. I suppose you could make a case for basing it on Wisdom, since it contributes to willpower as well as perceptiveness, but constitution - resisting the effects...

Given that a lot of magic items are particularly designed to compensate for weak points - such as every kind of spell storing item compensating for limited spell slots - why not?

Not a thing. I just thought you wanted to know why they might cause setting difficulties.

I'd have to agree that this looks seriously overpowered. While its true that a lot of minor abilities don't necessarily add up to much, quite a few of these are hardly minor. Perhaps you might want to take out a level or two of spellcasting, cut back on the skill points, and give them a choice...

Ah the good old days... "That fits into one of your fields of study. It's about L4 and well within your limits. Whats your ritual going to be? What entities are you calling on and what's your invocation? Conditions under the glacier are poor for fire magic, but you have waited for the...

Require half the bonus points from intelligence (rounded down) to be spent on background skills and stuff that the character - in your judgement - picked up in passing. That way, if they go sailing for three weeks, or spend a lot of time in a foreign country, everyone will soon have a point in...

Given that 50% of the population will have an above-average attribute, and high attributes aren't uncommon even for NPC's, this both will overwhelm any short list of signs in short order and make them kind of cheap. Why not have any character with a +2 or +3 or above modifier come up with some...

BUt its still a lot faster and easier than going with a shovel.

I let one group of four who all wanted to play different games - Clan Mech Battletech, Shadowrun, high-level AD&D 1'st edition, and Continium II (a very obscure system) - so I simply set up a few translation notes and let them each play in the system they were used to. Battletech guy was a bit...

I'm afraid I'm no judge. I found Clan-Mech Battletech, high-level AD&D 1'st edition, Shadowrun II, and Continium II (a very obscure system) compatible enough to let each player simply bring in their own group under their own rules for a battle scenario. It only took a couple of quick conversion...

Well, you could always give everyone a seperate skill point pool for "characterization" skills to cover the stuff that isn't generally useful on an adventure. After all, every fighter should know how to fix minor damage to his or her armor, clothing, tent, and other gear, recognize the...

For amusement, here's a character who has an extensive list of what's actually in his masterwork spell component pouch.

Well, all of its going to be more or less "unofficial" - or at least obsolete by WOTC standards - for current D&D as soon as fourth edition comes out. If the players really want to trade around class features a lot, the shareware version of Eclipse: The Codex Persona has them all broken down for...

You might also want to take a look at Heartstones in The Practical Enchanter. They're a handy way to provide the members of a particular group with a few special talents and some cohesion.

Most high-powered anime translates fairly readily into Champions. If you want to go with d20, the easiest way to do characters with highly-individualized powers is to go to a point-buy system like Eclipse, Mutants and Masterminds, or Big Eyes Small Mouth. I've seen some anime-styled...

Lets see... That would be Eldritch Weapon (a variable weapon-imbuement spell from The Practical Enchanter) with the one-day duration modifier, making it a spell three levels above the total number of plusses or equivalents to be granted. Usable once per day (x.2), effect suppressed until the...

Well, it would work just as well with a fixed bonus or two-tier fixed bonus for characters who come up with a component they can actually account for. It's just that doing it with a player-announcement system needed some limitations, since it presumed that interested mages were collecting...

-2 would work nicely I think. The spellcraft roll is likely to be easy enough once you're past the first couple of levels.