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DrSpunj is correct: the range increment penalty is -2 per increment--I had typed it wrong in my original post. So the attack bonus (with no BAB) would be +1/-1/-3/-6 (no PBS)/-8 at 50 ft., which is the maximum range for a thrown weapon. Hatchling Dragon: rapid shot is also key, correct. I also...

I have a character concept built around the idea of a dagger bandolier and lots of quick bits of flying metal. I selected quickdraw (natch) and point blank shot, and then began wondering. The description of point blank shot says that you become "skilled at making well placed shots with ranged...

Aboleth--A slaver brood of aboleths has dominated many key players in a small town near a spring. They have (through their dominated underlings) spread word that the spring has miraculous healing powers, attracting many people who then become food or skum. The players have to first figure out...

Your conversion rules look good. I'll be interested to see how your damage revisions play out (I use normal multipliers for critical hits). I think some of your issues should be decided on a case-by-case basis. Some monsters have DR because of magical enchantment (they simply can't be harmed...

I've been tinkering with a homebrew magic system that uses a combination of feats and skills to determine spells known and uses vitality points as power. I classified that as "other." In-game magic definitely seems to be a matter of taste, but I appreciate more "themed flexibility." It has...

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What a bizarre and neat concept. . . In that world, necromancers might have a very different reputation--if you're undead, then you can't be reussrected, and zombies don't eat much (unless ordered to). So animate dead might become a public service (although I think most people still wouldn't...

Hooty Hoot? Old One, you RBDM! You've attacked them with a multiracial frat-house band from South Carolina! Players: on a more serious note, at least you haven't yet heard "tekeli-li." I anxiously await the next update (when I'm not busy with my own work). It's not like you'll have time to...

I've already been doing something similar in my game. Armor is half (rounded up) reflection (AC bonus) and half damage absorption (I use the VP/WP system, so the absorption only works on wound damage). I allow characters to freely move attack bonus to "parry bonus" against one melee...

Most of the time, it wasn't about repelling the barbarians, but accomodating them. The reason the east didn't fall is that it had a higher population density, so there was nowhere to take up farming. In the west (which was never as developed), there was room in Gaul. As the empire descends...

Maybe they're in Kansas. . .

I'm intrigued, but have a few reservations. First, there are many charts that one has to consult in order to figure out how to cast a given spell. While I suppose a player would have many of these effects pre-calulated, it does create some complications. Second, it would seem that...

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I would be interested in looking at it. I've already got a rough version of a skill-based magic system in playtest, so I've become much more aware of the potential pitfalls. I have also wondered why weapons (groups of similar weapons) weren't done as skills (with an extra attack every 5 ranks...

I'm not sure I play D&D any more. . . Combat: VP/WP, armor does 1/2 AC and 1/2 DR (but only on wound damage, which may be the d20 modern system, more or less), everyone can freely shift attack bonuses to defense against one melee opponent (expertise allows you to defend against 2 melee...

I don't know enough about the specifics of your world to offer speculation about causes that improves on any of the ideas already offered, but I did have some suggestions about plotting. A significant challenge in any epidemic is to first realize that you have an epidemic on your hands, and...

One way her past could come back to haunt her is for her to slowly build up the understanding that the work she did was part of some larger plot that is now wreaking havoc. Her new sense of responsibility might inspire her to try to defeat her former employers, who by now are much richer and...

The major religion of my campaign world is monotheistic: there is one creator deity who started the universe into motion, and built into that design certain moral precepts, but does not otherwise interfere in things. This religion is even more like some earthly ones in that it is based in a set...

Don't ask me, ask Homer. :) The Iliad and the Odyssey provide a heap big mountain of material and inspiration for roleplaying. I highly recommend them (I'm partial to the Richard Lattimore translation, but almost any of them are good).

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