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Are there any official feats that work like Power Attack for ranged weapons? Would such a thing be too powerful? If not, can you balance it by the prereqs and how much damage you can add? I was thinking about limiting it to a standard action, so you could only make one such attack per round...

I'm playing a houseruled mix of 3e and 3.5 and trying to decide what to do with the Shield spell. I find the 3.5 version too bland, as it grants the same +4 bonus to AC as Mage Armor. I'm aware that it's a different kind of bonus and that it negates Magic Missiles, but it also comes with a much...

Some time ago I put in my house rules that you can't use Power Attack on a CdG. Obviously, I thought that it was allowed by the rules, but it just doesn't match my view of a Power Attack as being a wild swing for more damage, compared with my view of CdG as a precise strike. Tatsukun, I'm not...

I think I've had that feat as part of my house rules for longer than that, but I may be mistaking. Btw, I like your idea of allowing the drawing of a weapon as a free action on an AoO if you have both Quick Draw and Combat Reflexes. Even though feat synergies like that don't exist (to my...

Is this what you're talking about? 'Knife out of Nowhere Prerequisites: Dex 15+, Quick Draw Benefit: A PC with this feat may draw a light weapon in order to make an attack of opportunity, even if he would normally not receive an attack of opportunity due to being unarmed. The target of the...

I have a feat in my game called Tough Skin that grants a +1 natural armor bonus to AC. The prereq is 'only' Con 15, but since the charaters in my game are build with the elite array not too many qualify for this (currently it's just 1 of 6 players). Besides, you can only take it once and I don't...

It's true that if you only see the Fighter as being unbalanced against the other classes, it's simpler to fix him than all the others. But I like the Fighter for it's simplicity and think it makes for a good power baseline. The Fighter is also the class that got the fewest changes in 3.5. (Isn't...

I agree. You really shouldn't make up new Knowledge (or any other) skills, if an existing skill can do the job, as that just makes for more skills to be bad at. Claudio and Li Shenron, thanks for your suggestions on which skill to lump info on Humanoids under - all of which made at least as...

Thanks for putting up the link to your article. If you don't mind, I'd like your view on which Knowledge skill should contain info on humanoids, if not K(Local). To keep this thread on FoF stuff, I made a new thread for this over here.

Thanks :) While this certainly makes sense, it doesn't explain why Knowledge(Local) should impart info on humanoids over other local critters, as you went on to say yourself. I have such a houseruled skill in my game. It's called Knowledge(Beasts) and applies to all monster types. (I was glad...

You've propably already seen it, but since you're runing FoF as well, I'd want to point you to this thread in General, as it deals with that module and it's lethal challenges. In our last session the party fought the Trog's. I used some suggestions from Claudio Pozas (post #44 in the FoF...

Ranger5, while I think that it's cool that your change is working for your game, I find that it would be too much for my own. I prefer Nifft's suggestion, as it grants less power. I'm actually pretty satisfied with the Fighter's power level, so I would rather tone down the powers of the other...

So there's really no reason why I shouldn't change the Roper in my game to be an Aberration? Why I'd bother doing it at all, is that it'll make a difference for Knowledge checks and favored enemy bonuses. What else will be affected by such a change?

--WARNING: This thread includes Forge of Fury spoilers!-- I'm currently DM'ing The Forge of Fury, and it struck me that the Roper is a Magical Beast and not an Aberration. In the 3e MM p.5, Beasts are descibed as having a 'reasonably normal anatomy', and Magical Beasts are 'similar to beasts'...

When looking over how the Knowledge skills can grant information about monsters I decided to change how some of it works: Since we have a rating for how hard a monster is (and nothing that says anything about how rare or special it is), I've chosen to use CR instead of HD to determine if an...

Here's how I handle the Wizard's two free spells per level: The Wizard's player gives me a wish list with three spells on it. From that list I choose one spell which he learns. Now I present him with a list of three spells, from which he then chooses his second learned spell at that level...

This has been a houserule of mine for some time now, as I think it should cost you some of your move to disengage in a way that doesn't provoke an AoO. (Somewhat OT, I've also added a houserule that lets you stand up from prone defensively, as a full round action that doesn't provoke an AoO. In...

Combat Reflexes? It's my guess that most Gimli types won't have a high enough Dex to take advantage of that feat. But what about Great Cleave?

As I was reading through this thread, I was looking for an answer along those lines. I believe that fighting mooks at levels where they pose an neglible threat is a rewarding way of highlighting the PC's progress. If every fight at 10th level is just as hard as those at 1st level, where's the...

I just re-read the thread, and those are some nice changes! The party I'm taking through FoF cleared most of the top level this week (only the flail wielding orcs remain), and I think I'll incorperate some - if not all - of your changes when they get to the levels below. Klaus, how did you do...