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Instead. Perhaps the DC should be lowered to 12, to make it a bit easier for most characters. But I wouldn't like dropping it any lower because of high level play and insane charisma's Sorcerers and Paladins tend to have by then. Rav

Alright, I want to make planetouched and other races a bit more appealing. I will do this by beefing up the other races with background starting packages like the following: Monastic Scholar: Requirement: Literacy +2 Wis and +2 Int. People with a scholarly monastic background have taken the...

Let's say I had the money to cross that incovenient geographical feature that goes by the name of "the Atlantic Ocean". I will know, by tomorrow, which one of the following applies to me: 1) I am unemployed (I quit a few weeks ago to look for a new job. Ballsey eh?). I should probably save the...

I've thought about adding the following mechanic: Once a day, you're allowed to make a DC 15 Charisma check as a nonaction during your turn. If successful, you can use a feat you qualify for until your next action. Add to that a feat that gives you three attempts per day, and a +3 bonus to the...

We either play at my place or the place a friend of mine bought recently. Everyone cycles to the game. We all live in Amsterdam (though one in Diemen, the poor bugger, it's a 40 minute trip by bike to my place from Diemen). Rav

Ouch! What's next? "Dealing with cancer for dummies"? I don't like the way depression is portrayed like this. Rav

Way too nice. If she moves your hand away to safe places, keep it there for a while, then move it back. If she then again moves your hand away to safe places, keep it there for a while, then move it back to an 'unsafe place'. Keep going until she gives a clear signal. Think of it as a...

I love Grim Tales with its six classes and nothing but a lot of talents and bucketloads of feats to allow character customization. But in order for my players to use it, I'm pretty sure I'll have to write about 10 "classes" for it. Ie. I have to write down a few combinations with all the talents...

No Gnomes. As if any of my players would want to play one if I did allow them... Rav

Good point. PrC might add options... but only at first level. Most characters that shoot for a PrC are pretty much written in stone from then on till they reach it, and PrC usually aren't very flexible either - the story, in my experience, does not affect the Class selection of characters with...

There's also an armour special ability in the Book of Eldritch Might 2 (iirc... might be 1, but definitely not 3) that completely takes it away. It hink it is a +2 or +3 ability. Rav

Indeed, you keep all bonusses, but give up all your extra (bonus) attacks. Whirwind attack is a feat which allows you to kill lots of creatures that would individually pose hardly any threat to you. I am surprised your player wasn't peeved by your unique ruling (haven't seen this interpretation...

Dragonlance Spoilers for Dragons of Spring Dawning coming up. I once had a player who wanted to become the best ice mage of the land. He took the Elemental Savant PrCl. Four months later he emailed me a home brewed PrCl he found on the net. It was called something like "the Master of Ice", not...

I like the old "you don't know how you got here, but here is where you are." First adventure: why did we wake up in this crypt/castle/maze etc Rav

hmmm. A book that has no use in his game, and he explains why thoroughly. You seem to have liked the product more than he has, so why don't you write your own review and tell us why you did, in fact, like it? Rav

Gore. Incredibly vivid descriptions of gore. Snaps, squishes, curdling blood... Gore. Rav

Exactly. Black robed wizards from Dragonlance can even select a feat that all their damaging spells deal half negative energy damage, and half their usual type. Wear an amulet of fire resistance, fireball everyone around you and yourself, get free healing :) Rav

Slightly. Wouldn't know what else I'd like to run though. I have a love/hate relationship with the feats/tactical side of D&D. I am a piss poor non-combat/non-dungeon DM, because regardless of what system I run, the plot is going to be thin, clichéd and transparent. Now, when I am a player, I...

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I too often have only 1 or 2 encounters in a day, which means Psions are just a bit too strong. I'd work around that in a Darksun campaign though. Rav