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Of course Trailblazer dispenses with this slavish devotion to Simulationism. Mozart has as many skill ranks as he needs to fill the role the DM needs. He need not have a class nor any levels. I wouldn't even give him hit points. Why would you care? If the PCs need to attack Mozart Child...

I like it. I'm not sure what greyscale % you used on the "faded text" in the skill section (and elsewhere), but my experience was that whatever I chose, it was too light. :) FYI, you can totally use Trailblazer logos. Let me know if there's anything else I can provide you.

I sense problems with hordes of kobolds... Verisimilitude-shattering problems.

Nothing you have seen around these parts... 1) Combat Reactions to take a 5-foot step in certain flanking conditions (to flank, or avoid being flanked); 2) I have a wizard player who likes to push the envelope with customizing spells. Right now we're playing with "metamagic" like changing the...

Hmm... you didn't mention anything other than rulesets. I use straight Trailblazer for my core ruleset, and then take whatever I need from 3.x sources (spells, monsters, and especially adventures). I also salt in plenty of new rules currently in R&D which, I suppose, still counts as...

Fixed. :p

I'm late for my yearly bump!

Yes. That's an error. Ignore the second entry.

Tomb of Horrors.

Everything that TB characters get comes out to about +2 CR at 1st level. They're tough. Most of that is in the Spine rebalance, and certainly the HP bonus. Combat Reactions help a lot, too. (Those Aid Another actions add up, particularly with respect to punching above their weight class). I'm a...

Hand wave. I'm trying to test a rule. More to the (TB) point, what purpose would a gp value serve? The players won't be making one, nor selling them. I'd just allow that whole hog-- in fact the only reason I didn't was so as to not to steal the fighting classes' thunder. But I'd easily just...

I gave out a pair of yin-yang magic rings-- one of which allows you to use a Combat Reaction to take a 5' step into flanking position, and one of which allows you to take a 5' step when you are flanked. :) I'll be testing quite a few new Combat Reactions.

Hmm... Since you have seen most of the monster book-- and there's no need to keep that a secret-- can you elucidate this comment? I assume you mean you're looking forward to the "mechanics" chapters of the book (which you have not yet seen...) but if there's something else/different you're...

So much so-- as usual-- that I really should just give you my login information and cut out the middle man.

Man, I've been working on that :):):):)er for years now. Years and years of notes. It won't require patronage to get that done, just time-- of which I have precious little...

I think that's unlikely. TB and PF diverged fairly early on in terms of design philosophy and design goals, and moving forward TB is more likely to continue that divergence. TB is primarily a systems-driven approach, and PF is primarily a style-driven approach. Anyone interested in...

Open Content = "stuff you can freely copy, verbatim." Others may, as I have done, derive their own conclusions from prior Open Content, and they may well end up with the same broad conclusions and general guidelines I presented in Chapter One and in design notes (in grey boxes) throughout the...

Whoof! Boy, do you have the wrong impression of my D&D game... If you want that sort of thing, you want Grim Tales. Trailblazer is very wa-hoo. Now as to your question, we've had this conversation on various sites before. I still think you should try it before you tinker with it; that said...

I guess I'm in the slow camp-- one or two encounters in 4 hours is about my pace, too. How many players do you have, how many of them are drinking, and how much :):):):):):):):)ting is going on? :)

My day job prevents me from writing and publishing as much as I'd like. There are fewer impediments to publishing stuff other people write. Just sayin.