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So, I'm getting around to trying out using the provided character sheet to convert a character from another campaign (level 14 barbarian), as an illustration for our GM about how a rebuild might work. I'm currently up to level 9 in the process, and I am already out of space in the Features &...

Warning: Long. Morality is a rules structure used to maximize the survivability and sustainability of a social entity (eg: a family), while minimizing the energy expenditure (in terms of analyzing a social conflict and determining a proper action, keyed off of all possible rules the creature...

A game has rules of play. That's what makes it a game. A win condition is an optional rule that defines when the game is over, but is in no way a requirement in order for an activity to be a game. Baseball is a game. One side throws a ball, and tries to keep runners from making it around the...

Really nice. It uses a lot of ideas that have been suggested or used in other ranger re-write attempts, with a little extra polish. Almost seems like too much stuff, but I realize some of that is multiple choice options, so it's not actually that large for any given ranger. Only thing that...

My perspective is that rangers are very good tool users. Those tools would include traps, wilderness crafting (herbalism, alchemy, etc), animal companions, and spellcasting. I would also see their subclasses as them specializing in one particular form of tool. So, Trapmaster, Beastmaster...

Yep. Army rangers: Marksmanship = Archery, one of the common weapon choices for a ranger Physical Training = Athletics, climbing, swimming Medical Training = Some means of healing. Unfortunately D&D has a strong leaning towards magical healing, so this becomes a notable source of conflict for...

£200k in about 24 hours (approx 23.5 hours, by my estimate), so rule of thumb suggests it will hit about £600k ($816k)? It would need some strong legs or unexpected bit of promotion to keep going to $1 million (£736k). It seems theoretically possible, but also somewhat unlikely. I'll at least...

My current thought on Yet Another Ranger Rebuild is to make an animal companion part of the base class, but make it entirely non-combat. It won't fight for you or with you, enemies won't attack it, and the few things that can hurt it just leave it as "injured", with no concern whatsoever about...

The one I worked on is here. There is a lot of discussion on whether ranger even deserves to be a full class, and if it does, what it's supposed to actually be. We ended up with something fairly decent, but if I started again (as this thread has motivated me to do), I'd take a slightly different...

Another variant that I've pondered: Take the top three stats from the standard array — 15, 14, 13. You can place those stats where you want. Then roll three times (probably 3d6, but maybe 4d6k3), and place those stats in order on the remaining attributes. That lets you guarantee competence in...

Yeah, I helped with a ranger re-write over on the GITP forums, and that was the basic structure we ended up with (but 'Hunter' rather than 'Archer'). Put spellcasting in its own subclass, and that opens up a lot of design space for the main job.

Yep, that's the one.

Hmm. /Wanders over to the bookshelf to find the monstrous 4th edition Talislanta rules. Checks page count. 500 pages. Surprised it was thinner than I remembered. Though I guess each of these books will be of similar size (depending on paper quality and thickness). /Checks college physics...

This chart reminds me of the speculation I did on magic items. I should go take another look at that. And yes, the Medium armor section needs its dividing line and darker background set. If requests are still open, I definitely want to see the materials tables. It looks like there's a lot of...

Just remembered something else I intended to comment on. The grade 4 Farm trait makes it so that when healing with hit dice, any roll below a 4 becomes a 4. How (if at all) does this interact with the Durable feat, which makes it so that any roll below 2x Con modifier is raised to 2x Con...

Agreed. Forbidden Forest was actually one I really wasn't sure what to do with, but eventually put in its spot so as not to add extra waffling in my post. (Clearly that didn't help.) It's sort of a cross between encampment and religious site, but not actually religious. It would probably fit...

Are you referring to the Encampment feature where you can spend an hour to build one anywhere? You get that at grade 5, which means 12,501 gold on frugal, or 25,001 gold on average quality. It's not available for just 100 gold. I understand what you mean there, and part of that is that this is...

Note: Edited So, I want to look at the stronghold types separately from the example groupings. We don't have the full write-up, but we can guesstimate based on the example lists. Dwelling — Hut, apartment, house, manor, mansion, palace Encampment — Campsite, bandit camp, army camp Farm —...

In a fairly generous campaign, I think we hit a peak of about 40,000 gold for 5-6 players around level 14. However a number of items were magic items dropped as loot, so never really became part of the gold currency valuation. In a much less generous campaign, we peaked around 6000 gold for 6...

Yeah, kinda figured that was the case, but since you didn't provide the whole thing, that's the best we can do. So, buying by the square foot is more minutia than we really need. My inclination would be to divorce the price from the explicit size. Get rid of the square feet entirely, and base...