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UK-- I was thinking lastnight after posting, that these modifiers for damage type remind me an awful lot of GURPS--so another option would be to have a fixed armour value, but multiply the damage that penetrates by some value (such as the GURPS 1,1.5, and 2).

It's been a while, a character still gets his STR Dmg Bonus in 3e when using weapon finesse doesn't he? (If not, ignore what follows ;) ) I don't think it would be unbalancing for a character with average STR and high DEX to use this option and effectively gain weapon finesse for free; and the...

I guess it depends on how you envision things working ;) For myself, I like to think of (heavy) crushing weapons as not doing as much damage to an unarmoured foe as an arrow or sword, but being MORE likely to score at least a bit of damage through heavy armour. Also, rather than worrying about...

Just curious, what with all these numbers for base HPs flying about ;)... What type of range are we looking at achieving for "normal" humans, 1st level characters, etc? Knowing would be a great help when evaluating the above proposals and offering alternatives...

:o (I was thinking CON--really I was!) ***Miscommunication Alert!*** Re-reading my post, I see I wasn't being very clear. I meant that in the hypothetical system that limited itself to the present stats for generating HPs, I would nominate STR to be most determinative, as it represents in...

SOAPM-- I might have missed something, but a couple of observations... 1: If your base HPs are generated by multiplying some base by your STR Mod, this will give characters with STR<12 either Zero or Negative HPs. 2: WRT Parrying, did you mean to instead say, "...may not parry attacks of...

Lily and UK-- I've been popping in from time to time to see where this is going. I won't presume to either know what each of you is thinking, or to place words in your mouths, but I think there is a misunderstanding due to a confusion of terms. Would it help to state that UK is looking for a...

I agree that it makes DEX too important--unless a couple of other things are changed as well (and maybe even then). What I do in my Basic D&D campaign... When wielding a weapon one size category smaller, the user may choose to use his DEX Mod rather than his STR Mod as an attack bonus...

It's been a while ;) Could I tempt you to post some of it? I'd be interested to see how you've approached it :)

You would think so; and, as I mentioned, for all intents and purposes there's no way to go down in a rating (unless I'm forgetting something). Personally, I like the little system we cooked up ;)

Thanks :) Feel free to alter away. I'm just happy if one of my suggestions provides even a germ of an idea. Seems perfectly reasonable--especially with the attack penalties in 3e that a dual-wielder already faces for using larger weapons in the off-hand. Just had another thought, if you're...

I allow two-weapon fighters in my Basic D&D campaign to make a riposte if their foe misses their own attack roll by a certain amount. For 3e, perhaps you could do something along the following lines... If wielding two weapons, the character may make a free attack (AoO) with their...

Lately, I've been doing most of my posting over at... Dragonsfoot.org While its focus is primarily 1st edition AD&D, it also has the most active Classic D&D forum I've been able to find.

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It is somewhat reminiscent of Pendragon--no surprise there I suppose ;) You have ratings in Law, Chaos, and The Balance. An experience check is made against the current value on a d100. Rolling greater than the current value increases the score by d6 points (or d8 for Chaos). (For scores of...

Looks nice, I'll have to give it a closer look when I have more time. One possible quirk that jumped out at me though... The AC penalty for poor fit/quality--this would make full body padded and torso soft leather worthless. Perhaps for poor fit/quality, in addition to lowering the max DEX...

How about a Feat/Ability that allows them to add their DEX bonus to damage--in order to represent the incredible velocity they can attain. Maybe let them fire twice in a round, but with a reduced range increment and damage.. Perhaps a special attack that does no damage, but stuns the foe if he...

UK and Toj-- I did something similar with a hybrid campaign I ran while on deployment some years ago. I only had the Rules Cyclopedia and a bag full of dice. Then I tacked Pendragon's combat system onto it from memory--just to see how things would play out. It turned out that great fun was...

Re: . . . Or, you could make a FORT save versus DC 'N' each time you take damage greater than your CON, otherwise you are 'incapacitated' or 'wounded'. I don't know what 'N' should be, but it should probably be fairly low.

******BREAK****** mmadsen-- There's a discussion going on over in house rules concerning Alignment Tracking, and I re-posted some of our ideas from a few months ago. I thought you might like to drop on by and expand upon it a bit. ******RESUME******