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Yes. Max ranks in a number of skills equal to the number of skill ranks that your class would gain at each level beyond first. You do lose a bit of customization, but skill bonus calculation becomes a breeze. Oh, another thing that I did at one time was two good saves for everyone, regardless...

I usually go the other way with my own house rules, everything is included, options are good, etc... But a few things that you might consider. - You ARE Your Class (Each character may have a single base class and a single prestige class only). - Casters Are Not King (Spellcasters do not gain...

I usually just skip to the "roll a d20." part.

I am glad that the warlord is going to make into Type V D&D. It was just about the only thing that I liked from Type IV.

I'm just starting Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson and The Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey. On audiobook right now, I've got queued up Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, read by Elliot Gould. This is the second Phillip Marlowe book by Chandler. I listened to the first...

You can also grant stat increases as rewards, which is something that I've done in past games to good effect.

My experience has been the opposite of that in the OP. Thinking back on past campaigns, those that have had the most staying power have been ones without a strong aspect of good versus evil or much in the way of an overarching plot.

I based it (more or less) off of the books which grant an inherent bonus to an ability score. The main difference being that I use a cubic wealth progression in the games that I run, so cubing stuff is sort of my primary method of determining how much stuff should cost.

Personally, I would price something like that at (granted ranks) cubed times 1,000 gp, with a book granting 5 ranks being the absolute limit. So such a book would cost as follows - 1 rank, 1,000 gp - 2 ranks, 8,000 gp - 3 ranks 27,000 gp - 4 ranks, 64,000 gp - 5 ranks 125,000 gp. Also, ranks...

You might also try supplying some of the information in the OP to the players, or a portion of it, along with, maybe, "You guys have a bunch of clues that you could be following up on, which of these is the most interesting to you?"

Right now, I am in three different groups, each of whom uses a pretty similar, if haphazard, method of game determination. I am in one group that meets weekly on Tuesday mornings from 9 am to 1 pm. That group has two primary DMs. One DM prefers to run either Mutants and Masterminds 2e or Star...

You might take a look at one of the versions of Ken Hood's Grim and Gritty hit point rules, a thread about one version can be found here.

Your play style diverges wildly from this player. This difference may be insurmountable. Are the other players closer in style to that of the player or to your own style? Talk to the player outside of the game and let him know which behaviors you find to be disruptive. Inform him that he needs...

Consider it this way... When you see a sign that says, "Danger: High Voltage Fence!" do you have to stop and think about whether the sign is in english, or do you simply read the sign? Someone versed in Arcane knowledge probably has the same reaction to arcane runes that are part of a security...

Here are some of the things that I've done to promote 'balance' in the games that I've been running recently... 1. I use a simplified skill system. Non-thief characters choose 6+Int mod skills. Those skills are at max ranks. Thief-type characters choose 12+Int mod skills. Those skills are at...

I've been in games with four different female DMs over the years.

The damage save method in True 20 and in Mutants and Masterminds appears to function almost exactly as what you are asking for.

I'm pretty sure this was intentional in Type III D&D (and possibly Type IV, as well). Some options are, upon examination, more or less optimal than others. I am sure that there has been some discussion from designers about certain choices that are meant to be traps, or that are meant to be...

This is (probably) similar to the damage mechanic in Mutants and Masterminds, where each damaging attack has a rank, usually near a predetermined 'power level'. Whenever you are successfully attacked, you make a 'toughness save', which is capped at the predetermined 'power level'. If you...

In the games that I've run and played in, I don't find character death to be a problem. Making players sit out of the game for a long period of time can be a problem (as mentioned by Morrus, above), but that isn't necessarily a result of character death.