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I agree with the other posters: your main role should be the secondary fighter. As a straight warrior, you should try to balance with the existing fighter and the archer. Generally straight warriors in d20 have 1 of 2 possible builds: either the guy who can deal a ton of damage or the guy who...

Just thought of this from a rogue-cleric in a campaign I play in: Get your weapon enchanted as a spell-storing weapon, and store a good anti-undead spell in it. Your first hit in combat will be a nice big boom.

I disagree: this argument assumes that the first army somehow all acts on a single initiative count. It also assumes that everyone essentially appeared in their spot without firing and then waiting on some trigger event to start combat. Plus it assumes the other side would get AoOs when they are...

You might also want to look at metamagic rods. They are effectively feat items that are limited to 3 uses per day, plus they are limited by their very nature. What feats are you trying to put into an item?

Near the very end of our last Modern campaign, we discussed using Ranged Attacks of Opportunity with firearms. The rules are very simple, based on the existing AoO rules: If someone performs an action that would normally provoke an AoO and they are within one range increment of an enemy with a...

Battle Caster also applies to bards. Plus, mithral makes heavy armor count as medium armor. A bard with Battle Caster can cast in mithral full plate with no ASF.

Easy six levels of cleric. You will suck on the XP penalty for a while, but it's not that bad once you get used to it. I don't know what pantheon you use in your game world, but the domains I would go for when fighting undead are Life, Earth, Glory, and ; with Life or Repose as the top choice...

Medallions d20 Modern Title: Medallions d20 Modern Author: Old Drew Id Number of Threads: 1 Type: Modern System: d20 Modern Setting: Birmingham, Alabama (Homebrew) Started: June 17 2003 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Medium (c.1800 words) Average Frequency of Installments...

Episode II - Session II: Highway 31 North Episode II - Session II: Highway 31 North There was a small Baptist church in Carbon Hill that owned an even smaller AM radio station which Brother Cooper had once visited when he had first gotten started in broadcasting. They only broadcast during...

Episode II - Session II: Second Avenue South Episode II - Session II: Second Avenue South Willie’s beat-up old sedan bounced and sparked around the corner at a dangerously unstable fifty miles per hour, lobbing hubcaps off in three different directions. The engine was roaring like an angry...

I went to school in Tuscaloosa from 92 to 95, and back then, there was an active student gaming group of about 10-20 people that met every other week to play 2e, but that was student-only. (And that was only advertised in occasional notices in the student paper. )Other than that, there were no...

Keep in mind that in sci-fi, you rarely see an entire planet. Instead, you usually just see one city on that planet. So, in SW, you don't see Tantooine, really. You just see the city of Mos Eisley. Similarly, in Star Trek, you don't see the backwoods towns of the planet Vulcan, you just see the...

I've been wanting to start a thread along this line for a long time but never got around to it. If you want to compile a good list of modern hooks, try to compile a list of movies where an average person gets whisked away on an unexpected adventure. Off the top of my head: Sister Act / Eraser /...

I developed this "shtick" in my d20 Modern campaign, but I have since carried it over into other genres because it works so well: Every adventure I write is basically 2 adventures merged into 1. I take 2 "threats", each with their own appropriate goal or motivation, and find some way to link...

We do not normally use a hit location chart, except on the two 20's in a row scenario. When that happens, it is a normal critical hit, but it also disables one body part. For a humanoid, the body part table is: 1 - head (usually blinded, but may also be decapitated, depending on DM's mood) 2 -...

I do better critiquing when I can work directly from the source, so here is a snip from the opener to your second SH: Okay, SH's often have large casts like this, and it can be difficult to quickly introduce the characters to your audience. You definitely have a start here by introducing the...

just some rough concepts, no stats: The Pyro: serial killer/arsonist. probably burns his victims alive. depending on time and scale of the building and adventure, he may set the building on fire to trap the heroes in a particular area, and may use any handy tools (blowtorch, propane grill...

How about the action that would allow a pursuer to alter the terrain? I was thinking of something like this: Corral (Pursuer only) Range: Short Reaction: Yes You attempt to edge up on your prey and force them to choose between allowing you to get closer, or altering course to maintain their...

A couple of years back I did my first bard in 3.0 in a thieves campaign. His specialty? Perform(puppetry) His concept was that he was a traveling con-man/snake-oil salesman who worked out of a customized wagon which usually doubled as a puppet stage (the kind where shutters open up on the...

Barsoom - we played last week with the HP rules and enjoyed it. One question: how is Speed supposed to change throughout a chase? We couldn't find any reference for that, which seemed to indicate that once you define the chase speed at the start of the chase, you are stuck at that speed the...