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You're wrong. I mean, amazingly wrong. Gamers have "always" been a fragmented, almost xenophobic market. GURPS vs. D&D vs. Vampire LARPers vs. Warhammer gamers vs. Magic The Gathering players... Just because we don't judge by the standard measure doesn't mean we don't judge. "Alluring"...

Go pick up The Elements of Magic. They fixed both of your problems in their own little way. I don't use it in my game, because the energy types ARE different. I use a seperate magic system of my own, which nicely solves the second problem (spells of a very similar style are the same spell...

What Might have been... Ugh. I think you just put the final nail in the "will I buy it?" question. Again, ugh. The 4 classes to be a Knight of the Rose actually makes a whole bunch of sense--Fighter/Crown/Sword/Rose is just how it was in 1e, 2e, and exactly the setup that made PrCs scream...

Stacking Each class gives either "given" magic levels (divine), or "taken" magic levels (arcane.) The linchpin of the system is the magical "source" that each character takes (and that determines which of the fourteen schools of magic the character can use)--some are given-only, some are...

I suspect that the inverse would give better results; the industry pros are having too many hands and too much work in the pot. You don't see GM hand-forging body pannels; cut down on the 50 folk that wind up working on a book, and you can sell the book for a price the market will like better.

"intellignece" shouldn't mean "unique magical abilities." It should, IMO, mean "items with a presence and ego that need to be controlled." It doesn't mean anything rules-wise if a character's +1 dagger was forged by a priest, wizard, battle-lord, demon, etc... but if that character needs to...

I might be able to do it, but I'm going away this weekend. Reply or email if you're interested. (Or, if you get responses form someone who has Acrobat at home and won't be working with free tools, have at and get it done. :) )

Hence, the "simple" bit. I think I'd tweak this and solve it via dice-rolling; the magic items should be semi-sentient, but by and large no more of a RP hassle than the PC's horses. Oooh... I like it. It very, very much fits into my game setting. /me gets ideas of items stacking to work...

IMC, I allow caster levels to stack (among oodles of other tweaks.) A ranger/sorceror casts better than a fighter/sorceror, for example.

Nope. You can have as much as +9 of abilities in non-epic play. You just can't have more than +5 in enchancement or +10 total bonus.

IMO, the biggest "muchkinism" of D&D is the overabundance of magical items. It just doesn't feel like fantasy if somone can have a magical sword and not know it, or if they can use magic that is more reliable than my car. To fix this, what if we made every magical item "intelligent?" What are...

I used to think exactly like you. And then I watched the "Buffy" episodes dealing with her death. (Watch the first half of Season six--it's almost all her coping with "damnit, I was dead and you bastards brought me back to life!") My suggestion is to treat RP problems with RP solutions. Make...

Look at RPGnow I've seen quite a few on the 'net, Phil. There are at least two or three just on RPGnow.

OGL: use content. d20STL: use "d20" It's actually fairly simple. The OGL is a "copyleft" license that gives you permission to use any content that's covered by it--all of the SRD and most rules-text from OGL licensed work. Now, and this is the important part, the OGL forbids use of anyone's...

Names I've seen in my campaign for female player-characters: Jastin Reece Miriel Aerielle Ry Sangaku Shaylin Greenbottle / Trolldodger There are more, but those are the ones that pop up off the top of my head.

Well, actually, that couldn't be done. The "memorize higher level spells in lower level slots" is a 3e rule. Despite its flood of options, level-swapping just didn't happen in 2e. (Of course, your primary requisite didn't matter for spell-level access until the very highest spell levels...)

Creatures that get feats like that likely get access to them as a racial bonus. A custom half-dragon wolf wouldn't have to talk Weapon Finesse (?) if it didn't want to, but it could even if it didn't have a high enough BaB.

Re: Re: Re: FAQ New Entries They do. A Human Fighter 4 / Paladin 11 has a 15 CL and a 15 ECL, because "human" has a +0 LA. I'm personally just peeved that they didn't continue the LAs for Dragons. *grumble, grumble*.

IMC, Summon Monster spells are for a specific extraplanar creature that the spellcaster has encountered and entered into an agreement with. There's no "summon monster I", but there is "Summon Bloodfuzz the fiendish jackal". I rate the spell-level required at either 1/2 CR or 1/2 ECL. No PC...

This is a larger problem with d20, rather than anything specific. IMC, I allow players to purchase skill ranks with experience points, equal to twice the XP cost of creating an item that gives the same bonus. It's a lot less disruptive to the game than taking levels of expert or commoner, and...