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Hey, those are cool! Gothmog; Can I have your permission to adapt some of your abilites to my Manifestation Effect system? I can include any sort of credit reference that you would like. E-mail me off-list if you would rather discuss it in private.

Sorry it took so long Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday. It's a OGL-released PDF. (OGL's on the last page.) Permission is hereby given to distribute this file verbatium, provided that a link back to my (temporarly out of service) website is included somehow. (If you'd rather have a...

Nope. Nope. Not without far more effort in legal fees and lawyer bills than Hasbro would ever make from the recision. Ryan Dancy modeled the OGL off of the GPL, which is a license designed to ensure that software remains "Free." (free-as-in-speech, not necessarily free-as-in-beer.) Unless...

One more bit... Mind Switch ends when you return to your body, or when you kill your body and stay in the new one. If you don't want to kill your self, and want to exploit this loophole in true rules-lawyering fashion (don't be offended--it's a time-honored tradition), you can only get a...

Then the power's badly written, and should be eratted by now. Either that "no con adjustment" line should be tossed out, or a note should be made that modifiers to your host body's CON sore don't change your HP. (You could infer this, btw, from how the power's worded. Since the CON of the...

Nope. You have to adjust your HP when your constitution score changes. If you're an 18 Con Psion and Mind Switch into a 12 Con Wizard, you lose 3 hp / level. This probably could stand to be clarified in the rulebook. Anyway, it should be important to remember that, if you think you see a...

A 3 lbs sword always feels just about like a 3 lbs sword--but it almost never feels like 3 lbs of dead weight. You're arguing at cross-purposes without really disagreeing.

Actually, it's not impossible to balance a sword right at the center of the intended grip. This lessens the striking power of each blow, but it causes the blows to start quicker and recover quicker. While I'm at it, a variant katana should have a critical of 18-20/x2, not 20/x3. Center of...

w00t! (I've had a simliar system in AASB for awhile--and, again, WotC manages to read my mind. If I was more paranoid, I'd be chekcing my PC for bugs...)

Are there HP values for armor as objects? For example, if a barbarian wanted to take off a villian's demon armor and bash it to pieces...

Re: Re: Weight, not Mass. Every time the weapon isn't allowed to swing freely--i.e., pointed down at the ground. [B] Well, I suspect that the armor weights are a bit off... and other goods are compact enough to be properly stowed on a character. (The S.I. system doesn't really have good...

Damage to Armor? Are there any rules for damaging another character's armor? It strikes me as a missing part of the system, that you can attack a weapon or bash down a wall, but not cut someone's armor off.

Yes. IMC Clerics (and Paladins and Blessed) have a "Manifestation" ability, which replaces Turn Undead. They have one free "Manifest Abiilty" power, and can gain more as feats. Some manifestaions include Turn Undead, Rebuke Undead, Turn Celestial, Rebuke Celestial, Turn Fiend, Rebuke Fiend...

Weight, not Mass. Not quite. A 5 kg sword is a 5 kg sword--but a 3 lbs sword can vary in weight, depending on angle, gravity, and momentum. The force to hold a blade-balanced sword level would be just a bit more than the force required to hold the sword off the ground. Since the center of...

I feel like being pendatic, and pointing out that the rapier was a relatively modern invention that closely followed the advent of gunpowder. It's a light sword designed for light armor combat--but I don't think that it qualifies as "one of the top two sword [styles] in the world." Top three...

I don't believe I'm posting in this thread... Acutally, the reason that we in the west have such a facination with the katana is that we (America) own the majority of the surviving katanas--war trophies from WWII, which was the last time the sword was used in combat on a large scale--and even...

I think you're misinterpreting Olgar, I suspect that you're misinterpreting. There are (at least in 3.0) four kinds of abilities--Spell-like, Supernatural, Extraordinary, and Unclassified. Someone polymorphing / wild-shaping into a new form would get all Unclassified attacks and qualities...

FWIW - My Rule In my campaign, I have a "savant ability" system. "Savant Feats" cost 1/4 a level, "Savant Combat Levels" and "Savant Spellcasting Levels" cost 1/4 a level, and "Savant Skill Ranks" cost 2/25 their market value if they were a magical item. (I'm currently musing a way to make it...

Yep. I'm likely not going to buy the 3.5 PH. I may pick up the 3.5 MM and DMG--but then again, I might not. (The DMG is most likely.) My answer would be different if the OGL was in the books and not on the web with the SRD--but WotC picked their stance, and I'm just acting accordingly.

Actually, it's a miscommunication, and I doubt it was done through malice. (Probably more naivite) I have, to this day, never seen someone play AD&D 2nd edition as-written--even just limiting themselves to the rules in the books. Either non-optional rules are ignored, or house rules are used...