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IMC Healing spells require the application of First Aid* as their somatic component. First Aid, of course, works differnet in AASB, but the rules from D&D or Everquest or Warcraft would do just as well.

Nope. Opportunity is a special ability that lets you make an Attack of Opportunity--and you can only ever make one AoO per target per round.

Suggestion, like all enchantments, is a problematic NPC spell because it takes away a player's ability to control their character. It's also an easy DM's crutch. FWIW, the next time someone winds up charmed, I'll probably allow opposed charisma checks from either the charmee or anyone of...

Daniel Jackson explained it quite clearly. Anubis wants to avoid using his ascended abilities. Daniel used his Ascended powers, and the Ancients booted him from the club back to temporal bodyhood. What do you think would happen if Anubis was booted back to temporal bodyhood? A symbiote...

Are you still playing 2nd? XP simply works differently in 3e. Even if a character gained 1 XP per day of study (one CR 1 encounter per year?), after 8 levels the study would be worthless to them.

Historically, you don't. A back sheath was used only for transporting a weapon, and to actually use it in combat the warrior would take off the sheath (and possibly the backpack it was attached to) and then draw the weapon. Of course, this is fantasy, so there's no reason that it ISN'T...

O.K. by me. I more than understand that everyone wants to do their own thing. But what I think the best thing for everyone to do is to make the projects as compatable as possible--so that, for example, we don't all spend three days formatting the spells the way we want them. The d20-XML...

The various OGC directories haven't taken off (1) because they're not easy to get to, (2) because it's a lot of work to get everything in a good format, and (3) because no one wants to join someone else's project. I've just about got my PC working the way I want it, with OOo just about...

You know, I always hated that rule. ;) Anyway. Don't forget to account for the magical bonuses to hardness and HP. The rule for shields is "+2 hardness and +10 hp" -- no reason not to keep that for armor, which in the core rules can never be attacked. If you do transfer the shield rules...

:D If you would like a copy of the armor rules I've already got, just shoot me an e-mail and I'll send them tonight. Have you given any thought as to how you'll adjust balance for this new rule? IMC I give PCs defense bonuses which they never lose, which IMO makes up for the additional...

Ack. You're abandoning the extant rules for damaging objects and adding in an entirely new ad-hoc system. Shame on you. IMC I use a simliar system. Every attack against a person that touches but doesn't hit is an attack against that person's armor--which has its own hardness and HP, just...

Yes, at least initially.

True story: when I got the Star Wars d20 book for the first time, I opened the Force Chapter and went "Ah, heck, that's exactly the same as Craft of the Mind!" Of course, that was before the core mechanic changed. Thanks for the feedback. I'll do my best to convince you. ;)

Mindcraft, a new take on fantasy Psionics, is in the last stages of development at Alea Publishing, and it's time to get the web enhancements ready--you know, the parts that we give away for free to convince you to buy this excellent new cap system. (What, you haven't heard of Mindcraft? How...

Hairball - a thrid level spell that causes the victim to hack of forty-foot radius hairball. Lightning bug - Also third level, creates a bug out of lightning. The bug flies about randomly, and does 1d6 points of damage to the first creature or subject it lands on. (Determine randomly among...

So... why haven't you changed Elves? There are more than a few official elven subraces without a CON penalty.

IMC I use a revised version of Evard's Black Tentacles, primarily because I don't want fourteen new combatants to track. One of the minor abilities I use to "balance" it is to let a spellcaster have the tenatcles conduct touch spells. I fear I might lose players when the BBEG casts Evil's...

Adobe will probably let you "unregister" a computer that has a hard drive FUBAR. You probably don't even have to have that PC online to do it. And, worst comes to worst, you can always quite legally crack your own legally purchased DRM'd file if you try and fail to comply with the DRM. (You...

Pros: Simple character creation. It's very hard to get it "wrong." Square dice. There's only one power level: "space opera." A Stormtrooper is a stormtrooper is a stormtrooper. EVERYTHING is done on the same mechanic, in the same layout. Non-combat can be every bit as tense as...

Not really. It's just sloppy. The rules ALREADY give you penty of ways to give an Imp Bluff. Not the least of which would be to have it as a "vairant imp" with a different alternate form and different skills. But slapping skill points on willy-nilly is just sloppy, and it looks sloppy...