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I would like to know how to create a table like 14-9 (core rulebook 454) but using the values on table 12-4 (page 399) for total gp value. The reason for this is sometimes I like to have "GMPCs" follow the party along for various reasons: to help me give clues to the players about what is going...

I like the concept of Archetypes as an alternative to the proliferation of base classes. However, as a GM, I am not sure how I should handle the idea of building an NPC Ftr 7 / Rog 8 whose backstory has him starting out as a standard Fighter, then changing to a Fighter-Archer archetype with some...

Pertaining to a community-made Cosmology, I would say it already exists... Let's start with the assumption that more than one cosmology can exist at a time. Every GM who's ever run a game has at least one and there can be many duplicates; for example, Bob's Forgotten Realms is unique and...

IMO racial classes come a little too close to allowing a "mary sue" character to be born...the character to one-up all others of their race (paragon class is aptly named). I'd much prefer (with reluctance) to adopt race-centered feats as available for those PCs who want to be "special" in a way...

For what it's worth, I could never get used to the idea of having an outer plane of chaos ie Limbo, while also having a place "outside"the wheel that was supposed to be "super chaos" or chaos+insanity or whatever, in D&D 3.x. I guess it goes back to the dual views of chaotic alignment of...

I’ve been refining the details of my cosmology for this thread and have not put all the most current details into electronic format in a completed state till now, but I have finally got it written up the way I like it. Anyway here it is: COSMOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS My cosmology retains all of...

A unique take to be sure, as well as putting a different light on what it means to be such-and-such alignment. It is as though angels and demons are born (programmed) to be good or evil versus having the choice...no fall from grace, no redemption.

If memory serves, what Tokien did to elves is similar to what Myers did to vampires, only his reimagining of the mythological beings was done well enough that they have supplanted popular culture's conception of what elves and dwarves are like (closer to human than mystical spritelike creatures).

Don't get me wrong....I do not want a humans-only D&D game. But my perception of this fantasy subgenre of ours is that it has become much too Tolkien-race-centric, that the "core races" of Other Than Humans being taken for granted and expected to exist and be predominant in the game is precisely...

What troubles me with D&D is how certain non-human races have become "standard" alternatives to playing a human as a PC. So much so, that "Human" has become the alternative. I can't think of the last time I have played or run a game in which everyone was a human (or even when the majority of the...

What does it mean to have a "non-optimized build" and how does it become a handicap?

One often plans ahead for the feats one wishes to take...

I've been working on refining my cosmology to be posted to my own thread. I haven't got it all worked out yet but in the meantime I wanted to mention that Li Po’s Hermitage (Li Po's Hermitage) includes some wonderful examinations of the traditional D&D cosmology (Planescape: The Outer Planes)...

Drow, derro, duergar, tieflings

The stock "Great Wheel" cosmology has the advantage of tradition (both gamist and mythological) and is intimately linked with the alignment system. However, the cosmology topography of the "great wheel" may not work for all campaign styles. The old "Manual of the Planes" described several...

There are "too many" feats in the game only in the sense that there are "too many" character concepts that can be constructed within the game. It has been impossible for a long time to be able to keep track of every published feat that's out there, but the chief detriment to this aspect of the...

That works.

WOTC should not underestimate the power of web enhancements to disseminate useful information that might not otherwise be able to make it into the final published product. Whatever list does not make it into the book as a table or as part of the inline text (e.g. feat descriptions listed...

Formerly as a D&D 3.X dungeonmaster, I used to cart a crate full of books around to whichever friend's house was hosting. I liked to have all my best books at my fingertips, although it was a pain to have to load and unload the car with them. I knew that Paizo offered its books in PDF format...

Bards, and lots of them. "What is the most annoying sound in the world?..."