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I've got no idea what "Monte Cook's system" is. Do you mean the default CR system in 3.x or some other thing entirely? As for mixing CR systems... I really don't recommend it. If you're going to use U_K's system to revise templates, you should really use it to evaluate everything. For example...

I'm a bit curious about the -5 penalty for the Druid making the Natural Attack. I thought part of the reason for changing Iterative Attacks was to make the math consistent and quick. Druids actually having an additional -5 winds up being a special exception that folks are going to have to keep...

I'll disagree with you slightly. It might be bad from a _mechanical_ character development perspective. If your idea of "character development" means acquiring lots of skills and mechanically differentiating your character from another character with the exact same class. But that's really a...

One thing to note about Wulf's iterative attacks is that he's not looking to eliminate them, speed up the game, or anything like that. All he's trying to do is make Iterative Attacks work in a consistent manner and have them performing at roughly the same level as they currently are. If you...

One important detail that folks seem to frequently miss is the way in which XP is earned compared to back then. In the old days, the rules by default had gold giving XP. Ok, fine. An awful lot of people houseruled that out though, saying that gold was its own reward. The effect this had was...

You might consider picking up Lords of the Night: Vampires by Bottled Imp. A pdf copy can be easily bought here: The Lords of the Night: Vampires - Bottled Imp Games | RPGNow.com Physical copies appear to be around $20 U.S. And here's a review of it: RPGnet : Review of The Lords of the Night...

I've got 4 of these and really like 'em. NEW D4 8 Sided 1 to 4 Twice Red Die D&D RPG Game Dice - eBay (item 370227850426 end time Aug-09-09 12:04:00 PDT) They're apparently made by Gamescience. If the link goes dead, just search google for "ebay+d4+eight+sided", just don't use the quote marks...

Maybe I'm missing something, but what the OP seems to be looking for is some sort of character-class that can shape/form weapons of different sorts, like one of those liquid metal terminators or something. I personally don't know of any class that does this sort of thing. I think the closest...

Personally, these days I'm just inclined to go with Upper_Krust's CR system to figure out what the actual racial advantages are, and then follow this advice from the author of Grim Tales (this is excerpted from Grim Tales). He's the same guy responsible for the upcoming Trailblazer game: Note...

What's to comment on? He says he's got "Armor Hit Points", "Skill Armor Class" and a "streamlined combat system" and then he says: So basically, "Give feedback, but we already like what this does and probably won't change anything." combined with a non-specific list of what's actually been...

Try the Spell Slot Item Creation System. It's an updated version of the system presented originally in the Artificer's Handbook and can be downloaded for free from post #3 here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-rules-discussion/240200-artificer-handbook-update.html If you want the...

Personally, I'd just give the XP twice. I _really_ don't think it's going to make _that_ much of a difference in the greater scheme of things. Then again I admit to being a fan of simply saying, "Characters level after 13 or 14 Encounters", and skip the whole micro-management of XP in the first...

Totally. If a GM does something that's cool and freely admits how they did it and that the PCs could have done/be doing it, players are frequently going to pick up that ball and run with it. I pretty royally POed my wife when I had a villain that used some of the party's tactics against the...

*cough* Actually, I _did_ say something like that... Me, I'm not going to speculate on what it is that krupintupple and the other folks at his table are after in terms of play and running the game. People show up at the table with all kinds of agendas and those get further muddled by all...

No, I got that. I just don't see what the problem is. There's 2 choices... you kill the characters because they're unprepared or you change the encounter so it's not an issue. The fact that it _is_ an issue for you is what I'm not clear on. So they're not playing their characters as...

I'm kinda confused on where the problem is. You wish they'd use more spells... so what? You keep killing characters and they keep making new ones. Obviously, they don't care enough about what you're doing to change their approach, so... *shrug* what's the big deal? It sounds like really it's...

Unless I'm horribly off the mark, 3rd ed is continuing to use the Earthdawn system. It uses multiple dice types, somewhat like Savage Worlds and Cortex do. The system itself has been around for a long time; like Tunnels & Trolls, Earthdawn is one of those games that's mostly flown under people's...

I honestly don't care about the setting. There's _so_ much stuff available right now, Pathfinder having a setting is almost like giving a drowning man a glass of orange juice. These days, I fully expect that a game is going to come with a main setting book and then is going to do another 5-10...

Fair enough, I'll post something in a sec. But first... I don't know whom you're going with for your PoD, but if you're doing it through Lulu, I'd _really_ like to request that it not only be hardback. I moved to NZ, and Lulu only prints hardback books from the U.S. and sends them out from...

Going in a completely different direction with questions for a minute... How "backwards compatible" is this going to be. In other words, say I want to bring something like Tome of Magic, or Heroes of High Favor: Elves, or... I dunno, the Dragon Shaman from PHB 2, and plop it into Trailblazer...