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This is kind of similar to hero points from arcana unearthed. Let me copy a post from the AU impressions thread You can do any one of the following things with a hero point: 1. Get a +d20 to any one rolled action. 2. If used on an attack roll that would normally hit you can do double damage...

While there is no political, geographical, historical data, there is much more of an implied feel. It's not mandatory, but it's more there. You see this most notably in the races: the PHB is rather vague on how the cultures work and interact, but AU gives you a stronger feel. It's not...

warning: campaign ideas ahead, ignore if it's not your thing, (mods: I don't intend the sidetrack the discussion, just answering a question, but if you want me to edit this out, just give the word) You play a verrik because it interested my player, and so we developed a little bit of history...

Mind witches get a basically improved psion feat for free at ninth level (it not only grants the psionic template, but allows access to all complex and exotic psion spells, while the normal psion feat would only give witches access to complex psionic feats). But, before that, they have no access...

I think it's 4d6 drop one, although of course, free to use your own methods. Interesting note: Since the XP chart isn't SRD, Monte had to make his own, which is basically 1,100 * current level + 1 to level. I thought at first that this was just picking a different number to satisfy legal...

In his defense, he made a valid comment: Psion seemed like power creep, and he said it. I think he's right that it definitely seems like power creep, but is balanced elsewhere (as explained earlier). I think that people analyzing the rules without the ownership is a fine thing as well: the...

Yeah, hero points are /big/! The default use of them is a whopping +d20 to one roll, and some of the other effects are to immediately take a turn out of order (and not lose your turn coming up in the initiative circle), or just simply to ignore a roll that would cause you to die (but take a...

Note, that the above analysis indicates that you should mark a huge warning sign over players bringing in AU spell feats for 3.0/3.5 spells: it's a definite mismatch at that point. It'll be interesting to see if the conversion guide that's coming with the screen addresses this.

In response to the "power creep": you're right that Psion is a more powerful feat than silent spell, still spell, and eschew materials put together, but I think that the balance can still be maintained. Feats for spellcasters in AU are inordinately more useful than magic feats in 3.0/3.5, there...

Barcode, I think Monte has anticipated your complaint, that you are paying for a lot of core mechanics, and so a large percentage of the original material in the AU book will be released as 3 pdf's over the next few weeks. I think one is about the fighter types, the second one about magic, and...

I wanted to both share this, in case it helps anybody else out, and ask for help if anybody has suggestions to make this better. For my upcoming game (an urban-intrigue/police procedural fantasy game), I wanted to get characters who were detailed, who already had lives going on, and who have...

Cool! I should have had more faith that Morrus would be a wise fellow about this. I've forwarded him the link to the Bayesian estimate thing already. If I think of anything else, I'll be sure to pass it along. Maybe also some collective enworld thought could help, so I'll post my initial...

You mean: "more to the ENnies voting methodology than a simple average"? Any guesses what it is? I could imagine, actually, a bunch of interesting mechanisms based around comparisons, but I think simple average is probably the most likely mechanism.

So why do I accuse Piratecat? *flashback effect* diddlie-doo diddlie-doo diddlie-doo December 2001. To help out some friends named Adam and Anise, running Anonycon 2001 on Yale University. They needed some space for the games, and so I volunteered the literary society I was a member of...

Monte posted in a rave this morning about the ENnies: People point out that the drawback is that you can vote 10 for your favorite product and 1 for all the rest, skewing the vote. I don't think that will actually be too much of a problem -- and it's something the moderators can watch for, in...

I'll post just on one note now, then rather try to address all these great issues brought up immediately. I agree strongly that the role of the Judge needs to be reconsidered: I think that no matter who's judging, Incognito, Rune, PirateCat, Gary Gygax, or aliens from outer space, I'm less...

With regards to the complexity of including cleave: I think at that point, you should abandon all hope of constructing a formula, and instead move to monte carlo simulations (defined roughly as just simulating an event a lot of times to get a feel for what happens: it's rolling 2d6 10000 times...

Out of curiousity, how would you account for cleave? My guess is that you figure some average number of hit points for a monster given a base attack combo, then add in a chance of an extra base attack that's equal to expected damage/hp. I think you would probably need to set up multiple events...

As someone pointed out right after my math, a key element to whether 3.5 power attack is balanced is what's happened to the AC of monsters: if it turns out that in the majority of cases, a player can improve their expected damage by power attacking (because the AC is below the break even point...

The average of 70 points a round is assuming all hits: this is quite silly. When you want to compare expected damage rates, you have to include chances of not hitting, and include chances of saving. It is notable, since saves against most damage spells are half, that in a situation where the...