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BECMI with unified d20 mechanics and modular AD&D-like multiclassing rules. Everything else I want is fairly minor.

It's not confusing, but it's overly complicated and I think it dilutes the flavor of the races in question. I would ditch this mechanic. And did you notice that your example race could choose to have +2 to Constitution, -2 to Constitution, both, or neither? What is that supposed to represent...

edit: Schedule is up in the air at this point. Any day of the week is fine by me, but I would prefer to start in the late afternoon local time. Details at Shroompunk RPG.

Slept on it. This is where I'd put Charisma. At 1st level, the Marshal can choose a Teamwork Feat whenever he projects an aura, and gain the benefits of that feat as though all of his allies within that aura also possessed it. When he can project more than one aura, he can project more than...

Can't give you XP yet for your comment about the gun rules in the Pathfinder. I'm a Spelljammer guy and I really like guns in my D&D, but the special firearms rules in Pathfinder-- especially the Gunslinger class-- are just infuriating. They're not magic death wands, and plate armor in the D&D...

Haven't seen all of them in play, but my general impression is that almost all of them-- except for the Monk archetypes-- are considerably and deliberately weaker than the standard classes. Synthesist Summoner can be a serious problem, but I really think that whole class is a mess.

You're actually still projecting quite a lot of modern moral values on your medieval society-- they're just modern conservative moral values, some of which are only a few decades old in the West. My own system of moral values is more or less rooted in the 10th century, and I may be biased toward...

You mind if I steal this for my House Rules? Here's what I'm thinking for now: The Aura bonus is too high. Shouldn't be more than +4 or +5 at 20th. There's no reason this can't be a full BAB class. You're right, the auras are too broad, and you need more of them. Being able to know all of...

I'm guardedly optimistic about it. It seems like they've learned a lot from their experiences with 3.X and 4e, and they're saying a lot of things that have piqued my interest-- but as a Pathfinder player and as a non-d20 guy in general, I don't have a whole lot of emotional investment in it...

1. What game system are you running and if applicable what edition? I'm running a FATE variant with custom combat and magic systems. Relevant rules are in the attached document. 2. What 'type' or variant of game will it be ? What is the setting for the game? Characters will be regular human...

XP is a mechanical expression of a spiritual philosophy I already hold to be true about this world-- that greatness comes through surpassing obstacles and overcoming adversity. It is reasonable for PCs to intuitively understand that facing challenges and testing their abilities is the fastest...

It's an appeal to tradition. Appeal to tradition is only a fallacy when you assume the tradition itself holds no intrinsic value; hardly the case when we are talking about trying to recreate an experience from our youths. No. When a character breaks the mold, there is no longer a mold left to...

Seems to me this is less a case of good ability scores getting too much boosts, but poor ability scores getting not enough. Demigods shouldn't have average scores in anything.

I think it's inevitable, but I'm certain that when Paizo eventually does publish a second edition, it will be much more like the transition from AD&D 1e to 2e-- more optional rules in the core, general refinements, and nearly 100% compatible with pre-existing rules and modules. There are a...

I'm really surprised at the opposition to rising ability scores here. I thought that was one of the best changes in 3.X and 4e D&D from their predecessors.

I don't see it happening. People who are playing 4e now like 4e, and many of them don't care for 3.X or Pathfinder; they're not going to switch from a game they like to a game they don't like, or like less, just because the game they like is going OOP. They're going to wait for 5e like the rest...

I'm looking to start an online (preferably IRC-based) FATE game on a regular weekly schedule. My availability is fairly open with afternoons or evenings (Pacific Time, GMT -8) preferred, but I'm capable of playing in the morning local time. If I can't put together enough players for a weekly...

AD&D style multiclassing. No more of this "Mystic Theurge" or multiclassing feat business, you get all of your powers from all of your classes-- at a lower level. Throw the dual-classing in there, too, but without the whole forgetting how to tie your own shoes angle. Racial classes. By all...

Smart creatures focus all of their attacks on one opponent until that opponent is down-- not dead, just down. Dumb creatures attack whatever is in front of them, and might keep waling on someone whose been downed if nobody else is hurting them, but you can also distract dumb creatures by having...

I don't mind Half-Orc Paladins because Half-Orc should never have been a separate race in the first place, but I hate Dwarven Wizards. Might as well not even have separate races at all if we're going to allow that sort of thing.