Search results

I'm going to be running a Spelljammer campaign soon, and I need help building my Crystal Sphere. I'm foisting most of the world-building work for the main planet on my players-- they come up with character backgrounds and cultures, and I build the world around them-- but I want to have a good...

Oh, now that is an entirely different kettle of fish. Either your player is a jerk, or he's playing a character that's a jerk-- which, in most cases, is just an excuse for being a jerk. Tell him that his attitude doesn't work, and he can either play nicely with everyone else or find a new game.

Recovering hit points from any source causes you to stabilize automatically. Creatures with Fast Healing are effectively immune to the dying condition; unless they're killed outright, they're stable and they're going to be on their feet within a minute.

That's fine. There's nothing you can do before level 6 that matters and the progression I suggested offers good survivability at every level.

Factotum was awesome sauce. I loved it in Gestalt games, opposite the Chameleon.

If you're going Wisdom to AC, you don't want Ninja. Ardent 20//Monk 2/Divine Mind 4/Survivor 5/Sangehirn 9. That way you get the early Monk saving throw bonuses and Evasion with Divine Grace. Survivor gives you Improved Evasion, Uncanny Dodge and DR 5/- while Sangehirn gives you Fast Healing...

In 3.5 with Complete Psionic, you'd be an Ardent that dipped Soulknife 2/Soulbow 1. Medium BAB and your "bow" damage is based on your manifesting ability score.

Warmage casting. All their spells do the same thing, right? So let them do their thing. I'd look to Pathfinder for inspiration. Replace all their upper level 1/day condition heals with the PF Paladin's lay on hands and Mercies, and give them the Cleric's Channel Energy but only the heal living...

I'd say there are degrees of evil. You can give the Orcs and Goblins a rich, detailed culture and worldview that predisposes them toward evil-- like the culture of Dwarves and Elves predisposes them toward good-- and then address the issue of whether or not their cultural predisposition...

Fair enough. I'd be happier if spellcasting itself relied on two ability scores, however.

Assuming trolls are edible. I've always ruled that they're not.

There we go. I can make a few more specific suggestions based on what I've seen. You've got Spelljammer. If you like it, I really can't speak highly enough of the Complete Spacefarer's Handbook; I know I've already mentioned it, but it's one of the few books that actually treats Spelljammer...

Everything I'd recommend is highly conditional. I can't see the database from the link provided, but here's what I consider essential to 2e. If there's anything you already have in your collection, I apologize. The Player's Option series, including Skills & Powers, Combat & Tactics, and Spells...

I'm opposed to class features that allow characters to pile all of their abilities on a single ability score, but Intelligence and Charisma are so impoverished that I have little problem with allowing non-spellcasters to use them for non-standard abilities. I allow unarmored Fighters and Rogues...

The bigger half of the troll regenerates into a whole troll. If you want to be a bastard about it, both halves of the troll regenerate into whole trolls. Had a character once used to use trolls as siege weapons. He'd have Clerics cast multiple overlapping blade barrier spells in mid air and use...

It's my name. I had it changed last year.

I'd rule that you get your Intelligence modifier and your Dexterity modifier.

My design goals are fairly simple. I want to re-create the version of D&D I liked best using a cleaner and more organized core ruleset, and incorporate a few things from other versions that I think are nifty. My audience at this point is me, and my gaming group. If I can incorporate what I'm...

Well, here's my outline: Combine Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide with AD&D 2e Player's Option. Simplified skill system. Extremely limited feats. Simplified combat. No Prestige Classes. Everything is built into base classes. Racial classes as in OD&D. Simple, flexible multiclassing...

The other two are alternate class features for the Rogue and the Cavalier, but as of Round 2 the Gunslinger is a thing shaped unto itself.