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Sounds interesting! Are there any previews or excerpts available?

Interesting idea of using Base Ref save bonus for defence bonus rather than basing it on BAB. A swashbuckler then, could be a fighter who has the best reflex progression rather than fortitude. And of course trade heavy armour proficiency for combat reflexes. And what about Initiative? Why...

How abou this? All damage from normal attacks is non-lethal. All damage from critical attacks is leathal. Note that non-lethal damage heals normally much faster than lethal damage.

Personally I do not see it as cheese. Giving up one level of wizard for a first level in Rogue is suboptimal trade-off IMHO. From a story perspective, the ability to freely add levels of classes that are supposed to represent years of training is the one component of 3.x that breaks the...

I did this. Specialist wizards could learn any spell of their particular college. For example, necromancers would learn the divine animate dead whereas all other wizards could only learn the arcane animate dead. As for healing, I made it empathic and vampiric. See this thread. In addition, I...

Yeah, what he said. ;)

In my mind, this begs the larger question of ‘will acts of Evil in the campaign be explicit or implied?’ Will the campaign be rated X, R, PG-13, PG, or G? Personally, I think there is a benefit to players having their characters enslaved as it really drives home the point of how slavery is...

And who among us can forget the series finale of FARSCAPE?!?

Captain America. ’nuff said!

WOW! I recently bought the Robin of Sherwood DVD boxed set (US released in March) and find it highly inspirational with lots of things to put into my campaign. A brief background: Robin of Sherwood was a TV show broadcast in the UK around ’83–’85 and later in the US on Showtime in the late...

Agreed. All in all, I really like this. With regards to using the bastard sword as a thrusting weapon, consider retaining the d10 for damage but taking a penalty to hit and reducing the critical threat range. In many cases a successful hit and crit with a bastard sword is the thrust. In...

Or maybe state that this tactic requires a bastard sword with an oversize crossguard.

Sounds like a Tim Burton movie to me! :lol:

Hey Imaro—How about hopping over to the House Rules Forum and post the disarm and trip rules you’d like to see? I’m an ex-SCA fighter and have posted my combat house rules from time to time but have never really looked at disarm and trip.

Take a look at America B.C., Saga America, and Bronze Age America — all by Barry Fell. There’s compelling evidence for Viking, Celt, and Mediterrean visitations if not outright colonisations in the New World. At the very least the books have a number of sites that could spawn adventures. In...

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I've been giving PCs and BBEGs max hit points for around 25 years give or take a few. It's worked out quite well. The PCs have a little more margin of error. I also give out less magic items than the typical D&D campaign so the extra hp help.

My exact experience. When I was in High School I allowed my players to murder each other. Since then I've realized that it hurts the game more than it helps. Players have to resolve their conflicts out of game and not use their characters as surrogates. Having said that, I have no problem...

Is this in any way surprising to anyone? :p To paraphase from the book “A World Lit only by Fire,” Christianity survived the Middle Ages in spite of them rather than because of them.

Why not just type "pal" instead? Why type two more letters? When I first started playing in 1977 and continuing throughout the entire '80s and into the mid-90's my friends and I used such abbreviations as pal, barb, wiz, etc. Adding suffix of 'y' or 'ie' at the end makes it sound like baby...