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First give them access to all spells of their school, e.g. divine spells, bard spells, etc. Second create additional spells if necessary to round out their repetoire. For example fireball is an area effect damage dealing spell. What does a diviner do instead? Or an abjurer? This is the key to...

According to the d20 License guide, players get to choose character attributes like race, gender, social class etc. I think sexual orientation would also fall under this category. Basically one of the design decisions of D&D 3.x is "Player's Choice" rather than rolling whenever possible...

True, but I never had a chance to try out HACA (or whatever it's called now). :p

My reasons have changed over the years. In the beginning, I preferred the magic system over Chivalry & Sorcery. Later when some friends started playing Rolemaster I found that I preferred D&D because combat resolved faster. Later with the advent of White Wolf's World of Darkness and Pendragon...

Back in the day when I was running 1st Ed. games I came awfully close to running combat per the RAW. Helmet rules, weapon length, weapon speed, weapon vs. armour, and surprise were the best parts of the combat rules IMHO. Of course I'm also ex-SCA and partial to combat rules that reflect that...

I think this is the most compelling argument. I've often wondered how the Black Prince became such a high level knight without getting killed young. With regards to the other posters, let's look at some basic numbers: 978,000 gp actually costs 489,000 in raw materials. Labour cost is already...

Scenario You are the king of a prosperous kingdom and like most kings, engage in wars with your neighbors from time to time. Some of your children wish to become knights of renown (or maybe wizards, clerics, &c.). Naturally you encourage their career choice but you want to ensure that your...

Yeah, what he said! My game world Grymwurld™ got its name from a player who constantly had his buttocks handed to him. “It’s a grim, grim world” he used to say. In 30 years of playing D&D I’ve only met two people who can roll better than myself. Thanks to 3.x with expanded crit ranges, I’ve...

I've been kicking around the same idea for a few years now. Haven't finalised anything but I do suggest looking at d20 Modern and d20 Modern Arcana: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/msrd Most of the D&D core classes are presented as advanced, i.e prestige classes.

Wouldn't it be easier to just go on eBay and buy a first edition AD&D Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual? A cursory glance suggests that they go for around $5.00 + $5.00 shipping each. Otherwise take a look at OSRIC (http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/) which is...

Rather than call this class a mage or all-magician, why not … Magic-User ?!?

I was going to but then two of the others players said that he always ends up Evil and laughed. I realized at that point that they were as much a part of the problem as the offending PC was. Four of the original seven players were friends who played in another game and apparently found it fun...

Historical Campaign Supplements My all-time favourite edition is AD&D 2nd Ed. Player's & DM's Options with the Historical Campaign Supplements. However I choose to now play 3.5 for the availability of players and the option to publish via the OGL & d20 Licenses. To-date, I have been unable to...

Combat Expertise darnit! Use Combat Expertise. If you don't like the 5 point cap, uncap it (I did). Heck, give Combat Expertise as a free feat to everyone including monsters. Now all combatants have a choice of how much of their BAB to put into offence and how much into defence. Personally I...

Why supernatural and not spell-like abilities? Enquiring minds want to know….

In my experience as a DM having an all-evil party is fun as a one-shot or short lived campaign. Having one or a small minority of evil characters in a party is not fun at all. Consistently it ends up in one of two scenarios: The players of the Non-Evil characters have their characters 'turn a...

IIRC a lot of fantasy heroes carry their longbow around their body -- stave on the back and bowstring on the front. As for shotbows. . . I'm not sure if any Fantasy heroes actually use a shortbow. I think the Mongols had some sort of holster for their composite shortbows. Hope this helps.

QFT. My only issue with 3.x is that it has evolved D&D to a SuperHero game far more than previous editions and that players expect campaigns to reflect this. I believe that this has been in response to the success of computer games. Clearly I'm out of step with the marketplace and I'm OK with...

Worked fine for me and my players in OD&D and 1st Ed. AD&D. Then again, non-Humans always multiclassed. IMHO I think the game was designed with the assumption that non-Humans would always multiclass. Racial level limits kept the multiclass characters from dominating the game. Can you imagine...

Personally I like to keep my variants as simple as possible. Hence the use of non-lethal damage rather than fatigue points. However using Vitality Points in a VP/WP system accomplishes the same thing since there is no non-lethal damage in VP/WP. I use spell level + caster level because a...