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yes, I do indeed intent to balance casters vs non-casters. You might not have noticed it yet but my non-casters are a bit more powerful than in standard D&D, my example fighter has 2 extra skill points per level and about 9 extra class features. And the adventurer is the closest analogy to the...

I go for the sophontist (damn it, sentience != intelligence) animals. I've actually had a bard cat as an NPC at one point.

Index: Main Post Fighter Talents and bonus feats Berzerker subclass Talents and Bonus Feats Class/Sub Class This is an alternate system for defining classes in d20 based games. Class in this case is a generic abstract that determines the chassis of a character, his HP, BAB, Saves, Skill...

I think that a combination of d20 modern and SW is the best d20 system in general. I would use d20 modern as a base and add Wounds/Vitality. In modern there are no dead levels. Every hero gains a class feature at every level. Generic base classes let you build a wide range of characters without...

That is assuming that the fighter is already balanced vs those other classes. IMO, I would not give the fighters the exotic weapon for free. What I would do is expand thier skill points to 4 and increase thier skill list to include a wider skillset including all skills useful in combat. This...

I've never seen any ars Magica stuff... Curious. What characteristics do you see in d20 that were derived from it?

yes. Alternity is indeed one of the ancestors of d20, along with the SPECIAL system IMO. Though personally I much prefer the fixed bonus of d20 over the die steps. And I never could really get into alternity because there were a lot of characters I wanted to play that just didn't fit with the...

It is a very apropriate situational determination. As for permenant houserules? only if you add rules for "critical hit" for all other skills as well.

I met my woman outside of gaming. And I decided to not push the hobby on her, mostly because I didn't want her to hate it and make me quit. I may yet introduce her to gaming when I get the free time though.

I have considered something similar, but instead of regenerating after every battle, it requires an hour of rest. Basically I would be using Wounds/Vitality with a spellpoint system (with very, very limited number of spellpoints) that regenerates every hour. One slight modification is that any...

Do you mean literally 5 seconds, as in less than a full round action in the middle of combat? or are you just going to assume that spells and hp recover fully after every battle? In either case, it favors classes/races with limited use abilities like spells and rage over those with weaker...

The good news is that he will be immune to the fatigue afterwards.

AoO are easy as pie, and the author gets them wrong. The only really complex AoO stuff occures when you have two combatants with combat reflexes that use thier AoO on actions that also provoke AoO.

I don't know, she came to me. On topic: I have spycraft 1.0, while it is good for the superspy genre, I wouldn't suggest it for anything else. I don't know much about 2.0, but I have heard good things.

I certainly can. I generally find goths to be annoying and melodromatic... But I also happen to be engaged to a really nice and cute one. :cool:

Im a stacker, I stack things when I can absorb information without concentration. One time, in a programming class for a language I already knew, I managed to stack 4 pens strait up on the table. I got such a dirty look from instructor Pham... I also stack during games when other people are...

IIRC the rule states no buff round, IE no round to cast short duration buffs before the fight. Contingency is a very long duration buff, and should be allowed as should anything that lasts a good half day or more.

short answer: no. Moderate answer: very, very no. not enough energy, the bolts would have pathetic penetration (as in about as good as a modern day paintball) Add to that the mechanical complexity, and I think 2 very's and a no is far to generous.

Sacrificial virgins. ;) There is "precedence" in many fantasy stories for this method.