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It's been inspiring me to read over much of the stuff that I have, as well as consider new ways of thinking about mechanics. I have a few ideas that I'm jotting down. It may even turn into it's own system someday.

MS Word epub exporter epub Open Office Extension (need to test it with LibreOffice, should work, though) Calabri (to convert, create, and manage ebooks in quite a few formats; Mac, PC, and Linux) And that's a quick search. Apps for both android, iOS, and Win8 are HTML5 and Javascript based, so...

100% sweet spot may not be possible. Lanefan: Maybe. Long stretches of not getting any type of advancement kinda sucks, too. One reason why e6 works is that you still get something (bonus feat every so often) over time.

How dangerous the world is at any level is up to the DM. Yet I think the problem is with the power curve in advancement. For melee in 3.5, advancement was close to a straight, upward slope. Spellcasters had a curve that was more along the lines of an exponential one. Many higher level spells...

Mainly, the way it is organized and presented. Feat chains as presented in 3.5 and Pathfinder are a little messy. Talent Trees are feat chains that are limited to one class, and as such are listed with that class instead of simply dumped into the general feat population. d20 Modern and Star Wars...

This here's my tablet. HP tc1100, refurbished. Touch screen? What the flumph do I need a touch screen when this sucker sports a Wacom digitizer? And with running XP, the "app" library is pretty darn huge. Sure, the max I can get with battery life on this is about 2 hours. And, uh, XP's...

Like Clevernickname, I think a lot of the classes can be merged. Maybe not quite to the point Clevernickname believes, but Paizo's archetype system is a good example. Personally, I think a lot of the warlord stuff could be shifted into a paladin build, or split between a fighter build and a...

Star Wars Saga: Use the Force mechanic retooled into psionics (I know, I know, save it for the splat) Easy conversion to grouped-units-as-single-monster and mass battles (I guess...another splat?) d20 Modern: Talent Trees (also used well in SW:Saga), especially for melee combatants. a 5e...

Umbran's statement is an oversimplification, but is correct...to a point. Copyright, trademark, and patent law are rather complicated. Copyright covers the expression of an idea, not an idea in and of itself. Trademark covers brand identity, designed to prevent confusion. Patents cover a process...

Hard to say. One of the arguments against the SRD was that it was "giving the rules away for free," but 5e is already going to do that to some extent with the Open Beta. One could argue that the OGL bit them in the butt with Paizo making Pathfinder, but it only bit them in the butt because 4e...

True, but too much balancing of spells vs. melee equals some of the issues that some people have with 4. That part of game design has to do with the power-curve (mostly of casters). Personally, I'd prefer that the power curve start leveling off where gains are smaller at higher levels. With...

Okay, this may sound confusing, so please bear with me. I am rethinking classes from the ground up on this. 1. The BASE class/Character levels The Base Class has the underlying math. BAB, Saves, Spell progression (if applicable), skills. Say, Warrior, Expert, Adept Warrior - Good BAB, good...

I need to use more traps. Now I'm going to commit what many would believe is one of the gravest sins in modern game design: Look at how videogames handle traps. Well, and movies. There's always the classics - "bottomless" pit, mechanized traps that move/activate at regular intervals...

It's a campaign setting issue more so than core. Still, though, fantasy racism is not only tolerated in D&D, but encouraged. Orcs, drow, kobolds, goblinoids, etc are almost always evil. A good writer creates a scenario where the bad guys do evil things, but don't believe that they themselves...

As DM/GM, I prefer to be asked. If you ask, there is a high likelyhood I'll say "yes." If you don't, there is an even greater likelyhood I'll say "no." Especially if you're pulling stuff from pirated PDFs of obscure books that you don't own. I have had that happen. Even though I told the guy...

Turn Undead mechanics in 3e/3.5. Never quite understood how it worked. In fact, I'm not sure anyone understands how it works. Nobody in any of my groups did. I think it required a player to have some metagame knowledge on how many HD enemies had. Typically decended into some sort of ad-hoc...

Didn't know that. I started with 3e, so there's a lot of 2e I don't know about. I'm going to have to check it out.

Seems like the mod just doesn't want folks going off topic. It's a wishlist thread, after all... - I'd like to see some return of vancian magic, but not a complete removal of 4e's style of magic. - I would also like to see the return of a "core" setting, which at this moment is vaguely...

A Red Dragon eating a Beholder?

MINIONS! I love minions. Handy tools for DM control for combat pacing. Combat too quick? MORE MINIONS! Combat taking too long? FLEE, MY MINIONS! RUN AWAY! This slightly dangerous ablative armor is great for controlling battlefields. I'm gonna use them whether or not they are in the official...