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Overall, I think your system is vastly superior to the core system given in the SRD/books. I have been wondering for a while how to adapt the craft-points mechanics in Unearthed Arcana to what I wanted to do in my future games, and have been particularly uninspired. Past skill-based systems I...

An Empowered fireball requires a 5th level slot to prepare. A ring of spell storing holds up to 5 levels of spells. On the face of it, it appears that levels of spells in this type of ring act as spell slots. Therefore, I would say yes, an Empowered third level spell, effectively being fifth...

The spell's description does say the subject's hands must be free. I can't seem to locate a game definition of what that is, though. I've always assumed bare hands. It isn't that I find it impossible to believe that a horse can go up a wall. I just think spider climb isn't up to the task...

I'm not even sure that would suffice. One, almost all horses are shod, and this means their hoves aren't free per the spell's requirement for "free hands" (since the consensus seems that hands = hooves, even though I don't believe that for a second). This is the real killer for me. I would...

A friend of mine has run three, although I was not in those. The history, nations, and race distributions were original in each. 1: Siberia: An ancient game set in the tundra and northern forests and mountains or northeastern Russia. 2: Greece: A bronze-age game set amongst the isles in a...

Ok. <puts dunce cap on> I was under the impression that 3.0 Haste did not allow for the casting of multiple spells per round. That is, beyond what could already be done, 1 standard action spell, and 1 free action spell per round. At low levels, that is usually feather fall (if needed), and...

This system places a heavy need/desirability on feats that grant initiative bonuses, and gives a huge benefit for taking them, much larger than before. Imp. Init: +4, Lightning Init: +4, Veteran: +2, Dex (18 + 6 from gloves + 6 from Manual, +4 through 16th level: 34): +12. Total: +22. That...

I feel that if all forms of protection vs. scrying listed in the rules operate in exactly the same way, it creates no variant situations requiring further interpretations and rulings. Thus, there is no need to differentiate AMF and lead sheeting as far as scrying is concerned. --------- BTW...

The sensor rules on PHB p.173 note that other forms of protection are available, such as lead sheeting. If whoever the magical sensor had located and was viewing walked into a room shielded by lead sheets, I believe it would no longer be able to view anything. There are two ways to go from...

Given: A person who has been traumatized into a total emotional and moral vacuum is operating in life on a minimum, hospitalized and barely capable of anything. This person has no good in their heart in what little actions he/she might perform, such as talking to doctors and nurses, getting up...

I could not agree more. Bravo!

Due dilligence in the middle of a forest? In a pseudo-medival or other type of historical fantasy setting? No woodsman is going to do any of that (put up barriers, etc.), and no one will expect him to. It isn't something that any woodsman anywhere would be doing. In fact, if we go with...

No, he did not commit an evil act. He may well have done something tremendously stupid and possibly criminally culpable--if he didn't check out the area where he was going to drop the tree ahead of time--but evil, no. Not if he didn't know the child was there. (And in a fantasy-type gaming...

And yet, that is exactly the way I have always read the rules. (For 1e and 2e, anyway. I abandoned the use of alignments so long ago I never bothered to even read the 3.x versions.) ----------------------------------- Alignment Myths Interpretation: That everyone is going to look at...

Yes. That movie rocked.

Regardless of what alignment you believe Han Solo was in A New Hope, shooting Greedo first wasn't an evil or even chaotic act. Greedo had a gun on him at the time! Shooting Greedo was self defense, and nothing else. Personally, I saw him as a hard-nosed character who no longer believed in...

Ok . . . Sphere of Anihilation. Gulp, gulp, gulp. Sand all gone.

For the most part, they don't. If a player without Jump or any Jump-related feats wishes to try and jump a 30-foot gap, that can certainly be attempted. The likely result is failure, of course. But for someone who has no training or ability in that area, that is as it should be. On those...

I definitely do not believe that it follows. It would be far better to look at existing spells and compare damage amounts than to drag in feat-boosted versions of earlier similar spells. The spell as given is not in acceptable condition to be reviewed by a DM. It contains rules that are...

You are mad, sir. Absolutely, completely mad. Please continue.