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Extra Education [General] Above and beyond the talents you acquire naturally and through ardent practice, you (or your mentor, school, cabal, church, etc.) also focus on a handful of skills that are regarded as important. Benefit: Choose any three skills. These skills are regarded as class...

This personally annoys me, and I tend to follow Kant's imperative, so in-game I generally limit things to "attack that target" or "secure this objective", and let the individual player work out whatever it is they want to do in order to make it happen. The other half of this sort of play is...

Thanks for replying, everyone :) The problem our group was ran into was "this PARTY will not survive contact with the enemy", more often than not, so they've basically delegated combat command to the best fighter (my PC). So (hopefully) solo "heroic" actions will be used when necessary, not...

I've seen a large number of threads devoted to "is this balanced" or "is this spell enough" and so forth. I haven't seen a lot of threads that deal with the capabilities of the party as a unit, rather than a set of individuals with cool capabilities. So I'm starting one, and hoping it doesn't...

I'm sort of annoyed by this, but I also liked how it turned out, so all is not lost. I play in a low-magic D&D game as a pure Fighter. Our party has one Rogue/Bard (a venture capitalist), a Rogue/Sorcerer, a Cleric/Paladin, a Monk, and a Sorcerer NPC. The PCs are all 4th-5th level, with few...

Basically, every game designer stands on the shoulders of giants. To understand what to do (or what not to do), it's helpful to look at past efforts that have tried to achieve similar goals. GURPS Magic's Improvised magic system is such a beast.

Do yourself a favor... Grab a copy of "GURPS Magic" and read up on its "Improvised Magic" optional rules.

Easily doable. I can shuffle the progression around until it looks right.

This is one of the things that I'm strongly debating. Two Knowledge prereqs seem to be more than adequate, assuming the PC this is intended for can buy enough of them in time :D Augh.. Thanks. The suggestion for making it based on Charisma has been instituted. Since the class isn't...

Link: http://www.memesis.org/m.php?id=204 This is a Prestige Class I'm introducing into a game, but need help balancing. Flavor text is not present on the linked page, I'm still writing that. ^_^ Stat summary: Fighter BAB, favored saves Fort/Will, 4+int skills, about 15 class skills, and...

Pehaps to avoid the 9000-gp pricetag for something whose value comes mostly when multiple party members can use one :)

Operating in a similar fashion to Heward's Handy Haversack and Ehlonna's Quiver, this item (shaped like a large bracelet, and taking up room where a buckler would) is permanently linked to a singularly-shaped extradimensional space. The wearer, as a free action, may draw a specially-prepared...

I'm looking for software that will EASILY let a medium-sized group manage its battles online. I'm hoping to avoid the top-heavy multimegabyte do-everything type packages if possible, and Web-based would be a big plus (we have Mac and Linux users in the group). Anybody know of an existing...

For instantaneous casters, the rules would be more or less as they are - use the material when you cast the spell. As for limiting clerics a bit, well... Frankly, that's something they could use anyway. :)

First, I think I screwed up and put this in D&D Rules instead of House Rules. Duh. This is basically one of the balancing factors to the previous post, about stilled spells and components. It means that major spells with expensive components really do seem major - the caster goes through the...

I'm thinking of proposing two "thematic" house rules to my DM, but I want to see if there are any major unbalancing issues people can think of. 1. Visibly-prepared spells: spell prep leaves behind a distinctive mark - runes on the forearms, for example, or something fairly standardized. The...

As characters advance in level, they become basically luckier versions of themselves, and in many other respects become less powerful. Sure, statistically you're hitting higher attack rolls and such, and your skills are sure improving (skill DCs are irrespective of level). But the critical...

So I came up with this idea (do not ask how) of having a wizard character, who happens to own a rather nice home (about 45-50 feet to a side at the base, maybe 5 stories plus attic and a couple of higher rooms), and wants it to move. Like, across the ground. Top speed no more than 20 mph or...

Gamestuff. It sounds like such an NPC could cast variants of spells like gaseous form and such, probably has the Fire creature type, and can do about 1d8 (plus 1d6 fire?) in a melee attack, at will, or 1d6 when grappling (or grappled, or punched... ) One really nasty thing would be to absorb...

Law and Magic are both possible domain choices. I hate to sound obvious, but look at the Monster Manual itself for one idea. A book with an eyeball makes an oddball diety :) Another option is a stone obelisk with writing on it, or adapt the Illuminated symbol of the all-seeing eye atop the...