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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grayhawk" data-source="post: 813305" data-attributes="member: 11288">Back again. That was a beautiful movie! And it's about 3:30 AM here now...Here are some of my house rules for a low magic campaign I'm preparing. In random order:A succesful Healing check DC 20 Restores 1d4 HP (fresh wounds only). System Shock Survival: Fort save DC 10. (To survive being raised)When Raised: Loose 1 point of Con.Coup de Grace deals double damage (instead of automatic crit). (As most weapons crit multiplier is balanced against their threat range, I feel that a specific situation that grants you an automatic crit is unbalanced, as it ignores the threat range)Two natural 1's on an attack roll result in a critical miss (fumble), that makes you drop your weapon. Two natural 20's on an attack roll prompts a 'save or die' from the target. This check is 1d20 plus the targets character level or CR vs a DC of 11 plus the attackers character level or CR.(Reason: As a gamemaster rolling two natural 20's, I'd rather put the saving roll in the hands of the player, rather than just confirming the instant kill myself)All characters start with a free class & background related  Skill Focus feat (propably for a craft, profession or knowledge skill). Skills can be increased by a maximum of 2 ranks per level (beyond first).Halfelves get bonus skill points as humans.Prereq. for Scribe Scroll is 2nd level. Mages get the Decipher Script skill.Point buy 25, or standard array. (Or maybe 24+d4 points)Knowledge (Beasts) can be used to gain information about the various monster types. DC starts at 10+CR.Haflings get +1 to hit with slings as well as with thrown weapons.No strenght penalty on slings, strenght bonus capped at +1.(I found it annoying that the MM describes Kobold's tactics as slinging stones, yet having them use crossbows in the statblock, since somebody obviously thought it was too weak to have them deal 1d4 -2 HP with their slings)Some renaming:Halfspears are Spears. Shortspears are Greatspears. Longspears are Pikes.Mithril is also known as Truesilver.No rapiers, elves uses Elven Blades instead (same stats).Bless Weapon is renamed to Holy Weapon.Magic Weapon is renamed to Bless Weapon.Greater Magic Weapon is renamed to Magic Weapon.Some changes to haste & slow:Haste: No extra Magical Partial actions, +2 AC, Attack Rolls & Refl Saves.Slow: One partial action, -2 AC, Attack Rolls & Refl Saves.New DR for undead:Skeletal: Blunt - normal. Piercing & slashing - 0.5xDam/BlessedCorporeal: Slashing - normal. Piercing & blunt - 0.5xDam/BlessedIncorporeal: Blessed or magic to hit, 50% miss chance.Well, that's some of them. Most have not been playtested yet, so please comment or ask for clarifications on the ones you don't get or disagree with (if anybody comes to page 4 of this thread, anyway...)</blockquote>

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