E6 SRD - community project

[Gilladian]

File: ClassesI

Classes I is edited (I know, I never formally called dibs on it, but I did say I'd take "one of the class files" and since macrochelys took classesII and so quickly did it, I was "encouraged" to grab this one and do it. It took less than an hour to edit!

I had one minor rules question about bards. I'm not sure now's the time to bring it up, though.
Edit: Per Orc_Within, the rules question I have is about bards being able to swap out a spell they have learned at 5th (and higher) levels. The way the rules are written, they would only be able to do this ONE time, ever (at 5th level) and only a first level spell (they're restricted to swapping a spell two levels below their highest known level). Somehow this seems "mean" to me. We may want to address this as an optional rule (maybe a feat to allow other spell-swapping in some way...).

Status: Please Proofread

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

That's great news! It's good to hear the editing is going relatively quickly on these files.


RULES QUESTIONS

On rules questions, I was thinking there will be a whole period devoted exclusively to incorporating errata as soon as this first draft is finished.

However, if you want, you can certainly check the official PHB, DMG errata and see if it's addressed. If so go ahead and make a note in your post. I suppose you could correct now, but that might confuse the proofreading process a little.

If it's not in the errata, let's avoid dealing with it for now. Note the question in the post and that it's not errata'd, and we can come back to it. I don't think there's any harm in pointing out potential problems like that, as long as we stick to the SRD & errata text for now.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

ON SPELL FILES

I'm pretty sure you know this already, but just as a reminder (and, *ahem* because I keep forgetting this), there are a couple things to do when editing these "Spell A-Z" files.

1. Chopped spells are those above Sor/Wiz3, Clr3, Drd3; Brd2; Pal1, Rgr1.

2. For spells available to multiple classes, you may have to scrub the spell level line. For example a level reading "Brd3, Sor/Wiz3" needs to be edited to read only "Sor/Wiz3" (because Brd3 is out of the range of E6).

I think that's the import points, but let me know if I forgot to mention something obvious about this.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Spell List I

file: Spell List I

status: please proofread
comment:
I went ahead and grabbed this since the last one i took was a "no changes" file. I expect to be done before 10 Jan.

was easy to do! done, and ready for proof.

 

[Lord Xtheth]

So... I was going over my version of the spell list and something hit me. Why do we need to write spells out as 1st, 2nd, 3rd when the reason its done that way in the first place no longer pertains to anything?

Why not call them 1st, 3rd, 5th level spells... kinda like how 4e did. They're the same spells, but the refference is to the level you get access to them instead of what level they "are" especially when we're only dealing with 3 levels of spells.

The only answer that pops up in my mind is to make it other system compatable, which is a good reason, but the question may as well be asked. I mean there are no stupid questions right?

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

That's definitely a good (and logical) approach to modernizing spell levels, and such an alternative level scheme would make a good variant, or even basis for a whole d20 game variant.

This iteration, though, ought to be just a simple, "by-the-book", stripped-down version of the full d20 SRD. Changing spell levels is quite a deviation, and would effectively make any material (characters, adventures, campaigns) already created for a typical E6 game incompatible with this SRD. I'd like to avoid that.

Alternative rules should wait for a later version or wiki, in order to keep the present core SRD as close to WotC's official core text as possible, and maintain compatibility as much as possible.

 

[Lord Xtheth]

That's definitely a good (and logical) approach to modernizing spell levels, and such an alternative level scheme would make a good variant, or even basis for a whole d20 game variant.

This iteration, though, ought to be just a simple, "by-the-book", stripped-down version of the full d20 SRD. Changing spell levels is quite a deviation, and would effectively make any material (characters, adventures, campaigns) already created for a typical E6 game incompatible with this SRD. I'd like to avoid that.

Alternative rules should wait for a later version or wiki, in order to keep the present core SRD as close to WotC's official core text as possible, and maintain compatibility as much as possible.

Thats fair, I do want to keep "my version" compatable with previous ones as well as yours too... so yeah, I think I'll leave that unchanged.
It realy is looking like we're both on the exact same track thus far.

 

[macrochelys]

file: NPCClasses

file: NPCClasses

status: dibs/in progress

comment: should be done this by the end of Jan 8th

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Classes I

file: Classes I

status: proofreading

comment:
aiming to have proofread done by 10 Jan.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Spells (A-B)

file: Spells (A-B)

status: in progress

comment: not sure how long this will take, but will try to be done by 12 Jan.