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<blockquote data-quote="NotZenon" data-source="post: 5274386" data-attributes="member: 85907">I appreciate your input.I REALLY like the piazo pathfinder stuff, (art work, writing, the whole bit) but to be honest i'm already heavily house ruling it because its just to High powered, and not classic fantasy enough for me.&nbsp; I'm strongly considering buying the Trailblazer product, i've been trying to read as much about it as i can on the Enworld boards here. the only reason i'm holding out is that i'm broke for the moment! ha.I've been playing DnD online the free game a little bit lately, and surprisingly they have a really cool slow leveling system.&nbsp; Basically each level is divided into 4 sublevels (you also need like 5x as much XP but that has more to do with being a video game)&nbsp; in which you get &quot;action points&quot; to spend, but these points are closer to &quot;mini-feats&quot;&nbsp; that you can choose based on you class/race.&nbsp; For example as a barbarian you can get an &quot;action point&quot; mini feat that allows you to add a +2 to damage for 3 rounds(20 seconds), using these action point feats uses an &quot;action point&quot; (i believe you get 5 per dungeon, until you can find a rest shrine).&nbsp; But some of the &quot;action point&quot; mini feats you buy just give you flat bonus's, like a +1 fort save vs. poison for the dwarf. they also have one for prime requisite advancement (+1)It works on a number of levels since some of the traditional racial bonus's can be handed out this way (making it easier to balance starting races that tradtionally&nbsp; may have been too tough like dwarves)&nbsp; it also encourages people to single class since the better &quot;action point&quot; mini feats are available at higher levels.&nbsp; Of course multi classing is still awesome cause it just makes that many more mini feats available to&nbsp; you.&nbsp;&nbsp; Actually alot of these &quot;action points&quot; remind me of the &quot;character traits&quot; system introduced in some of the pathfinder stuff.&nbsp; The thing that impressed me the most is it basically keeps the core of 3.5, while allowing for more interesting and exciting level advancement (in my opinion one of DnD's biggest weaknesses), yet surprisingly doesn't seem to have the &quot;power leveling&quot; effect that pathfinder seems to have.&nbsp; my 4rth level cleric barbarian is still fighting kobolds for example.&nbsp;&nbsp; I'm wondering if anyone has tried compiling these DnD online rules for pen and paper play.sorry totally rambled off topic there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NotZenon, post: 5274386, member: 85907"] I appreciate your input. I REALLY like the piazo pathfinder stuff, (art work, writing, the whole bit) but to be honest i'm already heavily house ruling it because its just to High powered, and not classic fantasy enough for me. I'm strongly considering buying the Trailblazer product, i've been trying to read as much about it as i can on the Enworld boards here. the only reason i'm holding out is that i'm broke for the moment! ha. I've been playing DnD online the free game a little bit lately, and surprisingly they have a really cool slow leveling system. Basically each level is divided into 4 sublevels (you also need like 5x as much XP but that has more to do with being a video game) in which you get "action points" to spend, but these points are closer to "mini-feats" that you can choose based on you class/race. For example as a barbarian you can get an "action point" mini feat that allows you to add a +2 to damage for 3 rounds(20 seconds), using these action point feats uses an "action point" (i believe you get 5 per dungeon, until you can find a rest shrine). But some of the "action point" mini feats you buy just give you flat bonus's, like a +1 fort save vs. poison for the dwarf. they also have one for prime requisite advancement (+1) It works on a number of levels since some of the traditional racial bonus's can be handed out this way (making it easier to balance starting races that tradtionally may have been too tough like dwarves) it also encourages people to single class since the better "action point" mini feats are available at higher levels. Of course multi classing is still awesome cause it just makes that many more mini feats available to you. Actually alot of these "action points" remind me of the "character traits" system introduced in some of the pathfinder stuff. The thing that impressed me the most is it basically keeps the core of 3.5, while allowing for more interesting and exciting level advancement (in my opinion one of DnD's biggest weaknesses), yet surprisingly doesn't seem to have the "power leveling" effect that pathfinder seems to have. my 4rth level cleric barbarian is still fighting kobolds for example. I'm wondering if anyone has tried compiling these DnD online rules for pen and paper play. sorry totally rambled off topic there. [/QUOTE]

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