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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 4618895" data-attributes="member: 5038">Here were a lot of mine. I still need to go over the classes.1.  Fewer Absolutes as per Sean K Reynolds web articles2.  Occupations as per d20 Modern (WOTC)/ Fantasy Occupations (Adamant)3.  Remove non-biological racial abilities and make them feats4.  Culture Templates similar to HARP/ Rolemaster RMSS Adolescence with guidelines in the DMG to help DMs tailor the races to their setting.5. Removal of XP to create magic items (Artificer's Handbook)6.  Removal of XP to cast cast certain spells7.  Removal of level drain8.  Slower Leveling 9.  Tone down the spellcasters10. Class based defense11. Action Points (UA) as core, but die bonuses work like  Hero Points from Mutants and Masterminds.12. Weapon Groups from Unearthed Arcana13. Incantations from Unearthd Arcana14. Complex Skill checks from Unearthed Arcana15. Combat Maneuver System as per Book of Iron Might 16. Quick NPC generator as per Spycraft 2.0 (Crafty Games)/Foe Factory:Modern (Adamant)17. Classes (more to be added)a) More guidelines in the DMG for customizing characters as per the PHB 3.0/p.94 and3.5/110).  Give examples using the class variants from UA and the skill tradeoffs from the Cityscape enhancement18. Hit Pointsa) More hit points for characters and con bonus to hit points only applying at first levelb) Removing Negative hit points c) Death and Dying similar to that in Unearthed Arcanad) Star Wars like Condition track19. Single Save progression w/ the initial class providing a bonus (or bonuses). This stops multiclassing to cherry pick stacking good save bonuses. It also makes the feats that increase saves more attractive.20. Armor and Weapon proficiencies granted only by the initial class (or better don't assign armor and weapon proficiencies, but give a first level character extra bonus feats to buy armor, weapon proficiencies,).  This makes the first choice of class more important, because you cannot later take a level in a martial class to to learn all martial weapons and armor rather than spending the feats.  It also makes the initial choice of martial classes more important.20. Skillsa.  More Skill Points per level for the 2+int classb.  Removal of Half Ranks for cross classed skillsc.  Rework the cap on ranks and/or  rework the DCs.d. New uses for skills collected from the various bookse. Opposed Rolls: a single roll with 10+ opponent's ranks + oppoenent's modifier + other appropraite modifiers21. Featsa.  Removal of the +2 to two skillsb.  Remove many of the combat feats that should be things anyone can do (e.g, throw sand in opponent's face) and/or have fiddly bits (e.g, power attack).  For the latter, just have a standard maneuver and the feat simply reduces the attack penalty.c.  Rage, Sneak Attack, Turn Undead become feats.22.  Equipmenta.  bring back the missing armor and weapons from 1e and 2eb. Dire Flails, SPiked chains, etc. moved to an optional sourcebookc.  Sunrods, Tanglefoot bags, etc, moved to an optional sourcebook23. Combata. class based defense as mentioned aboveb. Several feats become maneuvers as per Book of Iron Might  that anyone can attempt.c. no negative hp as mentioned aboved. UA style death and dying or something similar from UA (as mentioned above). This also does away the current stabilization rules as it is built in.d. Star Wars Condition Track24. Poison: see both Sean Reynold's web article ongoing web article and Poison Craft (Blue Devil Games). 25. Turn Undead: Make it more like the vampire movies where it drives them back or causes them to flee26. Magic- Spontaneous divine casting from UA, but more limited spells lists based on the deities domains- reassign spells and spell levels- buffs by divine casters are assigned to specific domains- Remove the Law/Chaos Spells- Remove Rope Trick- Detect Evil/ Detect Good become Detect Unholy/Detect Holy and work on outsiders, undead or divine powered classes- Raise Dead, Resurrection, become Incantations or limited to specific domains.- Many diviniations become incantations- Wish become incantation or removed- Remove HD/Level from determining the base spell effects. - Remove HD/level from determining the number of targets affected.  - Use staged effects determined by degree of failure26. Psionic Powers handled as per Green Ronin's Psychic's Handbook27. Monstersa. Seperate BAB from HD28. DM advicea. Tell Dm's not to be concerned if every skill point is exactb. More Guidelines for using DMing unusual PC actions and maneuvers</blockquote>

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