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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Daniel" data-source="post: 3384953" data-attributes="member: 694">I've cut the following out my D&amp;D game:- Feats- Skill points (and the skill list is condensed to exactly 30 skills)- Attacks of opportunity- Law and Chaos- The full attack action (if you can attack, you can make all your attacks)- Monstrous characters- Templates- Base classes other than the 9 permitted in my setting (monk, fighter, rogue, noble, cleric, shaman, mage, psychic, and scientist)- Prestige classes other than the 12 permitted in my setting (berserker, samurai, paladin, ranger, mystic, templar, engineer, bard, ninja, sorcerer, sage, and oracle)- Distinctions between simple, martial, and exotic weapons- Increased threat ranges and critical multipliers- Most everything complicated about grappling- Differences in the way spell-casting classes learn, prepare, and cast spells (all magic-users keep spell-books, prepare spells, and cast their prepared spells with spontaneous slots)- Size modifiers to hit and AC- Dex adjustments to Initiative- Overly detailed monster stats (ability scores, skill lists, etc.)- XP penalties for multiclassing (and racially favored classes)- Epic spells (epic everything else, too, now that I think about it)Some things, after all, worked better just the way they were before the d20 System appeared.&nbsp; Come to think of it, as I look over all the complications that I've decided to strip away from my game, the only good things that 3rd edition has brought to my game have been multiclassing and the &quot;roll a d20, add a modifier, beat a DC&quot; mechanic.&nbsp; Everything else... pfft.&nbsp; Gimmie my Rules 'Cyclopedia.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Daniel, post: 3384953, member: 694"] I've cut the following out my D&D game: - Feats - Skill points (and the skill list is condensed to exactly 30 skills) - Attacks of opportunity - Law and Chaos - The full attack action (if you can attack, you can make all your attacks) - Monstrous characters - Templates - Base classes other than the 9 permitted in my setting (monk, fighter, rogue, noble, cleric, shaman, mage, psychic, and scientist) - Prestige classes other than the 12 permitted in my setting (berserker, samurai, paladin, ranger, mystic, templar, engineer, bard, ninja, sorcerer, sage, and oracle) - Distinctions between simple, martial, and exotic weapons - Increased threat ranges and critical multipliers - Most everything complicated about grappling - Differences in the way spell-casting classes learn, prepare, and cast spells ([i]all[/i] magic-users keep spell-books, prepare spells, and cast their prepared spells with spontaneous slots) - Size modifiers to hit and AC - Dex adjustments to Initiative - Overly detailed monster stats (ability scores, skill lists, etc.) - XP penalties for multiclassing (and racially favored classes) - Epic spells (epic everything else, too, now that I think about it) Some things, after all, worked better just the way they were before the d20 System appeared. Come to think of it, as I look over all the complications that I've decided to strip away from my game, the [i]only[/i] good things that 3rd edition has brought to my game have been multiclassing and the "roll a d20, add a modifier, beat a DC" mechanic. Everything else... pfft. Gimmie my Rules 'Cyclopedia. [/QUOTE]

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