I've Finalized My House Rules!
- Thread starter airwalkrr
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Tequila Sunrise
Adventurer
Nice to see that you're finally done (relatively speaking) with this project of yours, after reading so many of your posts.
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seans23
First Post
sorry about the 403. I forgot to chmod it appropriately. when I scp from work, the default umask isn't being used for some reason. The url should work now.
http://donkeyshow.org/d20/GCS_1.0.pdf
http://donkeyshow.org/d20/GCS_1.0.pdf
Bagpuss
Legend
I must say I'm interested in your idea of using action points to buy features. Why did you introduce this?
I take it if you take a swashbuckler you'll be permanently down 3 action points. So you'd only have 3 at 3rd level, while the fighter would have 6. You've obviously not done it for balance reasons, since if you thought a particular class was unbalanced a few action points isn't going to offset that.
With your change to Spiked Chain can a fighter doing Whirlwind attack still target opponents at both 5ft and 10ft?
I take it if you take a swashbuckler you'll be permanently down 3 action points. So you'd only have 3 at 3rd level, while the fighter would have 6. You've obviously not done it for balance reasons, since if you thought a particular class was unbalanced a few action points isn't going to offset that.
With your change to Spiked Chain can a fighter doing Whirlwind attack still target opponents at both 5ft and 10ft?
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airwalkrr
Adventurer
Bagpuss said:
I did it primarily as a way to encourage players to play the game using the core rules, while still allowing them enough flexibility to try new things. I got the idea for the mechanic from the Eberron: Mark of Heroes campaign which lets you spend action points to gain access to new rules features via campaign cards. In most cases, the campaign cards give you more abilities to choose from, but my system has the added flexibility of letting you choose anything you want instead of being limited to only those items on the card. Eberron also lets you choose a non-core ability each level from a specific list, but I decided that would be too much. Eberron is more high-magic than Greyhawk. I would run things a bit differently (more leniently) if I were to run an Eberron campaign.
My chief interest is preserving the flavor of D&D and Greyhawk. D&D is about fighters, rogues, clerics, and wizards exploring dungeons, fighting bad guys, and taking their stuff, and like it or not, it is the base classes in the PH that normally fill these roles best. A warlock may be a decent blaster, but he is a poor substitute for a mage and does not have the ability to take hits like a fighter. Some classes approximate the role of PH classes more than others, such as the scout (which fills the rogue's role nicely, almost better than the rogue!), but on the whole, the alternate base classes are more specialized variants of the classic D&D archetypes with a narrower focus. We once ran the Shackled City campaign with a favored soul, a warmage, a rogue/temple raider, and a bard/avenging angel. The favored soul and warmage were the biggest drag on the party. Countless times we found ourselves saying "if only the favored soul was a cleric so she could cast X" or "if only the warmage was a wizard so he could cast Y." We never finished the campaign partly because it became excruciatingly difficult without these roles being suitably filled. Combat was manageable, but puzzle-solving, investigation, and travel were all difficult pursuits of herculean proportions.
Bagpuss said:
As I said, it was to encourage players who use the core rules. Traditionally, I have not incorporated action points into my campaigns so having them is a bonus which you reap more benefits from if you stick to the core rules. I have before put limitations on using classes, feats, etc. from outside the core rules such as lower ability scores, flaws, and so on. But I decided that positive reinforcement for those who choose to use the core rules would be preferable, and this system accomplishes that.
Obviously, some parts of non-core rules are better than others. A swashbuckler certainly is not going to disrupt my game from a balance concern. And after all, you can play a swashbuckler archetype easily with many character classes. Bards and rogues do it best. Barbarians, fighters, and rangers do it well to a lesser degree. So if you want to play the swashbuckler class, chances are you want to do so for a specific reason, one which is not available in the core rules. That is fine, but it usually means using a trick that the core rules do not assume player characters have. Rather than try to balance minutiae, I decided a flat AP cost on non-core stuff was a good way to simply encourage core stuff.
Bagpuss said:
Whirlwind attack states that any opponents within reach can be subject to your attack so the spiked chain would still allow you to attack opponents both 5 and 10 ft away.
RainOfSteel
Explorer
airwalkrr,
You mentioned your hourly bandwidth was getting maxed. Try dropping the pdf file into a zip file. That should help a little (10-20%).
You mentioned your hourly bandwidth was getting maxed. Try dropping the pdf file into a zip file. That should help a little (10-20%).
Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
I am getting the message the the file is damaged and can not be repaired.seans23 said:
