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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beckett" data-source="post: 2848516" data-attributes="member: 781">House rules commonly found in games I run and adopted by others in my group (these have been scavenged from numerous sources).AE rules for death and dying: disabled from 0 to -con modifer, dead at -constitution, %con to stabilize.Characters raised from the dead do not lose a level, but gain a negative level until they level up.Hit Points: I've gone from random rolls with minimum HP gained equal to half the die (so, a D12 gives you at least 6 HP) to using the Iron Heroes route of 1D4 plus remainder of die (so D10 becomes 1D4+6, D12 is 1D4+8).Feats: More of them, in some way.  I had been doing bonus feats at 2nd, and every four levels after, in addition to the standard every 3.  For my Age of Worms game, characters get a feat every even level, with the option of 1 or 2 bonus feats taken sometime before 5th level if they go with a lower stat character.Damage Reduction: Medium armor grants DR 1/-, Heavy Armor grants DR 2/-.  A slight advantage to make up for the reduced movement.  Also, all damage reduction stacks.  So, a barbarian with DR 1/- wearing a breastplate would have a DR 2/-.  A fighter in full plate with a stoneskin spell is DR 10/adamantine and DR 2/-; damage is first reduced by the stoneskin, then by the armor.  It seemed silly to me that a 7th barbarian in an adamantine breastplate would have the same DR as a fighter in an adamantine breastplate.  In theory, a character could pile on a lot of DR, but in practice, this hasn't happened.  Also, as the potential for high DR rises, so does the average damage of monsters.Tumble and Casting Defensively: The base DC for these is 15 or the enemy's attack bonus, whichever is higher.</blockquote>

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