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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6332321" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I built two characters.  The first is a Ranger, and he's a slightly abusive build in that he's a Spiked Chain fighter.  And yes, he'll cheese the whip before he's done.  Personality wise, he's a loudmouth with a temper and, well, as one writer once put it, "I don't have authority issues, I just don't like people telling me what to do.".  The second was a straight Scout, which some people consider abusive enough all on its own.  He's a soft spoken, get-the-job done kind of guy with a fairly straight laced moral code.The players decided they liked the loudmouth.  Go figure. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for house rules:  We had some in our last game that we're continuing:1) Iterative attacks happen every four BAB points instead of every five (helps the melee types keep up with the spell casters).2) Teleport and it's near relatives are restricted.  Last time they didn't exist in the game world at all.  This time they exist, as rituals, and run from ley-line junction to ley-line junction only.  Greater Teleport can change ley-lines, so it can go more places in the line network.  In practice, it works when and where the DM says it can.3) Last game we removed Raise Dead and its relatives.  People just didn't come back in Grecco/Roman tales.  Instead, the party had to travel to the Land of the Dead, find the dead person's spirit, and walk them back to the land of the living.  That option is still available, but now we also allow the spells.  The spells are now an all-day ritual, usable only on Hallowed ground, ground dedicated to a deity appropriate for the person being brought back.4) Last time we granted every spell caster a bonus feat, specifically Non Lethal Substitution (as a generic), on the theory that it's hard to learn magic when practice of some spells kills your fellow acolytes and apprentices.  We're continuing that, but added a balancing bonus feat for everyone else:  One additional weapon proficiency.  Classes like Ranger and Paladin, which start as fighter types and eventually become spell casters, can choose which they like.  No character ever gets more than one such bonus feat, no matter how many classes they might end up with.5) The Item Creation Feat, Craft Wondrous Item, was considered too broad and powerful.  We realigned the feats slightly:  Amulets, earrings, headbands, broaches etc got moved to Forge Ring, which we renamed Craft Magical Jewelry.  Dusts, oils, candles, incenses and other consumable items got moved to Brew Potion.</blockquote>

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