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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hrothgar Rannúlfr" data-source="post: 4119226" data-attributes="member: 54436">3.75 House RulesI have Monte Cook's Book of Experimental Might.  And, I love much of it.I'm not crazy about the 20 spell levels because I use Arcana Evolved and I don't want to convert the 10 spell levels in there to 25 spell levels.  And, I'm very comfortable with 9 spell levels.  There's always been 9 levels of spells in my DnD (excluding 0th level spells and AE's 10th level spells).However, I didn't buy the BOXM with the idea of converting to a 20 spell level system.  I bought it to mine for house rules to my 3.5 game.  And, it's worked great for that purpose.  I've been able to combine it with things in the 4E previews to improve my 3.5 to my own 3.75.And, I'll do the same thing with Paizo's Pathfinder RPG.  I love that they're doing an open playtest.  And, I like what they did with the fighter class, even if I'm unsure about a number of the conditionally usable Combat Feats.  I, also, like how they handled grapple and the other combat manuevers.  I, also, like having a "Fly" skill.  But, after experimenting with consolidated skill lists (in the vein of Iron Heroes and Star Wars Saga Edition), I'd have to say that I prefer the longer unconsolidated list of 3.5 with some extra skills thrown in (like "Fly" from Paizo, Alchemy from 3.0, Command from The Black Company Campaign Setting, etc...)Now, I did do away with skill points and did someting similar to what Paizo and SWSE did with trained and untrained skills.  But, I have 4 grades ranging from untrained, trained, expert, and master in the skills.Also, the BOXM when combined with some things in SWSE and the 4e previews fixes the 15 minute adventuring day in 3.5 when combined the way it is in my house-rules.  Of course, the BOXM does this on it's own.  I just house-ruled it to season it to my own taste.In short, I will be using the BOXM in combination with Monte's other books along with ideas from the Pathfinder RGP.  And, it will be my own house-ruled combination (unless Jason Bulmahn wants to copy my house rules). <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />  <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=":)" /> Either way, I'm glad that Paizo is doing this and I will be reading what they have to say about it.  And, although I'm already a Paizo customer, I'll likely buy more from them than I would have had they not done this (and less from WotC).Now, if Paizo could get Monte Cook to work on the Pathfinder RPG... ...(Did I forget to mention that Monte's talking about doing a Book of Experimental Might II?  It's tentatively called <a href="http://okayyourturn.yuku.com/topic/14647?page=1" target="_blank">The Book of Experimental Might:  No Love For Fighters</a>.  I'm really looking forward to it.  Sounds like just what the doctor ordered for Fighters.)</blockquote>

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