[Unearthed Arcana] How many Optional Rules have you Incorporated?

[Swiftbrook]

Weapon Group Feats
Armor as Damage Reduction
Vitality and Wound Points (will try next session)
Action Points

I've expanded the Weapon Group Feats table (see attached).

-Swiftbrook

 

[diaglo]

None. This choice is unavailable however.

So, the question is probably meant to include an "...if any..." there.

ditto

 

[Greylock]

We're using Action Points, but their number has been reduced considerably. We're getting three at character creation + 1 each level, and bonus Action Points when our characters do something stupid, er Heroic enough that the DM thinks needs a reward.

You forgot something ;p. Variant Character Classes.

Just bought UA yesterday myself. Looking forward to flipping through it without a shopkeep staring me down. The idea of Racial Paragons intrigues me.

 

[glass]

None. This choice is unavailable however.

Presumably to vote for none, you just click Vote with no boxes checked. Or, did you already try that?

In any case, I selected Gestalts and Racial Paragon classes, although they are so far only at the characters made stage, so they have yet to be used in anger. I use Level Independant XP the for game I am currently DMing.


glass.

 

[Laman Stahros]

Bloodlines
Variant Character Classes - Bardic Sage
Character Traits
Character Flaws
Craft Points
Item Familiars

Your poll doesn't talk about the sidebars. I'm also using

HR: Fractional Base Bonuses
HR: Adding a Favored Class

It all seems to be working out pretty good so far.

 

[DmQ]

None. This choice is unavailable however.

So, the question is probably meant to include an "...if any..." there.

Bye
Thanee

Good catch. But I don’t see the point in accumulating numbers from those who don’t use the book when the post is clearly about the ones who do.

 

[Wombat]

Well, I use several of these ideas, but not as they are written up in UA, per se. Wound/Vitality Points, weapon groups (this is probably closest to UA), Damage Reduction, and a number of other points.

I found several versions of these in other sources (primarily on the Net), but also made several of these on my own.

 

[Krug]

Interesting thread..
So which ones have had a major effect on gameplay?

 

[Wormwood]

From my Eberron campaign House Rules .doc file:

Section 2—Unearthed Arcana variants:

• Racial Variants
  • Environmental
    1. Desert Elves (Valenar)
    2. Jungle Elves (Aerenal)
    3. Desert Halflings (Talenta)
       1. Heavily modified
• Class Variants
  1. Cleric
     1. Cloistered Cleric
  2. Fighter
     1. Thug
  3. Monk
     1. Fighting Style
  4. Ranger
     1. Urban Ranger
  5. Sorcere
     1. Battle Sorcerer
• Class Feature Variants
  1. Favored Environment (optional)
  2. Whirling Frenzy (optional)
  3. Spontaneous Domain Casting (mandatory)
  • • Healing Domain: roll d12 rather than d8 for Healing spells
• Skills
  1. Complex Skill Checks
• Combat
  1. Out-Of-Turn Dodge
• Weapon Group
  1. Racial
  2. Regional
• Action Points
  1. Spell recall, improving feats, etc.
• Incantations
• Reputation
• Test-Based Prestige Class Prerequisites

 

[Nellisir]

Alot of UA material planned (but not yet executed) for my upcoming campaign.

Battle sorcerer replacing standard sorcerer.
"Paths" (aka domains) for sorcerers
Spontaneous casting for wizards
Changes to familiars
Spontaneous metamagic
Customized summoning lists
Damage conversion
Weapon group feats
Craft points
Players roll all the dice
level-independent XP
Contacts
Taint (in some form)
Magic Rating

New races and new classes, of course.

Bonus feats for favored classes, replacing the XP penalty (lifted from the Conan OGL RPG)

That's off the top of my head...
Nell.