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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 1357617" data-attributes="member: 871">All nifty ideas, though I'm mainly curious about the 2nd & 3rd to last items: Reducing Level Adjustments & Bloodlines.The 3 I was most lookng forward to were the PrC versions of the Paladin, Ranger, & Bard (I was at least intending on using the PrC Paladin).  The other ideas seem interesting, but I wonder if it'll be just cut & paste notes (sort of like the non-spellcasting variants of paladins & rangers in Complete Warrior, or the slightly-modified PHB core classes in Oriental Adventures), or in some cases, they'll be full core-class treatments.  I'm curious about the generic classes, & I'm not quite sure what to make of the gestalt characters.Not too sure what to make of some of these ideas.  The skill system seems easy enough as is--I wonder if the alternate system proposed is?  Some sort of skill tree/chain?  An expanded/specified skill list (instead of catch-all skill categories such as Perform & Craft)?Now, I did like using the Traits/Flaws system back in Skills & Powers 2nd ed., but since then, I'm not so sure now.  I mean, it looks interesting, & I may wind up using it, but I'm not too sure how exactly these will work.  I mean, some feats seem to work in this way (a bonus to a certain skill or skills, or a bonus somewhere else).  And, how exactly does it work out?  Do the traits & flaws need to be balanced out?  Do they give/use up feat slots, skill points, XP %, what?  I kinda wonder if the traits/flaws could have been combined somehow (sorta like the Traits from Fallout), where a trait provides both a bonus & a penalty, automatically balancing itself out.  Just have to see when the book hits the streets.The Defense Bonus (& possibly the VP/WP) will crop up in the Lankhmar conversion I'm working on.  May consider Action Points (haven't had an opportunity to actually play a game that uses them).  However, I'm not sure at all about the players rolling all the dice--I've already got 1 player who has suspiciously good/beneficial/high rolls every gaming session.I'm really curious about this section.  Some of it does sound familiar (from d20 Modern sourcebooks & Dragon articles).As for spell points, I'm really leaning against using them IMC.  It's another number-pool to manage/account for during the game.Contacts & Reputation sound the most interesting so far.  Honor/Taint, I'm not too sure of, really (I'm trying to consider what gets affected by removing Honor/Taint from Oriental Adventures).The Critical Fumbles sound interesting; I won't use the nonmagical psionics option (I might it there was an arcane vs. divine magic option); I'll pretty much have a wait & see attitude on the rest.Y'know, I'm quite curious to see what will happen to a lot of games & campaigns after this book comes out.  Heck, I'd be curious to see what kinds of games take shape at the hands of different DMs for the same gaming group.</blockquote>

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