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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1372741" data-attributes="member: 10201">There're a few things in this book that i wonder why they need to write them down:With the helpful warning that characters will be much more powerful than their character level indicates, and CR ratings won't be accurate.  Do i really need someone to tell me i can make a character by taking the best/sum of two class levels at every character level, and that it'l radically change the balance?Am i reading right that these are basically like the Heroic Paths of Midnight: an additional track of abilities gained with level, independent of your race/class?I'm a little disappointed in this one. 3d6 is a really clumsy alternative to d20. It chops off the extremes of the roll, requires addition, and is very heavily centered.  mid20 [3d20, drop the lowest and highest] would've been a much better option to present/explore: no math, just comparison; not quite so heavily center-weighted; full range of results; and it'd work better with the luck domain.And, heck, if you *want* to add up a bunch of dice for every roll, you should really do it right and roll 3d6+2dF--that'd give you a range from 1 to 20, with about the steepness of 3d6. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />This plus recharge magic pretty much completes the job of porting Ars Magica to D&D that D&D3E started. [well, short of dropping classes, that is.  Though using the Expert/Warrior/Wizard base classes as presented in Unearthed Arcana would give a bit more of the companion/grog/magus feel.]</blockquote>

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