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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 281331" data-attributes="member: 3146">My take on these:*The Discipline skill*The Parry skillDiscipline and Parry skills: These are a poor idea given the way 3e's normal skill system works. Fighters have a hard enough time doing anything out of combat already without adding two new combat skills to cut into their already paltry 2 skill points per level.This would also dramatically reduce the combat ability of non-fighter classes since most of them don't have discipline as a class skill and would therefore have no defense against disarm attempts.*The Knockdown feat (similar to trip, I suppose)This is rather unnecessary as D&D already has the trip option which is very similar. The knockdown feat as presented in Sword and Fist is generally superior anyway. That being said, however, I believe that the Improved Knockdown feat from NWN could be adapted to pnp D&D very well. Right now there's no way other to increase your chances to trip other than increasing your strength and using a weapon like a flail that gives a bonus to trip attempts. A feat that gave a +2 or +4 bonus to opposed trip rolls might be an interesting alternative.*The Called Shot featThis would add an interesting dimension to the game and would probably work better in pnp D&D than NWN (where I've found it pretty useless). It should have expertise as a prerequisite though.*The Sap featI don't see this breaking anything.*Power Attack adding +5 to damage and -5 to attackIf you really want to reduce power attack to "the prerequisite for cleave" this is the way to do it. Very rarely in pnp games (at least below 9th level or so) is it advantageous to take a power attack of 5. (Unless it's in combination with True Strike. . . .) However, power attacks of 1, 2, or 3 are often advantageous. Eliminating the flexibility of the pnp feat would dramatically reduce its usefulness.*Animal Empathy to dominate certain creaturesI don't see this as being a very good idea. A character shouldn't have more control over a creature through animal empathy than he gets over an animal companion. Nor should animal empathy yield loyalty equal to Animal Friendship.*Knowledge (lore) to identify magical itemsThis wouldn't break anything. However, since Lore is a stand in for all knowledge skills in NWN, it would be better to simply assign this function to various knowledge skills depending upon the item (knowledge religion to identify a greater holy symbol or incense of invocation or a necklace of prayer beads, knowledge: the planes to identify a cubic gate, knowledge: nature to identify a staff of the woodlands, and maybe knowledge: Arcana to identify most things (although at a -5 penalty if a more specific knowledge would be more appropriate).*The Set Trap skillThis one seems to go with NWN's trap kits which seem silly in some cases. Most traps in my D&D games require either item creation feats (for magical traps) or profession (architect) skills (for pit traps, spike traps through the floor, etc). They're generally more of an investment in construction than simply placing a generic (Weak spike kit). Other traps like snares and deadfalls that might be used for hunting game, I'd allow Wilderness Lore to set.*Sill Focus adding +3 to a skill (most ppl already doing this)This is a good idea IMHO (although who'd take combat casting when skill focus: concentration could get them +3 to the same check and a half dozen others?)*Toughness adding +1hp/levelThis is a better way of handling toughness than the core rules. I'm not sure it would be balanced if characters were permitted to take it more than once though. . . .</blockquote>

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