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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 4443275" data-attributes="member: 94">My original intent was not to step on Pathfinder's toes. If PF had a "fix," and it was good enough, then it was my opinion that varying from that didn't serve anybody's interests.So I held off waiting for the Beta. Now I am not sure, simply because the Beta really didn't tackle the big problems-- so I still don't know-- and most of the things they have added simply aren't to my taste. I can't get around that. (Neither am I condemning it.)So Trailblazer is certainly on course to be a Heartbreaker to the Pathfinder standard. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />But I at least intend to ensure that the "to taste" portions of Trailblazer are mechanical in nature, and not change for change's sake.There will be (hell, there already are, in my blog and on threads here) ample previews of what Trailblazer will be changing, how and why.More or less. What 3.5 needs is a monster building matrix that is flexible and easy to change. I have a good foundation already with Upper Krust's work as I adapted it for Grim Tales, but that system is needlessly complex-- it's ground up design. It's great for designing a monster for publication and making sure it's balanced to the right CR. It's not so useful for "I need a CR9 Giant and I have 5 minutes prep time."I am thinking something along the lines of a one page sheet per monster type that lists all the stats you need across all CRs up to 25 or so. As HD increases, by monster type, you can pick special abilities (remember 1e's *, **, *** system?) a la carte, or by CR increase.Want to add poison or disease to your CR9 Giant? Here's how powerful it should be, and here's how much it will increase the CR.I don't know, since I haven't read it. Should I? Doesn't Expeditious Retreat Press also have a monster builder book?</blockquote>

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