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I kind of like the idea of some kind of tonic or concoction that is rare that doesn't heal hitpoints, but could give the player temporary hitpoints for the day, but they feel sick the next morning. I also like having salves or balms that increase the natural healing rate from resting a day. As far a...

Yeah, with so many editions of D&D and then games like DCC, pathfinder, and who knows what else all using d20 systems it can blend together. I'd like to see your updated Mystic when you have it ready.

I mean, these are tree-people, that implies living wood to me, which has sap and water and whatnot in the grain keeping things alive and damp. Maybe you could just lower the natural AC bonus instead of having the fire weakness?

My level 0's that survive tend to have negative ability modifiers for the things they can do as part of their professional training. And I've yet to have a character with a positive stamina modifier.

Here are my thoughts Weapons: you can make the list of weapons shorter if you change (shortsword, longsword, two handed sword) to just (sword(any)), you can change (longbow, shortbow, crossbow) to (bow(any)), (battleaxe, handaxe) to (axe(any)). This can be good to just shorten the list down a bit, m...

Here are my thoughts: Armor, none of the original classes are proficient in armor, it just lists what they might prefer to stick to because of armor check penalties applying to spellcasting for elfs and wizards, and applying to stealth rolls for theifs. You could change the wording to reflect that t...

For dragons, page 406 tells you what you need to know for saving throw modifiers. I'm guessing dragons don't get damage modifiers because of all the other stuff they have. Demons page 404. Although you dont even get their saving throw modifiers. Some demons that are 'known' do have some pattern of d...

Yeah, but Harley Stroh seems to enjoy having spears thrown, and still do 1d8 damage, instead of using javelins which do 1d6 damage. Hmmmm.

I haven't come up with a good rule myself, although I always have the gatehouse beastmen run into the tower after the players have gone into the courtyard, they always spend so much time checking out the courtyard they never go right away to the tower despite the warning signals the beastmen give of...

So I've noticed in some of the modules I've read and in Purple Planet content that some monsters/traps are able to throw spears, instead of say.. javelins. They aren't really designed to be thrown given the rules for them in the main book, but have people just moved towards allowing their players to...

On the subject of Bronze. I would like to weigh in on some game mechanics. Bronze itself would be just as effective as iron in short term use, unless it comes up against iron armor and weapons which will dent dull and cut through the bronze easier than it would against other iron counterparts. But b...

The shortbow, crossbow, and longbow all have the same damage, the only difference is their price, and their range brackets for short/medium/long ranges. No mention is ever made of needing to reload for any ranged weapons to differentiate them from melee weapons, so rules wise, they take no special a...

Actually I don't think that information about Luck and Crits is correct. As far as I can tell PCs do not apply any modifiers to the crit roll so they cannot get the '0 or less' result. The players Luck mod affects crits rolled against them, so monsters can get to 0 and go in to battle rage. Players...

Well. on table 1-1, it specifically says personality for clerics on the max spell level section, so if clerics got bonus spells it would mention it as well. As for the wizard spells known, it would appear that this table applies when you are level 1, so it would be 1st level spells that you know whe...

A mysterious comet appears in the sky! suddenly every character's birth sign bonus gets revered, because I'm guessing your refferal to luck bonus means the wizards have the birth sign for spell casting and have a + modifier? Maybe this comet drains the spellcasting rolls of all arcane magic by a sig...

I feel like the list is restrictive, and the nature of this campaign are both combined to make a less than optimal situation. Edit: Just taking a loot at the list for each: Law: un-dead, demons, devils, chaotic extraplanar, monsters, chaos primes, chaotic humanoids and dragons Neutral: animals, un-d...

a few times, yes, but encountering chaotic humanoids seems to be the norm, at least in situations where combat is unavoidable. I've ended up just defaulting to 'word of command' instead of even attempting to use 'turn unholy'. The only targets listed that you could even attempt to turn that aren't s...

So I've been playing a Chaotic Cleric for almost a year about once a week, and it could just be the setting and 'creatures' we have been coming up against, but I find the list of turnable monsters listed on page 32 to be much more restrictive than the lawful or neutral clerics. Has there been any di...