Recent content by azabaro

The named spells are a good point: these aren’t natural or intuitive functions of magic, but things that specific individuals brought into being by their own efforts. I’d also include Read Magic - fundamentally a spell about running into someone else’s writings and turning them into something...

5E might not have a lot of skills, but even so coming up with a handful of sub-skills for each seems like quite a bit of work, especially since some aren't likely to be amenable to adding simple modifiers to existing actions (e.g. what does a 3rd or 4th stage Religion sub skill look like?)...

Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game tries to emulate simultaneity. Every character has a Speed that they declare at the beginning of the round, based on the maneuver they’ve selected, their attributes, and some other conditions. Actions are resolved starting with the character who has the...

I think it's a neat idea - I'd been thinking about something similar, a way to focus the Monk on Wisdom and reduce some of the MAD problems. I have to agree with Technik4, though, that this ability is front-loaded and therefore just an invitation to 1-level dips from divine casters. How about if...

I'm not fond of random character generation as things stand - this adds randomness, which means that characters of a given level can be even further apart in ability. Pity the poor Sorcerer who not only has to cope with d4 HD, but who also rolls badly for spell points - he knows fewer spells...

I'd be concerned about two things. First: spontaneous healing was given to Clerics so they'd feel free to prepare non-Cure spells. If that's taken away, and if the Cleric is still the party's main source of healing magic (as opposed to a Wand of CLW), the Cleric's player may feel pressured to...

Good point about the healing and utility spells. The healing spells could probably be handled as a special case - say that the spellcaster can't use Mystic Focus to generate an effect that heals (much as spells like Minor Creation can't be used to create material components for spellcasting)...

One of the problems I've seen with low-level casters is that they can run out of spells very easily. Of course, to some degree they're designed to follow a limited ammunition model, but the current rules seem a little too harsh. After all, didn't Complete Mage introduce reserve feats to keep...

One possibility is to allow a character to focus on a single other character in combat (typically, this would be one they are dealing with most directly; for example, if they had the Dodge feat it would probably be the one against which the Dodge bonus to AC is applied). Trying to sense the...

Wouldn't the easiest way to do this (and make these aligned characters vulnerable to Protection from X spells and the like) be to give the creature the appropriate alignment subtype? Yeah, an interesting idea. I wonder if Clerics should only get these feats if they take the appropriate domains...

Well, monsters with DR other than x/magic wouldn't be as strong as they are now. If you consider these monsters to currently be balanced for their listed CRs, you'd probably want to consider rebalancing them. In addition, some creatures could have low enough DR that any PC of the appropriate...

Maybe there's a middle ground. How about if you limited this spontaneous casting of domain spells by requiring the Cleric to spend something like a turning attempt each time? That would, incidentally, create a divide in the Clergy between the wise clerics and the charismatic clerics (who cast...