House Rules

Roll a d20 at the start of your turn:

• 16+: use a recovery to return to consciousness and heal up to the number of hit points you rolled with your recovery
• 20: you get to take actions normally that turn
• 15 or lower: you take one step toward the grave

After the fourth failed death save in a single battle, you die.

You also die when you reach negative hit points equal to half your maximum hit points.

• Ready action lets you prepare to take an action later. goes before, but moves the initiative

*Light Activity (Travelling, Resting) can be deemed a Short Rest

• If the creature being grappled changes its size during the grapple:
  • They have Advantage on their next roll to escape the grapple, or
  • They are immediately granted another roll to escape the grapple, or
  • They are immediately freed from the grapple, or
  • … other?

2) vs. Spell-like, non-magical attacks, Dispel Magic gives the recipient another save vs. the spell-like attack.

• Decided that melee combatants attacking across a ‘hard corner’ do NOT suffer a -2 penalty for attacking through cover

• 6 characters mean 4 people have to attend
• 5 characters mean 3 people have to attend

• Level 1: Max dX
• Level 2, 3, 4 & 5: Choose: Average HP or dX, whichever is higher
• Level 6+: Roll dX or take the average HP

• if someone is forced to take a 5-foot movement against their will (via the Knockback combat maneuver, spells that displace, etc) then anyone who threatens that person gains an immediate attack of opportunity against the character being moved against their will. Each opponent is still limited to their maximum number of attacks of opportunity in a round, however.

• While it seemed obvious that 3.0 Haste was overpowered for casters, the same isn’t necessarily true for the psionic equivalent, Schism. Schism allows psions to “split their mind” and make an additional purely mental action (concentrate or make another manifestation). Based on the many arguments that psionics could use a boost, Schism will remain as written in 3e.

• As disappointing as the changes from 3.0 to 3.5 was for the buff spells like Bull’s Strength and Cat’s Grace, it only makes sense to change their psionic counterpart to see if the same “game balance” is achieved. Animal Affinity now grants a +4 enhancement bonus to any statistic (Str, Cha, Wis, etc) per manifestation.

• Changing Haste to the 3.5 version sucks. It doesn’t make any sense, and instead of making it a spell that EVERY arcane caster will have, they wanna make it a spell that NO arcane caster would want. Ever. Haste will remain as published in 3.0, but with the restriction that it will not enable the user to cast an extra spell as their granted action. This will keep the AC and movement benefits that seem appropriate, and moderate the skew that casters enjoy employing this spell compared to predominantly melee characters.

• Instead of the PHB psion, we use the psion variant rules (and for Mental Combat) in Mindscapes: A Psion’s Guide. Powers, feats, etc are all applicable from this product.

• In addition to the feats and powers in the PHB, we use the articles from The Mind’s Eye in their entirety. Changes are made on a case-by-case basis.

• Sorcerors may use the Quicken Spell feat normally (free action to cast) instead of with their normal increased casting time (but stacking Quicken Spell and any other metamagic feats increases the casting time back to 1 round).

• In addition to the 3.5 PHB version of the Paladin, we also use the Malhavoc Press variant from the Book of Hallowed Might.

• Bards may use the Quicken Spell feat normally (free action to cast) instead of with their normal increased casting time (but stacking Quicken Spell and other metamagic feats puts the casting time back for 1 action casting times to 1 full round).