Modifications to how things work. Most such that I’ve posted so far are feats (Toughness and Combat Reflexes don’t work the same in my campaign as they do in the rules as written). These should almost always fit a RAW game balance-wise, but where KJD-RAW posts are additions, KJD-MOD are explicit changes.
Justisaur posted an absolutely brilliant method of ability score generation to rec.games.frp.dnd. It’s simple, it provides some nicely organic scores, and it seems, as best I can tell, more fair than other random methods. I’ve seen it called a few things, perhaps the simplest name is ’27-25-23′, after the three …
While it is nice to get +1 to your AC against a single chosen opponent, I don’t think it’s really worth an entire feat – even if it does lead to a nice feat chain. I change how Dodge works and hopefully make it a little more worth the cost, …
I’ve never been really happy with how undead work in D&D. I’ve got some changes below that I think will improve them in play and make them better fit my image of them. Note that much of this article has since been folded into my article on Revising Monster Types, …
Introduction Languages are handled simply — simplistically, in my opinion — in D&D, using the Speak Language ‘skill’. There are several things I don’t care for with this model. A single rank in Speak Language provides full fluency with a language; you either speak a language fluently or not at …
I treat enchanted arms and armor slightly differently from core rules. This affects not only the enchanted items, but a few other rules as well.
With great anger comes great resp… well, smashing of stuff, really. Here are three ways that immense fury can be modeled.
The cleric domains, as posted in the System Reference Document, do not quite suit my campaign. I’m adjusting them to better fit my prejudices and campaign requirements.
Base Attack Bonus and base save bonuses work much better in D&D 3.x than they have in previous editions. However, I think there is room for improvement.
