rules:major_houserules

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Major Houserules

You gain a feat every odd level, rather than at 1st and every 3rd level thereafter.

This means a character earns a feat at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9, etc.

Every character may take a free “Minor Feat” at level 1 from the minor feat list.

At your option, you may use the “Fractional Base Bonuses” optional rule from Unearthed Arcana. NPCs and monsters generally do not. Using this houserule, you may add the fractional remainders of your class's Base Attack and Base Save bonuses if you are a multiclass character. For example, a Wizard 1/Sorcerer 1 would have a Base Attack Bonus of +1, rather than +0, because each class level gives the character a +.5 to their BAB.

You do not get the additional +2 to a saving throw if you multiclass into multiple classes that have that save as a good save.
For example, a Fighter 1/Barbarian 1 would have a Base Fortitude Save of +3, not +5. This is calculated automatically by the VTT when multiple classes are added to your character.

You may take a flaw at any point during your character's adventuring carrer. In return, your character gains a bonus feat. You may take as many flaws as you would like, however additional flaws do not grant bonus feats.

Most flaws have been automated in foundry. They can be found in the 'Flaws' compendium.

An archivist can only learn spells from the Cleric and Druid spell lists. Ask a DM if you wish to learn a spell from the Ranger or Paladin list, or a Cleric domain list.

If a spell is available on the cleric or druid list, you must learn it at the level a cleric or druid would. If the spell is on both the cleric and druid list, you may choose either list to learn the spell from.

This ruling applies for other classes with similar spell or power aquisition mechanics.

The following spells continue to affect Druids while they are Wild Shaped. All other spells are suppressed while the Druid's shape is changed.

  • Barkskin
  • Death Ward
  • Freedom of Movement
  • Longstrider
  • Magic Fang
  • Magic Fang, Greater
  • True Seeing
  • Water Breathing

The Master of Many Forms is allowed if played in good faith, and is subject to most of the same limitations as Polymorph spells (see below).

A Monk's supernatural abilities are psionic, not magical.

Monks gain the “psionic” subtype and gain one power point per class level.

At a DM's option, you may ignore some skill, feat, and miscellaneous prerequisites to entering a Prestige Class so long as they are not essential to the function of that prestige class nor would waiving them allow you to enter it at a level lower than normal.

Caster Level, BAB, and class feature prerequisites will typically never be waived. For example, a DM might choose to waive the Hide skill rank requirement for entering the Blackguard prestige class, but it's unlikely that they would allow a Sorcerer/Cleric to enter the Mystic Theurge class with fewer than 4 Sorcerer levels.

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