House rules in affect

• Money We are now using Hârnish silver pennies as our base coin. If you have not converted yet one gold piece is exchanged for one silver penny. The next smallest coin is the farthing which is 1/4 of a penny (literally). If you have smaller coins convert to farthings rounding up. So, if you have 3CP and 6SP that would be 3 farthings. (6SP = .6GP, 3CP=0.03GP, total of 0.63 GP which is greather than 1/2 but less then 3/4, round to 3/4 or 3 farthings)
  A penny weighs a dram. Short for penny is d
  For those unfamiliar with drams there are 16 drams to the ounce.

• Rangers I am really not thrilled with the idea of the ranger with two weapons, I much prefer the tough archer ranger. As such the following will be in place.
  • The player, at first level, may exchange the class feats Ambidexterity and Two-Weapon Fighting for Point Blank Shot and Precise Shot. You either exchange both or neither.
  • If the player did the two-handed for bow exchange at first level she also exchanges the Improved Two-Weapon Fighting for Far Shot when she has a +9 Base Attack Bonus.
  
  
• Paladins The PHB Paladin Class does not exist in this world. Paladins are now a prestige class. See Prestige Classes Specifically The Order of the Lady of Paladins and The Order of the Checkered Shield.

• Druid Spell Progression A Druid gets 5 3rd level spells at 15th level. Look at the druid spell progression chart and the reason should be obvious.

• Gods and alignment As an experiment, Gods do not have an alignment known to mortals. Often you can figure it out, however...

• Siege Weapons Ballistas, Catapults, and others work a bit differently than normal. They hit with a touch attack, with the target getting double their DEX BONUS. If a hit is scored damage is applied directly to CON after first applying damage reduction equal to 1/2 the AC bonus of any actual armour worn.

• Parrying with an off-hand weapon You may forego your attack with an off-hand weapon and add +1 to your AC versus one opponent. All two-handed fighting penalties apply and if your modifier is not positive you may not parry. An attack (or set of attacks) with your main hand and a parry with the offhand counts as a full action. If you have improved two-weapon fighting this bonus is +2.

• Attacks of Opportunity may only be directed against the foe triggering the AoO. No rolls against other foes are permitted.

• New Feats:
  • Improved Staff Fighting developed by John C. <jcoccaro@goldrush.com>
    • Prerequisite: Dex 12+, Proficiency with Quarterstaff.
    • Benefit: When using a quartstaff in combat user can make a normal attack using his regular melee bonuses, or he can make an extra attack, with a -2/-2 penalty on all attacks with the staff that round.
  
  
• Optional Rules: Instant Kill and Critical Misses
  • Instant Kill DMG pp.64 Instant Kill is a roll of 20 for threat, a roll of 20 for critical and a 3rd roll that hits the opponents AC. In this case they die. I wanted to be able to emulate the killing of Smaug.
  • Critical Miss DMG pp.65 is a roll of 1 and a failed dex check versus DC:10. Roll a d6, on a 1-2 you fall on your face, on a roll of 3-4 you hurl your weapon 1d6-1 hexes in a random direction, on a roll of 5-6 you do 2d6+Str bonus to the weapon. See PHB pp.135-136 Substitute break string for roll of 3-4 for bows, crossbows, and slings.

• Experimental Feats
  • Riposte developed by Malik Yagova <patrick@fapcoinc.com>
    • Prerequisites: Proficient with weapon, Int 13+, expertise
    • Benefit: While you are performing Total Defense you get one attack of opportunity against any opponent that misses you in melee. This does use up an attack of opportunity. If you have used all of your attacks of opportunity for the round, then you do not get this attack. As a reminder you get one AoO per round unless you have combat reflexes, for which you get one plus dexterity bonus. You also only ever get one per round per opponent.
  • Teamwork based off of a posting by tenabrae <tenabrae@bigpond.com>
    • Prerequisites: None
    • Benefit: You may "Aid Another" as a move equivalent action. This means you may perform one of the aid another actions and still attack or defend. See PHB pp 135.
    • Added Benefit: If a character with Leadership and Teamwork is leading a team within fighting formation he may refocus for General Leadership * 4 troops. All affected troops must have Teamwork and then have an initiative of 10.
  • Shield Another
    • Prerequisites: Teamwork
    • Benefit: You may use your shield to cover someone else versus ranged attacks. You both recieve full benefits of the shield. You may not Shield someone who is using a shield. This counts as a full action.