If I remember correctly 7th Sea did a pretty good job.

Those are some interesting ideas, I've used a house-rule where rolling a one on an attack roll allowed the defender to make a free counter-attack but nothing that detailed.

I had a Stygian Noble/Soldier way back in the day named Horus.

The artwork and presentation is not open content, everything else is. If you remove all art and such it's open content, a pdf scan of the entire book is not legal.

Getting the Drop yoinked and added to campaign guide.

Throw Your Foe to the Ground yoinked.

Child of Atali’ is an inherited template that can be added to any living creature with an Intelligence score of 1 or more (referred to hereafter as the base creature). Does that mean any living creature? Like a horse, kitty-cat, dog, snake, bird, or fish? Just imagine a Giant son of Set/ Atali, yik...

I'd prefer to say no, but I've heard just way too many players gripe about stuff like that over the years and I just let them wear it so I don't have to hear it anymore. I'd say more than half the players I've gamed with since 2000 would cry foul.

For "normal" people I roll 5d6 and discard both the highest and lowest die. This creates a very steep bell curve.

Both quotes from Xenophon's Anabasis Ch 3 You're comparing slings to ancient bows, which were far inferior to their medieval counterparts. Slings were heavily used in the ancient world because ancient bows sucked. Bow technology advanced leaps and bounds over the next 1500 years while the sling was...

The current world record for a stone cast from a sling is 437 meters. The current world record for a bow is 1,336 yards (2,047 yards with a crossbow). http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/flight.html Slings were the most effective ranged weapon, man for man, until the advent of the flintlock musket. If...

Use the weapon proficiency groups from Unearthed Arcana (also available on the hyperlink SRD site) and add racial groups to it. Done.

Personally I hate the rules for Akbitanan weapons, it's ridiculous that there's only one city in the entire known world that has craftsman capable of producing high quality weapons.

There is no way I'll buy that a sling has greater range than a bow without concrete evidence to back it up. You can fire a bow hundreds of yards, I seriously doubt you could sling a stone that far.

Great idea, too bad some of my players frequent this forum.

Well, maybe the amount of ability damage dealt is too uber. Tbh I never saw it in action. Once I planned to take it with my Barb, but then the GM totally threw the grappling rules overboard, so I went a different route. Maybe nerf it to: reduce chosen ability by 2 on a failed Fort save. 2 points se...

The biggest game breaker is crushing grip. When that feat's used the fight is over.

As much as I like Mongoose's treatment of Conan, I'd rather they not get the license. I don't want to play Runequest.

I'd prefer Green Ronin give it the same treatment as its Mythic Vistas series.

I used to have a system for losing penalties based upon lack of practice, but it never really came up so I dropped it. If you wen't a year without using a skill then you took a -1 penalty when you finally used that skill, with a maximum penalty equal to half the character's ranks. The same applies t...

For minor NPCs I roll 5d6, drop the highest and the lowest. This creates a more narrow bell curve for the general population, making the heroes abilities more exceptional. They also don't have hit points, but must save against serious wounds every time they are struck in combat. I treat heroes and v...