User:Mkill/Clean D&D

Clean D&D

Clean D&D is an attempt to create a set of house rules. Actually, I do think that the D&D designers made a pretty good job, and D&D works as written. What I try here is fine-tuning. Instead of usual houserules, that end up in a heap of complicated details that only come up once in 10 years, what I try here is to come up with the opposite:

Clear D&D of superfluous weight that is left over from old editions, or that was though necessary when the current edition was written but after all wasn't. The result is (hopefully) a faster game that's more fun to play.

Abilities

Hit points are fixed as per LG rules

Races

Elves lose their ability to detect secret doors.
Races no longer have a favored class (unnecessary since there is no multiclassing XP penalty anymore)

Classes

No XP penalty for multiclassing.
Monks and Paladins can multiclass freely.

There is no more alignment restriction for choosing classes, except for the Paladin.
No unnecessary class niche protection: Trapfinding is no longer a class ability. Any character that can beat the DC can disarm a trap.

Cantrips / Orisons do not need to be prepared in slots. Paladins and Rangers cast their spells spontaneously from the full list. Reason: Speed up the game by reducing the time players spend choosing memorized spells.

Skills

No more class skills. Always buy 1 rank for 1 skill point.
Fixed skill points per level (as if everyone had a +4 Int bonus)

6	Cleric, Fighter, Paladin, Sorcerer, Wizard
8	Barbarian, Druid, Monk
10	Bard, Ranger
12	Rogue

At first level, your gain double skill points, plus a number of bonus skill points equal to your Intelligence or Wisdom score (whichever is higher)

Hide and Move Silently are merged into one skill: Stealth
Open Locks is removed, Locks can be opened with Disable Device
Spellcraft is removed, all relevant checks are made on Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (religion) or Knowledge (artifice)
Psicraft is merged into Knowledge (psionics)

No synergy bonuses

Feats

Dodge grants a flat +1 dodge bonus to AC. As does any ability that works like Dodge (Psionic Dodge etc.). For any effect that is based on dodge but not a +1 AC bonus, you still have to select an opponent that it applies to (namely Elusive Target and Epic Dodge)
Toughness grants either 3 hp flat or 1 per character level, whichever is higher.
Weapon Finesse has no prerequisite

Metamagic

If you apply a metamagic feat, that feat changes the actual spell level, not just the spell slot used, with all consequences such as a higher saving throw DC. This makes the Heighten Spell feat superfluous and cleans up some confusion.

Combat

Death from massive damage is removed

Magic

All material components with a cost of less than 100 gp are ignored. The Identify spell has no material component.

gollark: Wait, what?

gollark: ++magic py len(bot.guilds)

gollark: ++magic py bot.guilds

gollark: I'll probably only add it if/when it gets stuck in a loop trying to send to nonexistent channels.

gollark: Maybe it tries, in priority order:- other channels on the same server- direct messages to the user- other channels on any servers they're in- other channels on any server whatsoever- random people in the queue for reminders

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