HOUSE RULES

Clerics: Since there are no "active" gods, you may choose any two domains of your choice. (Even opposites; if you can justify it in your background, I'm willing to let you play a cleric of Good and Evil, or Creation and Destruction.) And if you'd like to use a non-standard or custom domain, send me a note; I'm pretty flexible, as long as the powerlevels stay reasonable. You are essentially a cleric of a philosophy.

Other divine spellcasters: All class abilities work normally.

Druids: The weapons restrictions are void. You start with proficiency in the weapons listed in the Player's Handbook, but if you acquire proficiency in other weapons (through race, a feat, or multiclassing), you may use those weapons without losing your druid powers. However, you still may not wear metal armor, or use a metal shield, without losing your powers.

Paladins: You may multiclass, as long as you remain lawful good and true to your code.

Rangers: I use a slight variant. Three changes:

Bonus Feats: At first level, the ranger gains Track plus two other feats from the following list: Alertness, Ambidexterity, Dodge (Mobility, Spring Attack), Endurance, Great Fortitude, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Point-Blank Shot (Far Shot, Precise Shot, Shot on the Run), Run, Skill Focus (class skills only), Toughness, Two-Weapon Fighting (Improved Two-Weapon Fighting). He gains another bonus feat from this list at 5th level and every five levels thereafter.
Bonus Feat requirements: If the bonus feat has a Base Attack Bonus requirement or a prerequisite feat, the ranger must meet it. If it has an ability score requirement, the ranger does not need to meet it, but the ranger will then be able to use the feat only while wearing light or no armor (and not heavily encumbered).
Favored Enemy: The progression is reversed, so that the ranger gains a +1 at first level, a +2 at fourth-level, and so on. The ranger may choose to increase an old favored enemy to the new bonus and take a new one at +1, instead, if he chooses to. The favored enemy increases every four levels instead of every five, and the +1 adds to attack rolls as well as to damage. Finally, the ranger does not have to be evil to take his own race as a favored enemy.

Monks: I use Oriental Adventures rules, which permit multiclassing, add a little flexibility in feat choice, and add several weapons to the "monk weapon" list; contact me if you need details. In addition, you may spend a feat on a "Monk Weapon Proficiency", which allows you to treat a melee weapon of your choice as a "monk weapon" even though it normally is not (eg. naginata, longspear, longsword) -- it becomes part of your unarmed martial arts style. If the weapon is a martial weapon, proficiency is included for free. If the weapon is an exotic weapon, you must also spend a feat on Exotic Weapon Proficiency.

Skill Focus: This feat provides a +3 bonus to the skill, not a +2.

Elemental Substitution: Sonic substitution is not available to sorcerers, wizards, or druids. Clerics and bards may still use it.

Elemental Substitution II: When a spell is first available/learned, the spellcaster may choose an elemental-substituted version instead (eg. Acidball instead of Fireball). An energy version of a force spell (such as a lightning-based Magic Missile) may be learned, but not a force version of an energy spell. The character may learn only one version of the spell, unless he has the Elemental Substitution feat.

Tumble and Concentration skills: When using these skills to try to avoid an attack of opportunity, the DC is not flat; instead, it varies according to the base attack bonus of the creature threatening you. A 20th-level fighter is harder to tumble past than a 1st-level fighter.

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