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What editions of D&D are derived from the d20 system?
You’re conflating several issues. There’s Dungeons & Dragons (in its various editions), the d20 System, the d20 System Trademark License (with associated d20 System Trademark Guide), the Open Game ...
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What does the OGL mean for things based on d20 elements, but which aren't games?
Here's the thing about the OGL. You don't actually need to use it just to reuse unpatented game mechanics.
What the OGL does is provide what's known in legal terms as a safe harbor, in return for ...
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Name of a roleplaying supplement, 80s, D20 system, heavy on Alchemy?
Is this the game you are looking for?: The Arcanum or Atlantis
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What editions of D&D are derived from the d20 system?
D&D 3.0 and 3.5, though these inspired later editions.
The article d20 System Definitions: Frequently Asked Questions, published by Wizards of the Coast in 2001, defines "d20 System" as ...
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Does anyone know if there are any rules for Materials refinement in Pathfinder & DnD type settings or similar?
Within the official D&D 3.5e and Pathfinder 1e publication lines, I am rather confident, there are not any for creating or improving special materials: the special materials are just offered, as-...
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Is Tormenta an RPG system or a campaign setting for 3D&T?
Tormenta is both an RPG system and a campaign setting
The Tormenta article isn't about a specific book or book line, it's about the setting that is found within the books. Notably it's not an article ...
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How do I know whether a 9th-level character has the correct number of skill points if they may have gained Int in the past?
In order for this to work, you nearly have to assume only automatic ability progression (or a headband of intelligence, if it's on their sheet) could be used to increase Intelligence. It "works" ...
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What is this collection of random travel encounters?
You are thinking of the En Route series in the Atlas Games Penumbra/d20 3e-compatible line. There are three of them with about 20 encounters each. The first, En Route, has the carnival and pixie ...
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Is there a spell that you can leave behind that calls your attention across planes when disturbed?
If you want the scenario to play out exactly like you're imagining, the Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 5th-level Sor/Wiz spell watchware [abjur] (Unapproachable East 53) does pretty much precisely what you ...
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Is there a method to change damage from psionic powers to nonlethal?
There is, so far as I'm aware, no general official way of making a power deal nonlethal instead of lethal damage. However, some guidelines are provided for turning some metamagic feats into psionic ...
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Does a character jumping in medium or heavy armor suffer both armor check penalty and penalties for reduced speed?
In 3.5, yes, the character does. Difficult to prove a negative, but quite simply, nothing says they don’t. And the penalties do not share a type.1
Penalties aren’t really supposed to be typed in the ...
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Vancian Spellcasters vs Dynamic Spellcasters
Short Answer
Single Encounter
In short, 2 unoptimized Sorcerers head to head, Vancian wins.
Optimized, Dynamic caster will win.
Daily Casting
Dynamic Wins
Long Analysis
Mechanics
Dynamic ...
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What are the ramifications of replacing a square based combat grid with a hex based one?
In a setting like city streets that are aligned north-south and east-west, traveling on a hexagonal grid in one direction will have similar experience to traveling along the diagonal in a square grid.
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Full-round action and Heroic Surge Feat
When you take a full-round action, ordinarily, that “consumes all your effort during a round,” and the only other actions you can perform are free actions.¹
But Heroic Surge allows you to take an “...
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Does anyone know if there are any rules for Materials refinement in Pathfinder & DnD type settings or similar?
They're already in there.
Within Pathfinder 1e there is such a thing as Special Raw Materials which seems to fall under what you're asking. Essentially, these are improved materials, but they only ...
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Is there a method to change damage from psionic powers to nonlethal?
There is no Nonlethal Power or Merciful Power feat.
There is, however, a Nonlethal Substitution metamagic feat, found in Book of Exalted Deeds and Complete Arcane, which allows a spell to deal ...
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How to port skill checks from one d20 system to another
No In general
The problem is that skill checks didn't work exactly the same way writ large in any of the systems. A very small example is in 4e Skill Checks could also be handled by Complex checks. ...
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How does the bite attack from the 'fangs' talent work, with other abilities, actions and features?
For the specific questions made on this:
Attacks made with natural weapons (bites, claws, tails,...) are considered improved unarmed attacks, as they don't generate an oportunity attack, they do ...
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How do I know whether a 9th-level character has the correct number of skill points if they may have gained Int in the past?
Ask the player for a breakdown of what was gained when
Assuming you are in a game that cares about accounting for every skill point, they should already have such a breakdown, because it is the only ...
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How do I know whether a 9th-level character has the correct number of skill points if they may have gained Int in the past?
There’s too many variables to be able to determine that after the fact unless you have them documented.
starting stats
random?
predefined?
player applied?
were racial points applied to Int?
was ...
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What is a consistent method for converting d20 SRD monster stats to Microlite20?
I don't personally have any experience with Microlite, but just looking at the rules, you pretty much don't need to change anything. Comparing the example monsters given in the Microlite document to ...
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Methods of disabling specific limbs?
The game rarely allows disabling limbs
The Dungeon Master's Guide includes the Variant: Damage to Specific Areas (27). This would be the easiest way to include an effect like disabling a limb, but ...
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Can I disable the limbs of an iron golem?
There are lots of ways to immobilize creatures. For example a web spell does not allow spell resistance, so it will affect an iron golem normally. An alchemical tanglefoot bag will immobilize a ...
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What is this collection of random travel encounters?
Not sure if this is the exact one you are looking for, but it's free from Drive Thru RPG: 100 Roadside Encounter Ideas.
And the Forgotten Realms Book of Lairs was one of my favorite with lots of ...
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