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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9255821" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>I am not sure what I would specifically call it, probably a house ruled version using only official variants.</p><p></p><p>I used tons of house rules in my 3.5 games to tune my games to get different feels and effects, many of them were official things from stuff like <a href="https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3734/unearthed-arcana-3-5?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Unearthed Arcana</a> or other d20 games. For instance you can see the house rules from an <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/death-in-freeport.210176/" target="_blank">online Freeport campaign I ran here</a>. I think that using house rules and variant rules is completely appropriate to tune the game to your own style and preferences and desired feel for a specific campaign.</p><p></p><p>I would call the game I ran 3.5 D&D but I would not call it an example of a by the book 3.5 game even though D&D says for a DM to change and add or restrict stuff as you like. I specifically chose a lot of the house rules and variants to change my game from specific default baseline 3.5 stuff.</p><p></p><p>I particularly liked spontaneous divine casters, recharge magic, and fractional BAB and save advancements from UA once I got that. Spontaneous divine casting for example means for world design purposes not all clerics have daily access to the full cleric list of spells, which can impact a number of possible plot elements in a game (zone of truth, commune, speak with the dead, etc.)</p><p></p><p>From even later I particularly like aspects of the <a href="https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/64009/trailblazer?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">3.5 OGL Trailblazer</a> such as the phantom attack bonuses for monks and rogues to make them more competitively competent melee combatants.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9255821, member: 2209"] I am not sure what I would specifically call it, probably a house ruled version using only official variants. I used tons of house rules in my 3.5 games to tune my games to get different feels and effects, many of them were official things from stuff like [URL='https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3734/unearthed-arcana-3-5?affiliate_id=17596']Unearthed Arcana[/URL] or other d20 games. For instance you can see the house rules from an [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/death-in-freeport.210176/']online Freeport campaign I ran here[/URL]. I think that using house rules and variant rules is completely appropriate to tune the game to your own style and preferences and desired feel for a specific campaign. I would call the game I ran 3.5 D&D but I would not call it an example of a by the book 3.5 game even though D&D says for a DM to change and add or restrict stuff as you like. I specifically chose a lot of the house rules and variants to change my game from specific default baseline 3.5 stuff. I particularly liked spontaneous divine casters, recharge magic, and fractional BAB and save advancements from UA once I got that. Spontaneous divine casting for example means for world design purposes not all clerics have daily access to the full cleric list of spells, which can impact a number of possible plot elements in a game (zone of truth, commune, speak with the dead, etc.) From even later I particularly like aspects of the [URL='https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/64009/trailblazer?affiliate_id=17596']3.5 OGL Trailblazer[/URL] such as the phantom attack bonuses for monks and rogues to make them more competitively competent melee combatants. [/QUOTE]
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