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#1 khaba Aug 20, 2010 18:05:52	I'm starting a new 3.5e campaign, and need some help identifying potential problems with the following proposed house rules. 1) The Shorten Grip Feat allows the user of a reach weapon to attack/threaten adjacent squares at a -2 penalty to attack. I've also allowed the Short Haft Feat into my campaign (swift action to switch b/w attacking reach squares and adjacent squares). The fighter is looking to take Shorten Grip, and asked if he could take a 2nd feat later on to get rid of the -2 penalty. The end result would be, for the cost of 2 feats, the ability to attack adjacent with any reach weapon except whip and spiked chain* with no penalty. *Spiked chain either is not going to exist or is going to be nerfed is some way, probably removing the attack adjacent ability. 2) Retrieving a stored item is normally a move action. The house rule would be to treat scrolls as considered "stored" unless they satisfy the following two conditions: The scroll is not in it's case. The scroll is worn on a belt or bandoleer - somewhere visible and accessible. If they meet the two conditions, the PC can use QD to draw the scroll as a free action, or can draw it as part of a move with a +1 BAB. The downside from the player's view, is that the scroll is vulnerable to area of effect damage since it is not in its case. Is this too powerful like this? Another consideration would be to treat scrolls worn on the belt (but in the case) like items in a Handy Haversack - it takes a move action to retrieve them, but it doesn't provoke an attack of opportunity. Can I add this benefit and not make the rule to powerful for scroll wielders?

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khaba

Aug 20, 2010 18:05:52

I'm starting a new 3.5e campaign, and need some help identifying potential problems with the following proposed house rules.

1) The Shorten Grip Feat allows the user of a reach weapon to attack/threaten adjacent squares at a -2 penalty to attack. I've also allowed the Short Haft Feat into my campaign (swift action to switch b/w attacking reach squares and adjacent squares).

The fighter is looking to take Shorten Grip, and asked if he could take a 2nd feat later on to get rid of the -2 penalty. The end result would be, for the cost of 2 feats, the ability to attack adjacent with any reach weapon except whip and spiked chain* with no penalty.

*Spiked chain either is not going to exist or is going to be nerfed is some way, probably removing the attack adjacent ability.

2) Retrieving a stored item is normally a move action. The house rule would be to treat scrolls as considered "stored" unless they satisfy the following two conditions:

The scroll is not in it's case.

The scroll is worn on a belt or bandoleer - somewhere visible and accessible.

If they meet the two conditions, the PC can use QD to draw the scroll as a free action, or can draw it as part of a move with a +1 BAB. The downside from the player's view, is that the scroll is vulnerable to area of effect damage since it is not in its case.

Is this too powerful like this? Another consideration would be to treat scrolls worn on the belt (but in the case) like items in a Handy Haversack - it takes a move action to retrieve them, but it doesn't provoke an attack of opportunity. Can I add this benefit and not make the rule to powerful for scroll wielders?