Spell Casting Under Fire

This probably has been thought up before but I've been considering easy ways to factor in casting spells while taking damage that don't require lots of fucking about with tables and such.

A roll against Int when you take damage while casting (Wis for a cleric I guess), plus your level, minus spell level, minus the damage taken. Pass and cast normally, fail and no spell.

Easy, no?

Plus you can add spell fumble tables if youve got the inclination, maybe stick some mutations in for extra fun?

Race as Class: Skilled Classes

Here are the Skilled Classes, the Specialist and the Gnome.

Fighting classes here, Magic classes here.

Race as Class: Magical Classes

Here are the magic using classes, MU and Cleric.

Fighting Classes here, Skilled Classes here

Weapon Damage: Notches

Some new house rules, adapted from a post by Logan over at Last Gasp Grimoire. He suggested that weapons could take damage (a notch) when the player rolls a 1 or 2 to hit, breaking when they get as many notches as their maximum damage. I thought that was awesome as shit so I promptly stole the idea and ran with it.

Race as Class: Fighting Classes

Finally sat down and wrote up the 8 classes for Ionia that I talked about here. These will replace the existing class and race system, with any new PCs generated using these classes. Magic using classes can be found here, Skill classes here. This first section is the biggest, with 4 variations.

Dogs for Labyrinth Lord

Every adventurer loves dogs, cute, useful and ultimately disposable. Here are some rules for levelling up and developing dogs for those animal lovers who want to keep their pets alive.

1st Campaign Session Reflection Part 1: Character Creation

So way, way back at the beginning of January we played our first session of my Ionia campaign. This was my first time running a campaign that wasn't entirely traditional D&D, having only run 7 (I think) sessions of Keep on the Borderlands before and having never played D&D as a PC, so there has been a steep learning curve.

The first session was Death Frost Doom, an opening act before the sandbox starts properly. Players were dropped at the foot of the mountain with starting equipment. Here are some thoughts on how the session went, about time I did this with things in real life settling down and giving us a good chance of playing again. I'll be splitting this up into sections, looking at different parts of the session.

Update! (or Damn life, always getting in the way...)

I have a few posts planned honest, but a birthday, illness and new job have taken over for now. Here's a quick update on what's been happening.