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Funny thing, but this system is really Vancian. In Vance's stories, the spellbooks were enormous, and each could hold one or two spell. You prepared your spells in your study, and went on adventure with what you had - no travelling spellbooks! And one limited spell per level is also Vancian - experi...

Title per se means nothing. As a baron, you could be a Reichsfreiherr, directly subordinate to the Emperor (but not a member of Reichstag) and with many governmental functions over your own land, or a big landowner in a Free Imperial City (so you had Reichsunmittelbarkeit only collectively), or a pu...

When? After the peace of Westphalia in 1648 German territorial states became sovereign. When people sometimes speak about the peace of Westphalia as the beginning of the modern conception of sovereignity, this applies only to German territorial states. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphali...

The German feudal system was probably most complicated of all. Freiherren (Reichsfreiherren) were originally directly subject to the Emperor or an imperial city. Other Freiherren and barons were subject to territorial rulers. Freiherren had generally allodial titles, but the difference between allod...

It's not that bad. Apparently, two-weapon fighting Ranger with Blade Cascade can one-shot anything: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1040811 And Control Wizards with orb, especially Cleric multiclass, seem to be quite adequate at immobilizing, creating walls etc: http://forums.gleemax.com/...

An idea how to encourage people to keep all enemies occupied: 1) Flanking: When you attack an opponent who is adjacent to a greater number of your allies (excluding you) than his allies, you gain some bonus to CAN (+1). Eg – when you attack an opponent who is in contact only with you and your ally, ...

I always considered the basic damage system of True20 to be superior to the hit point system. The basic system works more or less as a D20 toughess save (Toughness equals constitution+armor) against fixed damage+10. It can be inverted, so you roll D20 +your basic damage (which equals weapon+Str) aga...