House Rules for Role Playing Games

These are house rules and other changes to fantasy role playing games. Some were posted to rec.games.frp.dnd and some were mailed directly to me. Please direct any questions and comments to the appropriate authors.

• The critical hits table I use in my campaign and critical hits tables for slashing, thrusting, crushing, sharp projectiles, pole arms, spear-like, spiked, thrown stones, bites and claws,...
• An update of the Oriental Adventures for AD&D2 (gzip, 23K) or ZIP-Archive.
• Interesting ideas about saving throws.
• A new system for specialization.
• Another weapon proficiency system.
• Ideas about healing.
• Discussion and use of abilities and useful items for thieves (gzip, 11K).
• Rules for missiles.
• A perception system.
• Cast your spells with a spell point system by Yan Glina:
  • Version 2.2 was posted some time ago. You can look it up to find out what's changed.
  • Yan recently sent version 2.3 to me.
• A streamlined revision of the Player's Handbook
• Some formulas to calculate the population distribution (gzip, 8K) at various experience levels.
• Some rules to add more realism (gzip, 7K) to games.
• What is the cost of a slave?
• A modified system to calculate XPs of monsters.
• New weapons for AD&D.
• Real Warships for Spelljammer.