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I'd say that the Illithid Savant's copy of Find the Guilty would apply to anyone who had killed the Illithid Savant, not to anyone who had killed the revenant. So the Savant would have to get himself killed and resurrected; only then would he be able to put Find the Guilty to any use. From a purely rules-based standpoint, I disagree with nijneko: the Savant would not have to become a revenant - he just has to have died, so that he has a killer to find.

"Snapshot" is a very good word for what I described. The feat only checks your Intelligence modifier once, when you take it. After that (barring retraining or, God forbid, the Dark Chaos Feat Shuffle) the choices you made when you took it are fixed and do not change.

Fox's Cunning is a big issue here, because of its 1 min./level duration. How long does it take to level up? Is it instantaneous, or does it take a few minutes? Hours? No matter how long it takes, you could reasonably wear a Headband of Intellect during the entire process. However, there's a good risk that your Fox's Cunning will wear off at the wrong moment. For this reason, were I a DM, I would probably allow a bonus from a Headband of Intellect to count for skill points, Spell Mastery, etc. at level up, but not a bonus from Fox's Cunning.

If you have one good level and one bad level:

• Normal rules give you 2 + 0 = 2;
• Fractional saves gives you 2 + 1/2 + 1/3 = 2 + 5/6, rounds down to 2;
• My rule gives you 2 + (2 + 3)/6 = 2 + 5/6, still rounds down to 2 (counting the bonus from the feat).

I had intended to still use WotC's "truncate fractions" rounding rules; the (2X + 3Y)/6 was only supposed to make it more explicit that you only round at the end.

I like Pathfinder's +3 bonus when you put your first rank in a class skill, so I might work on something similar where you get a free Skill Focus for any class skill you have ranks in.

Have you read any of the novels set in Ravnica? Though I haven't read them, I suspect that they would be full of useful details you couldn't get from cards alone.

I would like peoples opinion on what alignments each of the 10 guilds are, some are extremely easy while others due to their fluff are kinda awkward.

If at all possible, try to have at least one guild for each of the 9 alignments. This will give all sorts of people a place in Ravnican society, even if the alignments have to be fudged a little.

Divine magic is kinda tricky on Ravnica because there are hardly any beings that can be considered divine. I  dont want to leave out divine casters from the setting and am looking for a way to incorporate them that would not directly contradict the fluff of the setting.

There are 18 Cleric creature cards among the 6 Ravnica expansions. The connection between the creature type Cleric and the class Cleric is tenuous at best, but looking at these cards should give you some indications of how divine-style magic works in Ravnica. Most of them work for a guild, but a few, like Caregiver and Urbis Protector, are described in their flavor text as not belonging to any guild. Of the 18 clerics, 7 have an Orzhov watermark, 2 have a Selesnya watermark, 3 have a Rakdos watermark, 2 have a Boros watermark, and 4 have no watermark. Divine spellcasters in other guilds use different creature types, which should give you some idea of how Ravnicans themselves think of divine magic.

In general, clerics in MtG gain spellcasting from faith, rather than from a higher power itself. In D&D, clerics of ideals fit this flavor perfectly. If you want something more specific for cleric characters, you might decide that each guild has a few domains which are especially common among its clerics.

Since it is too hard to resist, the campaign will be a gestalt game. It simply makes too much sense for a campaign set in Ravnica to be gestalt.

If you came up with color associations for each class (Barbarian is R, cleric is W/B, druid is G, paladin is W, etc.), you could encourage players to have different colors on the two sides of the gestalt. Depending on your group, this might feel like a cool reflection of multicolored cards, or it might feel like a stupid gimmick; in your place I would use it as a suggestion, not a requirement.

By comparing the DC with the standard 10 + 1/2 HD + ability modifier, I have divined the following formulas as good possibilities for a more reasonable save DC:

1. 10 + 1/3 damage dealt. This is worse than the standard DC at low levels, but slightly better at very high levels.

2. 15 + 1/4 damage dealt. This is slightly better than the standard DC at low levels, but slightly worse at very high levels.

These formulas were made with the assumption that the character's relevant ability score would start at 18 and increase to 34 (= 18 + 5 levels + 5 inherent + 6 enhancement) by level 20. With monster classes, it is possible to get much higher ability scores.

The d4, d6, d8, d12, and d20 are the Platonic solids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid), and the d10 and d100 are powers of 10.

There's countless other games where you beat up hordes of monsters with your fists.

In America, you beat up hordes of monsters with your fists. In Soviet Russia, you beat up fists with your horde of monsters!

Some background:

• At present, the first level of a class with a good save progression gives +2 to that save. (Unless this has been errata'd or FAQ'd somewhere, ) If you have multiple classes with a good progression in the same save, the bonuses stack. If you took the first level of each of 20 classes with a good will save, for example, your base will save modifier would be +40 (though your base modifiers for the other saves might be severely stunted, as would most of your class features).
• Nobody likes taking the Great Fortitude, Lightning Reflexes, and Iron Will feats. People that do take them almost always do so to fulfill a prerequisite for something more interesting, commonly a prestige class.
• Iron Will, at least, has been established as not really being worth a feat. Spending 3,000 gp and some time in the prison known as the Otyugh Hole will give it to a character as a bonus feat. As Great Fortitude and Lightning Reflexes provide similar benefits, but for the other saves, they are, by extension, also not really worth a feat.

With those two points in mind, I submit the following house rule for the forum as a collective to tear apart.

• For each saving throw (fortitude, reflex, and will), your base saving throw bonus equals (2X + 3Y)/6, where X is the number of bad progression levels you have for that save, and Y is the number of good progression levels.
• If you have at least one good progression level for a save, you gain the associated feat as a bonus feat: a level with a good fortitude save gives you Great Fortitude, a level with a good reflex save gives you Lightning Reflexes, and a level with a good will save gives you Iron Will. You can gain more than one of these at the same level if your class has more than one good save; for example, a Monk 1 will have all three as bonus feats.

If you only ever take levels in one class, your base save bonus under this system is the same as it would be with fractional saves (from Unearthed Arcana).

If you take levels in several classes with the same good save, your bonus for that save will be lower (by 2 points per class after the first), but I'm not terribly worried about this because existing save DC's are calibrated for the single-class save progressions.

You will not be able to take the save-boosting feats a second time, but as that is considered a poor use of a feat I don't think losing the option will upset anyone too much - if anything, it removes a trap for new players. Some feats and prestige classes are easier to qualify for, because it is easier to pay their feat tax. Again, nobody likes feat taxes, so a reasonable proposal to alleviate them should be well-received.

The Great Fortitude, Lightning Reflexes, and Iron Will feats are unchanged; you can still take them if you don't have any good-progression levels for the relevant save. If you later gain a good-progression level for that save, you can (as part of leveling up) retrain your newly redundant feat into another feat whose prerequisites you met at the time you originally gained the redundant feat.

tl;dr: Good save progressions now give the initial +2 bonus in the form of a weak bonus feat, rather than directly. Numbers are mostly the same, but some side effects are nicer.

Why does the BAB stop increasing after +8?

Since Dex-to-damage is pretty important to the class (thematically and mechanically), I would recommend giving a "lite" version at level 1 or 2 and a "full strength" version later on. I like giving the better of Strength or Dexterity to damage (the damage equivalent of Weapon Finesse) at level 1, and waiting until level 3 or so to add both ability modifiers.