3.5e Variant Rules/table

This page is a test page for variant rules under tables. Once enough articles have a summary given to them, it will be merged properly into the actual navigation page. When these all have summaries, then I will turn the category into just Variant Rule and give them all a type property. I'll be using a bot edit to do so, so please save yourself the effort and not do so yourself. But please, if you can, give some of these articles a summary. --Havvy 07:13, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Article	Description
Additional Maneuver Types	Four new types of martial maneuvers - Flourishes, Assaults, Warcries, and Strategies., Create a column of natural darkness to hinder enemy sight., Create a column of inky shadow to hinder enemy sight., Create a column of frigid blackness to hinder enemy sight., Pounce at your target., Transform a ranged attack in an area attack., Support your allies, granting an improved aid another at range.
Adjusted SRD Armors	This rule slightly modifies the statistics of the SRD armors, lessening their total AC range while clarifying their categorical distinctions.
Alignments by Color	People are complicated and cannot simply be plopped on a two-dimensional grid. This changes the 3 by 3 grid into a color wheel that defines the motivation of characters.
All Ability Skills	This variant rule gives focused skill points based on all ability scores, giving non-Intelligence focused classes something to do while also specializing them appropriately.
Alternate Confusion	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Alternate Fear-Effects	A rework of the fear-effect which allows players to retain agency over their characters..
Alternative Armor and Weapon Enhancement	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Alternative Graft Rules	A rewrite of the game's graft rules.
Alternative Iterative Attacks	Make full attacks with every attack (including the first) at a set penalty, instead of gradually increasing penalties.
Attacks Variant
Attrition-based Campaigns	Where running out of spells, hitpoints, or water actually matters.
Background-Based Skills
Balanced Skills
Balanced Wealth
Better Disease Implementation
Better Full Attacks
Better Poison Implementation	A way to make poison more game-relevant.
Better Poisons	Poisons usable in combat without breaking the game.
Better Sunder Rules	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Bone Shaping	Some adventurers are exceptionally skilled at using monster parts to create and augment weapons and armor. this rule is meant for use with the Bone Shaper Class.
Bonus Invocations	Invokers gain additional invocations for having a high Charisma.
Broad Leveling Benefits	This rule is meant to replace the ability score boost to a single ability at 4th level and each 4 level thereafter. Instead the bonus apply to multiple ability score or may be traded altogether.
Broken Shields
CR-Based Turning	Hit Dice account for the actual power of Undead very poorly, so we'll use Challenge Rating as a better metric.
Capped Modifiers and DCs	Attack rolls, saving throws, DCs, and armor class can get a little wonky what with all the miscellaneous bonuses. This variant fixes that.
Caster Levels Progression Variant
Casting Attack Bonus	Iterative casting actions variant rule.
Class Templates
Code Blue	Death for the modern age.
Condensed Skills
Condensed Skills, Deemphasize First Level	Condenses skills and no particular weight to level one compared to any other level
Cosmic Damage Type	Only the power of the gods can defeat creatures with DR/cosmic!
Crit Dice	A system replacing threat ranges with crit dice.
Critical Resistance	Break through the immunity to critical hits and sneak attacks for some types of creatures, if you've brought the right weaponry.
Cross-Class Investment	Invest 3 ranks into a skill, it becomes a class skill.
Dark Sacrifice	A replacement for the BoVD sacrifice rules.
Delayed Spellcasting	This spellcasting nerf technically extends spellcasting time by delaying when in initiative the spell goes off.
Divorced Abilities and Skills
Dying 3.75 Edition	Expand the range between dying and dead, allowing combats at higher levels to be less all-or-nothing.
Dying is Serious	Make death actually mean something — no more revolving door!
Dying, Variant	This rules change how dying restricts a character's option, including falling into unconsciousness.
E20
ECL 1 Reincarnation Table	An alternate table for reincarnate, not that you were going to use that spell anyway.
Effects of Aging, Revised	Makes aging less wonky and more customizable. Also repurposes Unearthed Arcana flaws and gives longer lived kindreds more skills.
Eldritch Obscurement	A skill to remain unnoticed by eldritch horrors.
Expanded Armor Class	A needlessly complicated expansion to Armor Class.
Expanded Movement Options
Expanded Summon Monster	Expand the summon monster series of spells.
Expanded Weapon Size Damage	A list of increased die damage for sizes above colossal, as well as a variant which does not progress quite so rapidly.
Exploits	Fancy tricks for mundanes.
Failure is not the End
Fang weapons
Feat Purchasing
Ffumble Chart	Everyone hates fumble rules. But what if they were entertaining?
Fixed Bonus Types
Flaw Based LA	Use flaws for la buyoff
Fortitude Dying Resistance	Dying is now based on your Fortitude, not -10 for everyone.
Functional Craft Item Rule	Make crafting items a viable option and not simply a waste of skill points.
Functional Craft Trap	Make crafting traps a viable option, and not just a waste of skill points.
Functional Weapons of Legacy	The weapon of legacy rules suck. These ones don't.
Gestalt Style Multiclassing	A multiclassing variant that advances between 2 and 4 classes simultaneously, removing dips and multiclass patch prestige classes.
Gravity, Revised	This set of rule which revise the effect of various levels of gravity, and add two new levels of gravity. Despite what the name implies, it does not in fact revise the law of gravity. It was not designed to be perfectly accurate or realistic, but offer an interesting set of bonus and penalties while paying lip service to the laws of physic.
Grievous Wounds	As you fight you are inflicted with lasting wounds
Half Damage for Everyone	Half damage FOR EVERYONE.
Hit Die Adjustment	As you gain experience, you learn how to take more damage.
Ideasmith/Divine Spells Known and Deific Quests	A method of limiting a divine caster’s ‘spells known’ in a manner that fits the ‘feel’ of divine classes.
Immunity Overhaul	Immunities are handed out like candy, so this makes them less absolute.
Initiative Contests	Introduces rules for resolving action order when two characters attempt to act at the same time.
Intelligence and Skill	Make low Int character less boned in the game of skill.
Intimidate, Spanambula Variant	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Knowledge DC Variant	Alters the DC for knowledge skills to be based on rarity rather than HD.
Knowledge as it Should Be	A Knowledge skill where low rolls aren't a crippling gap in knowledge, they're a temporary setback.
Lengthened Spellcasting
Level Adjustment Dice	This rule is simple. It turns LA into hit dice.
Level Adjustments Variant	Level Adjustments suck, but rather than having to deal with the level loss, you could simply add racial hit dice, even to a template.
Light Speech	This is the opposite to Dark Speech.
Limited Powerful Feats	Reduce the runaway inflation that adding actually useful feats to the game creates.
Limited Spell Levels
Logical Caster Level	A much needed fix.
Magic Rating	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Magical Focus Implements	Fighters have to pay, and get to acquire, magical weaponry. Now, so can casters..
Magicka	Yet another attempt to balance out spellcasting.
Masterwork Guns	Some better masterworking options for guns.
Masterwork Variant
Metamagic Spells And Metapsionic Powers	Replaces metamagic and metapsionic feats with spells and powers of the same level as the feat's effective adjustment., Substitute a spell's damage for nonlethal damage., Substitute a spell's damage type for another type., Silence a spell., Still a spell., Enlarge a spell., Extend a spell., Disguise a spell., Empower a spell., Turn a Touch spell into a ray., Sanctify a spell., Maximize a spell., Widen a spell., Repeat a spell., Twin a spell., Quicken a spell., Enhance a spell., Persist a spell., Intensify a spell.
Miss Chances, Revised
Monstrous Player Characters
More Fear Stages
More Necromancy	I wanted to have more options with necromancy, and this will change many things about creating undead.
Multiclassing Save Progression	A simple adjustment to save progressions when multiclassing.
NPC Levels Instead of LA	As simple as it sounds: substitute LA with NPC class levels.
Nerfed Death	Nerf instant death effects, making them bring you to -1 and dying instead.
New Level-Dependent Benefits
New weapon requirements
No AC, Just Save and Use Protection	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Non-Combat Confusion	Confusion is a devastating effect in battle, but sometimes confusion (and its older brother insanity) persists outside of combat. Especially insanity. What is a fine mechanic in combat becomes clunky or nonsensical out of combat. Perhaps here is what happens outside of combat...
Nonliving Critical	Objects have structural weak points, too. Now you can critical hit against a wall and bash it down.
Normalized Random Numbers	Replace your dice with decks of cards in order to force an even distribution of rolls.
Original Race Rebuilding
Planar Flag Alignments
Pokemon Contests	Contests for the pokemon d20 project - like skill challenges, except good
Pokémon Types	Do you want your Pokémon's typing to actually matter? Then this variant rule is for you!
Precision Resistance	Chance to bypass immunity or fortification to critical hits.
Progressive Poisons	Combination of many poison rules, including SRD, PF, and variant collections.
Psionic Pools	Divide power points into two pools of energy; one recharges while the other acts like the typical power point reserve.
Qwertyu63/Divine Blood	Rules for becoming and playing a god. Rejects the Divine Rank rules.
Ranged Weapon Rebalanced	Some simple rule changes regarding most bows and crossbows.
Realistic Weapon Damage	[April Fools] Multiply damage done to creature by its level and a modifier based on size.
Reasonable Base Saving Throws	Obvious rule patch to base saving throws of multiclass characters.
Recharging Kit	A rule which allows character to restore charges to skill skits.
Recharging Magic
Recharging Power Points
Refresh Spellcasting	A different spellcasting system where different spell levels recharge at different rates. It means at high levels, low level spells may be used at whim while higher level spells take a long time to refresh.
Regeneration, Variant	This variant rule present two different variant of regeneration which cause far less in-game problems and both offer more design space.
Replace XP Components with Uses Per Level	Instead of paying XP, you can cast spells like Wish only once until the next time you level up.
Researching Spells	WotC says spellcasters can research new spells, but then forgot to tell you how. Well, here's how.
Resistance Revamped	Resistance Revamped aims to make the transition from resistance to immunity less jarring.
Restricted Aligned Spells	Aligned spells may only be cast by spellcasters who worship a deity of that alignment.
Retroactive Skill Points	Whenever your Intelligence bonus permanently increases, you gain skill points as if you've always had it that way.
Revised Feats, Flaws and Traits	Change the way feats, flaws and trait work.
Revised Intimidate DC	Change the DC needed to intimidate a creature.
Revised Magic Arms and Armor	This variant rule aims to introduce a more gradual power curve to magical weapons, armors and shields.
Revised Mental Ability Scores	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Revised Overland Movement and Fatigue Rules	These rules are intended to better model the unfortunate truth that is fatigue while also allowing for characters to exceed their normal limits as they grow in level.
Revised Size
Revised Skills and Knowledges	Divides skills into knowledge-type and applied-type skills.
Same Progression Stacking	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Saving Throws Rebalanced	An attempt at making saving throws scale with DCs instead of utterly out-scaling them.
Scaling Benefits	A different take on New Level Dependant Benefits.
Scaling Item DCs
Scaling Item Qualities	This variant aims to make weapon and armor qualities scale along with their effective value.
Scaling Level Adjustments	Level adjustments are adjustments.
Scaling Maneuvers	Maneuvers that deal d6 damage scale with level, as spells.
Shields Revised	Alters the functionality of shields so they actually act like shields.
Simplified Experience
Simplified Items
Simplified Races
Simplified Social Interaction	You can now use your social maneuvers faster in-combat.
Simplified Special Attacks
Skill Groups	A skill ranks overhaul for 3.5.
Softer Action Limitation	This experimental rule really relax some of the more common action-limiting status conditions and introduce new ones.
Source-Limited Bonuses	Replaces the normal non-stacking rule for bonuses with one based on the source of the bonus.
Spellcasting
Spells Like Powers	Ever like the mechanics of powers but the selection of spells? This variant rule lets you have the best of both.
Stacking Ability Modifiers
Standardized Bonus Types
Superior DR/Magic	This is a superior DR/magic similar to 3.0e, without needing to retroactively determine appropriate enhancement amounts.
Take X
Time and Experience	Slowing down constant adventuring syndrome.
Tome Armor	Rules for Tome armor. Meant to replace the unfinished Races of War rules for armor.
Tome Magic Items	Rules for creating, using, and giving out magic items in a Tome game. Meant to replace the unfinished Book of Gears sections on magic items.
Truespeak Fix	Truespeak, and truenamers, are terrible. I try my best to fix it by throwing most of it out.
Turn Undead	An easier to understand, more simple, and less complicated version of Turn Undead that isn't an all-or-nothing mechanic.
Useful Ability Scores	This variant rule adds additional abilities and variables to ability scores, as well as correcting some of their shortcomings.
Useful Counterspelling
Valuable Currency
Variable Darkvision	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Variant Reach
Variant dices	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Waypoint Style Teleportation	A complete teleportation replacement that supports different narratives, and lacks some potentially abuseable elements.
Weapon Based Critical Chances for Foe Type	Your weapon type affects what kind of creatures you can critical
Wound Thresholds	Creatures become weaker as their health gets lowered, allowing for HP-attackers to be more impactful.
Xadian Magic	A change to the magic system based on the world of Xadia, from the Netflix show The Dragon Prince.

Article	Description
Ability Arrays
Adaptive Style Errata	Reworking the poorly thought out prerequisites on a feat to allow for future classes.
Additional Combat Special Attacks	Additional special attacks beyond the basics, such as bull rush, disarm, and grappling.
Additional Epic Spell Factors	Additional epic spell factors, for creating new epic spells., Extra epic spell factors from where the epic level handbook forgot a few changes.
Additional Maneuver Types	Four new types of martial maneuvers - Flourishes, Assaults, Warcries, and Strategies., Create a column of natural darkness to hinder enemy sight., Create a column of inky shadow to hinder enemy sight., Create a column of frigid blackness to hinder enemy sight., Pounce at your target., Transform a ranged attack in an area attack., Support your allies, granting an improved aid another at range.
Additional Surge Type	A set of new Wild Surge for the Pathfinder Wilder.
Advanced Wars	Rules for mass combat within D&D.
Adventurer's Skill Knack	Characters should pick up a bit of the skills they see around them, even if they don't actively practice these tricks themselves.
Aging Overhaul
All Ability Skills	This variant rule gives focused skill points based on all ability scores, giving non-Intelligence focused classes something to do while also specializing them appropriately.
Arc of Effect	A slightly different type of line of effect that can potentially bypass obstacles on the ground... and can also potentially be blocked by obstacles in the air. It's all a matter of height.
Backgrounds	Give your characters flavorful and useful splashes of abilities, in a Bloodline-like form that is basically Gestalt Lite., You gain Novice Expertise in a Background., Your Background advances to Veteran Expertise., Your Background advances to Master Expertise.
Balanced Metamagic	Be vehwy vehwy quiet, I'm wehrking magic., I can bend space with but a twitch of my fingers! Oops...
Basic Magic Strike
Belief, Fate, and Destiny
Believability
Better Counterspelling
Better Disease Implementation
Better Hit Points
Better Initiative
Blood Magic	A new type of spellcasting which has a hp cost and spell fatigue as its limitations, rather than spells per day.
Bone Shaping	Some adventurers are exceptionally skilled at using monster parts to create and augment weapons and armor. this rule is meant for use with the Bone Shaper Class.
Bonus Invocations	Invokers gain additional invocations for having a high Charisma.
Capped Skill Bonus
Casting Attack Bonus	Iterative casting actions variant rule.
Castling	You and your allies can switch places in certain circumstances.
Catalyst Magic	A mild nerf to casters, spellcasting now requires some sort of catalyst such as a "magic wand".
Chariot
Chocobo Breeding
Chocobo Breeding Alternative
Chocobo Mounts
Cinematic Critical Hit
Code Blue	Death for the modern age.
Common Magic	Opening up really weak magic to everyone!
Construct Subtypes	Giving the Tome of Necromancy treatment to constructs, who so dearly need it.
Crit Dice	A system replacing threat ranges with crit dice.
Cross-Discipline Maneuvers	Maneuvers that belong to more than one school.
Cure Wounds Buff
Custom Weapon Creation
Dark Insight	Useful in games with eldritch horrors hidden in the background, dark insight represents an awareness of the reality behind reality. It can be useful boon, or a terrible bane.
Dark Insight Incantation	Rules for dark spells and forbidden magic to work in tandem with dark insight.
Dark Sacrifice	A replacement for the BoVD sacrifice rules.
Declaratory Initiative
Die Pool for Ability Scores	Roll lots of d6 and place 3 results into each ability to determine ability scores.
Discipline Addition
Dual Preparation Casting
Durability Training	Increase your HP total while remaining within the expected range.
Eldritch Obscurement	A skill to remain unnoticed by eldritch horrors.
Expanded Armor	A variety of special mundane armors for the seasoned adventurer.
Expanded Armor Class	A needlessly complicated expansion to Armor Class.
Expanded Psicrystal Personalities	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Expanded Size Categories	Expanded sizes from smaller than fine and bigger than colossal. Now compatible with current size categories without alteration!
Expanded Summon Monster	Expand the summon monster series of spells.
Exploits	Fancy tricks for mundanes.
Falling Damage
Fang weapons
Feature Trading	This variant allows one to trade features in one class for those in another. When ranking in a class, a player can choose to replace features earned at a particular level, with equal or lesser features from a different class.
Feral Strike	Feral strike weapons are presented as an alternative to granting natural weapons.
Flaw Based LA	Use flaws for la buyoff
Fragile Weapons	[April Fools] Weapons break when you get really good damage rolls.
Grace Points
Graze Damage	Deal a little damage, even on a miss.
Grievous Wounds	As you fight you are inflicted with lasting wounds
Half-Damage on Hit Roll equal to AC	When an attack roll equals the target's AC, the damage done by the damage roll is halved.
Healing Surges
Hellfrost	The freezing counterpart to hellfire, no amount of cold resistance will save you.
Hit Die Adjustment	As you gain experience, you learn how to take more damage.
Holding Back	A variant rule which allow you to deal less damage.
Holy Tools	Items blessed by the gods, usable by cleric and paladins.
Identifying Vestiges	Tome of Magic forgot to include rules for identifying vestiges. Well, here they are.
Ignoring Opponents	Ignoring opponents is a dangerous, but occasionally effective, way to ignore the penalty for being flanked.
Initiative Contests	Introduces rules for resolving action order when two characters attempt to act at the same time.
Innate Spell Evolution	A retraining variant for spontaneous casters with spells known progressions.
Intimidate, Spanambula Variant	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Light Speech	This is the opposite to Dark Speech.
Magic Rating	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Magical Defibrillation	What do you do when an ally dies in combat, there is no healer in the party (or worse, the one who died was the healer), and you don’t have time to trek back to a temple? Jump start their heart with magical electricity..
Mana-Based Spellcasting
Masterwork Guns	Some better masterworking options for guns.
Mindbreak	Mindbreak represents the assimilation of harmful eldritch knowledge.
Minimum Skill Points	4 + Int skill points per level is the minimum for a PC.
Montage Skill Retraining	Skill retraining rules to give skilled classes more flexibility so that they can prepare for more varied situations.
More Necromancy	I wanted to have more options with necromancy, and this will change many things about creating undead.
More Stable Saves
New weapon requirements
Non-Combat Confusion	Confusion is a devastating effect in battle, but sometimes confusion (and its older brother insanity) persists outside of combat. Especially insanity. What is a fine mechanic in combat becomes clunky or nonsensical out of combat. Perhaps here is what happens outside of combat...
Non-Magical Healing Arts
Pathfinder Oracle Curses as Tome Feats
Piercing Crossbows	Crossbows pierce armor better
Playing Chocobos
Pokemon Contests	Contests for the pokemon d20 project - like skill challenges, except good
Pokémon Types	Do you want your Pokémon's typing to actually matter? Then this variant rule is for you!
Prepared Spontaneous Casting
Prestige Enhancements	Item enhancements in which only one are allowed on an item.
Proficiency Purchase	Weapon and armor proficiency is often a waste of a feat. Learn them by giving up time, gold, and xp instead of a precious feat slot. It is also more representative to those who train to become weapon masters.
Psionic Pools	Divide power points into two pools of energy; one recharges while the other acts like the typical power point reserve.
Quasi-gestalt	Designed to work with E6, E20, and other E-something systems, quasi-gestalt offers horizontal growth once you've hit your level cap.
Racial Class Skills	Skills with racial bonuses become class skills for all classes.
Reactive Stealth	Revised rules for hide and move silently checks that make them success checks rather than DC setting checks.
Reasonable Base Saving Throws	Obvious rule patch to base saving throws of multiclass characters.
Refillable Potions	Many people don't use potions, hoarding them but never actually using them for the most part. This fixes that issue.
Researching Spells	WotC says spellcasters can research new spells, but then forgot to tell you how. Well, here's how.
Revised Fear Effects	Rules to bring fear effects more in line with other conditions and to increase the differences between fear levels.
Revised Feats, Flaws and Traits	Change the way feats, flaws and trait work.
Revised Pickpocketing	Pickpocketing rules that make theft more accessible, even if actually getting away with it remains difficult.
Revised Riding Rules	This variant rule is designed to streamline the actions available in the ride system, and to make it scale more appropriately to more fantastic, and higher CR, mounts.
Rituals	You can share your rituals with others., You are a wealth of knowledge, and can research rituals far faster than your peers., You can "hang" a ritual for later use., Your rituals last far longer than others'., You succeed at casting rituals far more often than your peers., You can cast rituals on the fly a small number of times per day., Your mind is a repository of rituals that few can challenge in its depth.
Rushes	Tome of Battle has maneuvers for most of the major action types: Strikes for standard/full-round, boosts for swift, and counters for immediate. What about some things for move actions?
Sadmad Point-Buy	A variant point buy rule that seeks to allow for both single and multiple attribute dependent builds to receive more or less equal love.
Scaling Level Adjustments	Level adjustments are adjustments.
Shields Revised	Alters the functionality of shields so they actually act like shields.
Simplified Skills
Skill Groups	A skill ranks overhaul for 3.5.
Sleep Deprivation	The rules for sleep deprivation are either hard to find or nonexistent, as a result I made this set of somewhat simple rules. These rules are aimed at making it hard to skip a day of sleep without it being overwhelming. Not meant to be super realistic.
Sniping Skills	Apply Concentration checks to improve sniping abilities, and makes sniping a more viable strategy.
Social Archetype
Spell Chains	A suggestion to make spell selectionhave pre-requisites based on previous themeatic spells, similar to the pre-requisites on certain maneuvers.
Spontaneous Domains	Give up the bonus spell slots, but gain spontaneous casting for domain spells.
Stone Dragon Errata	Allowing Stone Dragon users the ability not to be shut down in places without a ground to stand.
Strain-Based Psionics	An attempt to bring psionics and spellcasting closer together and reduce intense confusion about how systems work when using Surgo's sextastic strain-based spellcasting rules.
Stronghold builder's Quick Fix	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Taking Stock
Teh Storm/Superior Critical
The Edge
Time and Experience	Slowing down constant adventuring syndrome.
Tome Styles	[Incomplete] An idea for combining Tome with Tome of Battle
Training for Skills	Yes, if you put enough effort into it you can gain skill points through hard work instead of simply leveling.
Truespeech	By speaking in the language of creation, you can change the world.
Unique Attack Modifiers	Effects attached to attacks that force an opponent to save should only happen at most once per round.
Useful Ability Scores	This variant rule adds additional abilities and variables to ability scores, as well as correcting some of their shortcomings.
Uses Variant
Variable Darkvision	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Variant Combat Maneuver Checks	For 3.5 that want something like CMB/CMD, and for Pathfinder as a fix to CMB/CMD.
Variant Druid Shapeshift	Make some slight changes and expand on the ShapeshiftPHB2 alternate class feature.
Variant Multiclass Skill Points	This variant rule removes the imbalance in skill points that can occur if you take one class at first level instead of another.
Variant Non-Humans
Variant dices	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Vow of Poverty
Weapon Based Critical Chances for Foe Type	Your weapon type affects what kind of creatures you can critical
Weapon Proficiencies That Work
Weapon Shield Bonus
Weather	An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance, The sun is shining, the birds are singing. Everything is looking good. Oh wait, I lied. There is actually a typhoon coming this way. The winds are picking up, and it looks like a mage just called acid rain upon us.
Wild Magic	When the world was created, it is said that all magic was wild, but over the years, with all the use by wizards, clerics, and others, the magic was bound into the form we know today. However, there still exist places where the magic hasn't been tamed yet. Wild Magic is an environmental effect in certain locations, considered to be extremely unreliable. In these environments, magic might be strengthened, weakened, or randomly altered. These alterations might radically alter the spell to another type, a new and unique expression of reality alteration, or even make the spell fizzle and do nothing.
Wound Thresholds	Creatures become weaker as their health gets lowered, allowing for HP-attackers to be more impactful.
Wounds

Article	Description
Additional Maneuver Types	Four new types of martial maneuvers - Flourishes, Assaults, Warcries, and Strategies., Create a column of natural darkness to hinder enemy sight., Create a column of inky shadow to hinder enemy sight., Create a column of frigid blackness to hinder enemy sight., Pounce at your target., Transform a ranged attack in an area attack., Support your allies, granting an improved aid another at range.
Alignment Without Alignment	A system for dealing with stuff that would be ‘orphaned’ by dropping alignment.
All Ability Skills	This variant rule gives focused skill points based on all ability scores, giving non-Intelligence focused classes something to do while also specializing them appropriately.
Background Points	Expanding and dividing skills.
Being Daunted and Bearing Up	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Bludgeoning is Less Lethal; Piercing and Slashing are More Lethal	Making bludgeoning weapons just a touch less lethal than slashing/piercing weapons
Bone Shaping	Some adventurers are exceptionally skilled at using monster parts to create and augment weapons and armor. this rule is meant for use with the Bone Shaper Class.
Bonus Cantrips/Orisons
Bonus Invocations	Invokers gain additional invocations for having a high Charisma.
Casting Attack Bonus	Iterative casting actions variant rule.
Code Blue	Death for the modern age.
Combat Fatigue
Combat Rhythm
Culture and Status
Dark Sacrifice	A replacement for the BoVD sacrifice rules.
Eldritch Obscurement	A skill to remain unnoticed by eldritch horrors.
Expanded Armor Class	A needlessly complicated expansion to Armor Class.
Expanded Summon Monster	Expand the summon monster series of spells.
Exploits	Fancy tricks for mundanes.
Extended Death and Dying	Death and dying for the overly dramatic.
Fallen	When dying is serious and the heal skill is useful
Fang weapons
Fantasy Genetics
Fantasy Pregnancy	A set of rules for determining pregnancy and its results.
Flaw Based LA	Use flaws for la buyoff
Fortune Points
Goal-Based Level Gain	This is an alternative to using experience points to determine level gain.
Grievous Wounds	As you fight you are inflicted with lasting wounds
Hit Die Adjustment	As you gain experience, you learn how to take more damage.
Hyper-Simplified Mass Combat	For when you just don't have the time to roll 47 attack rolls a turn.
Initiative Contests	Introduces rules for resolving action order when two characters attempt to act at the same time.
Intimidate, Spanambula Variant	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Light Speech	This is the opposite to Dark Speech.
Maestro Forms	Common rules for Maestro classes, to make them multiclassing-friendly.
Magic Rating	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Masterwork Guns	Some better masterworking options for guns.
More Necromancy	I wanted to have more options with necromancy, and this will change many things about creating undead.
New weapon requirements
Non-Combat Confusion	Confusion is a devastating effect in battle, but sometimes confusion (and its older brother insanity) persists outside of combat. Especially insanity. What is a fine mechanic in combat becomes clunky or nonsensical out of combat. Perhaps here is what happens outside of combat...
Non-Diablo Magic Slots	Magic item slots based on function, not form.
Pets Roll All the Dices
Pokemon Contests	Contests for the pokemon d20 project - like skill challenges, except good
Pokémon Types	Do you want your Pokémon's typing to actually matter? Then this variant rule is for you!
Professional Knowledge	A useful/balanced profession skill
Psionic Pools	Divide power points into two pools of energy; one recharges while the other acts like the typical power point reserve.
Radiation
Reasonable Base Saving Throws	Obvious rule patch to base saving throws of multiclass characters.
Relapses
Replacing XP Cost with Essence Point Cost	XP costs paid from an unrelated pool of points.
Revised Feats, Flaws and Traits	Change the way feats, flaws and trait work.
Revised Summoning
Scaling Level Adjustments	Level adjustments are adjustments.
Shields Revised	Alters the functionality of shields so they actually act like shields.
Silver Tongue/Fumble Chart
Skill Groups	A skill ranks overhaul for 3.5.
Social Combat	Social skill rules for tearing people down and making them cry.
Some Spontaneity to Wizards
Spazalicious Chaos/Sin, Virtue, Anarchy and Order
Static Spell Points	A spell point system that doesn't allow novas or become more of an accounting chore as you grow in level, and comes with a set of adjustments to spellcasters to make them a bit MAD.
Time and Experience	Slowing down constant adventuring syndrome.
Trading-In Player Characters	Rules for taking over an NPC as one’s PC.
Useful Ability Scores	This variant rule adds additional abilities and variables to ability scores, as well as correcting some of their shortcomings.
Useful Pluses	+1 swords that people actually want!
Variable Darkvision	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Variant dices	Please insert a summary of your variant rule here.
Weapon Based Critical Chances for Foe Type	Your weapon type affects what kind of creatures you can critical
Wordcasting