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In an attempt to find a balance between a quick and abstract combat system (with only hit points) and the sophistication to grant additional options in battle (as the old called shot system), I have been working on the Wound System.

Link on Google Drive

The concept is simple; you call a shot before attacking, choose an effect or have it chosen for you (corresponding to a location on the target's body), and compare the damage with half the target's maximum hit points. This usually yields a light wound (penalty on attack, speed, short-term condition, etc.).
If you happened to score a heavy wound (either with a critical called shot or if the damage was exceptionally high), there is an additional effect chosen from a higher-severity list (limb unusable or severed, condition extended, etc.), with many ways to make a light wound heavier (and thus more punishing).

To integrate better with the concept of critical hits and sneak attacks, it is possible for the attack to count as a called shot retroactively. This means that sneak attack is technically a called shot (since it refers to targeting a weak spot), but it deals only 1d6 unless the character possesses the Sneak Attack class feature. This is detailed in the link.

This has went under only a little playtesting, but I believe the system has potential for use in home games. It will not be used every attack (due to benefiting most from critical hits), but is a tactical option that players may choose to use circumstantially.

Any feedback is appreciated

It's very unsatisfying to purchase or run an AP and have it stay for years, only for the whole experience be destroyed when even one player jumps ship. In many cases, the character concepts lose steam and value after Book 2 or 3.
So what if AP chapters can be played as separate modules? Below are a few guidelines for integration and resolution of adventures.

For example: Players starting Book 3 of CotCT will start out as quarantined survivors in Old Korvosa.
Players starting Book 6 of CotCT will arrive at Korvosa under high-level siege and revolt, without having to go through the process of the queen's descent into madness.
Play by Post is also a concern that relies heavily on the adventure's structure. Having the below as guidelines can excise certain encounters that slog down gameplay—as some encounters are more important than others.

CotCT Book 1

CotCT Book 2

CotCT Book 3

CotCT Book 4

CotCT Book 5

CotCT Book 6

I'm DMing a Jade Regent game, and have been calculating treasure rewards for monsters and rolling for random encounters in Varisia (still book 1). An Ankheg here, a jade stone with a Sinspawn there, a small band of goblin raiders led by a commando ripped from RotRL--pretty much within guidelines for CR and treasure encounters.

But I'm starting to think if the treasure parcels are built-into the adventure. If that is the case, I'm giving players more treasure than I should.

So, is the amount of treasure in APs pre-calculated to follow Wealth per level, or should I continue providing additional treasure as per CR?

Herein we discuss the strange and terrible events of the Misty Manor!

The first few scenes serve to establish Thaddeus's overall personality. The adventure hook proper will come soon.

The story starts in Lepidstadt, as the wandering doctor surely must come to some area frequently (as I judged it, the university) to receive his message.
I had envisioned Thaddeus covering for professors as an alumni or cross-examining the students' education. Perhaps he received an invitation to oversee the final days of the examinations.
Which of them is up to you (or feel free to suggest another reason for him returning to his school).

Currently, the rounds Thaddeus starts the story doing include students' yearly assessment before a short break.
Feel free to rip the student a new one or show understanding. >:D

This is a closed campaign.
Feel free to lurk, though.

Spring has come. It was the 11th of Gozran, in the year 2714 in the reckoning of Absalom.

Spring has come. It was the season of kind winds, life, and the celebration of youth. Under vivid-green trees and above dewy flowers, red-faced youth pledged shy pledges of love to one another. The rich, sweet, and subtle of purfumes filled the air of Vieland’s streets.
Spring has come. It changed even eternal Ustalav—this season, it will let down its defenses and allow butterflies and songbirds to dispel the shadow over it.

Spring has come. It stopped at the iron-wrought gates of prestigious University of Lepidstadt. The students within its halls will celebrate the season and the possibilities of its coming—but surely that can wait until the university’s rigorous examinations are over. Those who loitered in the courtyard exchanging loveletters, or those who took dips in the Moutray River will answer for the crime of having fun—in due time.
In the university’s School of Medicine, one of such carefree students was serving his time in the wards, red-eared and reduced much in pride, as Doctor Thaddeus Dusek examined his patients’ reports. He spend an admirable amount of effort to hide his mistakes in misdiagnosing his assigned yellow-faced patient, though it could have not passed so easily by the doctor (who, doubtlessly, might have committed the same mistakes when he was that age).
Of course, the student (whose name Thaddeus has unfortunately forgot), did not check the patient’s stool samples for blood (forgetting or trying to forget that her blood loss might be due to internal bleeding in the gastrointestinal track). He didn’t study the bone marrow of boy in the next ward for the possibility of leukemia. A few other mistakes made reading the report simply embarrassing…

[Action]
Music: Play 'The Waldstein Academy's Theme, Track #20.'

In light of the CM/D discussion currently brewing in the forums, I've been thinking about mundane ways (actions, items, and skill-based) to counter spells.
I've elected a few spells, and posted some weaknesses.

Note: Mundane ways is best dealt with without introducing new items or mechanics unless they are simple and easily remembered.

Let's start:
Fireball: A tried and true classic spell. Fireball's weakness is based off the spell's description (a pea-sized bead, or a fine-sized object) and by intuiting some facts.
Spell Weakness: A fireball can be intercepted with a ranged attack. If a held action triggers in response to a fireball, the target must succeed on an attack roll versus the AC of a 13 (5 base + 8 size bonus). If the attack is successful, the attacker can preemptively explode the bead (discharging the fireball as normal) but in an area of effect chosen by the attacker. The area of effect must be centered at any point between the caster and the initial target of the caster. This can take effect on the caster's space.

Lightning Bolt: Another classic spell. The weakness is easily thought-of: lightning rods.
Spell Weakness: A lightning bolt takes place on its entire area of effect, unless the line passes within 5 feet from a metallic object that is halfway in natural soil or dirt. When passing by this grounded object, the lightning bolt's damage is reduced by 2d6. This can occur multiple times, counted once per object.

Fly: One of the more breaking ones, this spell's weakness does require mechanic changes, but they are rather simple--while flying at all (and not flying by wings), getting hit reduces altitude.
Spell Weakness: If you are hit while flying, you must succeed on a DC 10 Fly check or lose 10 feet of altitude. If this would reduce your altitude to a given surface to 0, you take the appropriate fall damage.

Special: For better scaling, the distance fallen is a number of feet equal the damage taken, and the DC is equal to the damage taken. A successful saving throw negates any loss in altitude (or, to hit the spell again with the nerf-bat, halves distance fallen).

Black Tentacles: Toted as either necessary (borderline overpowered) or weak against CR-equivalent creatures.
Spell Weakness: The tentacles can be harmed, but only one 5-foot square worth of tentacles. They have an AC of 4 (5 base - 1 size), and 16 hit points. If reduced to 0, they can regrow after 1d4 rounds.

Choose a spell, and come up with a mundane way to counter it.

Versatility is strength.
Spells such as Silent Image, Polymorph Any Object, and Simulacrum are sometimes considered broken (or in the first case, deserving scrutiny) due to their incredible versatility.

When considering an iconic conjuration spell, what restrictions would be reasonably warranted with a Conjure Object spell? Duration? Function? Material?

Conjure Object
School/Level Conjuration [Creation], level 1
Range 0 ft.
Effect 1 lb of raw material
Duration 1 day
Description
By casting this spell, you can conjure up any non-living object from your own, or a different planar realms (such as the fire realm, the earth realm, the fey realm, etc.). The conjured material may be anything you wish, so long as its hardness does not exceed 2 points.
At the end of the duration, the object disperses. While the object remains conjured, it emits a weak conjuration aura. It can be dispelled by magic, and can be detected as being magical.
Note This cannot conjure liquids or gasses (due to lack of hardness), or solid forms of the above (such as ice). The conjured material comes in the most raw and pure form (ingots for metals, clumps of matter for clay or cotton, etc.)

At Higher Levels Higher levels of the spell follows the below design pattern:
For every spell level above 1st, increase one of the below properties:
1. Amount of item increases by 2 pounds.
2. Maximum hardness of the material by 2 points.

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Applications
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1st level Conjure Object: raw sphere of glass, pile of cotton, blob of clay, etc.
Conjure Rope/Wood: 3rd level spell (max. hardness 6, hardness of typical wood = 5)
Conjure (Fool's) Gold: 3rd level spell (max. hardness 6, hardness of gold = 5)
Conjure Iron/Cold Iron: 5th level spell (max. hardness 10, hardness of iron/cold iron = 10)
Conjure Mithral: 8th level spell (max. hardness 16, hardness of mithral = 15)

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Ramifications
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World-building ramifications: Shopkeepers need detect magic--or at least some in-world method of replicating the spell. Perhaps a certain herb is known to react to the presence of magic (such as holly), and change slightly in color. Shopkeepers would thus maintain this herb to guard against magical trickery, or conjured gold (otherwise known as Fool's Gold; not to be confused with iron pyrite, of course).

The presence of this spell would necessitate a [Transfigure Object] spell, which shapes raw materials into weapons, equipment, or armor (not unlike Fabricate).

Issue:
As a player and GM, I've always found that the only thing that takes more time than designing a build for a character is adding class skills. Calculating on a point-by-point basis, cross-referencing at attribute changes, and various 'fiddly bits' with class-specific skills is tedious, especially in situations or builds where maximum skill ranks are prerequisites and not just options.
This thread is a thought experiment and a suggestion thread.
Let's eliminate skill points from the game.

Alternative: The Primary/Secondary Skill System
The alternative to this is quite simple:
For every skill point (Intelligence included) the class grants the character, choose one skill. Mark the skills chosen. You gain +1 to the skill check for every class level you have, atop the Class Skill and Attribute bonuses, and count as if they have allotted points equal to the class level. The skills are called 'Primary Skills'
All other skills gain 1/2 the bonus, and count as if they have allotted points equal to half class level. The skills are called 'Secondary Skills'.

Example
Fred Fighter (with 13 Intelligence) has 2 + Intelligence skill points. He chooses Swim, Ride, and Intimidate as Primary Skills.
At Fighter 3, he gains a +3 skill bonus to all checks with the respective skills, atop the +3 for (some) class skills, and attribute boosts. The Fighter gains +1 to all secondary skills.

Adapting Changes:
Feats, abilities, classes, and all prerequisites that specify a specific number of skill points move to adapt the changes:
The Intelligent Example feat requires 4 ranks in Knowledge (Nature). If a Ranger chose Knowledge (Nature) as a primary skill, they can gain the feat at level 4. Otherwise, they need to be level 8.

Problems with the Rankless System:
A: Metagame/Immersion: So far the biggest issue. Throughout the course of a campaign, a character may become more adept at diplomacy or stealth. A character who chose Bluff instead of Stealth may find themselves suffering until level 20 for the choices they made at level 1.
B: Point-dependent Skills: The greatest example here is Linguistics. For every point, one gains a language. Under this system, there will be no in-built way to learn languages other than by the Retraining System of learning languages by spending time on them.
C: Cross-Class: Ah--here we are. The system works fine as long as one remains to one class. What if one multiclasses? Will one have to refer to each skill as primary to one class and be dependent on levels in it? May someone take a dip in Bard or Rogue to gain an instant bonus equal to their level on about 8+ skills?

Solutions to the above issues:
Issue A: Add more ways to choose Primary Skills. This also happens to solve outstanding issues as the having-too-little skill ranks for a lot of classes.
A plethora of traits, feats, and alternative class abilities elevate secondary skills to primary skills.
Issue B: I prefer for point-based abilities to be rolled under the existing mechanics of traits and feats. Although Linguistics seems to be the biggest offender, I am curious of others.
Issue C: The system works fine until multiclassing enters. I am of the following opinion (benevolent and ultra-lenient as it seems):
Add all points from classes and Intelligence to determine primary classes. A Fighter/Rogue multiclass gains 10+Intelligence Primary skills. This character may not need for any skills, as it covers nearly half base skills.

Benefits:
As a mechanic, it eases leveling, and opens more avenues for gaining skills. Leveling up becomes more rewarding to characters, while easier to build and play for GMs.
Under Character Sheets, a character may eliminate the tedious skill/skill point entry, as seen under the class (Rogue 2; 8 + Int) below:

Skills Acrobatics +9 (2), Appraise +7, Bluff +7 (+9 to lie; 2), Climb +4 (1), Craft +8 (Carpentry; 2), Diplomacy +6 (+8 to convince; 1), Disable Device +9 (2), Disguise +7 (2), Escape Artist +8 (1), Heal +6 (1), Intimidate +5, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +4 (Int), Knowledge (local) +9 (2), Linguistics +8 (1), Perception +6 (2), Perform +6 (Wind Instruments; 1), Perform (Acting) +6 (1), Profession +4, Sense Motive +6 (2), Sleight of Hand +10 (1), Spellcraft +5 (1), Stealth +10 (1), Survival +4 (+8 in Urban and underground), Swim +4 (1), and Use Magic Device +6 (1)

And replace with the following:

Skills: Primary (12): Acrobatics (Dex), Bluff (Cha;Int for lying), Disable Device (Dex), Disguise (Cha), Escape Artist (Dex), Knowledge (Local) (Int), Perception (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), Sleight of Hand (Dex), Stealth (Dex), Swim (Str), and Use Magical Device (Cha).

Disadvantages:

TL;DR: All skills gain 1/2 level bonus, above class skills and attribute bonuses.
For every skill point one would normally gain from a class, they can promote the class (only class skills) skills to a primary skill, adding their full level bonus as a bonus instead.
Abilities dependent on ranks count half level (or full level) instead.

Thoughts, comments, and discussion are appreciated.

When going through topics like the Christmas Tree Effect, Big 6s, downtime, and generally all economic issues such as using Profession checks, there always seems to be the fear of giving characters too much money. If Profession/Perform/Craft is too good, people are afraid that players will become too powerful.

Thus it is tied (in the metagame/written in APs/as decided by GMs) to restrict wealth to level, as exemplified by the WBL.

Any overhaul to any issue that touches 3.5/Pathfinder's economy meets with disaster: so many magical items shoot CR out of the roof.
Wealth is power, even when not counting magical plusses on weapons or equipment: hiring mercenaries, exercising authority on the narrative, and many other avenues are open to rich characters, which again returns us to square one.
One cannot play a successful businessman and make use of their company's resources--or play a noble and draw upon their wealth without a story penalty imposed by a frightened DM.

A DM could give instead bonuses tied to hit dice that replicate and overlap (do not stack) with the Big 6 to relieve the pressure they have on the player, or can eliminate them entirely. That could relieve martial characters from gear dependency, but the issue remains.

So the question is this:
Other than keeping the Christmas Tree Effect, adding the above mechanic, or creating a clone of it, how can we decouple wealth from character level (or more importantly, character power)?
Or, should there be a decoupling in the first place? What is wrong with giving characters too much wealth if we account for what strange tricks creative PCs have up their sleeves?

If we can make characters have freedom with purchasing castles, ships, and armies, will we still restrict wealth if it didn't directly increase their CR?

Magical Disciplines
Each magical discipline subsumes two schools: A feat that improves a previous school, such as Spell Focus and Greater Spell Focus is now replaced by Discipline Focus.
Specialist wizards focus on a discipline instead, and choose two disciplines as opposed disciplines. From these disciplines, they count all spells cast from them as if barred or forbidden schools.
As a result, specialist casters become more focused and flavorful, especially with the addition of Focus Feats.

Alteration: Transmutation and Abjuration, regains the [Teleportation] sub-school, and gains most force spells and effects (like mage armor, etc.) Transmutation alters existing things, and abjuration often protects against alteration, or the Chaos (mutation) vs. Law (preservation) aspects play an important part in the theme.

Mysticism: Divination and Necromancy are combined under Mysticism, with the duality of soul (divination) and body (necromancy) being a paramount theme. The new [Undead], [Soul] sub-schools help giving distinct character. Also, like many other GMs, I've thrown the [Healing] sub-school to Necromancy--by extension Mysticism. As balancing, I've removed the [Fear] sub-school from Necromancy.

Invocation: By removing the [Teleportation] sub-school from Conjuration, most abilities like creating matter and energy overlap from a physical perspective, and form much of its theme of energy being interchangeable with matter. Thus, I combined them together.

Illusion: Combined Illusion and Enchantment, removed the [Charm] sub-school, and folded its effects to [Emotion] effects, which subsume Fear. Bravery works against charm, fear, and Calm Emotions, etc. The dominant theme is that emotion is an illusion, and although one facet focuses on internal control (enchantment), and one external (illusion), they all see the world as 'part of the greatest illusion; life'.
Universal gains all 'Word' and 'Symbol' spells, and is mostly otherwise unchanged.

When a wizard chooses a school, they can choose a focus, or an aspect to focus upon from within the school.
Of course, this makes barred schools more severe: An illusionist focusing on the illusion aspect gains class abilities as per the Pathfinder Illusionist, and counts all enchantment spells as benefiting from his class abilities, but giving up Invocation and Alteration (four collective schools) may lead to wizards becoming even more focused and specialized.
I personally recommend for barred schools to forbid a spellcaster from casting any spells from said school, effectively removing them from their spell list. These rules do not assume that, however.

As it might show, some abilities are permanent, and some have uses that give them limited power over the story's narrative.

These are parts of my ongoing Pathfinder/3.5 Overhaul project, a part I wished to share with the forums for feedback.

Perception Now:
The existing modifiers to Perception either cease being relevant after a specific point, or ignore other aspects of synergy within the rules. As per RAW, one cannot see a dragon flying hundreds of feet above them, nor technically can they see the moon or stars.
One can argue RAI, and the inability to stealth while without cover, but the perception rules leave something to be desired.

Issues:
Distance modifiers to DC and Item/Barrier modifiers to DC are our interests.

Solution:
Distance
Distance increases to DC are divided by height from the ground and/or width from the nearest surface, whichever is higher.
A flying creature are doubly easy to see. It still requires cover or concealment (or a Hide in Plain Sight check) to hide.
Example:
The DC to see a normal man in 100 ft. is 10 (counting said man as a 'visible creature via RAW', but divide it by 6 makes a DC of 1.
A 6’ man can be described with a DC of 1 if 60 ft. away, or with a DC of 10 if 600 ft. away, or DC 12 if the man was 5’ tall. The DC would be 5 if he were flying.

For the purposes of interacting with size categories, follow the general rule below. Exceptions exist—and can be described for quick evaluation. A creature lying prone is considered two effective size categories smaller than it normally is to calculate height/length average, or takes their width to be their new height; whichever is higher.

Example:
In the case above, if the man drops prone, and declares he is width is 2’ (1.5 normally, increasing due to armor). His bonus to Stealth to be seen would be a base of 5 instead of 1 (when he is standing). Rolling a stealth check would add this bonus to his check, becoming 1d20 + Stealth + 5, although the man still needs cover.

Size Height/length*
Fine____________ - 6”
Diminutive_______6” – 1’
Tiny____________1’ – 2’
Small___________2’ – 4’
Medium_________4’ – 8’
Large___________8’ – 16’
Huge___________16’ – 32’
Colossal_________32’ – 64’
Gargantuan______64’+

Barriers:
Add hardness of the material to the listening DC to hear/1 ft. of thickness.

Group Movement
When calculating group movement, count the center of the group as the area emitting the sound of talking, and pass a line from the center to the listener. If there is an open path around the barrier, take 2 points off the DC.

TL;DR
1: Divide total distance penalty to Perception by width or height.
2: A creature flying takes double penalties.
3: A creature that is prone counts width instead of height.
4: Add hardness to hear through doors/walls/Wall of Force, etc.
5: Count sound as emitting from center of group.

3.5 and its successor Pathfinder introduced the concept of purchasing different weapons based on their origin material. This was mostly utilized to bypass creature-specific damage reduction. Because of inconvenience, Pathfinder preferred to add a system of enhancement bonuses bypassing material-based damage reduction. I myself am not a fan of depending entirely on magical items to 'get things done', and with my efforts to allow for players to both mine and craft specific ores (in tiers of material quality), I found that most weapons (regardless of enhancement) were simply made of the default material; iron or steel.

A proposition:

Instead of depending on Craft Magical Arms and Armor to create weapons with enhancement bonuses (and with heavy price tags leading to a questionable economy), why not allow weapons based on rare materials 'free' enhancement bonuses? This way, not only are weapons made of specific materials more prized, but they are generally more useful (rather than being utilized for a very limited use such as bypassing DR, and ignoring hardness).

For example:
A silver longsword would be equal to a +1 longsword; not only is it masterwork (thus +1 to attack rolls), but an enhancement bonus is granted to its damage. The 'Bane' quality could be assigned to silver weapons, and it could target creatures it could previously (only) manage to bypass in DR.

A cold iron longsword would be equal to a +2 longsword; with +1 Bane to Fey and Dispelling (in line with the power of iron against fey and witchcraft, respectively).

With Mithral being +3, Adamantine being +4, the elusive +5 and +6 enhancements are still in the realm of magical item creation. Material-based enhancements do not stack with creation enhancements.

TL;DR: Weapons made of specific materials gain free (+1)s that can be allotted. These do not stack with any adjustments made by Magic Weapon or feats like Craft Magical Arms and Armor.

Welcome, to the Advanced Roleplaying Military-Industry Establishment System, or A.R.M.I.E.S.
Also known as; What to Do When Your Campaign Setting Goes to War?

Introduction:
The Golarion campaign setting is, according to many, a mishmash of various cultures and civilizations living side-by-side. In my quest to modify sections of Golarion for my home game(s) to make things more…in tune with each other, I came to the off-topic realization that there is no information of NPC military units (when it comes to statistic blocks, national variants/ archetypes) for any nations, save few (Umbral Court Agent, Nirmathan Ranger, Hidden/Razmiran Priest, etc.).
Knowing that the average city guard is a CR1/2 level 1 Warrior, and referencing the excellent NPC Codex, I have (with the valued assistance of my players) designed A.R.M.I.E.S.
Designing this has filled a need I found when I was contemplating the following issue:
What would units Cheliax utilize in a theoretical war against Andoran? Diabolists, definitely. Hellknights, very likely—but what else? How would Andoran respond?
The system itself is quite simple, and it reinforces the existing mass-combat army rules with enough complexity and customization to make each country's military forces feel (if not simply become) distinct and original, while staying in the same time quite simplistic and easy to apply.

Please post your suggestions towards improving this system.
I will submit variants/additions in the following posts.

Hello there,

I share with the good people of Pathfinder the mana resource system I use.
I adopted the rules of the Blackfang Strain system from 3.5, with adjustments that must have been made to accommodate the differences between Pathfinder and D&D 3.5.

The base system is simple, and easily converted to.

The base system (3.5) is in the link:
http://dungeons.wikia.com/wiki/Mana-Based_Spellcasting_%283.5e_Variant_Rule %29
The adjusted system for World of Warcraft RPG is by yours truly here:
http://wowrpg.fr.yuku.com/topic/320/master/1/#.UzVDQlc070k

The TL;DR version is this:
1- We have a new resource called Mana Points, which are used for casting spells.
1.2- The Mana Point pool has a value equal to the casting attribute (not modifier), +.5 for every level in a spell-casting class. For spontaneous casters, the Mana Point Pool increases by one-half the attribute score, to reflect their additional spell-casting capabilities compared to prepared casters.
2- We keep the concept of Spell Slots for keeping track of how many spells we prepare (for prepared casters) and use the Spells Known table for spontaneous casters to know how many spells they know.
3- Each spell slot (when the spell is cast, or is burnt up) consumes the amount of Mana Points in the pool. The higher the Caster Level is, the cheaper spells become, as per the table in the original link (for full HD casters), and the tables for half HD casters and three-quarters HD casters is in the second link.
4- Mana is regained through one of three versions, one is with resting, one is over time (scales with CL or Attribute score) and one is with over time, with HD determining how much Mana is regained.
5- When reaching 0 Mana, the caster is fatigued, even if normally immune to the condition.
5.2-In the case of casting with not enough Mana, the caster can roll a Fortitude save, DC = (20 + Spell level + Mana lost) to force the spell. If the save fails, then the caster is exhausted (even if normally immune) and cannot cast spells until they gain at least 1 Mana Point.

As for the general adjustments needed for Pathfinder (and other variants of 3.5), I have developed these general rulings.

General Rulings:
1- Bonus spell slots, such as what the School Spell, Domain Spell, and various class features and abilities translate to bonus mana. The amount is a neutral +4 to the mana pool, used only for the spells specified (as in Domain spells, School Spells, etc).
2- As the making of some items consumes spell slots, the mana drain from the spell level is cost enough.
3- Domain abilities or Metamagic abilities that increase the spell’s level simply increase the cost according to the Mana cost chart in the links.
4- Domain spells or favored school abilities lower the mana cost of respective spells by 1 mana point.
5- Concentration effects that, if failing the check, lose the spell slot without effect simply consume the mana required without producing the spell in question.
6- After being a target to Raise Dead spell and having mana, the spellcaster’s remaining mana pool is half amount. Touch of Life (or True Resurrection in 3.5), of course, restores mana.
7- Counterspell consumes mana to negate the enemy’s spell. Counterspell rules play as usual.
8- As the case with Spell-like abilities in the normal game, there is no mana cost for spell-like abilities generally.
9- With multiclass spell slots, you must calculate mana from different spell origins (Arcane, Divine) separately. For example, a Necromancer4/Cleric5 with 15 Int and 17 Wis has an arcane mana pool of 17, and a divine mana pool of 19. A Wizard who is a mage4/necromancer(Arcane Prestige class)5 has the same amount as they would if they were mage9 or necromancer9.
10- Purchasing abilities that require sacrifice of a spell slot, what happens instead is that they sacrifice or ‘freeze’ a mana investment equal to half the mana cost for the spell slot in question, and do not regain it until they abandon the ability/summon/companion. The ability can be cheaper in cost according to the mana cost table. Normal summoning as with Summon Monster/Nature's Ally work normally.
11- When it comes to artifacts or items granting spell levels (Finkle’s Hammer giving you a 4th level spell slot), take the general rule for 1 mana per spell level. I.E. Mana armor enchantment, if it grants you a 4th level spell slot, count is as +4 to your mana pool.
12- Effects that block restoration of spell slots blocks mana regeneration, I.E. Nightmare.

I will appreciate any links to other abilities that add or modify spell slot amounts, as well as any spells or abilities that may not work under the current system, so that they may be modified.

Of course, all posts on criticism, comments, and experience with other Mana resource systems are appreciated.