About Giovanni Henriksen
British. First played D&D in 1974 (yes, that long ago). Retired.
Nowadays my group plays Pathfinder with a huge number of houserules. Examples:
Character level is capped at 10th. Experience gained after 10th (and before 10th) can be spent on feats, skill ranks, more spell slots, more spells known, increasing abilities and hero points.
Armour and Natural Armour become Damage Reduction / Incorporeal (the DR is the sum of the armour and natural armour bonuses they would give you normally). They stack with each other and other DR. However, the attacker's minimum damage is 25% of what was rolled (round up) regardless of how much DR they give you.
You add your Reflex bonus from classes to your Armour Class as a Dodge bonus.
The Maximum Dexterity bonus from armour is now a "Maximum Dodge bonus" to which you add your Strength modifier (strong people can move more easily in armour). This figure is also increased depending on the armour type; +4 for Light, +3 for Medium and +2 for Heavy.
We ban magic items which permanently improve abilities; though you gain more ability points per level (20 point buy, +1 point per level to be spent on table 1-1 Core page 16).
All unnamed bonuses which are obtained from magic items and spells become enhancement bonuses (this stops a lot of bonus stacking).
Shields give an extra AC bonus of +1 per attack you get as a full-round action
Rogues and Ninjas get a talent at every level. Fighters gain an additional feat at every level. Rangers get D6 sneak attack at 4th level and every 4 levels thereafter. Paladins gain "Mettle" (works like evasion for Fortitude and Will saves) at 5th level.
Each D6 of Sneak Attack instead gives +1 to hit and +3 damage (which is multiplied on critical hits).
Characters whose classes do not give spells of 5th level or higher can freely mix-and-match class abilities from all archetypes of their classes. Other characters may mix-and-match from two archetypes.
Defensive casting is banned. If you take a 5-foot step and then cast a spell in the same round, this triggers attacks of opportunity in the square that you left.
