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April 16, 2007

Class Creation Workshop Part II (Martial Artist)

Some refined thoughts on the Martial Artist (with some notes toward the Ascetic): HD: d10BAB: BestGood Fort and Reflex saves. Poor Will save.Skills: 4+ Int bonus/level (skill list unfinished, but close to the Monk’s) Weapon Proficiencies: Simple + Monk Armor Proficiencies: none Class features by level:1. Improved Unarmed Strike (bonus feat) Martial Focus Focused Strike +1d6 Unarmored AC bonus2. Martial...

April 10, 2007

Funky mechanics

In case the two people who read this have been wondering, I’ve been popping in and out of town a lot lately on business, which has cut into my posting rather dramatically. Unfortunately, this isn’t going to change anytime soon, so I will have to adapt. (Actually, Statcounter tells me that I have significantly more than two regular readers.) Anyway,...

April 6, 2007

D20 Core Class Theory

My recent martial artist/ascetic musings have me thinking about the role of core classes. Recently, Wizards seems to have been developing very niche core classes (Dragon Shaman) and core classes that are more efficient mixes of archetypes (Duskblade) than you can normally get by multiclassing. I wonder how much of this could be handled by designing core classes to be...

April 3, 2007

Class Creation Workshop

A few weeks ago, I mentioned some of my dissatisfaction with the Monk class. In the meantime, I decided I’d do something about it. I’ve been working on splitting the monk class into two separate classes: one which focuses upon martial arts and one which focuses upon contemplation and mysticism. The two will be designed to multiclass well together. For...

March 26, 2007

Real Magic Items: The Magic Item Compendium

So, despite not really being able to afford it, I picked up the Magic Item Compendium this past Friday from Dragon’s Table. (…which apparently has a blog. Who knew?) I haven’t read through the entire thing in detail yet, but what I have read is pretty impressive. Here are some of my initial impressions: New Item Types(…which may have been...

March 23, 2007

d20 Herbivores: Part IV

Enjoy. The material enclosed in the box below is released via the Open Game License. Steel Horse Size/Type: Large Animal Hit Dice: 4d8+16 (34 hp) Initiative: +0 Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares) Armor Class: 17 (-1 size, +8 natural), touch 9, flat-footed 17 Base Attack/Grapple: +4/+12 Attack: hoof +7 melee (1d6+5) Full Attack: 2 hooves +7 melee (1d6+5) and bite...

March 22, 2007

WoAdWriMo update

It looks like Swamp Castle might get put on the the backburner for a little bit in favor of a goblin-centric adventure that will serve as a lead-in to another project. This isn’t an abandonment of Swamp Castle… or WoAdWriMo. I hope that the new adventure will be a part of that… and if it gets finished before June, I...

March 19, 2007

Random Encounters

So, Angela has been running this game in which I am playing a Dwarven chef. She has been making her own random encounter tables. When I say random, I mean random. Last night’s random encounters included: A guitar pinned to a tree with a rusty knife.A field of strawberries.An abnormally large (~1ft long) cicada.A satyr walking down the road carrying...

March 15, 2007

Real Magic Items: why settle for banal visuals

I’m a little burnt out on Exalted right now, despite (or perhaps, in part, because of) the fact that I am playing in two occasional campaigns. Mostly it is the system that gets me down about it. I love the visuals. It isn’t the anime stuff. I can do without that. Instead, it is the simple fact that interesting visuals...

March 13, 2007

Real Magic Items: random babblings

I don’t think I got on the ‘real magic items’ kick because of this article on the Wizard’s website, though it might have subconsciously led me down that line of thought. The article (for those who don’t feel like following the link) talks a bit about the “Big Six” magic item types in D&D: magic weapons, magic armor/shields, rings of...