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I'm currently in the early stages of a setting project (one of my many projects :)) for my own pleasure and I was considering an idea. Before revealing my grand idea in any detail I was wondering if you fine people could comment on the effects of;

Merging the fey and primal concepts?

Essentially the Feywild becomes the Primalwild, the primal spirits are fey in origin etc. I stress however that this is not just a mix and match idea but a true mergence, losing and adding ideas as required.

Any pitfalls mechanically or storywise?

I'm coping the original Jraynack post here (hopefully he won't mind), link to Enworld post at the bottom.

"One of the things we discussed when preparing to publish Adventurer's Guide to Cthonia is two things:

"How can we get it to grow?" and "How can we get the fans involved to make it a living, breathing, every-changing world?"

First, we are developing a strategy for other publishers to get involved, but it is still in the infant stages.

However, for you fans of the new setting, we want to produce a fan netbook focusing on the region of Cthonia. The fans write the material, send it to us, and we produce it (artwork, editing, and the like) and make it FREE to everyone else.

Here are a few rules:
The material you submit must be your own (no copying and pasting from other 4E products) and must follow the GSL (primarily, no copying WotC 4E material or even portions of their material).
And, whatever you send to us will belong to us (the main reason is to maintain our Product Identity). However, be rest assured, whatever you send us it will go in the FREE netbook and not in any of our other products, unless those products are also free.

So if you are game, we are looking for the following for the Cthonia netbook:
New Commands - remember, though similar to rituals, they are less fantastic (as in magical) then rituals.
New Bloodline and Infernal powers
New Feudal Obligations
Interesting NPCs and Cthonian location sites
And mini-adventures or unique encounters that fit the theme of the setting.

So there you have it. Tell us what you think by posting here or at our hosted forums at www.aleapublishing.com.

You may also send your concerns and stuff for the netbook at APGnetbook (at) comcast (dot) net. This address will eventually change after we update our site."

Link: Original post

Haven't noticed anyone mentioning this yet.

Bought the other day and it's a great product, check it out.

Link: Adventurer's Guide to Cthonia

I'm looking forward to the Heroes Handbook: Eladrin.

Goodman Games

Hi CS guys, could you please cancel my preorder. I've had to cancel my credit card so you'll not be able to collect the money.

Now to badger my FLGS into ordering it for me 8-).

Poll to determine edition is located HERE if anyone's interested in participating.

Came across these a few weeks ago, don't know if they'll interest...

Alea Publishing

Medieval Bestiary: Anthropophagi

Feudal Characters: Noble

Medieval Landscapes: Peasant House

Not sure when their Feudal Lord setting is out but I think it'll be worth a look.

Cross posted from Wotc BR & The Piazza forum
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I've been thinking about how you would go about introducing the phb races into Birthright. Just a few one line ideas.

Tieflings: I was thinking descendents of Adurian Nobles who had after Azrai's fall descended into bargaining with devils. Essentially rewriting the core Bael Turath story to relocate it to Aduria. Also allows a convenient place to intro Warlocks, more on classes later though.

Dragonborn: Not really sure but was thinking that you could have Dragonborn be from across the Suidemiere, a small colonial group. Sucky idea really but drawing a blank. Another idea might be that Cerilia's dying dragons take a stab at leaving something behind by breeding a "lesser" race.

Eladrin: In the spirit of simplicity I would rule that the Eladrin had always been there, perhaps Sidhelien of noble blood are a bit more tied to Cerilia's Meibhaghl. Remove Fey type (Elves to).

Halfling: What issues might arise from adding the fey type?

Human: AD&D 2e gave humans in BR stat bonuses to differentiate them, now I believe that would imbalance them in 4E.

However how about regional benefits?

Now admittedly these are just off the top off my head, so what other ideas are out there?

Any Paizonian's picked these up yet?

I grabbed both recently and I don't hesitate in recommending them.

Neither is without some minor issues but well worth the time and effort to work through if your more an old style D&D adventure lover like me.

Sellswords of Punjar is my first DCC, and as long as you don't mind it's extreme stand alone feel you have a perfect Lankhmar* style adventure out of the box. As I mentioned on another thread though if you want to run a longer campaign I heartily suggest taking some time to interject a few NPC's with depth and survivability. Barring a few rules errors, none of which are game ruiners if run as is, this is a far better intro adventure than KotS although it does need some skill challenges integrated to better highlight that new mechanic. This is buckling swash and dooing der all the way.

Dragora's Dungeon, I'm still digesting this first Master Dungeon offering but on initial and on second read I like it a lot. Unlike the DCC line the MD line is written with campaign integration and more involved roleplay in mind. It does come with a caveat that the adventure works best with experienced DM's players and awards clever action and roleplay, a must to get through this adventure. Required is a DM with the time and experience to integrate this adventure into their campaign setting and willing to think on his feet if his PC's go off on a crazed tangent, this dynamic adventure hait all, Lost kingdoms, ape men and ancient magicks ftw.

Given the GSL difficulties and even getting to see the 4E rules in the first place I think GG have done a bang up job with their first offerings and I look forward to what follows.

*This comparison is used a lot, but if the shoe fits....

The below threads title censored word still appears in the right hand messageboard thingy as it was typed.

Perhaps slightly innapropriate for your homepage?

4e Red Dragon s%*%s On 4e Criticisms

Later days

Amongst my many little projects I'm converting the Falcon Trilogy (Greyhawk) and Warlock of the Stonecrowns (Birthright).

Anyone else converting or already converted any 1e-3.x adventures?

How far have you got and what if any changes have you made?

In the same vein as the Spells and ritual threads.

Lets put together some unique spells and rituals for my favourite 2E class.....The Necromancer.

Lets avoid summoning spells as I think we'll get to many Wow comparisons.

That said I'll start the ball rolling (very poorly) with a summoning ritual.

Guardian of Khem

With the preserved remains of the long dead you summon a savage yet loyal brute to watch over your most precious possessions

Level: 10 Component cost: 10'000gp
3 Healing Surges.
Category:Hmm, good question. Market Price: 50'000gp
Time: 12 hours Key Skill: Religion
Duration: Permanent

Through careful genealogical study and intense alchemical preparation you have restored the mockery of life to one of the ancient dead, this guardian mummy can be tasked only with the protection of a specific location and item and will fight to its destruction to protect it. You or those you specifically name or create a token for may pass this terrible guardian without fear.

All others are prey to its hate and madness.

Now I've only read the PHB once so don't expect this ritual to in any way be balanced or finalised so feel free to tear it to peices, AS LONG as you replace it with something constructive 8-).

In the spirit of having a useful and potentially constructive (I should trademark this word) thread, I'd ike to offer our budding 4E magus (and or game designer) the opportunity, nay the challenge of stunning the D&D 4th edition board with some homemade Arcane spells and rituals.

Now if the less talented and less pretty people on the Wotc boards can give it a go how can you devilishly, or should that be Tieflingly(??) good looking and talented people not jump at the chance to show them up ;-)

So without further ado......post away.

Ok I've yet to see this come up here so I'll do it (sorry if it has and I've missed it).

Where do you plan on setting your 4E game?

Personally I'm considering either an update to Birthright or using the existing POL template and adding to it as I go along.

So, what about you?

;-)

Hi Cosmo. I'm sorry to say I need to cancel all my subscriptions.

Hopefully this will change in the future.

Thanks.

Ok so I've recently been reading Warhammer fantasy roleplay and looking at the simplicity of their parrying rules wondered why D&D never incorporated any.

How would this affect the game?

Parry: As a move or standard action you can prepare to parry. Anytime between this declaration and your next turn you may parry one incoming attack. Make an attack roll, if greater than your opponents then the attack is parried.
Special: If you have a shield or off hand weapon you may make one free parry a turn without taking this action.
**You can only take one parry action per turn.

Possible Eberron expansion: Spend an action point to take an extra parry action.

Feat: Extra parry
Prereq: Dex 13, Combat Expertise, Combat Reflexes, Dodge.
Benefit: You may take a number of parry actions equal to your dex bonus per turn.

Ok so my groups PC's got brutally slaughtered by Nualia, but not before doing a blitzkrieg on the thistletop goblins and her henchmen. Assuming that she still manages to free Malfeshnekor(sp?).

What happens next?

I'm still planning on running the next book so we're going to run a few adventures that occur at the same time as burnt offerings and lead the group to Sandpoint and into the Skinsaw murders. However I don't want to just ignore the consequences of the groups earlier failiure.

So given that she succeeds in freeing the barghest but loses all her allies what should the consequences of the parties failiure be, especially in regards to Sandpoint.

Any and all ideas welcome.

Hi guys at Paizo, I've just received my Pathfinder subscription for #5 & 6 (ta very much). However according to the receipt it should have also included GameMastery Module U2: Hangman's Noose.

Just wondered if you could check on this for me.

I have emailed you as well so sorry if you catch this twice.

Later days & thanks

Not to complain but my Pathfinder 4 (Order# 846388) seems to be shipping before my Pathfinder 3 (Order# 835801). Is that normal? Because I have to be honest it seems a bit cackhanded to me. Luckily I don't start running the game till the new year but would be a little awkward if I was right in the middle.