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Barnes and Noble is listing isles of the shackles as unavailable until july and blood of fiends as out of print.I was unsure of where to post this so i put it here.

So recently I was looking for a 3.5 book for some reason I cant recall.Upon opening the box of old retired rpgs I found a near complete copy of the midnight setting,Wheel of time main book,Thieves world set,and the black company set.It inspired me to steal a bit from each and quite a bit from golarion as well and make a custom setting. I was just wondering if anyone had done any conversion from any of these books just because Im lazy.I know about the wheel of time in progress conversion in progress but the only thing i want from them besides monsters is warders,Aiel and Algai de siswai.Not that I dont like the world but just because it is interesting place to read about doesnt make it fun to rp in.Dragonlance being a excellent example of that at least for me.

First point mechanically not flavorwise there isnt any reason to play a rogue when compared to a ninja.I was thinking of different ways to fix it.The huge dearth of eastern weapons ninjas get over rogues lackluster
selection bothers me.In addition the ki pool bothers me.I dont want to give rogues anything magical for flavour reasons but i do want them to be as viable as ninjas.My idea is to allow a trait that gains you some or all of the eastern weapons nijas get.Trait: Eastern Mentor: Your trainer was from Tian La and as such knew how to use a number of weapons most arent familiar with choose 2 from this list.Katana,Kama,Nunchaku,Sai,Siangham,Shuriken, and Wakizashi. For the fighter, I was thinking of allowing the 3.5 war college fighter to be used.I know the tactician and lore warden both are pretty close to this but force you to give up most of what makes you a fighter. If anyone has ideas on how to i8mprove thse two ideas or better ones feel free to post. On that note if you dont feel the two classes are imbalanced dont post here as in not interested in arguing with you.Thanks in advance.

Just curious how other groups deal with players who are playing nonhumans that want to be archetypes such as harrowers or rondelero duelists,winter witches etc.Our group is pretty open and free about it. Unless its obvious nonhumans arent allowed like the red wizards of thay were in forgotten realms.Mostly curious because one of our round robin dms was nonplused that I made a elven aldori swordlord.Which seems like it would happen in brevoy on occasion.My other reason for asking is none of the nonhuman races have cultural classes like rondeleros,winter witch,aldoris etc. Varisians seem like a natural shoein for elves and halfelves and like the idea of a varisian elf harrower.

Regarding order 1979819,When I received this order one of the books(pirates of the inner sea had a small mark on the back like the glossy part had gotten too hot.Later after reading through it once two pages stuck together.I am bringing this up much later than when I received it,because I am debating ordering more books but I would prefer to not get books in that condition.

25 point buy if you have tried it as a gm or player I want to hear what you thought.We usually use 15 point buys but for my next campaign(the shackles)I was thinking of using 25 point buys so everyone can invest in anutical skills and still do thier normal clases.

Steel wall and defensive parry do they stack?
Aldori dueling mastery does that stack with either or both of these as well for ac?
Finally does using combat expertise stack with either of these as well?

If i raise myIntelligence at 8th level do i get retroactive skill points?