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Legend of the Five Rings 4th Edition Designer Diaries
[imager]http://www.enworld.org/newsimages/l5rlogo.jpg[/imager]We have a brand new column starting today - the official design diaries for Alderac Entertainment Group's 4th edition of Legend of the Five Rings! The diaries highlight the development process, preview art, and more! The first diary, The Anatomy of a New Edition is now up.
Here's the schedule for the full series:
Holding Out for a Hero
D&D 4th Edition News
- COMBAT ADVANTAGE #8: The Celestial Champion is now available to EN World subscribers. Not got your subscription yet? It's just $3 a month!
Long for the days of paladins warding off evil creatures with a holy word, summoning a blessed steed to their side, and standing as a beacon against the forces of the Lower Planes? There remains an order of paladins held to those tenets of old - the celestial champions.
Use this paragon path to add a nostalgic touch to your 4e paladin, including two new uses of the Channel Divinity feat and a ritual for calling down a celestial ride from the heavens.
Use this paragon path to add a nostalgic touch to your 4e paladin, including two new uses of the Channel Divinity feat and a ritual for calling down a celestial ride from the heavens.
[imager]http://www.enworld.org/newsimages/l5rlogo.jpg[/imager]We have a brand new column starting today - the official design diaries for Alderac Entertainment Group's 4th edition of Legend of the Five Rings! The diaries highlight the development process, preview art, and more! The first diary, The Anatomy of a New Edition is now up.
Here's the schedule for the full series:
- January 8: The Anatomy of a New Edition
- January 20: The Philosophy of 4th Edition
- February 3: Correcting the Mistakes of the Past
- February 17: Timeline Neutrality and Finding the Clan Themes
- March 3: The "Feel" of Rokugan
- March 17: Designing Skills
- March 31: Designing Advantages & Disadvantages
- April 14: Designing Schools - Bushi
- April 28: Designing Schools - Courtier
- May 12: Designing Schools - Shugenja
- May 26: Designing Secondary Systems
Holding Out for a Hero
- Ari Marmell's latest EN World column, Holding Out for a Hero, talks about Paladins.
It’s not a real popular one today. It’s not “cool.” And indeed, the vast majority of interesting characters out there in popular fiction don’t fall into that mold. Batman’s a much more interesting character than Superman. Wolverine’s a lot more popular than Captain America. Even Conan, who was never written to be the deepest of characters, seems to have a little more to him as a person than, say, King Arthur. James Bond and Jack Sparrow, Han Solo and Dean Winchester, and so on and so forth. Some are characters who bend the rules if it means accomplishing the greater good; some are just amoral souls who happen to drift a little more toward good than evil. Heck, even in my own fiction writing, my protagonists run the gamut from “flawed” to “utter bastard.” I’ve yet to write a novel or a short story about someone who, in the strictest sense of the term, could be called a “hero.”
- Review – Nevermore by Expeditious Retreat Press Take your D&D 4e campaign beyond the mundane world to the Realm of Dreams and Nightmares – check out this review of the Nevermore Campaign Setting by Expeditious Retreat Press.
- 4E Rituals for Dwarves Everyday Magic: Five new 4E rituals for dwarves, from spirits to stone shaping.
- New Blackdirge Releases Blackdirge Publishing has released the latest product in their bargain PDFs lines for 4E: Blackdirge’s Bargain Templates: Templar. In addition, the None so Vile series of dark OGL products has been reduced in price more than fifty percent.
- Review and Stats for Clock of Dreams The RPG Examiner provides statistics for four enemies Titus Crow faced in the Dreamlands.
- The Ritefury Rite Publishing's series of web articles about monsters and other rpg horror elements. First up is the Ritefury a monster determined to make you pay for violating the sacred releationship between guest and host compatible with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
- Death by Treacle Remember the Death Kitties from Arduin Grimoire? No? Then the treacle will be a complete and devastating surprise.
- A Better Elemental Adam Daigle's spark is Pathfinder monster with a lot of (electrical) potential. Review this finalist in the King of the Monsters contest.
- Gary M. Sarli ("Jedi Counseling," STAR WARS Saga Edition) is seeking patrons for new "e20 Project".
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