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There's new creator resourses on the DM's Guild for Eberron: http://www.dmsguild.com/product/247628/DMs-Guild-Creator-Resource--Eberron-Maps-Art-Pack http://www.dmsguild.com/product/247627/DMs-Guild-Creator-Resource--Eberron-Heroes--Villains-Art-Pack...

Since it's a second city-type book, I imagine the mechanics laid out for the Waterdeep stuff will also work well with this new setting.

If we're getting an adventure in a different world, it'd be likely that the game expansion/options book (i.e. all those subclasses, artificer, and mystic) might be before the adventure. None of the recent UA stuff screams Dark Sun to me except for the mystic. Mystic, Artificer, and some of the...

Yeah. I kinda hope that mystics and monks will both just get ki points, or that multiclass monks' and mystics' ki can somehow interact. Not sure if bunches of extra ki points would break monks tho.

And even more, if you look at the spellpoints in the DMG you'll see that this matches exactly with that spellpoint system up to caster level 10, then it switches up with their Psionic Mastery.

I miss the bonus spells a bit, but agree that the old favored soul and original storm sorcerer got a few too many. I wish they would have picked a solid utility spell (or pair?) for each of these elemental-themed sorcerers. Storm sorcerer wouldn't be overpowered with free access to featherfall...

I get the argument that whatever character a player wants to play is good for the party, but its a good opportunity to have the player's talk first about their character ideas and concepts, because sometimes after talking it out you get a good sense of how the characters might have bonds with...

So, the character you describe is relatively similar to the Crusader option, but on steroids. It looks possibly broken on the surface because of the warrior thac0, but not actually bonus attacks. As someone who played some of the Spells and Magic classes, you really do feel the pinch of a small...

Another easy house rule is to simply add both XP tables together, then you always advance in each class equally. You loose a bit of nuance but its easier to track which proficiency or thac0 rate to apply and the like.

As someone who just started playing 2nd edition again back in September, its also the modularity. It is really easy to make a few changes to 2nd edition (and earlier editions) which are difficult in later editions. The Spells & Magic book literally lets you change how all magic works in the...

But, there's no real incentive to share knowledge of system mastery. In fact, if anyone figures out how to game that system they're financially incentivized to avoid sharing their discoveries...

Usually just a good skim, depending on the length. If its long, I'll make probably do a super quick skim and focus on the parts the players are most likely to encounter first and the parts I'm liable to want to modify. I usually feel, afterwards, that I should have taken notes after the skim...

This.

Fluff solution: Assign each spell to one deity. Then a player can call out the correct god's name at the table when they cast it. Domain is simply more fluff, like a particular order of priest or lineage of the character's training.

A different interface would help. The "most popular" section barely changes, and things vanish from the "newest" section too quickly. It takes multiple clicks to find some specific product types you're looking for. It would be nice to have a separate section for "best rated", "most popular...