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I've made a skinchanger class for my 5E game set in GRR Martin's Westeros. I won't be using the druid class, so I needed a similar class that possesses animals rather than shapechanging into them, but one that also had spells in keeping with the setting rather than the higher magic of default...

While working on a 5E D&D game set in the Westeros/Game of Thrones universe, I came across the fact that there are a lot of characters in the settings who you wouldn't call rangers who have beast companions (like all the Stark children). I also don't think the Beast Companion attributes of the...

Maybe it's just me, but with the new Unearthed Arcana ranger, is WotC trying too hard to solve a problem that is simpler? Yes, I find the Ranger to be underpowered at 1st level (unique among all classes, has no class starting abilities that help it be more effective in combat) and I consider...

I've begun a project to convert the various Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire RPGs so I can run 5E D&D in Westeros. A huge part of the converting/game design work, however, is the shortage of reliable spellcasting in the realtively low magic world George R.R. Martin has created. Since knights...

Knowing that DRAGON and DUNGEON have ceased publication in their current form, and with no hard feelings at all, only gratitude and a bit of confusion, I want to ask if anyone else had an experience similar to this while after being asked to write a first draft of an article for DRAGON (or...

Recently, in a game where magic items aren't as common as usual, circumstances led to my Halfling Cleric 1/Fighter 1 coming into possession of a evil outsider's bane silver guisarme +1. For role-playing reasons, I won't give it away or sell it, so I am thinking of making it my main weapon until...

So, I made a human Scout with Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, high Dex and Int at 1st level, then I took a Warmage level at 2nd. So with ranged touch spells, when I move 10 or more feet I am doing Spell Damage + 1d6 Skirmish + Int mod + 1 for Point Blank Shot. At low levels, this combo is great...

I feel like a complete neophyte asking this, rather than, you know, a long-time DM and game designer or whatever, but it somehow this question has not come up in several years of 3.5 gaming: A human's highest level class is his or her favored class. Now, if a human has two classes at 3rd level...

Once 4th Edition comes out, how different will my life be? Will I feel and think differently? I ask because I think I've found the person I want to spend my life with now, but I am concerned that my old emotions and experiences won't port over correctly to the new edition. Will our love be...

Is this UA variant balanced? The reason I ask is, I played a 1st-level Barbarian with this variant ability today, and it was a lot of fun. But one of the other players thought it was fishy that while normal Rage grants a -2 to AC, the Whirling Franzy grants no penalty at all. I argued that the...

This is my take on a faster-paced system for initiative. I'm not happy with it yet, but I think it is a step in the right direction. http://gameslab.wikidot.com/local--files/start/Segment-Based_Initiative.rtf Please, share any criticisms and observations. Thank you.

A tangent from Emirikol's thread: If 4th Edition happens some time in the next five years, and it is no longer open in any way, what is the best strategy for 3rd-party publishers, in your opinion? One must assume that the release of a 4th Edition will have a negative effect on sales of 3.x...

There may have been a similar discussion a while ago, but new things have come out since then, so I was wondering, what do people think are the best new base classes to come out of non-WotC products? This includes Green Ronin's Handbook series, Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved, everything. Of...

Alright, I wanted to theorize a bit and and state the obvious and see if people agree or disagree this is the likely basic sequence of facts and events: It has been stated the Open Gaming License was created because WotC believed they needed to have adventures but they themselves did not belive...

So, I tried Iron Heroes a bit last weekend, but we all kind of assumed the guy whose house we played at would have a battlemat, or something with 1" squares on it, but he didn't. We fought some, but the whole thing folded after a while, because everyone said we couldn't do it without some kind...

Big Finger Games is pleased to announce its first Modern D20 product, The Versatile Hero. More than just a unique new base class unlike anything published for Modern D20 before, The Versatile Hero features newly compiled talent trees for the existing base classes as well, all designed to...

Hi, everybody, I'm posting on EN World for the first time-- normally I just read, but now I have a question. I've just started as the Chief Editor for a small D20 .pdf publisher, and our product is already up on RPG Now and selling well. But we need to write a press release to post to various...