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Do feel free to examine my earlier argument re: weapons of asian origin in the PHB/class changes in OA for the "meat" of my position.

Had to go with monk, the only class whose abilities take about 12 levels to mesh together correctly. He's a half-hearted melee combatant, a lackluster hit-and-run combatant, and a questionable infiltrator before Abundant Step. Plus, it doesn't fit in the PHB; it should be right before "samurai"...

*eyes his half-dozen scribbled pages of EoM:ME house rules* You too, huh? I starting tweaking things to my liking right after I finished reading it. These are some particularly interesting magic skills, though, so I'm interested in seeing if this works out even better for my world purposes. The...

Denying that the PHB has a theme does not make that theme go away. The simple fact of it is that the core classes, equipment, skill list, and (to a lesser degree) monster manual represent, by and large, occidental concepts. Mounted knights in plate, wizards with spellbooks and a staff, clerics...

Hmmmm. For people, it's the Achaeans of the Iliad. Then again, I'm a sucker for heroes with tragic, often fatal weaknesses of character. With a broader definition of 'people', Coyote. Monsters and creatures, I'd start with lycanthropes (mythological rather than D&D), then risen dead*, Elder...

Third vote for your collection being awesome, Garnfellow. Particularly the Morrigan. I love them!

Thank ya kindly. 's an even simpler take than I'd expected...it really is a class with nothing at all to show for it. But they're commoners. That's how it should be. :D

Well, fair enough - remembering that it's that mechanic that made me hate SS, I can house-rule the whole thing and consider it money well spent.

Right. I knew there was something about Arcana Evolved that made me love racial classes again. I remembered I got Savage Species and was utterly unimpressed with it, so I put it away and never really picked it up again, considering it an unfortunate learning experience and a book banned at my...

:eek: YOINK! :D That's one of my new favorites.

Down to merely 80% asian-themed, I guess? Still not really close enough to "acultural" to be generic. If all the classes are applicable cross-genre, why does Oriental Adventures remove the bard, druid, cleric, and paladin? Why are monks the only ones who get proficiency with asian-origin...

Caution: What follows is extra-fluffy because I changed just about everything, and it's tricky to write out for me unless I'm trying to make it interesting to read. My rules set is more "d20" than "D&D". Excepting the Endless (a "male" solar and "female" lunar power, the quiescent spirit of...

DISCLAIMER: I am not a scientist, anthropologist, historian, or any of those things. I do, however, watch a lot of PBS and History Channel stuff, so what follows are my quick answers based off what those have taught me. No, but very few wars between cultures are settled by the virtues of a...

I think it's the way you put...everything other than the sentence "I'm not calling anyone a racist". It reads like "No-one in this thread is consciously racist, but they don't even realize they're trying to push out any multicultural elements from D&D with their Euro-centric views! I have to...

Say, fusangite? Thanks for clearly articulating and typing out my exact opinion so I didn't have to. :D Except for mind flayers. The only thing I dislike about illithids is everyone knows about them.

Close-Quarters Fighting, or at least it was in Sword & Fist. I loved that feat. Mind flayer's tentacle grab + CCQ + 10 levels of paladin smite = one very dead, very surprised illithid.

I hear there aren't really elves, either. Sometimes semantics get in the way of good game. This is the time when semantics should be packed in a box and slid under the bed until the DM needs to write his next essay.

Celts. Even modified, Odin looks like Odin, Fenris looks like Fenris; it's a tough culture to both maintain a coherent vision of and tweak for your own purposes. On the other hand, even the most cursory poll of your players will likely reveal they don't know a lot about Celtic culture and...

Well, it's been altered to accomodate the use of magic, but it's far more like the Mediterranean and Near East during the early Iron Age than it is medieval Europe. Or at least, that'd be the cultural mores through most human-settled lands. The rest of the races are all over the map, culturally...