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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5549823" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/3.5.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":3e:" title="D&D 3.5 :3e:" data-shortname=":3e:" /> </span><a href="http://www.necromancers-online.com/articles/DarkDesigns/05022011.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Pre-Loved Campaign Settings</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> Designer Alex Riggs discusses some of the highs, lows, tips, and tricks of running games set in other settings, including settings not necessarily designed for tabletop gaming.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/cartography.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":maps:" title="Cartography :maps:" data-shortname=":maps:" /> </span><a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=91080" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Here Be Krakens</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> Jonathan Roberts and Kobold Quarterly present another Fantastic Map pack. This month journey down to inky black to explore the Ship's Graveyard. The map pack details broken hulks and kelp beds at 1 square = 1 inch scale. The map pack contains files for use at the tabletop, or online using a virtual tabletop, including pre-prepared maptool files. With this map pack a sinking ship is just the start of the adventure.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/pathfinder.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":pf:" title="Pathfinder :pf:" data-shortname=":pf:" /> </span><a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=91112" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Pathways #3 Free E-zine</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> A collection of Pathfinder haunts and templates, Ogres, Wolves, and more combining monstrosities, feats and domains, all of it bundled together with an interview with Brandon Hodge (Pathfinder Module: From Sea to Shore and Sunken Empires).</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/pathfinder.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":pf:" title="Pathfinder :pf:" data-shortname=":pf:" /> </span><a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=91089" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">101 Alternate Racial Traits</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> You'll find more options for all the core races, certain to give any character a distinctive and personal background. Make your dwarves "unshakeable" or "Born with Axe or Hammer," and your "Highborn" elves the keepers of an "Alicorn bloodline." Gnomes might be "Well-Traveled," or be handy with "Steam and Fumes." Even humans can find something a bit more exotic, making them a "Child of Destiny," or gifting them with "Eidetic Memory." These traits provide interest options for the mechanic-al and roleplaying flourishes to personalize every PC. </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/dd.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":4e:" title="D&D 4th Edition :4e:" data-shortname=":4e:" /> </span><a href="http://www.goodman-games.com/4455preview.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Crime Pays is now in stores</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> This 4E sourcebook is a “Godfather’s grimoire,” containing everything a player or DM needs to bring the grim and gritty underworld into stark focus in a fantasy world. Forget thieves’ guild – this is the mafia in a world of dragons and magic!</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/cartography.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":maps:" title="Cartography :maps:" data-shortname=":maps:" /> </span><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1764845067/dungeonmorph-dice-dungeon-geomorphs" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">DungeonMorph Dice Kickstarter Announces Second Stretch Goal</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> A second set of 5 dice (with a cavern theme) will be available.A third set of 5 more dice (with more dungeon designs) will also beavailable if the project reaches its new goal.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/3.5.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":3e:" title="D&D 3.5 :3e:" data-shortname=":3e:" /> </span><a href="http://www.necromancers-online.com/articles/GravePlots/05032011.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Magic Items</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> This week's Grave Plots is all about ways in which to use magic items to add a little flavor, fun, and adventure to your game. Your players will never look at a <em>+1 sword</em> the same way again.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/dd.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":4e:" title="D&D 4th Edition :4e:" data-shortname=":4e:" /> </span><a href="http://www.neuroglyphgames.com/defenders-roundtable-the-biggest-toolbox-part-ii" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Defenders Roundtable (Part II): The Biggest Toolbox</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> If you ever wondered which 4E Defender has the best damage mitigation, and could take the worst beating but still keep swinging, then check out this blog at Neuroglyph Game – Part II of the Defenders Roundtable!</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/3.5.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":3e:" title="D&D 3.5 :3e:" data-shortname=":3e:" /> </span><a href="http://www.necromancers-online.com/articles/MastersandMinions/05042011.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Treacherous Traps</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> This week's Masters and Minions features a number of devious devices designed to bring death and destruction to your party.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rpgs.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rpg:" title="RPGs :rpg:" data-shortname=":rpg:" /> </span><a href="http://www.koboldquarterly.com/k/front-page9125.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">What's in a name?</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> Return to the Frozen Northlands and take a look at the many monikers of Thor! Why should a god have just one name? Give your reaving raiders a whole mob of epithets for the Lord of Thunder.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/d20modern.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":d20m:" title="d20 Modern :d20m:" data-shortname=":d20m:" /> </span><a href="http://www.examiner.com/rpg-in-national/pdf-review-of-dire-wavelengths-review" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Review of Dire Wavelengths</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> The RPG Examiner reviews a scenario where the only goal is to save an actress from a fatal career move...and it's not her terrible choice in film roles.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rpgs.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rpg:" title="RPGs :rpg:" data-shortname=":rpg:" /> </span><a href="http://www.koboldquarterly.com/k/front-page9139.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">You'll shoot your eye out!</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> Don't bring a knife to a missile weapon fight. Take a look at ranged combat on today's Historical Steel.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/pathfinder.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":pf:" title="Pathfinder :pf:" data-shortname=":pf:" /> </span><a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=91254&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=97" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Loot 4 Less: Bell, Book, & Candle</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> The Loot 4 Less line focuses on creative, diverse, and useful items costing 2,500gp or less. In addition to their interest and value to low- and mid-level characters, these items—always reusable; never charged or use-once—give lower-level spellcasters something to craft and help differentiate the tactics and treasure hoards of their opponents.<br /> </span></li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
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With this map pack a sinking ship is just the start of the adventure.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3]:pf: [/SIZE][URL="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=91112"][SIZE=3]Pathways #3 Free E-zine[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=3] A collection of Pathfinder haunts and templates, Ogres, Wolves, and more combining monstrosities, feats and domains, all of it bundled together with an interview with Brandon Hodge (Pathfinder Module: From Sea to Shore and Sunken Empires).[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3]:pf: [/SIZE][URL="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=91089"][SIZE=3]101 Alternate Racial Traits[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=3] You'll find more options for all the core races, certain to give any character a distinctive and personal background. Make your dwarves "unshakeable" or "Born with Axe or Hammer," and your "Highborn" elves the keepers of an "Alicorn bloodline." Gnomes might be "Well-Traveled," or be handy with "Steam and Fumes." Even humans can find something a bit more exotic, making them a "Child of Destiny," or gifting them with "Eidetic Memory." These traits provide interest options for the mechanic-al and roleplaying flourishes to personalize every PC. [/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3]:4e: [/SIZE][URL="http://www.goodman-games.com/4455preview.html"][SIZE=3]Crime Pays is now in stores[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=3] This 4E sourcebook is a “Godfather’s grimoire,” containing everything a player or DM needs to bring the grim and gritty underworld into stark focus in a fantasy world. 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