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True20 Revised Edition (Green Ronin) Psychic's Handbook (Green Ronin) Blue Rose (Green Ronin) Mutants & Masterminds (Green Ronin) Book of the Righteous (Green Ronin) Iron Kingdoms Character Guide (Privateer) Complete Book of Eldritch Might (Malhavoc Press) Book of Iron Might (Malhavoc Press)...

I strongly disagree that SF is about robots, lasers and space stuff. As I see things, SF is just like fantasy, except that SF authors aren't as lazy as fantasy authors, who run away from any setting elements that can "cause" industrial revolution and such -- it would make the setting much more...

Music -- spellsongs, to be more precise. The one author who got the bard right was Monte Cook in his Complete Book of Eldritch Might -- by blending bardic music and spells into spellsongs. Even the spellsong levels -- notes, chords and melodies -- are flavourful! The focus IMO should be...

This seems like very good news. One can only know for certain, though, when the GLS actually comes to light. I myself am a bit concerned -- even though I'm thrilled about a good number of 4e's innovations (static defenses and the unified 1/2 level progression mainly), there's a lot I'm not...

I came across EN Publishing's Elements of Magic and never before have I seen such a flexible magic system -- of which I became an instant adept. I do have one doubt, however -- since I use non-lethal damage to manage magic usage, instead of spell points, how could I convert the said spell point...

Couldn't agree more. I'm a huge fan of the Bard concept—the class I like to play the most—, but the mechanics just seem odd. It's said that bards use their music to achieve magical effects, alright—but why do they have bardic music and the spells, two different abilities to express the very same...