Recent content by Erik le Rouge

A theme is a flavor. Its mainly for background purposes or style. You can have 1 theme either for your race or your class. As an example your elf might be a ranger who comes from a royal family (noble theme). It is basically background fluff with a skill or two and a language.

Here is what I think will happen... The three core rulebooks will include the basic game rules. As started with 4e, you will see Player's and DM Option books to add extra modularity. There won't be enough space to include all the classes and races of every PHB and on top of it add Tactical...

I think power sources should die in a fire :D. I think it's completely artificial this idea to shoehorn everything in a box. It came out of the idea that power needs different sources, I think every form of energy stem from one original source using different conduits or channel. It complicate...

I'm of the old school. I truly enjoyed Rolemaster and its crit. tables. I understand the complaint that its more trouble for some adding another roll on top of another. But how long is it to roll an extra dice? I think this process could be resolved very rapidly with an experienced DM. Anyway...

I'm so happy about this new edition, I wish they would ditch 4e completely in the fire, but I'm happy with the compromise of having a bit of every edition, at least it's far from it and they kept themes one of the few things I found really interesting in 4e. I'm happy that racial negative...