Recent content by Jim Cummins

I haven't read the entire thread, but I was thinking on this, and one of things I see all the time about wizards is that they have the largest and most versatile spell lists. But they cannot access the whole of this huge spell list as they are limited to the number of spells they learn by level...

As I was scanning through this thread an idea hit me of a Spirit Walker class. They talk to/ or bind/ or contract with different spirits, and the sub classes are spécifique to the type of spirit they work with, Ghost, elemental, Cthulhu style insanity, alignment entities ( ie the guiding...

Well, I think they could be fun :) hahhah But I doubt Wotc would put any time into them, but a person can dream :) hahahaha

Why not a Mage Hunter class, that can break magic/ counter spell specializing in either arcane/ divine or now psionic spell casters with sub -classes that bring abilities as 1) fighter/ non magical ranger or 2) rogue/assassin or 3) monk or 4) Barbarian or 5) bard/sage the whole point is to...

Thundaar the barbarian lots of room for creative Saturday morning cartoon options the Dresden files - Jim Butcher a modern wizard with cops, robbers, fae queens and evil angels Amber series - Rodger Zelazny a universe of options in the war between order and chaos across the shadows Spellstone of...

I think I also would like the Psionic to be different thematically and functionally. I mean a instead of spell slots, maybe a points system, maybe with different levels of points instead of a giant pool, maybe separate buckets to apply limits on upper-level abilities, and each sub-class to...

So I scraped the ideas I saw in this thread and through this together, using the Rogue's class description as a template, it is first stab at it, but is this the idea you were thinking of? Apologies for the log post, I am not sure how to hide it. Adventurer Core Adventurer Traits Primary...

I think issue is how the the four roles are viewed, I do not see them as aspects in a 4 axis cartesian grid, all going in different directions, but more like: the Striker, Defender and Leader are three axis in a plane with Controller in an axis perpendicular to the other three. So that each...

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I think "dead" for RPG's is a spectrum rather than a binary state. The spectrum would span everything from Vibrantly alive ( publisher actively and profitable producing content, to the undead zombie king, ( copies only rarely available through the second hand market and more for collectors than...

I haven't read all the replies, but what about, focusing the class on a undead spirit familiar, that grows in power and benefits as the class progresses, with potential separate paths for necromancer development -summoner - animator - necrotic damage - life draining. It provides a connection to...

True, Corwin gave the demon a hot foot on the window sill, but even though he wasn't a great magic user, he was very attuned to the Pattern, as he was the only one who cut through the black road, even two of his siblings, while traveling together couldn't do that. I always thought he must have...

I loved the Corwin series, and I really liked the Merlin series, but the two protagonists operated on very different levels, Corwin never delved into the meta-physics of the universe he operated in, even if he created his own pattern and reality. He always treated the Pattern as a tool. Whereas...

I think a book of cultural variations, since D&D is mostly fantasy Medieval European in outlook, and there have been many other rich cultural periods in human history, a book with class and sub class variations to encompass other cultural outlooks and aspects. These might be minor changes or...

I think the Gorn in SNW will turn out to be Gorn Augments, I mean why would a species naturally develop the ability to resist being detected with scans. This way they can tie together the two sub plots of the Gorn and the Federation laws on augmentation. So Pike can destroy the GornA and Kirk...