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As a good friend once told me - if you want to make a small fortune in the RPG business, start out with a large fortune. You'll be doing this for very little return, unless you have a killer hook with some awesome presentation and rock solid rules. I started out as a freelancer for Sword and...

Serious Maneuver: Crippling Slash Tradition: Iron Shadow Warlord: Thane Funny Maneuver: Gotcha with yer pants down Tradition: Fancy Lads Warlord: Rope pusher

I agree, personally I'd prefer warlock to witch, but I'd rather use a name like Thane or Reeve in my own private campaign rather than Warlord. Great thing about D&D home-brews, you can season to taste.

Exactly I beleive this is correct. If you look at Star Wars saga edition (which has a "preview" of the 4e rules in it) characters begin with roughly three to five times the amount of hit points a 3e 1st level character has. They also have a higher Armor class (based on reflex defense). These...

Start a thread on this! I'd love to see how you do this, are you adapting SWSE or Bo9S in some way?

4E uses the d20 rules the same as 3E. The difference is that many of the obstacles to play are being removed. It's an iterative step in how the game is designed. It makes sense really, there are a lot of points of D&D that have been used for ages even though they aren't fun. Grapple, Vancian...

Talents are one route of player expression, I expect the various power sources (martial, arcane, and divine) and associate special powers and abilities will create even more branches of choice for customizing characters. Stack that with feats, and you get a lot of potential variation in each...

I think the design ethos is aimed more to an equal range of player expression and power than balance. While this might look like balance at first, and maybe it ends up being balance, I think the core of it is giving players a roughly equal number of importnat choices to mkae as they level their...

Agreed, but sadly I think things are going to go that way. I hope we see more open content in WOTC game books, but I suspect that we'll have even less open content in the 4e iteration of the Dungeons and Dragons rules. I could be proven wrong of course, I'm not a professional fortune teller...

What I think is going to happen is that a spell will be levelled according to the modifiers applied to it and the spellcasters level. For isntance, a 25th level spell might start out as a say 3rd level spell, but the caster can also prepare that spell with a range of condtional modifying...

Pistoleer's are pretty much just that, gunfighters with expertise with the pistol. There is also a Rifleman p[restige class to offer two routes to go down in terms of weapon expertise. The Blackclad is a prestige Druid class. Blackclads are elite members of the Circle. Think bad ass druids with...

Ah! Of course. There is no special text saying that you can take it more than once. My bad :D. Ignore question 2 then.

Dragonmarks Heya Keith! Glad to see you are so active in responding to the questions of everyone here on the board. I have a couple of quick questions regarding Dragonmarks. 1.) Is it possible for a 1st level PC to take 2 house dragonmarks? Right now I can't seem to find any mechanical...

You will *NEVER* see zeppelins in the Iron Kingdoms. Trust me, there is only one instance of that aberration and it will not be repeated.

Hey Guys, I just got my new shiny copy of the Magic and Mayhem hardcover for the Warcraft RPG.... I haven't delved into it too far. It's about 208 pages, lots of crunch, the art is nice. Here is the table of contents for you: Warcraft the RPG: Magic and mayhem Credits Introduction Chapter...