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Bard: College of Love While some Bards are inspired by knowledge and others by acts of bravery and valor, there are others who find inspiration and purpose in their devotion and pursuit of love. While lore-masters and battle-poets are easy to find in the halls of noble lords, the romantic...

Some thoughts... (continued) Classes In the 1st ed. of Oriental Adventures, the original classes were: Barbarian (or rather an Oriental variant of the Unearthed Arcana Barbarian), Bushi (Fighter sub-class), Kensai (Fighter sub-class), Samurai (Cavalier sub-class), Monk (revised 1st...

Here's just a few thoughts... Races The standard races in 1st ed OA were humans, korobokoro (oriental dwarves), spirit folk (half-kami), and hengeyokai (animal shape-changers). 3rd ed. adds the varana (monkey-folk) but they are found to the far south in Malatra and are rarely...

Hybrids Actually in one of my games two of the fantasy races, the gnomes and the orcs, *are* the result of hybridization. The gnomes are a result over the centuries of occassional sporting between humans, halflings, and dwarves. Considered out of place in all three societies the hybrids...