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    Old Fashioned Hand Drawn Maps (with Tutorial)

    Dyson - I haven't been to ENWorld in, literally, YEARS. And I get back here, and run into your beautiful maps. Love 'em! If you haven't, you REALLY need to post the tutorial to the blog. And finally, are you a member of the Cartographer's Guild? I can't remember, but anyway, you SHOULD be.
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    Rules for Drugs & Alcohol in 4E

    My rules for drugs are different--although also loosely inspired by the Book of Vile Darkness. Basically, drugs are low-powered potions that, when you ingest them, have a certain small but positive effect on you. Unlike BoVD, there is no need to make a save against them taking effect--you want...
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    Fantasy Class: Martialist Released!

    The Fantasy Cartographic is pleased to announce the release of its first foray into 4E D&D publishing, Fantasy Class: Martialist. FC:M is a 74-page full-color PDF describing a martial striker who is an expert in unarmed combat. It contains: · 145 exploits, including those for paragon paths...
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    [The Fantasy Cartographic] Fantasy Class Preview: The Martialist Heroic Released!

    The Fantasy Cartographic would like to announce the release of its first 4E compatible product, a FREE preview of a new character class, the Martialist. FCP:TMH is 35 pages of (free) Heroic Tier 4E goodness describing the first 10 levels of play, including 50 powers (and the power cards to go...
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    The Martialist - Looking for Feedback

    So here are the exploits to fill the grappling hole. Comments?
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    Looking for good Grab/Grapple homebrews

    ryryguy - Take a look at the Martialist class located in this forum. It's a start.
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    Unarmed Combat (Punching) with Gauntlets

    So I've imposed a house rule in my campaign that effectively adds a small amount of damage if a character is engaged in unarmed combat while wearing gloves, gauntlets, etc. I've done it for a long time but am curious to know what the community thinks. Effectively, unarmed combat (striking...
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    Companions - Bringing Back Leadership

    Similar to CapnZapp, I feel that this area of gameplay has no need to be adjudicated by rules and game mechanics. That was one of the supposed reasons for 4E in the first place--replace a rules heavy system with more of a rules lite system. Unless absolutely necessary, social interactions...
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    The Martialist - Looking for Feedback

    Having looked over the Heroic tier of the Martialist, I've found some holes in the exploits that I'm going to patch before moving on to the Paragon tier. I don't think that I have enough exploits with the Grapple keyword, nor do I have enough with the Foot keyword. In the interest of having...
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    Martial Rituals

    Quickleaf - Try as I might, I can't think of any additional categories. Most of the ideas that I have seem to fit nicely into one of those you've already listed.
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    The Martialist - Looking for Feedback

    Go to the beginning of the thread to see the latest, updated version of the Martialist and the full Heroic tier (including feats). Yes. One ally works fine. I'll need to update the description.
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    Martial Rituals

    Quickleaf - By your listing of categories, it seems to me that you recommending a strong break from normal 'arcane' rituals for these new martial rituals. I think that that might be the way to go. It certainly removes some of the restrictions that I felt when thinking about how to implement my...
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    Martial Rituals

    I'm really enjoying where the conversation is going. Thanks, guys. I definitely agree that an expanded list (beyond simple combat bonuses) of rituals is the way to go. They were just my first off-the-top-of-my-head stab at them. With that said, I think that minor combat bonuses could be okay...
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    The Martialist - Looking for Feedback

    Alex319 - You're absolutely right. I've been turning over in my head how I want to revise Broad Shield for the past two days. There is a fighter power (Not sure where--might be in MP) that gives a bonus to AC for all allies within Close Burst 1 of the fighter. I didn't want to do that. In...
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    XLS of magic items

    I have to agree, especially for powers. The potential things that could be accomplished with having all the powers in a spreadsheet are vast. Things like comparing relative strengths, deciding (via visual comparison on a table) when powers are too strong or too weak compared to others of that...
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