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I want to play a shardmind battlemind to go with my friend's warforged warlord. Then we can have a teleportation accident and become a shardforged battlelord and a...uh...warmind warmind.

1. 40 2. 60 3. Since a human is simply animated meat, shouldn't it have the statistics of a side of beef? I kid, but the reason golems have such high hit points compared to a comparably sized inanimate statue is because they, like humans, are moving around and defending themselves in a fight...

People keep picking on the Feywild, but can you imagine the Athasian Shadowfell? :eek:

Monks come from all sorts of places in my world. One country uses them as diplomats. (After all, diplomacy and sense motive are class skills). They are trained in the use of martial arts since you realy can't bring swords to a negotiating table. In an island nation, they are the elite...

Never underestimate the value of armor-independant classes in a tropical environment. Monks, Rogues, and Rangers would be very popular in an Egyptian setting. For monks, there were martial arts styles that bore a remarkable resemblence to kung-fu, only using the khopesh and other local weapons...

One good non-Oriental (though not European) monk is the Makini of Hawaii. They fought unarmored and with primative weapons, largely because there was almost no iron on the islands they called home. They perfected a martial art style called Lua based on a lot of grapples and joint locks, had a...

I refer to monks by the specific role they play: "Diplomats" Members of one nation's diplomatic corps are trained in the martial arts and undergo esoteric treatments to gradually transform their bodies and make them resistant poison, disease, and other methods of assassination. "Lodge...

I'm quite intrigued by the "Delusions of Grandeur" spell...

Hmm...I'd read that article before, but it didn't have much to say on separating the IC from the OOC. I'll try this for a session or two and see how it works, like most of my house rules.

I love combat descriptions, and Eberron is supposed to be all about the cenematic swashbuckling flair. Unfortunately, I find that they often bog things down during the actual combat round. Some people I know (myself included to some degree) are even so afraid of being accused of metagaming that...

Here are two ideas for my game I'm considering implimenting in order to speed things up and help my players get into the game more: 1) Backwards Screen: I have a very nice DM screen I bought a while back, but I hardly ever use it. Sure, I roll behind it, but I almost never have to look at the...

Definately! D&D is slowly moving away from its stereotypical roots and towards a more flexible world, and the Goliath is a step in the right direction. It's very much not a standard fantasy race, and yet it just fits. It also makes for a very interesting character with a very unusual...

I'd imagine that people in southern khorvaire tend towards duskier skin tones while those in northern will be paler. Karrnathi I see as very Aryan in appearance, while native Brelanders I see as having an Indian appearance. Q'Barra I see as very racially mixed. The Shadow Marches people probably...

Reminds me of the Song of Roland...

Eberron does this pretty well IMO. The prevalence of magic items is an assumption and magic is common in society. Everburning torches line the city streets, mages are payed to arcane lock the prisons, etc. Divine magic is uncommon, but not entirely rare, particularly in faith-heavy nations like...