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I thought about making the warhammer bludgeoning/piercing for the standard type with the spike on the back. Think that might work? As for the falchion, I figured that it could cover your basic heavy-bladed one-handers, your katzbalgers and kreigsmessers and dussacs and whatnot. That's why I...

Simplest solution to that problem is drop the reach weapon and draw your backup blade. Draw's not an action in this edition. Also, base spear's not a Reach weapon, just the pike, the halberd, the glaive, the lance, and the pollaxe. So, bump the rapier's damage up to 1d8, you think? I was on...

So, here's my first stab at a revised weapons table. Hey, is there some way to put reasonably formatted tables in a post that I'm just not getting? Coz that table wasn't nearly that ugly in TextEdit. So, yes, I changed Heavy to Large and changed the way Reach and Two-handed work. I stole it...

I think those dudes, like most of the folks in the fechtbuchs, qualify as martial artist showoffs for the purposes of my hyperbolic ranting. :D As for my sources, I offer the entire human history of organized armed combat until about the 16th century. Sumerian phalanxes? Spear and shield. Greek...

Finesse and Heavy should be weapon properties, not weapon types. Divide weapons into Simple (stuff anybody with functioning hands can use, clubs, scythes, daggers, maces, spears, crossbows, and whatnot) and Martial (Stuff you've gotta have military training to use, swords, axes, bows, pikes and...

Bah! Logic is for vulcans! This is arbitrary re-naming of armor types for personal amusement and geekish point-scoring, dangit! :devil: True enough. But the basic system works well enough for my purposes that I didn't feel the need to substantially alter the shield stats.

I thought about calling it lorica segmentata, but that woulda made the armor name column too wide. As for lumping laminar and plate together, I think there's enough structural difference between your Roman segmentata and your late Medieval/early Renaissance plate harness to justify 2 different...

Well, for simplicity's sake, I decided to pretend that folks who wanted to wear lamellar armor could bloody well wear scale armor and just CALL it lamellar. They seem equivalent enough in design and utility that trying to differentiate them in the armor table would be pointless. As for the...

No, I was just running off the basic stats from the armor table from the playtest doc. I can see bumping the heavy armors up a point each, though. I kinda wanted to keep the basic Plate + heavy shield from moving past AC 20, given the general "number flatness" theme that 5th is going for. Why'd...

Well, it's always been a fan favorite. That's why I adjusted the price upwards from the previous versions. What do you think it should be? The 14 AC plus Dex modifier is the way it's been since 3rd, and it used to be cheaper (100 gp in 3rd, 75 gp in the first playtest packet). Do you think it...

Well, I was trying to give folks the basic options for your standard late Medieval/early Renaissance fantasy trip, based on what D&D's offered for armor from 1st through 5th editions. Chain shirt shows up in 3rd for the first time as a +4 AC bonus piece of armor, and it's 100 gp. It disappears...

Not entirely happy with the new armor selection, myself. So, I reworked it a bit. Focused more on actual historical armor names, and tried to work up an even progression for mundane armor. I'll work up a similar table for more unusual sorts of armor, your mithrils and dragonscales and whatnot...

For folks who want a bit more detail, the D&D Next stuff runs up to 14 minutes into the podcast, then it goes to the Dungeon Command stuff. For this next packet, the rest mechanic hasn't changed much. There will be some new pregens. Every class should have a new mechanic, "tied to character...

In all likelyhood, I'll probably end up just using the Allegiance system from d20 Modern. Just like I started doing with 3e, as soon as Modern came out. It just works better for me and my crew.

See, what I'm wondering is whether the GSL allows for a 4E Freeport Guide. Since the new Freeport line is explicitly system free, you guys might be able to do one, but because there is already an OGL/d20 Freeport Guide, maybe not. The content would be different, because most of the stuff in the...

Hey, that kinda rocks. I would so play this.

Rebecca Bergstrom. Ah, you wouldn't know her. She's from Canada*... ;) *This is, in fact, Not True. I believe she's actually from Seattle. But Seattle's pretty much Canada, anyway. What I meant was, she writes non-d20 stuff, like Nobilis, Exalted: the Fair Folk, the coolest bits from Savant...

Y'know, from the sound of it, Grimjack would probably work really well as a Powered by Spycraft product. Or at least with a sizeable chunk of their OGC, coz the stuff I've heard sounds really useful. Also, a Grimjack game would rock hardcore. Nearly as much as a Bugtown game.

According to earlier comments on rpg.net by some folks involved with the game's production, it'll be its own system. Eden's system is still Eden-proprietary, and this game's being put out by Margaret Weis Productions.

Hey, I'm in that book. It was my second freelance job, and I've been waiting to see it in print for what seems like forever. I did Avran's Place, Three Swallows Landing and The Shining Apple. Coolness.