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Thank you for this thoughtful and timely contribution. There's a lot to agree with in what you've written, although my recommendations to Wizards/Hasbro would look quite different.

Spellcasters get a codified set of guaranteed ways that they can daze, stun, do damage to many creatures at once, affect the wider world, create demiplanes, etc. These codified abilities - which they have by default - are both more versatile and more potent than the codified abilities of the...

You've been had, I'm afraid!

One thing I like about how much we've done on the Shrouded Lands so far is that I can go away and research what's been written, and get some interesting and extensive results. I'd appreciate it if you checked out these two wiki entries: Nobility Spellcasting They're a couple of thousand...

What fun! The Grey Comedy could produce a few, perhaps Juggling, Stage Magic and Animal Taming. Forked Tongue (http://shrouded-lands.wikia.com/wiki/Forked_tongues) might qualify as a NWP too. How about Curation or Collection, given that one of the leading figures of the Lands is the...

I'm interpretting "tool" quite loosely - I think proficiency in a calligraphy kit should cover anything that's used to draw calligraphy - and I'd rule the same for origami paper. I guess my thought is that a skill is a fair bit bigger than a tool proficiency, and I'm not sure that Calligraphy or...

Before the Lords of the Sky (25.01) An orc boychild - or girlchild prepared to shoulder the Double Duty - who feels drawn to great things can supplicate before the ikons erected to represent the lords of the sky. These ikons, delicately painted with fine brushes and gilt with gold, depict...

Hey folks, I made my first background: the Earthling. It's for that old planetary romance/fantasy staple of a human from Earth transported to a different planet or plane. It's a little silly at times, but I genuinely cannot think of anything more fun than the whole adventuring party piling into...

CORIAN (The Shuttered City) Inspiration: Designed to place the 5E adventure The Wizard’s Amulet in the Shrouded Lands. Corian is a troubled apprentice in the Necromantic Office of the Shuttered City, the greatest city in the Shrouded Lands. Despite his training, flame and heat come more...

I think Tool proficiency: Bonsai, landscaping rake, tea, origami paper are very cool, and work much better than skills. There's already a calligrapher's kit, from memory, so that won't require a skill. What about having clans or families as backgrounds? That would fit well with different clans...

Hi carodwen, welcome to the forums. I'm not sure if you know this, but Gypsies are real people (the term is used to describe the Romani, travellers, and quite a few other groups, and can be considered an ethnic slur). Gypsies as fortune tellers or rogues is a common stereotype both in fiction...

The 3e Rokugan books should be under the Open Game License - I'd take a look at how much of the books is open game content and see if that's enough for your purposes (if so, what you create will have to be under the Open Game License too). If not, can you draw inspiration from the books without...

That's fair - I've created a new thread for us to talk about 5SRD. Look forward to seeing you there, ccooke and Mistwell (and everyone else who's interested, of course).

Hi all, We got to talking about SRD5 in the Necromancer Games thread before someone pointed out that we were dragging that thread off topic. From what I can see so far, SRD5 is a clone of part of Basic D&D (with the rest in the works). Like other retroclones, it relies on the fact that game...

Hey Mistwell, I'm interested to hear more about this. The SRD5 clone relies on names and game mechanics, neither of which are subject to copyright. However, I know of one lawyer who believes that OSRIC, Swords & Wizardry, and other retroclones infringe a kind of aggregate creative expression...

Thanks for the kind words! Although I should say I've found the feedback from Kobold Stew and (Psi)Severed Head to be useful and constructive - not negative. (1) Haha, yes - good point! It didn't make any sense to give the speed in squares. (2) My feeling was this was the sort of thing the DM...

Woops, sorry about that! I've fixed the code now. The # indicates that weird insight is a regular action. I deliberately left off ranges and left SQs undefined because I wanted to play around with how much needs to be spelled out in a stat block. I think GMs playing without miniatures could...

I was marvelling at the fact that in some earlier D&D editions monster stats could be written on a single line. I wanted to experiment with some D&D 5E stats and see what I could do with them, and thought people might be interested to see them. Do let me know what you think. --- These don't...

Oh. Wow ... that is actually a very elegant way of including non-costly material components and making them an important part of some stories ("we've lost/broken/had stolen/had confiscated our holy symbols and wands, what material components can we scrounge and improvise?") while ignoring them...

Hi folks, I was wondering whether people who've been playing 4E for a while now think that the four roles of leader, defender, striker and controller were correctly identified, or whether there might be more (or fewer). For example, I know Sacred Barbeque splits the controller role into...