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In my campaign worlds the known deities of a given material plane are always the first mortals who achieved ascension to immortality. My cosmology has thousands of such prime material planes, where all but the youngest ones are ruled by local deities. These deities rule the material plane they...

The idea sounds pretty neat so far. I'd like to see how you would develop the complete rules for this (mainly so I won't have to borrow a 4E book for anything).

I agree with your assessment that "paladinhood" as a niche should and can be more inclusive without destroying the integrity of the game or the class concept. Not long ago, I come up with four paladin derivative classes which expands on the stock paladin and the pathfinder antipaladin...

That is how we get movies like the one with Jeremy Irons (not his fault), Wrath of the Dragon God, Willow, new Clash/Wrath of the Titans, and every other one-off fantasy movie that, if you squint real hard, can almost look like a D&D campaign squished into a couple hours or so, but are still, in...

There is no good way to do a "D&D movie." At best it should be a miniseries, a single-season 1-hour TV show, preferably released online. Any way you do it, you can't squeeze a genuine D&D campaign into 100 minutes of screen time. You would also have to break the fourth wall--by turning the...

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I would rather see characters have a "defense" score, against which a caster or other attacking effect has to roll for successfully affecting a target. Instead of Fort save, you have a Constitution Defense: 10 + target's total Con Defense bonus + Con modifier. There would be six Defense...

Try having the halflings be the Old Blood, and Humans the New Blood. Treat them as a single race which diverged, but still able to interbreed (every new baby born is human, and two halflings never produce.) . It turns everything on its head, sure. The halflings are supposed to be the innocent...

In the context of, for example, a night spent gambling or a single game of chess, the narrative would follow the 'tug of war' in the sense that "the cards are starting to like you again" or "you made a brilliant combination just then, and took your enemy's queen". The Dramatic Skill Check isn't...

I'm not sure why you would want to slap any fictional author's name on it. The most interesting examples of historical literature are those which are so confounding that the best archaeologists, linguists, and historians can't even begin to guess who could have written it. Some works do have...

For what it's worth, I like the notion of skill challenges, because there is only so much dramatic tension you can put into a single die roll. However, the implementation of 4E seemed to me unnecessarily complicated. Here is a possible alternative method. Let's call them "dramatic skill...

Unfortunately the original campaign for which I started this thread did not get off the ground, but I'm still interested in seeing what can be done with Firearms in a steampunk-ish style of Pathfinder game. So I had some ideas for expanding on Pathfinder's combat rules to allow for weapons that...

Like others, I miss the Gem dragons from previous editions of D&D. While it would take time, I feel they could be faithfully ported over to PF by comparing the D&D versions of the Chromatics and Metallics and what changes were made to them by Paizo, then apply the same method to the Gem dragons...

Suppose in order to give the feel that your world is slightly more advanced, you wanted the alchemists in your world to be able to "discover" a few extra elements. Not as many as the 92 natural elements of real life, but more than four, at least. You would also need to retrofit some spells and...

Winning at D&D? It's when everyone at the table (including the DM) is having fun and making a memorable game story others will enjoy the retelling of.

As much as I love pretty PDFs, my internet has been unreliable of late and I wanted to share these as promised ASAP, so I will take the easy path and do direct copy and paste with no fancy formatting. ***Paladins: Paragons and Crusaders*** Paladins are holy warriors who struggle for the...

Oh no...well, could anyone recommend a good file share site where I could upload these files?

To tell the truth, most "fantasy Medieval Europe" settings don't do a good job of portraying a fantasy version of Medieval Europe because they purposefully leave out all the negative aspects of living in Medieval Europe that aren't really appealing or interesting to modern-day gamers, such as...

I enjoy worlds like this--a world with a rich background of history for DMs to draw upon. Speaking from experience, it is difficult and time consuming. It's easy by comparison to write backstory for a single character, because all the other important people he or she once interacted with in her...

I would add this to what Tylermalan just said: 3) Make sure all players are on board with and willing to contribute to the horror style of gameplay. If someone would really rather prefer to cut up and goof off during a session because that's how he likes to play, there isn't much you can do as...