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  1. HeavenShallBurn

    Pimp my Archivist

    Are you trying to focus on anything in particular? Because there are many paths to follow working off archivist. The huge potential list of spells can lead to specialties in all sorts of things. Archivist's Handbook at CO Boards
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    GSL: No kobolds?

    It would be perfect as a Munchkin type product.
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    A pirate cabal

    And the real question is what odd shape is the table? Because no self respecting one-eyed pirate is going to let anyone into their blindspot.
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    Honestly, if WoTC didn't create it would 4e be D&D?

    Them are fightin words ;)
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    In contrast to the GSL, Ryan Dancey on OGL/D20 in WotC archives

    And just the same it's our right to say we don't want to abandon open gaming and take our leave of WoTC and their products for publishers more amenable to open gaming.
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    OGL Cloning 4e?

    Agreed. Though there might be ways around it if you could hand off to someone in a country that didn't recognize US jurisdiction as a silent partner and let them do the publishing and distribution from offshore.
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    Grand History of the Realm 4th edition?

    No I don't really mind Eberron, it's got its own place. I'd rather see focus shift than an entire setting get torn up and replaced with something completely different while keeping the old name.
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    How many monsters/encounter do you use in 3e?

    In general I try to make sure there's at least one monster per PC or other party member. I only do solo or duo monster encounters as wandering monster encounters or when the monster(s) are so powerful they have the party in a blatant overmatch situation.
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    Grand History of the Realm 4th edition?

    No they just blew the realms up, replaced many parts with totally different stuff and re-arranged the entire setting. For me at least the retcon is that they stuck the title Forgotten Realms on it, when it bears no resemblance to the Forgotten Realms. But it is edition neutral so if it looks...
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    Grand History of the Realm 4th edition?

    Nope it's the last valiant spark of the Old Forgotten Realms before the 4e retcon. It's essentially edition neutral and could be used in any edition since it's a giant timeline rather than a splatbook. It covers the history of the realms in In-Game time from the beginning of the world to right...
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    4e Cosmology Changes

    I dislike 4e too much to be impartial. I'd just like to say I think the above image made me laugh and seemed pretty accurate. The 4e cosmology has a lot in common with Exalted cosmology. Back when the first teasers were put out in the Worlds&Monsters book a lot of people were commenting how...
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    What is GURPS?

    I don't really like the game itself but the setting books are good. The old ones from GURPS 3e were better in my opinion even if the art wasn't so great. They were well researched, well-written, and gave just the sort of information and advice you needed. I use them rather frequently for...
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    Solo or Horde in D&D3

    Almost always multiple unless it was an encounter with something that in-itself was overpowered compared to the party. I design encounters using the comparative CR of PCs rather than EL and usually have one equal CR enemy per PC for an encounter of average difficulty. Less difficult get more...
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    Mongol

    QFT Modern sensibilities are nothing but a veneer allowed by the plenty and order of a few regions of the planet. There are large parts of the world where such acts are still acceptable. And if you tear off the veneer you'd be surprised how quickly people can go right back to that state...
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    [Meta-Troll]

    В Xanadu сделал Kubla Khan Представительный декрет удовольстви-купола: Куда Alph, священнейшее река, побежало Через caverns measureless к человеку Вниз к sunless морю. Настолько дважды 5 миль плодородной земли С стенами и башнями girdled кругом: И были сады яркие с sinuous rills, Где blossomed...
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    GSL: No kobolds?

    It could be pretty funny to see all the various SRD monsters and races redefined in a satirical way with horribly misspelled names. Riffing off another thread you could have dorrf fhiters and harfink teeves fighting khobalds and dargons alongside neefling worlucks. And other such inanities.
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    Running D&D in a boardgame style

    That's actually how I have run two short Battletech Campaigns. Worked beautifully, use the CBT or Aerotech rules for combat on the mech scale. Interaction was kept pretty freeform and personnel scale combat was using Exalted 2e Heroic Mortals rules with some new equipment.
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    Are the WOTC forums borked?

    But maybe if I just hit it hard enough I'll reduce entropy this time;) I'm glad any of the really good stuff I'd found there in years past I saved. Cause I have a suspicion there about to lose their database in a major way.
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    Are the WOTC forums borked?

    All I can really say is that they are one of the worst forums for "unplanned maintenance" I've ever seen. There have been entire weeks when they were unavailable. If I follow a link there I get error messages or a forum down warning more than I get the link. And this is a forum run by a...
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    I just did something I never though I would do

    Am I wrong in thinking there were two OGL rpgs covering that. Wasn't there a Warcraft RPG, then later a World of Warcraft RPG? I may be wrong cause I never picked up either. But I'd heard that there were two and one was much better than the other.
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