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I've been thinking about this and pose an alternative. Paladin 2/Favored Soul X could make a really interesting "Gish" character without wasting the double extra attacks. Go Half-Elf or Variant Human with bonuses to Strength and Cha (+Con for Half-Elf). Wear Heavy Armor, carry a Greatsword. Take...

A common house-rule is to require one of the Eldritch Knight schools to be either Abjuration or Evocation, and for the other one to be whatever the player wants. Similarly for Illusion/Enchantment for Arcane Tricksters. This maintains some of the existing class flavor while providing expanded...

Yeah, the question about loading from Crossbow Expert has been argued to death on a couple of other forums. Official ruling from WotC's Mike Mearls was that you do indeed need a free hand to load the crossbow, so rapier + crossbow or dual-wielding crossbows would not be possible for more than...

Harvey Bardman (LN Half-Elf Bard) should be the new mascot for ENWorld 5e forums. Quick, somebody draw a cool picture =P.

Lawful Good 8 Neutral Good 21 Lawful Neutral 12 Neutral 7 Lawful Evil 11 NG always appealed to me as the most reasonable alignment. LN never really made sense to me (I follow the law whether it's good or bad. But if I start murdering innocents because the law says I should...doesn't that make...

Dwarf 6 Half Elf 11 Human 14 PURGE THE XENOS! Wait, wrong game...

No offense taken at all! Actually, that's very helpful feedback. I definitely did bias it towards sword-based powers and exploration-oriented, just to give it a more specific flavor than a more generic combat-oriented halfcaster. Totally understand that it may not be what you are looking for...

Krafus I'd be curious of your thoughts on my Swordmage homebrew class (not the paladin archetype) and whether it fits the arcane halfcaster archetype you are looking for. On a side note, how do you post links in your signature? I tried the BB code and it won't work (sorry new guy here)

I'm imagining some tabletop RPG in Japan or China naming one of their sourcebooks "Occidental Adventures." The image in my head is rather entertaining =P

The more I think about it, the more I agree with this one. The PHB and DMG already contain the necessary information to reskin pretty much anything as Asian influenced, like all the stuff about Wuxia campaigns, Asian weapon renames, the "Honor" score, etc. The PHB even has pictures of very Asian...

Props mostly to mellored and aelioran, I just rolled 'em together with balancing revisions and the oath text...

That's pretty true, actually. I can't remember if the original Oriental Adventures sourcebook was based entirely around Kara-Tur in FR or if it was in general about Asian-themed campaigns. That said, "Asian Adventures" sounds...odd..somehow... :hmm:

To be honest I don't think you'd actually offend that many people (unacceptable was perhaps too harsh a word choice on my part, sorry!), it would just sound a little backward. I'd say East Asian. Obviously for D&D fantasy worlds that doesn't quite work, which is probably why they use the term...

Building new class features is indeed a lot of fun. If homebrewing for arcane halfcasters is of interest to you, I built out a whole 5E Swordmage class (arcane halfcaster fighter/mage hybrid) after some extension revisions over on the WotC forums. Here's the Google doc link...

In the US though, it has quickly become a more unacceptable term. At least where I am, oriental is something that refers to carpets, not people or cultures.

Just switched over, though I've been inactive on wotc for awhile. I'll post up some of my homebrew stuff later as well.

Welp, I'm sad that the WotC forums are going. Bad apples aside, it has been a useful central source of discussion over the years. That said, thanks to those of you in the enworld community who have extended a warm welcome to us. I will try my best to follow the appropriate rules and conduct...