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As a side-note, how the hell would that even be possible? Barbarians are non-lawful only, and monks are only lawful. They're antithetical to each other.

I've just always had some problems with the RAW layout of elements. It's a good starting point, but it needs changes. Maybe a cross between it and EoM, or some such. Here's my nominations 6 Basic: Air, Fire, Earth, Water, Positive, Negative 4 Paraelements: A+W=Rain, W+E=Mud, E+F=Magma...

Captain Planet is way too homo-erotic to include in my campaign world. Yeah he's elemental, but no thanks.

I really think dust makes the most sense to me. A plane combined of Earth and Air would be a constant whipping storm of sand and grit, choking any that breathe. You'd find some areas that are seas of silt, like in Dark Sun. That seems the most logical to me. Solid like earth, yet fluid like...

Those two made me laugh so hard I cried. "I want a talking rock with a puwafwi!" We had a CE Fighter in our party and the player read somewhere in a Dragon Magazine or something about these Drow cloaks called puwafwis. They were supposed to be great at hiding in the dark or something, so he...

I've been laughing about this every time I think about it. Instead of "Charlie's in the trees!" there's dwarves scampering from trunk to trunk. And dwarves are about the single last player race I'd imagine up there, yet somehow it works. I might have to try this myself next wilderness...

Well, I've seen earth/air/fire/water + Life as in druid animal/plant related. I've seen it with light, or with magic, there's different combos by different publishers, but the basic four elements are earth, air, fire and water. Is that what you're asking?

I really like the concept. One thing would be to take some climb ranks: Scurrying up trunks with those metal spikes and a belt to lop off branches. "Look out there's DWARVES in the trees!!!"

Really neat stuff Spatzimaus. Again, not what I'm going for, but fun to read. I may work on the axes stretching between them along the dust, steam type of concept, but I might not. I think I have to stick to the crawl/walk/run concept and handle one campign design problem at a time.

Looking at some of the other settings I realized I had too few villages, just larger towns and cities. Is it an issue if there is large distances between areas of civilization in a campaign world? I've always wondered that, because I only have 4 cities and 4 towns per element, for a total of...

In our 2e Spelljammer campaign, we frequently found o0urselves at a loss of MUs to power the helms of our warfleet, so we'd putout ads looking for MUs in the port town. No matter what Crystal Sphere, or what planet, we'd always get responses from first level mages titled "Alexander the...

Did you come up with rationalizations for the axes you had? As there a reason that Fire and Water are more linked to teleportive effects than telekinetic effects, or how did you devise that? Also, I would like to create a spectrum on those axes, showing how becoming less earth and more air is...

I played an all goblinoid evil character adventure. It was fun. We were rampaging from town to town destroying everything. The highlights included coming on the herds of sheep at the outskirts of a village, setting them on fire and driving them amid town to create confusion. Then the...

Cool design Spatzimaus. Not what I'm going for here, but would've liked to play in it. I like the idea that the axes that connect earth to air and fire to water should mean something. Might work on that.

I think the whole pretend vs. Roleplay argument breaks down to two styles of play. Both are applicable to RPGs and not wargaming. I borrowed them from Robin Law's Rules of Good Game-Mastering. There is the Method Actor style and the Storyteller style. The Method Actor plays characters to try...

I know that the archaic concept of four elements isn't the most accurate division of forces in the world, and that it's also hackneyed, but as a novice DM, it is an easy way to start. My more experienced DM was working on alternate elemental systems, say one composed of Water, Air, Metal and...

Well I brought up the evil enchanter example because it struck me at one point in reading fantasy fiction that you always find these high level powers behind the throne in place, twisting the ruling classes lives to create conflict, but rarely see them starting out. You have to think there is a...

I found the EoM pdf my friend gave me and I was looking over it now. Might use it, might not. Seems to make casters very generic and utilitarian. Great for ease of use and compatibility, but not sure if it fits my campaign flavor yet. Don't own AE or many other books. Was hoping just to...

Yeah, it has been hashed in many ways, but I wanted to try something where the four elements were absolutely fundamental to the campaign world, not just nifty "flavors" of powers. I just like the idea of a mountain growing taller into the sky for no other reason to block the wind and having...

On a tangent, how do you effectively explore character concepts that aren't team players or are evil? For example, say I just really want to try exploring the evolution of an evil enchanter (Today the stableboy is under my charm person spell, tomorrow I'll have the king beguiled! MWAHAHA!), or...