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Eberron works very well for this. You can easily lift the setting and ditch most of the mechanics if you want to run and earlier version of D&D or another game like Savage Worlds. For Eberron you have Xen'Drik- for your jungle exploration (may be spelled wrong), Sharn (for city adventures)...

Could you use two different systems for characters? If the characters have different abilities, using different systems would help differentiate the characters. Or are they supposed to be the same character being in different time periods/worlds? Savage Worlds works well for jumping genres. I...

Feng Shui falls into the category loosely. One d6 is positive, the other negative. Net result modifies the action value (skill mod) and that is compared to the difficulty for a task or the defensive values of whatever you are trying to hit. It isn't what you are describing, but in the family...

If you like the plastic boxes, I think the Stor-It-All totes work pretty well. I have one for my Magic decks to keep them together and protected. The normal transportation methods don't work when you have 40+ decks. These should hold up well enough and they are pretty affordable if one does...

Alright, so you have a mageocracy with about 50% elves, theocracy, swamp city-state, dwarven city-state, jungle dwelling wood-elves, I say just use some cultural analogs for the human city-states to fill out your city-states. Hand of Evil had the hobgoblin idea which can work pretty well. If you...

Father Wicket, forgive me for I have sinned. Let your ranger wisdom guide me into the purity of gaming in eternal glory. Father Wicket, it has been many years since I have confessed. I feel most guilty about an adventure I ran almost two years ago. It was a campaign where a kobold cult was...

You could try the Magic wallpaper archive. Sure it isn't always the best, but the card information isn't on it and you can get different sizes to help with scaling. d20pfsrd.com has art for most or all of the PC classes. Can you use that?

Okay, I think the tree-dwelling city-state can work for wood elves. Scholarly wizard city.. that needs more. Alright: along the borders of the desert, near an oasis. The scholarly city-state is one of the eldest city-states, being chosen for easy sea access, but the rivers have been diverted by...

Gilladian, how accurate are you looking to make this? Additionally how common do you want caster classes to be? I've run E6 with a PC class capable person being born roughly ever 1/100 people. Then those 1% are split evenly into all the classes in the campaign. Then I try to tier the levels so...

Are the city-states hostile or open to trade? If they are open to trade, then you can use the Races of the Wilds version of halflings and stylize them as traveling merchants/gypsies. This would increase trade and travel capabilities on the island. The elves could live in a dense jungle, to...

Gnome paladin's response on capabilities of the party's elven range to scout ahead undetected: "Have you ever played hide-and-go-seek with an elf before? They can hide!"

When confronting essentially a Balrog (in e6 pathfinder). Sorcerer: "I think I'll try Scorching Ray again" Oracle: "Its one FIRE! Use you f**king Ray of Frost!" Sorcerer: "But that only does 1d3 damage" Fighter: "We are going to die" "I don't do sneaky" Paladin says to rogue currently...

Have you looked at E6? That removes all the problems of gaming above level 6. The monsters rarely go over CR 10 and because a lot of the monsters are higher level you can reskin them. E6 allows you to capture the fantasy feel of LotR and Connan becuase the players can still do realistic things...

You can always just look in the monster manual/bestiary for cold type monsters or monsters that have that as an environment. Winter wolves and frost giants? With the actual encounters make sure you use the terrain. Taigas have a lot of cover to offer, high winds make ranged attacks dangerous...

5. Repairing the gates of the castle while the invading armies of demons attack. It takes guts to try to make a craft check with a balor killing PCs near you.

Hmmm... I never thought about that. Excellent point. I'll need to go over the engine concept with the ships. Would chart on light-medium-heavy ships and the speed and manueverability be the best way to do this? A griffin heart can handle up to X tons and requires a minimum of Y for the heart...

Rel, thanks for giving some feedback. I love the idea of a skywhale as a workhorse. I was planning to haven the ships themselves be what governs the speed: build, crew, riggings, wind, etc. The heart only controlled the but I will need to play around with the idea of the ship size making the...

Herokizbit, thanks for the pointers. I'm still bouncing around the fuel idea. Having to hunt down multiple dragon hearts to have an awesome ship would be annoying. But worrying about fuel is an interesting concept. Transbot9, thanks for the feedback! I gave the dragon wars some thought...

Herobizkit, thanks for the feedback. I thought about the fuel option before the deciding to go with the no degrading option. I just thought that with food supplies, ammo, charts, and other specifics that adding fuel would just increase book keeping. Food is easy to handle, ammo too. The charts...

Thanks for the feedback, Relique du Madde. To clarify- the heart of msot animals and creaturs is a normal heart. But magical creatures have gems for a heart. Those who can fly under their own power can be used to give a ship flight. I think I will need to limit the monsters available for...