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A lot of the Modron March involves pointless running back and forth between places... It has some great ideas, but some of the adventures within it fall a bit flat. -Stuart

Oh. Now you're opening up a can of worms... Pixie. Swashbuckler 4/Duelist 2 S 14 D 26 Con 19 I 20 W 12 Ch 12 (S 18 D 18 Co 18 I 14 W 8 Ch 6 before racial/level mods) AC = 23 (+8 (dex) +1 size +2 (duelist) +1 dodge +1 natural) and will increase by 1 each level more importantly, you're...

Hmmm... a Crusader is probably not going to work, then. They have lots of abilities. What about a (Paladin or Fighter)/Dwarven Defender? They are pretty straightforward and can have some nice defenses. -Stuart

If you want to go Druid and your DM will allow it, you could use the Spontaneous Rejuvenation option from PHBII (give up spontaneous summoning - instead burn spells to give fast healing to allies in a radius of 15', or something like that...). -Stuart

I've never really liked the human extra skill points. Humans are more skilled than elves and dwarves (who are much older than they are)? Really? No. I expect humans in 4e will be balanced with other races largely by giving them more action point things. -Stuart

Yeah. I recently wrote a blog post on this topic that's too long to post here, but I totally agree with you. On a side note, Decipher's LotR game did a not-horrible job of this. -Stuart

Crusader is in Tome of Battle:Book of Nine Swords. It isn't part of the SRD. If your DM will allow classes from that book, that's probably your best bet. (other than a ridiculous Druid) -Stuart

If there are three other fighters in the group, you might want to consider something other than just melee damage output. You'll have that covered... and a base Duskblade isn't bad at it. You'll have a decent Intelligence, so Combat Expertise + Improved Disarm or Trip might be an interesting...

I wish it hadn't gone out of print so quickly... I'll give another nod to Sigil. It is fairly unique in that it can serve as a base for adventures to anywhere. Leaving D&D cities behind, for the moment, Exalted has some great cities in it. Nexus (gritty, cosmopolitan metropolis/trade center...

I understand the desire not to load the magazine with crunch that will cease being useful to most of its readers in a few months. On the other hand, the things they are loading the magazine with (4e previews) will cease being useful to most of its readers in a few months. How about some...

Hope it does so in a helpful way... Will the campaign feature time travel? If not, you may run into an issue where you KNOW how history will end up... and the PCs might do something to change it. It can be tempting to not let them (particularly if you're fond of the historical story you've...

I think it is more balanced than requiring LA on both sides... since that ends up unbalancing things the other way.... I haven't come up with anything better. -Stuart

Just posted this in another thread: I allow levels of Commoner (and only Commoner) to be taken in Gestalt with LA. I find this keeps PCs from falling too far behind in HD-based things, while not being overpowered like a PC class would be.

My rule: You can Gestalt levels of Commoner with LA, but nothing else. -Stuart

I put together a culture-making checklist that might be helpful. -Stuart

I've read somewhere that you can't make the Vigor spells persistant... -Stuart

You need Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Bastard Sword to use a bastard sword one-handed. Also, do infusions suffer from ASF at all? I don't recall... if so, a tower shield is problematic. Ouch. -Stuart

I'm not too worried. It looks like all the classes are getting neat new tricks. -Stuart

About a year ago, I wrote up a bunch of OGL wand options in my blog: Wand Week Day 1: Spells for the Wand Wielder Wand Week Day 2: Feats for the Wand Wielder Wand Week Day 3: The Wand Warrior PrC Wand Week Day 4: Two more wand-based spells Wand Week Day 5: Wand features and a Wondrous...

I, too, played a non-optimized Druid (I avoided summoning and almost never used my animal companion)... and easily overshadowed the rest of my group accidentally. Most of the problem, of course, was that it was a game that was heavily based on wilderness encounters, animals (lots of dinosaurs)...