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Sure, but the High Medieval Church would have been exceedingly methodical in distinguishing between what was and wasn't blasphemous or demonic. The Scholastics were, in theory, comfortable with 'magic' as long as it wasn't based in insulting god in some fasion mostly through literal blasphemy...

Umm, huh. Given the actual intellectual structures of the period I don't know if you could use it as a foil to faith very effectively. The high medieval church was pretty pro-natural science. At least as it was understood at the time. Or rather, you'd probably see small communities of...

Well there are a couple of mitigating responses here. The first is that there is a difference between referencing rape as an event that occurs in the world and referencing rape as a critical component of your character. If you reference rape as an evil to be avoided than that's distinct from...

Cused Double Postings.

Further making kits into something equivalent to Background feats prevents us from having to come up with new kits for the new classes. And in at least one case the new classes will help to save us some kit building. Avengers are so clearly Holy Slayers that I think - in that case - there is...

Sure, I just thought that working through the template would provide us with a conceptual refresher. On that point: what if we retooled the Background Features to make them about Station rather than geography and then used that to simulate most of the kits. The feat section could then expand...

I teach writing courses as well, and I have to say that I have a divergent opinion. That might be because I also work at shelter for victims of domestic violence, but I don't think its fair to require someone who has already dealt with an issue of trauma in a real way to then deal with it in a...

So, a question: We've now seen a complete campaign world work up for FR in the campaign guide and player's guide. Using that as a template how would we fill out a shorter version for Al-Quadim assuming we got permission to do a Net-Book or something? Let's do the Player's Guide first...

I believe the Monk as Striker has been confirmed. Ki seems like a very reasonable assumption as to source.

Rape is a special case. It's a fairly wide spread source of trauma and it's more difficult than most to talk about or deal with socially. I'm very careful dealing with rape as a subject in class, and though I have a lot more control over my gaming group than I do my students I still apreciate...

Yeah, this was cool, thanks. I really wish I'd known about the 3.5 shaman way back when. I frickin loved the concept of the Sha'ir and was always looking for better mechanical executions of its conceptual sweetness. The 4e shaman actually seems like it could do it very well too. You'd have...

In our Thunderspire campaign the wizard is still the pre-eminent damage dealer. She rarely drops anything on her own, but what she does do is make it possible for the strikers to drop things on their own. Hitting two or three guys for fifeteen damage a round lets the controllers do their job...

The Wizard does have a high AC build. The rest are comparable to sub-par. The issue I think is that none of the controllers - with the sort of exception of one Wizard Build and the sort of exception of the druid - do their jobs very well if they get stuck in in melee. Controller Dependencies...

Well, if it had the Summoning key word anywhere on it we would know that it has the same defenses as the shaman at the time of casting minus any temporary bonuses. But it doesn't. So we could make some assumptions, but otherise it's a bit of a mystery. Dispel Magic could target it as a...

If you redo the stats so that str starts at 17 and Wis or Cha at 15 4th levels going to be an awfully sweet level for you. And the 12 in con, 13 dex, and 10 int aren't doing too much for you as is. Maybe: Str 17 Con 11 Dex 8 Int 12 Wis 14 Cha 15 It's still a legal character. I picked Int...

The Bronze Age is bitchin no matter how you swing it. And I think Byzantium or the Early Medieval/Late Classical period are the best models for an awesome DnD game ever. Early histories of Livy Rome would work awesomely well and is suitably heroic. But the best thing to do is set it in the...

It's also important to remember that each of the roles are designed with dependencies on the other roles. Controllers have low defenses and low damage output with regard to individuals. They need defenders to keep opponents off of them. The level of that need varies. Druids have some decent...

This may sound like an odd referent, but... ...you should check out Mouse Guard. It's a comic about intelligent mice who have a culture in the middle ages. There are no people simply intelligent mice and intelligent weasels. A major theme of the work is that even though the Mice are...

I was thinking that too.

Well, the law is the law. I don't know that the great unbinding is going to cause a religious crisis unless a bunch of enlightened gods start going down as a result of the crisis. Zhakara's meta-religion seems petty resilient. I think the new action in the deserts is going to be pretty big...