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Extra Akashic Powers? If you are looking for additional abilities to grant the akashic class, I might suggest nabbing ones from other classes that you aren't using in the same setting. For instance, the bard's bardic music ability, the archivist's (from Heroes of Horror) dark knowledge class...

The Lands of the Diamond Throne setting for Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved is, for me, the quintessential non-human-dominated setting. The Diamond Throne itself is ruled by a benevolent race of civilized giants who liberated the continent from the thousand-year rule of the dramojh, hideous...

You might want to look at the Dracha race from Arcana Evolved, and the way that book handles more powerful races by allowing them to take optional racial levels beyond their first level starting package. The Dracha start off with a bonus to Con and a penalty to Cha, and wings that let them...

How about "The Unfettered Three" or simply "The Unfettered"?

My old college gaming club held their annual convention this past weekend, and one of the major events of the con was an auction of various gaming books, most of them with starting bids of $1 or so. Not many people participated, so there wasn't a huge competition, and I made off with a good...

At the conclusion of the Ravenloft game I was once in, our adventuring company became a major force in the Core, with teams of adventurers based out of chapter houses in several of the Realms of Dread. Additionally, the party cleric founded a new sect of the Ezran religion, the sorcerer/rage...

Ptolus Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved Complete Book of Eldritch Might Robert "Brand Loyalty to An Ended Brand" Ranting

I only voted for those that I actually own. Note that the only two books on this list that I do in fact possess a copy of and did not vote for were the Book of Iron Might and the Banewarrens. Both were merely "okay" IMHO. *Denizens of Avadnu *Complete Book of Eldritch Might *Ptolus *Tome of...

Thanks HeavenShallBurn! SPOILERS for the Shackled City AP! It has been a couple years since I played through the SCAP, but if I recall correctly, in it the PCs visit an ancient dungeon complex of the Spell Weavers where they were doing experiments to figure out how humanoids think and dream...

Dragon magazine produced an "Ecology of the Spellweaver" article which was reprinted in the Dragon Monster Ecologies book. It gives a fair bit of detail about their ancient civilization and strange view of life, magic, and the mind. I don't want to spoil everything, but they have a racial...

My suggestion is to look at the first campaign log, specifically the Runewardens' run through the NoD adventure and the events that took place regarding the Soul of the World and the Vallis Moon. Robert "Was Disappointed That Stuff Wasn't In The Adventure" Ranting

Honestly, I think that the ritual would probably only be for assuming a polymorphed shape, and that the dragon would be able to casually dismiss it. Much like how a painstaking disguise of cloth and rubber can be ripped away in a dramatic fashion, a dragon could simply choose to spend one...

4e has made interacting with my gaming group a chore. Most of the people I know either don't seem to care at all, exhibit a knee-jerk negative reaction to having to spend money on new books, or else are so uncharacteristically taciturn and evasive that I can only assume that the lucky...

Until the other games I am in pick back up or find a way to integrate a new character into the group, I currently only have the one "current" character, a sixth level human ranger. Robert "Darn Winter Holidays Interrupting My Gaming" Ranting

Does anyone else remember the bit of information we got a while back about how the Abyss was formed when Tharzidun threw something terrible into the Elemental Chaos and it broke through the fabric of the plane? Well, think of it this way. The Abyss is like a hole in a piece of paper. On one...

I have only ever left two campaigns, and both of them for similar reasons. In the first case, I left because of the DM. He had been my mentor, the guy who taught me how to be an effective DM and who had run most of the games I had been in during college. Unfortunately, the same qualities...

The idea of giving powers to the fighter, rogue, ranger, and barbarian is not a bad one. I have no problem with a fighter slamming the ground with a hammer so hard it knocks everyone in a radius prone around him, or firing a volley of a half dozen arrows with a single shot, or even picking up...

I enjoyed playing a cleric, druid, and ranger. I did not enjoy playing a Fighter or a Rogue with a few levels of fighter. I played a Paladin/Archivist gestalt for a few sessions, but I did not count it in my vote, since that is a whole other beast entirely from single-class paladin. I think...

Ever since I picked up MMV, I have wanted to run an Eberron game but that draws heavily upon sci-fi / horror and urban fantasy movies that have modern settings. Essentially, the PCs would be part of a government-funded secret organization dedicated to the policing and hunting down of...

I will assume that in order to give the PCs something very familiar to work with you will want to use new classes, but somewhat iconic roles for the characters. Here is my suggestion: Human Knight - A charismatic champion of righteousness. Dwarf Duskblade- A stalwart secondary fighter with a...