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I agree. I personally dispense with a distinction between wood and wild elves, my wood elves cover the bases here. Same with High and grey. I stick with just high; they can cover both concepts. Other than dark elves, everything else IMO is probably obsolete. Same with gnomes; forest, deep, rock...

Also, for the sake of reminiscence... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_YRatOInA Fire of WOFF!!!

I do! It was one of my intros to the genre. Many an afternoon taken up calling "Two skulls and a shield!" But while noone complained, I reckon many folk jumped ship when they realised they could play any character they wanted. Personally I like the idea; I think that default assumptions give...

me too!

Hahaha..."I thought we were supposed to be a team, Mike! You know?? You and me!! I thought we were going to spend all our time together! Where were you? I cooked a special dinner and slipped into something comfortable (my best computer chair) and waited. Hour after hour for YOU, Mike;- you! and...

Its probably a common thing to read through what is generally an awesome adventure concept and find things that really grate, and that you absolutley must change; Sometimes I'm reading through published modules and imagine hooks and tie-ins to other material that are so obvious and such a cool...

I'm sorry to say I had to laugh at this :D Squnk ...Yeah, its a thing with this game. It offers imaginative people such an engaging outlet for their creativity that it can really suck people in! The fact is, there is simply no substitute for self regulation.

Welcome to the forums! I've done this before, and quite enjoyed it. There are, in my experience two challenges; firstly trying to balance power to challenge ratio;- but this is just a matter of mechanics, so not a big deal. In my game, the player ran multiple characters, and I had a DMPC, so it...

Wait! What??? But all these years as a dungeon master?! recruiting new players!? My "intense cult training"...

@Empirate ; nice analysis. Youv'e touched on some of the stuff I that did concern me, and then some. the mystic theurge is a dmpc who im considering because it has the potential to shore up all the gaps in the party, whilst not outshining. Though the price for this is quite steep with such slow...

great suggestions. I was already considering the hero point things, almost word for word, including 3 points to begin with and one more each level. I'm considering that they can each be traded in for one reroll, or one use of a feat characters otherwise don't have. I'm thinking of also adding...

Thanks for the input, guys. Yeah it seems it will be interesting. The problem is trying to find the sweet spot between challenging and tpk. Sounds like if standard sized parties (and larger) have found it hard to survive, my small party (of new players) are going to have no chance...

It looks like the party will only be three strong;- half-orc fighter, elf ranger or fighter, and a planned mystic theurge DMPC, whose role is likely to be support. The adventure looks tough, and probably far more so for a small party, so I'm looking for some good advice! I'm thinking to have...

Agreed.

I agree that spell selection is a good way to implement many character concepts, but I can easily imagine lots of concepts that wouldn't be covered by this.

Unless feats are used as a mechanic to add character concept flexibility. It doesn't necessarily have to be about power.

That's such an awesome idea I wish they'd do that again. No matter how healthy I get, I doubt i'll ever regenerate. But I can imagine what it means to have an extraordinarily robust metabolism that can do this.

What I've supposed is that they will more or less make individual prestige-class features into feats. Then they could have suggested build for the arcane archer, which is simply a package of feat selections. The nice thing is, designing what used to be prestige classes or paaragon paths would...

I think (though might be completely wrong), one of the older editions granted a character with 19 con the ability to regenerate. That's freaking cool.

I always read it as your fighter is getting stronger because she spent her time in physical exercize that increases muscle bulk. She might have spent that time reading and training her mind, and developed a +1 intelligence bonus. Or spent her time focussing on developing a particular technique...