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The bit about "all new items" isn't quite true; the 4e side has the Hedge Wizard's Gloves, Gloves of Storing, Healing Potions, and a suit of coral armor all from existing texts, off the top of my head, and there may be some I'm forgetting. Either way, if I had my druthers there'd be stat-cards...

For NPCs, what about doing different NPCs on each side, to "double" the space"? Might be problematic to just hand out, though... Either way, I wouldn't put names on the cards. Personally, I dislike the idea of writing space - I've run two separate (failed due to scheduling) ZG campaigns, and I...

You'd probably want to vote Fate Core, then, seeing as that's the base they're using.

I've backed at Gold Cell level, and will likely increase my pledge for each card package whose stretch goal is met. I have a few questions, though; 1) Assuming the goals are met, will the collections be up for POD on DTRPG after the campaign? I'm afraid I won't be able to up my pledge enough...

Panarchist/Sky League/Materialists Panarchist - These guys have the right balance of good intentions and bad methodology, with the right level of presumption built in. This is the group I'd expect Watchmen's Ozymandius to be in, and that's the metric I'd personally use for determining what's...

Totally agree. Panarchist is the way to go. They have that 'the path to hell is paved with good intentions' vibe the Ob really needs, IMO. And Aegis needs, for story reasons, to not succeed. It has to.

And you don't see why that might be a problem for someone, that the core of the game has such an intrinsic tie to a specific setting?

Imaro - If people are like me, such a thread won't exist. But that doesn't mean those people /wouldn't/ opt for a less setting-pervasive system if given the option. We didn't have that option available before, but there's a (slight) chance we may have the option /now/. Weather Report - Using...

It's for emphasis, I have seen others do it (else I wouldn't). It's like italicising, in situations where italicising isn't an option for whatever reason. By force of habit I use it even if the option to italicise is there. I used to all-caps if I wanted to get the same point across, but a...

I'm sblocking this because I'm not here to defend the World Axis cosmology, and honestly it's off topic. I just want very little setting material in the core rules, full stop. But I'm having fun writing about the World Axis, so I'd still like to post this. When I say "Law vs. Chaos", I'm not...

Imaro I can't speak for others, but it /has/ always been an issue with me. I have a number of houserules to switch races to the way I want them to work, to disallow elements that don't fit with the campaigns that I want to run, heck, to even make language run the way I wanted to, all because of...

Imaro - I never knew that trite specifically dealt with originality. You learn something every day! I always viewed it's meaning as having to do with being simple or childish, not original. Guess that's what I get from learning that particular word through context - I'm bound to make a mistake...

I think in Game of Thrones, it's a combination of requiring a lot of study, slight social stigma, and the absence of dragons - and primarily that last one. Not illegal so much as almost completely unavailable.

Tovec & Weather Report You really think the World Axis setup is "trite?" I mean, the central conceit of Order vs. Chaos is prevalent in a number of ancient mythologies (frex, Babylonian. I'm pretty sure it's important to Egyptian myth, too, and a case could be made for both Greek and Norse...

Problem is, anything metaplot advancing without 'ruining' the setting would have to be pretty minor. Part of the reason I like Eberron is the lack of a metaplot, so something too involved would turn me off. Best bet is some terrorist action (Emerald Claw or the Swords of Liberty or the Lord of...

Alzrius I just read that edit you made earlier, and yeah, in general, Dark Sun is a good example - only a couple of mentions in out-of-the-way places. I just had some sand in my craw re: Gith; I was recently making a race list (much like Oryan77 does!) for Dark Sun and I had to figure out what...

Alzrius That's why I said "beyond the elemental planes, the Gray, and the Black"; that's the cosmology, as far as Athas is concerned. Crystal Spheres are (or, rather /should/ have been, IMO) a Spelljammerism. Different strokes, I guess. :/

Weather Report To be fair, I've had a player like that. :/ Specifically, he wanted to be a Githzerai Xaositect in a prime-only Eberron war campaign. When that didn't fly, he wanted one of his character goals to be "Get to Sigil", despite that I told him it didn't exist in my proposed game and...

Shemeska - Which was borne of 2e's attempt at making all of their settings part of a larger multiverse. I know, canonically, Gith are from outside Athas' crystal sphere. But I dislike crossover games, and that implies the setting is part of a much larger multiverse. The 'degenerate non-native'...

I disliked the setting. Not that I begrudge anyone their choice of setting, but I've had a player that always wanted to go to Sigil, regardless of setting. I really am not a fan of "crossover" games, and that player always tried to make it like that. Really soured the setting for me. If I'm...