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There is, but it requires a scimitar. The Dervish Dance feat is what you are looking for. However, it stops two weapon fighting. Any particular reason for the Ninja class? A rogue would be a more versatile build that would allow for the Knife Master archetype- it lowers sneak attack of all...

Jhaelen's points are good ones. What about magic in the world? Or various cultures reinforcing the caves and creating vents or other methods of cooling the area? These could lead to having much larger and deeper cave systems.

What about adding in ruins from places that fell from the surface during earthquakes or some cataclysmic event? They could then be take over by troglodytes aboleths, or some other creature. A cavern with reflective crystals/minerals in the rock that appears to glow from a tiny little ray of...

Your example for "Using Your Aspects" is awesome. I'm bookmarking this so I can use it next time I'm running a game.

Burning Wheel's Fight, Range and Cover, and Duel of Wits mechanics work kind of in this range. The actions are don simultaneously and the two actions dictate if they are opposed rolls, standard rolls, or fail entirely.

59) Deep inside a desert is a cave where the dragon makes its lair. It has transformed the cave into an oasis. The air inside the cave is even damp from the moisture. Small springs and glowing plants provide decoration while the sound of water dripping and bubbling soothes the ears of desert...

I think I'm in between "Class as an Archetype" and "Class as an Ability Set" leaning towards archetype. In many literary cases, the difference between classes is basically in explanation. For example, the Thor vs the Hulk fight on the Helicarrier The Avengers. Hulk is a "barbaric" fighter...

haakon1, just to be clear, my post was not a comment on your first post explaining Cauldron. I was just making a general comment. Racism like the Cauldron plantations can work great in a game. But in the games I have experienced, racism happens in the background unless a PC happens to be of a...

I try to keep out the racism for the same reasons Morrus described. I want the game to be fun, having a player or two be attacked verbally or worse by NPCs frequently is not very fun. If the players wants to run something like this, I generally have NPCs be unwilling to help the one PC or simply...

52) The dragon is obsessed with history. It collects every historical text it can find. Should adventurer's find them in the hoard- there are corrections and annotations in draconic on the scrolls and books. 53) The dragon's lair is hidden and can only be found on a full moon. The lair is...

47. The lair is a gemstone mine, the hoard is actually the mine. The dragon knows every location of every gem and has a pattern to polish all the gems in a week. 48. The dragon is a mercenary. His hoard is made up the best equipment from defeated armies and payment rendered for his services. He...

31. The hoard is actually inside a couple bags of holding the dragon wears around its "wrist" like a charm bracelet. Whenever it needs to sleep it empties the bags and uses the pile of gold, gems, and treasures as a bed. 32. The lair entrance is filled with smoke. It is extremely dark and the...

I like Nox Arcana when I'm prepping adventures, especially if there are undead involved. When I'm building decks for Magic, I find that club music helps me. I don't know why, I don't generally like the genre, but when I need to make cuts for an EDH deck I'm turning on Pandora and playing some...

29. In the dragon's treasure hoard is a tapestry. This tapestry appears to be hundreds of possibly even thousands of years old but is in perfect condition. It details the geneology of the dragon's entire ancient family. It includes locations and colorings for the dragons (since they rarely...

25. The treasure contains a massive wardrobe. The dragon would spend its leisure time polymorphing into beautiful women of different races and wearing the prettiest clothes it could find. 26. The dragon enjoys riddles. If you can beat enough riddles, or provide an interesting one for it, the...

I wish this was the standard instead of violent circumstances. I may have a new change on fluff anytime a player wants to be a half-orc.

You could check out medieval alchemy here. The basis is the 4 traditional elements (fire, air, earth, water) with different metallic principles:Sulfur (combustibility), Mercury (volatility and stability) and Salt (solidity). This would allow the more elements but keeping it to 4 true elements...

11. Stalactites the dragon can claw while in the air to drop down on intruders and theives 12. The wreckage of ancient ships lie scattered around the dark cave, small beams of light pierce the ceiling and fall upon the skeletons of once great vessels. This wyrm has taken to using plundered...

I prefer to run E6 games. This nicely dodges the "Superman" problem-which is a real concern. I just don't like that style of game play, I like my enemies to stay enemies. Cannon Fodder is boring to me- the LotR party fled a :):):):) ton of orcs in Moria, I have no problems with my PCs needing to...

I agree, and this makes them a terrifying enemy. They are almost like bees, but homicidal bees bent of simply causing violence and pain. Want to know why people avoid the orc areas? Same reason people avoided Reaver space. Removes Half-orcs from the equation, which I don't mind. As for the...