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I'd second that. Mystara was the Dungeons & Dragons setting when I started playing way back in the day.

By the way, kudos on all the mythical monsters and legendary heroes that you've been doing on the main site. I didn't realize that was your work. Great stuff!

I'm curious how this will fly with a more general crowd. I remember watching an interview with one of the designers of Dungeons & Dragons (can't remember if it was Mearls or Crawford) who talked about the process of designing the cavalier from Unearthed Arcana all the way to what finally made it...

More specifically, how did players feel about the class in terms of balance? Have you gotten a lot of good playtests with it at the various tiers? What kind of approach or process do you use in playtesting the class? I'm actually quite interested in this process at the moment because I'm trying...

I could see a lot of challenges for players running this sort of a character in specific thematic settings. I'm using a homebrew campaign setting for the game I'm currently running, and the player characters are in a region where the civilized areas are very much human and even the typically...

Apologies at hijacking your thread. :D

Not exactly. Just the fact that the word has been part of the English language for well over a century and associated with classic literary tales of knights and warriors such as Arthur and Charlemagne gives it a huge leg up over a word whose use is essentially restricted to a single, non-Western...

If only everyone did a lil’ bit more readin’... :)

I mean... I understand the author's reasoning for going with the name, but ultimately that name makes the class sound like something that's specific to a particular setting despite the generic nature of the class itself.

Five bucks says you'd be in the extreme minority. It's a word that 99% of the population will never hear or need to use. That circuses are all but history now makes it that much harder. ;)

The challenge comes with a word such as "mahout" which really doesn't have much practical or even pop cultural use in most Western societies since "elephant rider" isn't really something that 99% of people will ever even need to think about.

I agree with your sentiment and was just giving you some grief. :) Even said as much a few posts back. ;)

Fair point! :) Heck, "Beastmaster" is a lot more awe-inspiring a name than "Wrangler." ;) "Whisperer"? It has the advantage of sounding kinda cool and mysterious... but I feel a lot of players would be disappointed with the reality of the abilities versus what the mind could imagine the...

It's my opinion that your argument for a real world analogy works more in favor of naming a sub-class rather than a full class. Despite the grief that I gave Hurin88 I more or less agree with his position on more generic names working better for a base class. If we were to have this base class...

A bit of irony there in that most of the official class names are not at all generic but rather very specific to settings based on medieval Europe? ;)

Dumb question: what is a "collectible" game? Is a "non-collectible" miniatures game something like Wrath of Ashardalon or those Jim Henson movie (Labyrinth, Dark Crystal) board games?

I just can't get past the $500 asking price. I really want these sorts of things in general to do well: Dungeons & Dragons certainly deserves the premium treatment, and things like the FLGS exclusive versions of various source book releases are awesome, but if you're going to ask someone for...

I don't doubt that at all. I nabbed myself for unpainted caverns sets (I figured it's not as important for caverns to be painted and worse comes to worst it seemed fairly straightforward to paint them) and fortunately have spent less than three hundred dollars total. The shipping is what really...

If I'm going to spend $500 on tabletop role-playing game supplies for a more immersive gaming experience, I'll buy a bunch of Dwarven Forge sets.