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Okay, that is all good and fine. But, I'll tell you think... WotC's boards were getting dead before they shut them down, there are less posts around here now than when the edition first launched (and notice most of them are about the SCAG and about half of them are negative), I am seeing less...

If your world exists separate from players and when you sit down with 5 other players, no aspects of it can bend-- you don't have a roleplaying game. I don't really know what you are doing, but ideally you should be open to altering the world the moment you sit down to play the game. No one...

I don't know that any of the restrictions were there simply because it was Birthright, but rather they were simply the wonky way 2nd edition tried to balance things. I don't see anything about the setting falling apart simply because there would be Elven or Dwarven orders of holy warriors that...

I find a lot of people do not understand the relation between world, story and characters. Now, let us say that we are doing a fanfic story where we delve into a well-established world and all feel we cannot introduce new things into that world without breaking it, at least if those new things...

What could any of this really have to do with Birthright? Prerequisites for classes? Bonus experience points for having your most important attribute the highest? Restricting classes based on race? Choosing multiclass from level 1? If you aren't choosing multiclass from level 1, then everyone is...

I think this snails-pace release schedules is going to come back and bite them. People are getting bored with the edition already with little to chew on. Their adventure books are good for around 5-6 sessions. But with groups that meet once a week, that means they will get used up in less than 2...

You think every story where people use evil can't result in anything good. China was once not a single country, but several countries divided against one another in nearly constant warfare. Only the most ruthless, savage and sadistic of people rose to the top of the empire and through craven...

Wilhuff Tarkin, Captain Rex, JarJar Binks and Ahsoka Tano Plus, pretty much every betrayal you list is a case where two different people he owed allegience to were in conflict and regardless which he chose, it would be a betrayal. Both his betrayal of the Republic and the Empire stemmed from...

The slant of the game is, and has pretty much always been, for a group of trained and powerful individuals to go places they are not welcome, kill those living there and take their stuff to enrich themselves and enhance their skills in order to go to still further places they are not welcome and...

You should just do your own thing. Don't worry about updating a setting you aren't the least bit familiar with and have no attachment to. It wasn't very well made and whatever you come up with is certain to be just as flawed, but flawed in a way that is your making rather than the mistakes of...

To be fair, none of the ways in which they attempted to restrict level gaining beyond experience points made any sense whatsoever. The Fighter or Rogue had to determine if they had slaughtered enough people and picked up enough gold pieces to qualify for additional training? Since when do you...

Since I did the Goblin, it is only fair to give the other small guys a shot. This one is ridiculously loaded up with abilities, probably has way too much, but the system says this is completely balanced. Maybe some of those 0 point abilities need to be jettisoned. None of it really runs counter...

I think a major problem is imbedded in how the classes are constructed in the first place. Classes tend to derive all their bonuses to the abilities they are expected to use most often from only one or two ability score. Some classes are much worse about this than other classes, but pretty much...

Are the societies meant to be secret? I don't think they are. As I understand it, the general crux of how the adventure league works is that within the world there is this job known as "Adventurer" and they are organized by guilds. The difference between a mercenary and an "adventurer" is the...

I can get Lawful Neutral and Lawful Evil Paladins. After all, the concept of a Paladin is a completely loyal warrior of a god, or at least a set of ideals, whose strength comes from their conviction to hold to those ideals regardless of the odds. Whether the code is one that causes peace and...

There were handbooks for Bards, Barbarians, Druids, Paladins and Rangers which would give you more to chew on than the racial ones. The racial ones are primarily fluff with very little in the way of crunch for you to convert. Doing the Psionics one is impossible without an existing class. The...

Here is one to chew on for today. I will continue on with this idea of building the subraces in as ability options rather than explicitly writing which abilities each subrace gets. I really consider whether they should get stealth and something else rather than that horridly over-priced Halfling...

I knew I had screwed up somewhere for the list of abilities to be so long. Obviously the right thing to do is to remove Lucky. Otherwise you have to remove almost everything else.

It is best to start with published adventures, but-- honestly, it can actually hurt you to an extent to have any sort of defined "setting" to begin with. Which is to say, having to worry about established cities and established regions and established organizations and canon NPCs and what things...

Here i one for today. This one really steps on the foot of the Elf and the Halfling a lot (probably too much), but this more or less seems to be what they should have. They would make really good Rogues and both Perception and the Lucky ability are pretty nice regardless of your class. I am...