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Are the Zeitgeist team interested in getting some fan requests before the campaign goes public? If so, please consider these mine: including or hosting high-res versions of any encounter maps (preferrably without room numbers and monsters); so that maptool/fantasy grounds etc groups can use...

Five adjectives in the first sentence makes for tough reading, but I love that last paragraph. It gives me tingles.

I realise I'm way too late to this party, but as shown by my barrage of posts this morning, I'm very into Zeitgeist. I'm also opinionated and a solicitor, so I'm used to being critical of other people's spelling, grammar and document content. I'll send you and email RW, just in case.

Awesome map. I love the way the city is clearly eating away at the forest in its midst.

I love the idea! The "cannon lady" is my pick of the four. I love the movement in it, although the fluttering-but-not-fluttering hair looks a little odd. I'm not a huge fan of the fort video, probably because I'm not sure what it's meant to show. I suspect I'll be much more of a fun once it...

I have to say: Whoever did this primer did an awesome job. I'd been sort of ignoring Zeitgeist until the prospect of an upcoming TPK in our current campaign reared its head. Then I checked this primer and now I'm not sure I'd be that upset if that TPK came to pass. I love the layout and the...

Actually, I expect Tony's concern is exactly why standard survey questions are phrased as: "On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 meaning "not important at all" and 10 meaning "very important"), how important to you is balanced game design?" I won't go so far as Tony and say the survey is phrased...

I'm not a doomsayer (I'm nowhere near Tony on that particular spectrum) but I do have misgivings. AEDU 4e was based around the idea that all characters should be comparable on all axes. While there were/are imperfections (aka Twin Strike) it's as close to objective balance as I think I've ever...

You see no evidence of a move away from symmetrical class development? Really? You should take a look at the E-martial classes versus the E-non martial classes.There is a strong retro trend in design philosophy in 4e since Mearls took the helm. Magic Missile has gone back to auto-hit. Classes...

I'd never heard of him until you mentioned him, but having just checked out his website, I must say I agree with you. Wow. Just wow.

Ugh. Even if you want to use such long-winded official titles, make sure you have a shortened version for everyday use. After all, there's a reason we don't often refer to mormons as "worshippers in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday saints". I'm partial to Grey Shephards (or Gray...

My cleric PC has a custom artifact that was his mentor's blade. The blade was lost when the mentor was killed (my character was 8 at the time) and my PC ultimately recovered it 22 years later in the Shadowfell. If you can't find a link to the item, find a link to the bearer instead.

Ditto. Were you being tongue-in-cheek Abdul, or is there an anonymous but growing underclass somewhere clamouring for PPs and EDs to be jettisoned?

Unless you're expected to be the party face which, as the leader, you might be.

This thread is the first I've seen of Master-of-Arms. When compared with the original expertise feats, I notice the extra "quick draw" kicker, but I also note that the +1 becomes +2 at level 11 instead of level 15. Am I misremembering the old Expertise feats, or have they been changed in...

It probably goes without saying, but I find that Righteous Brand is heavily dependant on two things: the number of melee attackers in your party; and whether you have a melee striker who can take advantage of it. Our party of 2 meleers (my battle cleric and the fighter) and 3 ranged (2...

My personal favourite use for whetstones is on ranged weapons (javelins, specifically). I don't need a magical ranged weapon often enough to buy one, but I always keep at least one level-appropriate whetstone on hand in case we find ourselves up against a flyer or really disadvantageous terrain.

Huh?! Don't these races already exist, both in classic and essentials? Is something new about them in the works, or is this more duplication of existing information across multiple books? That peeve aside, I have to say that the excerpts from Evard's writings have so far been amazing. If...

I've harboured similar thoughts, which I addressed while blogging about rituals in general. I proposed that casting a ritual should require a standard action per round, but following some comments on RPGnet, I'm inclined to drop that to a move action.

Object Reading on the mist-filled archways in the Tomb of Horrors. Hand of Fate on the crown and sceptre in the Tomb of Horrors. Both came in very handy... ;) Battlefield Elocution when handing over a priceless item to make sure that there were so many witnesses that the recipient could...