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It shouldn't just be a burder or a responsibility, it should be fun, and put them in the driver's seat. And making them answer to some other guy and do their bidding is hardly paragon tier stuff. Keep this in mind, and work out ways to encourage them to take charge and serve this own agendas. As...

This is really only going to skim the surface but- In one game, the heroes are currently organising the mass exodus of a small army of dwarvern slaves that they emacipated from a sinister southern duchy. One of the PCs is the new regent of the duke, having turned out to be his long lost son-...

Paragon tier should put the players in the driver's seat. They should be lords and masters themselves, and be seeking their own land, title, and poilitical power- OR, whatever other agenda they have. To really make it paragon tier, you should make sure each PC has a big, major agenda. Talk to...

I hope they don't expect to launch with only a bunch of tokens from the starter boxes. I mean, I assume that's not the case, and that's only for the beta. Because my players, and between two games I have 11, all have unique art for their PCs, including one guy who is pretty good and draws his...

I run maptool games and they look a lot prettier than that, because you can freely import maps and other art into maptool to use in your games. Unless this program can do that, there's no contest.

Arrow of Regrets This magical arrow can be recalled as a Minor action. It can be recalled from a target once it has struck it, as long as the target is still alive. Doing so heals the target of the damage they suffered from the arrow. It can also be recalled if it misses a target. When the...

Also, how much of a bard is he? If he's really bardy, this new movement could literally be based around a song, the song of zahar, that is part philosophy and part performance, and of course, part magic. Creating and writing the song would be the quest, and it might have several, increasingly...

Oh wow, asking for advice and then offering more information? I thought that was illegal on the internet. Ok so obviously, the master stroke here would be to engineer the creation of a new race, that would accept this zahar guy as their leader. They could even end up incorperating his name into...

Can you eat a talking plant? Can you eat a tiger-lilly? Imagine if this minotaur has a garden full of fierce dangerous plants, but when he harvests them, they each give whoever eats them a little buff. Consumable items are not popular with every group, but you could work out a way to present the...

I think the idea is to emphasise that it was a post apocalyptic setting. I mean, it isn't that orcs never existed, it's that they all died!!!, and I guess that's supposed to add some kick to the apocalypse, by framing it in that D&D-esque way. It hit or miss in execution, but I can see the...

Bitching about the GSL and WOTC policy and talking down 4e sales are part and parcel of the edition war. 4e haters have been misrepresenting these issues and spreading confusion and uncertainty about these issues since before the gsl hit. Sorry I guess that's another bannable fact but there...

The egg timer was a nice touch. I think challenges work way better when real effort is put into their creation, beyond the basic framework of a challenge. A run-of-the-mill challenge is often pretty weak, but one like this makes for really fun play a lot of the time.

Backstory is overrated. You should focus on a few key details and handles for the pc, and build things up from there. So you might do something like this: Name and describe each of the following, and try and make them distinct, if not seperate: An event or person from your past that is...

It's funny you should mention buffy because the buffy rpg proves that you can have characters of differing power levels as pcs in the same group, and do it well. In the buffy and angel RPGS, PCs vary between slayer type superhumans(slayers, demons, spellcasters, ect), and more normal mortal...

In my opinion people pretending this is all subjective are the ones perpetuating the edition war.

Ladies and gentlemen, ignoring moderator warnings and doing your best to start edition wars gets you banned for a considerable time. I'll leave this post up as an example of what not to do. ~ PCat There's nothing bland about 4e. Like most of the criticisms leveled at 4e, this one is just an...

This is obviously nothing sinister and it's quite sad to see people pretending otherwise.

Honestly, with pazio's production values, I think they should really consider creating modular rules. There are many fantasy tropes not covered well by any of the popular systems, or only touched on- everything from kingdom management, to mass combat, to running your own religion. There are a...

I'd publish a bot9s for pathfinder. Fighters still badly need fixing and everybody knows it. We can handle life without pazio if it means life without 3e.

This is before my time and I might be wrong but IIRC the original post he made about the campaign was when he asked for advice about the situation- starting with somethng like "the paladin in my campaign wants to redeem a succubus".