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Everybody seems to have picked up a couple of levels... ...except Roy.

It all depends on what kinds of stories you want to tell. In case of Urbis, the setting is definitely "high-magic". After all, magic items are mass-produced here! But I don't think that necessarily has to cheapen magic. In this case, I see magic similar to technology in "Steampunk" settings -...

We've been working hard at the Arcana Wiki to improve on it, and here are some nifty new functions: * Random Page * Random Characters * Random Adventure Seeds * Random Crimes What do you think of these?

Interesting. There are probably quite a few things worth stealing there. While the primary influence of Urbis[ (and the Flannish Cities in particular) is 19th century Western Europe, parallels with the United States are probably also worth exploring. After all, the people of the Flannish Cities...

To be honest, when I created that city I had no idea that there was a real world city called "Dartmouth" - I came up with the name independently, and I envisaged it as a mixture of Victorian-era London (sans the British Empire) and Ankh-Morpork. But I guess I should add some more references to...

Dartmouth. It's a huge city with more than 1,600,000 inhabitants, supported by an ongoing magical industrial revolution. It's also intended to serve as a "home base" for the PCs. And its politics and government structure are messed up enough to give the PCs considerable freedom...

"She's in Greysky City" That. Was a moment of beauty.

I'm using Wikidot.Com, which is not only a very nifty wiki system, but also allows you to set whatever license you want for your wikis.

The press release reads to me like this release will be a campaign, not a campaign setting.

I use GIMP and Inkscape in combination with a graphics tablet - which makes drawing coastlines and other irregular shapes a lot easier.

Personally, I use Inkscape. Sure, it doesn't come with lots of premade objects like dedicated map-making programs. But it's free, fast, and the maps are easily scalable. I made this map with Inkscape, for instance.

Urbis is based on that theme, so you might want to take a look at it.

I like to use fantastic elements. But I also like plausible behavior in the people populating the setting. If there is something fantastic in the world, sooner or later people will figure out how to make use of it.

Out of curiosity, have you looked at Urbis? The setting addresses many of these issues...

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Remember that they can only do that for a single attack of an enemy, since it requires an interrupt. If the enemy can do multiple attacks, it is less effective. I'm playing a swordmage, and I'm enjoying it. He does less damage than other defenders, but on the other hand he has a much easier...

I think that a better question is to ask: "Are the game mechanics plausible within the genre conventions?" An over-the-top martial arts game has different assumptions than a gritty WWII campaign. I do not consider D&D - in any incarnation - to be "realistic". Yet that doesn't detract me from...

Amazon does have a problem with "reviewers" who never actually bought the product in question, however - so I'd take Amazon reviews with a grain of salt.

Personally, I would have asked if the time the three fiends control his soul has to be "used up" in one go... or if they can parcel it out in minor increments. If they each can control him for, say, sixty one-minute increments during the remainder of his lifespan, this could be very inconvenient.

Take a look at these deities I've created for Urbis. I tried to convey the sense that the worship of these deities changes over time, fulfilling different needs for different people in different time periods. They are still relatively sketchy, but any feedback you could give me to make them...