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Well, what would you need the material in the PHB2 for? For creating player characters, nothing else. If there are any NPCs in published adventures and whatnot that make use of powers listed in that book, then they will reprint the powers and include them directly in the NPC stat block. Leaving...

Why not? I mean, the ease of running high-level campaigns and statting high-level foes alone ought to attract a large number of people with lots of 3E experience...

I've played a fanatic Libertarian, a charismatic idiot, and a smooth-talking, upper-class swashbuckler. In real life, I am not even close to one of them. True, when I was a less experienced role-player, the characters often were fairly similar to me - but I'm gradually moving away from that. I...

I'm not so sure that it really was a winner - sure, you could accommodate other play styles, but the further it diverged from its origins the messier it tended to become. In many cases, it would have been more effective to use another system in the first place. A good example is playing races...

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Yeah, I know - I instigated that one. ;) Still, since I don't play 3.X any more, it's a fairly low priority for me at the moment - unless there are other people here who own a Kindle or other device capable of reading .prc files who might find it useful...

That has been my experience as well. D&D 3E was trying too hard to be a "generic fantasy" RPG, which the level-and-class structure of D&D doesn't really support well. 4E is a much more focused, tighter game which doesn't attempt to do as many things at once as the previous edition - but which...

Why should that be the case? So far, all NPCs have listed all their powers in detail without requiring any references to other books (another huge improvement over 3E). So even if a druid NPC shows up, there won't be any need to have the rules for druid PCs. All those fancy extended class...

I'm currently writing a bunch of Perl scripts which should make it fairly easy to turn wikis into ebooks readable by the Amazon Kindle. So I'm wondering: Which, in your opinion, are the best gaming-related wikis out there? And why do you consider them the best?

Core books, plus the two Forgotten Realms sourcebooks and the Manual of the Planes. I'm not really all that much interested in rules expansions, but I'm always up for some new and inspiring setting material.

I always thought that that redefinition was rather silly. So I will state that the core rules of 3.5 support druid player characters while the core rules of 4E don't. Though I do think that the 4E rules are the system that's more fun...

The math when creating both characters and NPCs is much, much simpler than in 3.X (remember, I am the guy who founded the d20 NPCs Wiki because I didn't want to waste so much time to create NPC stats). I was a bit worried that the reduced number of different powers would be less fun...

For those of you who own an Amazon Kindle, I've managed to convert the Arcana Wiki into a Kindle-readable ebook. You can download the result here. It's still a bit buggy, but it does seem to be functional...

I've ported the single most detailed region of all - the Flannish Cities. Not only does it have the "sample city" of Dartmouth, but also Praxus - the only city not actually developed by me, but by another fan of the setting! I hope more will join him in the future.

This is, of course, possible according to the rules. But since such an event will likely produce ongoing damage, you'd have to use Heavenly Guardian Defense ever second, and will soon run out of motes. Some high-Essence Resistance or Survival charms would make for a more sensible survival...

It's a fun system that, unlike many other games, really allows the PCs to follow their own ambitions, no matter how over-the-top they might be. But you have to work to make sure that each PC gets his own "spotlight time". Solar PCs may complement each other as members of a Circle, but it's...

I've developed my own version for Urbis. Basically eladrin are the "nobility" of the elves whose ancestors made a pact with some very powerful fey entities, and were blessed with their powers in exchange. The children of eladrin are ordinary elves - but the children of the elven noble houses are...

There are a couple of adventures out there... but really, Solar Exalted PCs are so ridiculously powerful that they will curb-stomp any attempts at directing the plot for them into submission. In D&D, it's fairly easy to entice the PCs with large sums of money. In Exalted, money loses some of...

I've finished porting the Eternal Storm section over - though I was reminded how incomplete this regional description is while doing so.

After more than a year, I have to admit that Eruvian.Com simply isn't working out as the home of Urbis. It had some great ideas - such as allowing other users to submit their own material - but for all intents and purposes the site now seems to be dead. So now I'm in the process of moving the...