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Yeah, sorry about that. I meant a Xaleris Imperial Holding. I figured references to Nistadeen having special contact, mention of a Rebel Army in a land of a fading empire, and so forth made it clear. This place was once one of the heartland territories of Xaleris, sharing a direct border with...

"...resupply line to the eyrosian troops in Ventis..." Unless the Eyrosian troops were part of this contribution, there aren't any there. I mentioned a Rebel Army, which was a reference to a growing force of rebellion amongst the conquered states of Xaleris. *** If Xaleris is really close by...

A navy allows you to attack coastal settlements and defenses from the well-protected position of the water. It also allows you to use guerilla tactics against coastal lands. However, if you just want to send a few legions you can use leaky fishing scows. Actually, in one of the First Persian...

Just giving myself a public pat on the back for having recognized that before I got to this line. Very nice. It throws a bit of craziness into what was about to become a Stygia./

Not much more than 200,000 I think. If its too big, the Grand Monarch actually gains more power. I honestly don't particularly care what we do with the class-level dynamics. I never much liked that section. When it comes to magic, particularly, when it comes to magic, who says there's not...

Razina sounds remarkably familiar. I really enjoyed your "Diary of the Birth of a Campaign Setting" Are you trying to use that world again, or just the word? *** Kitchen-Sink settings are invariably less interesting to me. There is no single thing that is particularly special about it, since...

Here's my thoughts on numbers: Total Population of Eyros: ~8-12 million Total Population of Eyredyn: ~45-55 thousand Why? Two reasons. One, these numbers look good to me from a historical standpoint. Two, I think it fits the feel of the setting. Eyros feels like it should be massive. This...

The tag-line of AU magic is flexibility. The power curve on spells starts higher and ends weaker. Broad spell selection is the special advantage and focus of the Magister class.

There is some room to soften negative posts, but step two of creating any setting is deciding what it doesn't include (or what it includes only as a secret). If you allow everything, its really hard to differentiate a D&D-centric setting from every other. To me, the heaviest D&D-isms in the...

Rystil, those numbers look good. I say this as an amateur Rome-buf. *** Abisashi, you know those '== Heading ==' things? Well, in many wiki designs those create a simple link nearbye that lets you specifically edit that section. The section ends when another '==' or '=' comes after it. You...

I had a thought about this recently. "At character creation you can declare yourself a Finesse Fighter. This means you must apply your Dextery modifier instead of your Strength modifier, regardless of how they change over time." "Weapon Finesse is still available, and anyone who takes this...

I think the Creative Exercise style of development is pretty awesome. My primary RPG hobby is World Design*, so its kind of a novel experience to have other people changing the river's course on me mid-stroke. The number one key to these Creative Exercises is keep the pace up (with these...

We can have a general overmap, and additional continental maps. You weren't doing anything else, right ironregime? As the author of Bloodtooth's thing, I can clarify the point of what I intended. Basically, the Gnomes were powerful, creepy allies to the lords of the land. What follows I...

...I remember reading about a relay system somewhere.... :\

I updated the Wiki for Post #678 to #732 For the Arcaneum I used Sarellion's Post #683. Hope I didn't catch much duplication. Now that I've poked at it, this doesn't seem like the greatest Wiki variant for this kind of project. It could have some more convenient features, like heading-specific...

We've already had a lot of necromancy. While I like the idea of another strong foil, I think it would be more interesting if they had another specialty. Maybe instead of Necromancers, they are Transmuters who have immortal metallic bodies built for themselves when they reach a certain social...

I don't think C4-wired uniforms are the way to go either. Looking at the full development of the Praes Thanatos, they are 1) Magic Police, 2) Defenders against Strange Threats, 3) Deal with Elven Legacy Issues, 4) Have probably got the third or fourth largest army in their command, 5) Are...

Very interesting. The protector division would never survive the mysterious necromantic-induced deaths. The Praes Thanatos (particularly Thanatos) are obviously paranoid about spellcasters. Spellcasters powerful enough to mean something defensively would not be uncontrolled. As bureaucrats...

Looks like things picked up :) It is a secret, IIRC most Pillar members don't even know. New Contribution: New Haven controls a rocky island some 40 miles by 20. It is an open port- it does not look too closely at ships that journey to them, nor does it charge a fee for docking out in the...

I'll break silence for that. Most of what I've done are in areas that haven't been popular for direct discussion yet. And if anything gets quashed, I can usually twist it into history.