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I've made up an equation for speedy contributing with this model. You need 1.5*n + 1 contributing posters, where n is the number of posts between a single person's contributions. Thus, four contributions between us means we really need seven people somewhat active to keep the rhythm up. Right...

Bump Come on folks, I have five Contributions all written out, and I'm one short of becoming a Scholar!

You can use it side by side. I have no desire to. I have always hated Vancian magic. I'm not constrained by an active campaign though. Another great effect of AE's magic that Odhanan skirted the edges of was spellcaster uniqueness. By 20th level most wizard statblocks are very boringly...

Maloria? Are you sure? 'Cause Mallorea sounds more like armies of darkness than a library to me.

Um, isn't it the destiny of all the first-generation Half-Orcs in the chosen Heir Pillar to be executed when the Grand Monarch dies? The Senate must get a little raucous around that time if they're all present and authoritative. New Contribution: Elven monuments were either made from...

Kaillo was never unstable when conscious. For this to get out with his name on it would require research in his dreams that he jotted down in the morning (in his child-like state) or communication to someone in his noncorporeal state. Kaillo, and the reverie thing in general, was a sort of...

Thanks for the Pillar summary, Rystil. Oh, and I finally read the Dogmas post. Good stuff. That clarifies it immensely. Over the centuries, the Orcs traditions in Eyros have been distinctly watered down, and rebuilt to suite the sensibilities of all the races. While Orc dominance maintains...

OA makes use of Sense Motive to estimate the comparative combat strength of other characters relatively quickly. It even allows you to estimate their total attack bonus with their main weapon. In my experience, giving out specific numbers, or even number ranges, is too meta-gamy. It snaps...

I agree. However, certain things have gotten so long that I'm leery of wading in to the reams of international politics, mythology, & demons. There's just so much there that I never really absorbed. And that's someone who spent the time to catch up from page 1 when the thread was 11 pages...

Telas' Hideous Laughter. Awesome. Its been a busy day here. I was going to make some comments, but I'll let sleeping dogs lie. I will say Rystil that you've got good stuff, but doing things like Dogmas for every faith is more probably more than a single contribution. Sounds like the Blue...

I tried to imply Aekalda's spell was a strange combination of empowered insanity and divine (or at least external) will. Cururultar sounds a bit limited in subtlety to have empowered the spell. However, it might be the power of the spell that manipulated him into being the instrument that...

You're absolutely right. One creation myth is ridiculous. We need five. Actually, one thing we don't have yet is dogma or ceremonial practices formalized for a lot of these faiths, just political role and organizational goals. I'll stick that on my contribution agenda. BTW: I never said it...

Hmm. I didn't realize there was a big mountain range to the west. I only saw the map once for a couple minutes, so its kind of hard for me to place it. The idea was that the mountains blocked a convenient direct trade-route, or route to a great natural resources or something. In other words...

More important than not adding deities to the setting is that by defining them, and writing down cosmic law you highlight it. Part of having a setting with no known deities is that you don't want to draw attention to any truths along those lines. You want to leave it as mysterious to the...

Hard to justify? I guess financially its a little harder. They don't seem to care. More power to them.

The Blue Mountains are in western Eyros. They are a gray-blue color on account of being covered in massive deposites of slate and shale. The locals have a confused legend of many variations, but it basically boils down to "Long and long ago, a mighty storm rained and thundered across the land...

A lot of the people I know like Shadowrun in large part because it is not d20. Particularly, that it is not class based and all skill-based. But a d20 Shadowrun would definitely have gotten some good sales.

I run house-ruled 3x. I run house-ruled AU. I don't mix them. I see no reason too. While they can be used together, and were designed to, they are also different games and I use them as such. My 3x games are for lower-magic stuff, spellcasting is generally minimally or not available to PCs...

I've played a half dozen games with two characters, and I can say its a great game. Its a particularly nice change of pace to D&D. In a sense everything I find wrong in D&D is right in Shadowrun, and vice versa. That's why I've been working on a hybrid system of the two. Maybe I'll even go...

Well, one thing to consider is how much of a System Lord are they. There are minor lords, and pretty galaxy-spanning powerful ones. System Lords control one or more systems. If a given System Lord was particularly bright, at least at recognizing and heading off threats, you'd expect he would...