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  1. Cam Banks

    Aasimar are now . . . Devas.

    And if the folks at WotC aren't pronouncing this word "dey-vuh" they should be. Cheers, Cam
  2. Cam Banks

    Aasimar are now . . . Devas.

    I think it's a perfectly fine name for the race. It certainly jibes with their whole eladrin = magical fey elves change, and indicates that powerful devas, much like powerful eladrin, are more like the celestial beings of older editions. This also means they're the fifth race in the PHB...
  3. Cam Banks

    Legend of Zelda Campaign Setting?

    All I can think of these days when I see Zelda is the Legend of Neil. It's one approach, certainly... Cheers, Cam PS: Hi Sandeep!
  4. Cam Banks

    [Margaret Weis Productions] Serenity Adventures eBook now available!

    We got banged up pretty good, but we're still flyin'! Serenity Adventures will be in stores soon, but fans of eBook/PDF versions can go ahead and enjoy five new tales of adventures set in the 'Verse right now! Download a preview or purchase your copy of this product right here! Cheers, Cam
  5. Cam Banks

    [Margaret Weis Productions] Cortex System Generic Character Sheet and Rules Primer!

    Get ready for the release of the Cortex System Role Playing Game core book by downloading this character sheet and rules primer. Create an axe-wielding barbarian, a psychic alien, or a cigar-smoking gumshoe—or anything else you can think of with our flexible, story-focused game engine! Download...
  6. Cam Banks

    GenCon Product Release 2008: A Compiled List

    That's our next big release, after GenCon. :) Cheers, Cam
  7. Cam Banks

    [Margaret Weis Productions] Cortex System RPG Preview: TRACE

    Check out one of the example mini-campaigns and get a preview peek at content for the Cortex System Role Playing Game core book! Play a team of law enforcement officers in the corrupt, dangerous Cortez City, or use these ideas to create a procedural police drama campaign of your very own...
  8. Cam Banks

    GenCon Product Release 2008: A Compiled List

    Margaret Weis Productions plans on having the long-awaited Serenity Adventures and the Cortex System RPG available at GenCon this year. We'll also have all of our other stuff, and Margaret will be signing round the clock! Cheers, Cam
  9. Cam Banks

    Thunderspire Labyrinth

    So do the duergar grow big? Is there an equivalent to the Enlarge Person ability they had in older editions? Cheers, Cam
  10. Cam Banks

    New name for "gish"? (forked from Character Concepts: Gish and Teleporter Mage)

    Whoops. I think this is a lot of comments hurled from bunkers, personally. "You clearly hate it because of X!" This is neither intuitive nor implied from the thread so far. Cheers, Cam
  11. Cam Banks

    New name for "gish"? (forked from Character Concepts: Gish and Teleporter Mage)

    Oh yeah. That's what it is. Only, not it isn't. Cheers, Cam
  12. Cam Banks

    New name for "gish"? (forked from Character Concepts: Gish and Teleporter Mage)

    "Gish" is not intuitive. It may seem that way to somebody who uses it all the time, but it isn't intuitive at all. Fighter-mage or warrior-mage or any other compound phrase conveys much more to me. It also doesn't help that people can't agree on what one is. I've had people try to say that it's...
  13. Cam Banks

    "Shinies!" "Didn't we ban kender?"

    Not any setting book I had a part of. Banishing painful stereotypes was one of the key aims for the 3.5 Dragonlance sourcebooks. Races of Ansalon, in particular, attempts to present all races, even so-called comic relief races, as viable and enjoyable members of a party. If you read our stuff...
  14. Cam Banks

    [Margaret Weis Productions] Castlemourn Cortex Free RPG Day Download

    We wanted to show off the Cortex System's flexibility for Free RPG Day 2008, so we took a great adventure by content author Clark Valentine, written for Ed Greenwood's Castlemourn setting, and adapted it to our favorite rules system. Download it right here to get an adventure, pre-generated...
  15. Cam Banks

    So, what did all the cool RPG designers do, originally?

    I graduated from Waikato University in Hamilton, New Zealand, with a degree in counseling and ethics. I spent over a decade in retail and supervisory roles, mostly involving books. At one time I ran a gaming store. I spent 6 months working as a project manager at a startup company after the...
  16. Cam Banks

    Fantasy fonts: what is closest to the warhammer fantasy fonts?

    Caslon Antique does a very good job of it. I've also got a lot of use out of a couple of other fonts: Hultog and Chapbook. I used those extensively when running my Elizabethan D&D campaign several years ago. Cheers, Cam
  17. Cam Banks

    Questions for Scott and Linae

    I only have one question, although it's related to some of the others already listed. 1. Can we add or change racial abilities or traits for races that are specific to a campaign setting? For instance, Dragonlance elves are divided into subraces that do not exactly match the elf/eladrin split...
  18. Cam Banks

    SRD Question (for Scott or Linae): 4e References or just Section Headings?

    Well, we don't really need to change dwarves too much. We'd add a Dark Dwarf race to cover Theiwar and Daergar, and Gully Dwarves of course. Interestingly, Ansalon's elves are now located in two chief locations, across the continent from each other: Gilthas and his united elven refugees in...
  19. Cam Banks

    SRD Question (for Scott or Linae): 4e References or just Section Headings?

    So then the question raised is, can you use aspects of those defined rules when designing new races? The Kagonesti are almost identical to the 4e Elf, for instance. Could I simply say "In the world of Krynn, the elven race described in the 4E Player's Handbook is known as the Kagonesti" and then...
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    SRD Question (for Scott or Linae): 4e References or just Section Headings?

    I'm having a hard time understanding the difference between redefine and adding to. Dragonlance has elves that are not fey, for instance. Their version of the eladrin—high elves, likely the Silvanesti for instance—don't teleport. Is removing the fey origin and so forth a redefinition? What...
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