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Thanks for the input and encouragement! I like your idea very much. It might be a tad bit more "big picture" than I want to go right now (Ray Winninger's First Rule of Dungeoncraft: "Never force yourself to create more than you must."). However, while I'm going to force myself not to consider...

Funny, my group just played Star Wars Saga edition the other night, and a similar charge issue came up. The concern was that you could disengage from melee and then charge the enemy you were just fighting. The next day the GM asked the group by e-mail whether he should house-rule it. Here was my...

I have four players, which is probably about the standard. We try to play weekly, but real life frequently intervenes and on average we play bi-weekly. So I'm hoping that as the subscribing DM, I'll get at least 8 passes per month (16 would be ideal). If it's anything less than 8 free passes, I...

Good stuff, Shayuri. I like the mercenaries ----> raiders bit, perfectly reasonable. Also, given that 200 years have passed since dragonborn raiders first settled Ildur, some of those raiders may have turned back into --------> mercenaries. It would make sense that a city-state struggling to...

More on Player Races and Settlements of Ildur I just finished reading an excerpt from Wizards Presents: Worlds and Monsters. I'll paste a portion of it here that discusses the typical human-dominated D&D world: If you examine all the campaign settings produced for the D&D game, each is unique...

Points of Light As Religious Symbol I was looking for a nice iconic symbol for the monotheistic, monastic faith described herein above. Thanks to input from Jack of Tales and Shayuri, I think I've settled on the candle. It works perfectly in a Points of Light setting -- after all, a candle is...

[Reserved] I royally screwed up the formatting of this post and accidentally double-posted ... can't see how to delete this post, so I'll just reserve this slot for a future entry.

Jack -- Ildur is just one little spot in the campaign world. I'm developing it first because it is the PCs' homebase, but I fully expect the PCs to leave this little remote archipelago in search of bigger, better things by the time they are 5th level or so. It should be a relatively simple...

Jack of Tales: I'd be honored if you work Ildur into your game. Once I have enough ideas together, and within a week or two of the initial 4E release, I'm going to send my players a PDF Player's Guide along the lines of what Paizo has done for some of their adventure paths. If you want, I'll get...

Ildur: "There is nothing that glitters in this house..." Over in the Plots & Places section of the Boards, I'm developing a PoL homebase on an island chain based on the real-world Faroe Islands. Thread here. Here's a thumbnail sketch: Ildur is a roughly arrowhead shaped archipelago of 18...

I'm at a loss ... all I can say is ... flippin' awesome! Or, in what seems to be the current parlance of the interwebs, "you are made of win." I'm going to steal that virtually wholecloth ... might end up exchanging the angel for some other effect, might not, but the flavor, wow ... just wow. I...

Awesome! First, I love your suggestion that this religion flourishes because it takes the "common person" approach and shuns the elitism of other religions. That is excellent, and I definitely intend to use that! In this religion, there are no high priests demanding tribute to keep their dark...

I'm in Florida, and most of my group is in Texas, so we will be playing online via Fantasy Grounds or maybe the DDI gaming table, depending on how that product turns out. I've got a group of four, but I may actually be able to accommodate one more ... of course, then you would have to stop...

Interesting thoughts and material in this thread. I too am working on my own 4E homebrew. So far, I'm focusing on the PCs' homebase, an isolated island chain which works well as a "point of light." You can check it out -- and offer input -- here: Into The Mystic .

Assorted Fallout I'll keep posting, and hope that eventually someone takes interest and lends some input! If nothing else, this is a good way to organize my thoughts. A few thoughts for today: (1) Name Change: While I love the name Eydun (pronounced Aidan), I think it is probably a better...

Religion -- God Wanted, Apply Within! I like the idea that faith is a bit mysterious. While there are clerics with divine powers, there is room for debate as to the source of these powers. I also like the idea of a relatively new monotheistic faith spreading the lands. An important, and fairly...

This is a great thread -- I'm continuously amazed by the creativity of DMs out there. I've undertaken a similar endeavor, constructing a 4E "points of light" campaign following the excellent rules and guidelines found in Ray Winninger's old "Dungeoncraft" articles. I posted it over in the...

Location: Mjorki The first location I've created near the PCs' homebase of Tanavik is a small, uninhabited, mist-enshrouded island named Mjorki by the dwarves. The southern 1/3 of the island is sheer cliff, with the rest rising to a mountain. Getting ashore is difficult, and can be performed...

Edit: Previously, I detailed a situational campaign hook and storyline here. I've decided to ditch the huge, overarching campaign story. For this campaign, I'd like my players to be heavily involved in the direction the campaign takes, and I don't want to try to railroad them down an "adventure...