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Pretty much every attempt I've seen to make Gish or Gishlike character class has used the Fighter as the base and then added on spellcasting. Whether that's an Eldritch Knight in 5e or a 4e Swordmage or the massive variety of 3e Prestige Classes that require 3 levels of fighter and 3 of wizard...

Could you scry on someone with a +4 or +10 if you were in love with them? After all... your heart belongs to them. If someone said that at my table? I'd -absolutely- give them the +10. Any time someone uses representational magic to interact with arcane magic I'm -deeply- compelled to provide...

Or, at least, it wants all of it's characters to turn against their deities... Don't get me wrong! Shadowheart going from Evil Sharran to Good Selunite is totally reasonable and fair. It's certainly an interesting direction to take the character and provides an excellent story. Not harshing on...

So... rattling around in my brain for the past year and a little more is the idea of doing a fantasy western setting. There's -tons- of Pseudo-Medieval Europe settings, a fair few Steampunk Europe settings, and a couple "Outlier" concept settings like Eberron which really don't feel like they...

Since @Selganor suggested splitting it off into a separate thread, I'll go ahead and do that. And, first post, I'm posting some combat synergy ideas. Most of these rely on characters using an action to attack or cast a spell, or spending a reaction to initiate the synergy. Whether this is...

1) There would still be slavery and cannibalism. Heroic characters would not participate in Slavery or Cannibalism. They'd be the province of the wicked, the cruel, and the desperate. Mul would not be a "Slave Race", specifically. They would just be Mul. Thri-Kreen wouldn't be cannibalistic as...

... This might actually be great.

Okay... Pathfinder 2e might not be "Backwards Compatible" with D&D. But you know the ORC is going to have at least one 5e compatible Pathfinder alternate product. So who wants to run or play in a game with characters and enemies from all the 5e compatible games? Would it even work?

In the 5.1 SRD that just got released into the Creative Commons is a bunch of IP including Count Strahd von Zarovich, the Feywild, the Shadowfell, the City of Brass, Palace of Dispater, Street of Steel, Gate of Ashes, and the Sea of Fire. The beholder is also specifically referenced by name in...

So in the discord there was discussion of campaign settings and setting creation tools and an idea hit me that I think could be kinda great. But I'd like to touch base with the community on what your feelings are toward it: A Level Up Region Anthology. We take the regions of the Journey...

Last year, in May, Alta Fox did a big presentation for shareholders of Hasbro and tried really hard to push for new management for Hasbro. Specifically they argued that due to poor capital allocation the company was underperforming. They wanted to add 3 people of their choosing to the Hasbro...

So I'm looking at the 5e and Oe Clerics and... Honestly I'm not terribly impressed? Like... I kind of like that you get the choice of Holy Order to gain different benefits for different orders. Thaumaturgy is, for example, a really -neat- option, giving back a long-rest use on a short rest and...

On January 3rd, the Kickstarter will go live for Paranormal Power, my first ever book! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steampunkette/paranormal-power Paranormal Power for D&D 5e and Level Up Psionics rules with a modern sense of style and function, dreamlike qualities, and a flair for...

So hey! Yeah. Looking at doing a Psi-Dice based psionic release for my first solo-published work. Wanted to talk about it and the other writers I'm currently working with and ENPublishing aren't involved in it, so I'm torn on how to solicit feedback. Figured I'd come to y'all. I sort of posted...

Motif Classes Magical archers, shadow stepping thieves, and swift running spear masters all share a central conceit at the gaming table: They require the combination of multiple class concepts to flesh out in their entirety. In the past this has been handled by creating new whole classes devoted...

So, Wildstar. Glorious MMORPG from bygone days. Beautiful themes, gorgeous setting, oozing with character, great systems design... absolutely terrible endgame. It failed because Carbine Studios were former WoW Devs who felt WoW lost it's "Hardcore Raiding" style and wanted to make a new MMO...

So this is a thing that I thought up while working on a homebrew setting called Aetherstorm. Elves are the oldest race in practically every setting. They're generally the first to be created or one of the two or three "Elder Races" of a given world alongside Giants and Dragons or Dwarves and...

The Marble Border for Exandria Unlimited: Calamity is cracking over time, Now that's a cool little attention to detail, don't you think?

With a W based last name, I got my Quartermaster Logistics e-mail this morning requesting a confirmation of delivery address. They wanted a reply no later than May 31st. So us Americans should start getting our books in the next week or two!

Was looking around Conan Exiles servers to play and I found one that uses the Roleplay Redux character sheet mod with D&D style skill use. Only instead of Deception and Persuasion they have Convince. And I think it's a brilliant idea. Rolling to Convince feels more natural than rolling...