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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1847535" data-attributes="member: 6533">Hmmm,       Very very important to have viable sailor and rider classes.  Also, summoning based classes are a nice touch.  Barbers, beggars, and artificers.  Merchants. Various types of foriegners.  I'd very much like to see a cypher for Byzantines or Arab Christians for instance.  Mmmm, Mamelukes and slave warriors.         I didn't mind the kit based mechanic for Al-Quadim, particularly since it was mostly a full conversion of the classes involved.  Oriental Adventures had a pretty good take on how to use the classes from the Core Book with new classes, though I think they tried to make too much viable.        I'd also like to see it try to base itself more on the historical and literary medieval middle-east rather than tieing itself too specifically to one culture.  I actully think Al-Quadim did that pretty well, but making it explicit never hurts.  It's such a huge and awesome fantasy geography that I don't know why you would limit yourself unnecessarily.  Not too mention there would have to be a lot of DnDisms.        Civilized and enlightened animals are something I would like to see.  They showed up once in Al-Quadim and left a big impression on me.        The need to develop a strong and unique mythological history for the setting could not be overemphasized.  The divine and supernatural should not be split, save perhaps on a character level, and should be a very present part of the history.  Though honestly I think that's something most DnD games should do.One Thing Al-Quadim did not do well was having too vague an idea of the other.  It compromised the cosmopolitan feel of the setting in a totally needless way to have kits like the generic Ajami foriegner and to bland barbarian mercenary wandering around.</blockquote>

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