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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 2852288" data-attributes="member: 35678">Well, tonight I was chillin with my two best friends and fellow D&D players. I told 'em it wasn't to continue our Tomb of Horrors campiagn (which us three have been going through with maybe another person from time to time) - in fact it is going to be something completely different.We were going to create a world.We got some basic ideas down, nothing spectacular since we only had maybe an hour and a half (I am planning on sleeping sometime to go to work at 7 am tomorrow morning) but we got some ideas cranked out.It's going to be "Classical Fantasy" - so Tolkienesque. We also want some PC monster races in there too (which I am already okay with the concept, so long as SS progressions are used).We want it to be set in a Middle Ages time - say 1400 CE in Earth terms. So standard D&D time, in essence.Then I brought up the big bad one - magic. Low? High? Stanadrd? None? Wide? What do we want? This got us into a discussion. One of the guys loves his wizards. Wizards, undead and dragons. But especially wizards. So he wants magic in there still. My other friend is kinda indifferent. Me, I really like Elements of Magic and kept suggesting that, saying that it's so much better  than the core system, and you can build whatever sort of spell you want - which makes it superior to the core system. This wins over friend #1, and interests number 2. Me, myself, I like Low magic camapign setting, but I really like the elegance of Elements of Magic. Then I remebered about seeing a wiki that combinds Iron Hereos with Elements. BINGO! I begin to persuade my players that this is a Good Idea (tm). And it worked. I explains that in Iron Hereos, you don't ahve any magic items - you ahve your brawn and your wits to keep you going. I explained they have Feat Masteries, and freind #2 was like *drool* Power Attack Mastery *drool*. I explained we could combine Iron Heroes and Elements of Magic into one system, adn this had friend number 1 drooling along the other guy. I explained Skill Groups, and they seemed intrigued. I explained that there are no alignments to metagame about, and they were excited. I explained that when you play Iron Heroes, you aren't playing Alternate D&D - you are playing Iron Heroes - and frankly, they seemed to fall in love with the concept.And to have them excited, as a DM who likes to please, is very pleasing. And they are going to help develop a co-operative campaign setting to play in. And they are going to help make gods and goddeses, monsters, and learn not one but two new d20 systems all at once.I am excited, to say the least <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Just thought I'd share a cool experience with you folks. BTW, if anyone has the link to that IH/EoM wiki availiable, that'd be better than great <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Thanks guys for listening to that rave, but I am a very happy woldbuilder/DM right now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I never thoguht they'd actually be excited to try a new system, and they ar trying out two! I'm all smiles <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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