Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4621409" data-attributes="member: 13966">Well, you're gimping the arcane side of the conflict, in any case.  Even the nature-casters are getting a better deal and seem like they'd be in a better position to become the second major power instead of the arcanists.  Especially since all those pagan demi-humans are likely to have plenty of rangers and perhaps druids in their midst, that might be persuaded into joining their druidic/rangerly comrades in some kind of coup against the Church and the arcanists (probably the latter first, to steal their goodies and then take on the Church).Hexblades suck, and both the Paladin and Ranger are better suited to supporting their factions in the conflict.  The arcanists have only primitive, mundane healing resources, so each one that gets injured is likely to die, either of infection or during combat because they can't use quick-healing magic in the heat of battle.  The best they can manage are some plundered potions, which aren't very effective.As kinda-broken as the Duskblade is, you might want to consider using it, just to balance things out a bit by giving the arcanists back their superior firepower, given their utter lack of healing magic.  Or just put Bards back in.Don't forget that undead may still be around from before the conflict, and that restless souls probably still become undead without any spellcasters interfering.And for replacing the abundance of magic items, you might add something like +1 dodge AC per 2 levels, +1 inherant bonus to an ability score every odd-numbered level past 1st (stacks up to a maximum of +5 to each score), +1 resistance on saving throws per 4 levels, +1 competence on attack rolls and physical damage per 5 levels, and that may just about do it, at least for replacing the common magic items that are expected in D&D.</blockquote>

Verification