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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psikus" data-source="post: 4946842" data-attributes="member: 66049">An interesting option would be to fill the setting with different, roaming tribes of savage humans in place of common humanoid monsters - so that you can use a variety of monster stats from the Monster Manual. Orcs would be a natural fit for your average barbaric tribe, whereas Hobgoblins would make more militaristic, organized cultures. Goblins and Kobolds might even be reskinned as small size (or maybe starving?) tribes, or possibly gangs of juvenile bandits. If you feel like it, you could even justify Ogres as huge humans.An important concern when levelling up will be replacing magic weapons, in order not to mess with the math of the game. You could have masterwork weapons with enhancenment bonuses, but most special abilities from magic items would be a hard sell. Maybe turning the weapon's magic enchantments into special training for the characters would work?Also, although martial classes are obviously well suited to the setting, you might consider reflavouring some classes from other power sources in order to add more variety. Barbarians translate very well to a non-magic enviroment, though their most supernatural rages would have to go. You shouldn't have much trouble with monks, either. Bards are slightly more complicated but definitely viable - you may need to get rid of their implement powers, or you could attempt to justify them, using only musical instruments as implements. As a final consideration, what would be the role of science in the game? Could a character get the Alchemy feat? It might be too difficult to do, but a completely technological, Da Vinci- style Artificer could make a really cool PC...</blockquote>

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