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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 3514146" data-attributes="member: 2795"><p>Hello. I'm in the loooong-term planning process for my next D&D campaign. One of my goals will be to cut out the problem of book bloat, by which I mean having a list of "core" books longer than Paris Hilton's rap sheet. No <em>Complete</em> [fill-in-blank] (I mean, seriously, how complete, for example, could <em>Complete Divine</em> be if there's now a companion volume offering more divine-completeness?), no <em>PH</em> [attach most current Roman numeral], et cetera.</p><p></p><p>At the same time, I want to offer a wide variety of class choices, but all on my own terms, compiled into a single PDF document. To this end, I'm riveting together the various <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/indexes/variantClasses.htm" target="_blank">variant classes</a> found at <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/index.htm" target="_blank">d20SRD.org</a> into a coherent whole.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, some of the OGC names are generically dull. For example, a "divine bard" just doesn't sound neat-o enough for me, so I renamed it cantor. ("Bardic sage" becomes just a sage, paladin of freedom becauses a liberator, et cetera.) Unfortunately, I can't think of good renames for these:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#bardVariantSavageBard" target="_blank">Savage Bard</a></p><p><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#druidVariantDruidicAvenger" target="_blank">Druidic Avenger</a></p><p><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#rangerVariantPlanarRanger" target="_blank">Planar Ranger</a></p><p><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#rangerVariantUrbanRanger" target="_blank">Urban Ranger</a></p><p></p><p>The variant options which simply swap out class features I envision of descriptives applied to the modified class. For example, a barbarian using the variant that applies ranger class features in place of certain barbarian class features is called a huntsman. Here's the ones I can't get a good rename for:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#bard" target="_blank">Bard Variant</a></p><p><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#druid" target="_blank">Druid Variant</a></p><p><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#fighter" target="_blank">Fighter Variant</a></p><p><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#monk" target="_blank">Monk Variant</a></p><p><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#ranger" target="_blank">Ranger Variant</a></p><p><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#rogue" target="_blank">Rogue Variant</a></p><p></p><p>Suggestions?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Chance, post: 3514146, member: 2795"] Hello. I'm in the loooong-term planning process for my next D&D campaign. One of my goals will be to cut out the problem of book bloat, by which I mean having a list of "core" books longer than Paris Hilton's rap sheet. No [i]Complete[/i] [fill-in-blank] (I mean, seriously, how complete, for example, could [i]Complete Divine[/i] be if there's now a companion volume offering more divine-completeness?), no [i]PH[/i] [attach most current Roman numeral], et cetera. At the same time, I want to offer a wide variety of class choices, but all on my own terms, compiled into a single PDF document. To this end, I'm riveting together the various [url=http://www.d20srd.org/indexes/variantClasses.htm]variant classes[/url] found at [url=http://www.d20srd.org/index.htm]d20SRD.org[/url] into a coherent whole. Unfortunately, some of the OGC names are generically dull. For example, a "divine bard" just doesn't sound neat-o enough for me, so I renamed it cantor. ("Bardic sage" becomes just a sage, paladin of freedom becauses a liberator, et cetera.) Unfortunately, I can't think of good renames for these: [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#bardVariantSavageBard]Savage Bard[/url] [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#druidVariantDruidicAvenger]Druidic Avenger[/url] [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#rangerVariantPlanarRanger]Planar Ranger[/url] [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#rangerVariantUrbanRanger]Urban Ranger[/url] The variant options which simply swap out class features I envision of descriptives applied to the modified class. For example, a barbarian using the variant that applies ranger class features in place of certain barbarian class features is called a huntsman. Here's the ones I can't get a good rename for: [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#bard]Bard Variant[/url] [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#druid]Druid Variant[/url] [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#fighter]Fighter Variant[/url] [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#monk]Monk Variant[/url] [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#ranger]Ranger Variant[/url] [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#rogue]Rogue Variant[/url] Suggestions? [/QUOTE]
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