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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thorgrim Sekkrhrafn" data-source="post: 5778476" data-attributes="member: 54900">Character Creation Races HumanElfHighDrowWood/SylvanHalf-Elf (multiple builds for racial combinations beyond simply human/elf)DwarfMountainDeep/DuergarHalf-Dwarf/Mul (multiple builds for racial combinations beyond simply human/dwarf)GnomeHalflingHalf-OrcPlanetouched (Tiefling/Aasimar/Genasi)Modron (yes, I said it) Stats StrengthIntelligenceWisdomDexterityConstitutionCharismaComelinessYes, split CHR back up again, grognards! Looks and personal magnetism, though related, are not the same thing. Most fuse the two and handwave it away to fluff descriptions but, truly, I think this works the best. I’m probably the only guy carrying the torch for the stat since Unearthed Arcana, but… Classes WarriorKnightBarbarianWarrior=semi-skilled, generic fighter. Knight=Paladin/cavalier-like, with or without alignment restrictions, depending on the build. Barbarian=Conan and Beowulf MageIllusionistSorcererWarlockMage=generic magic-user. Illusionist=specialist. Sorcerer=as per 3E/3.5E. Warlock=as per 3E/4E; YMMV ClericMonk RogueAssassinBard PsionPsychic Warrior (or Battlemind, whichever sounds better) In my judgment, psionics and epic play should be part of the core rules from the get-go but should also be the topics of additional supplements later on down the line. Epic play should be more 3E-ish than 4E and I’d do away with the whole notion of ‘tiers’ entirely. You start hitting ‘epic’ at the 21st level and keep on going. No upper limits. No enforced retirement. Dimly-viewed destinies if you like but the idea that we need a mechanical end for gameplay and we’ve got to shoehorn it into the game is, IMO, a mistake. Cosmology should be a modified Great Wheel but leave the details for another supplement later on. Suffice to say, Sigil should be the centre of things. Bring back more serious aspects of starjamming (no giant space hamsters, please) as the ‘glue’ to link various worlds/settings together. It might not be enough to make it a setting book but you might be able to squeeze a small supplement of crunch/fluff on the conceptual framework (crystal spheres, starjamming itself…) Later supplements should bring back the Oriental Adventures side of things. We need a good Eastern setting-style set of mechanics but we should define it wider than the Japan/China/Korea templates we’ve used thus far. It should encompass all of the basic Asian sources, including South Asia (Indian subcontinent) and Central Asia (the ‘Stans). I’m not sure we need to bring back an Arabian Adventures styled setting but you can get touches of it by pulling in Central Asian themes into a new OA.</blockquote>

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