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Thanks again for the suggestions. I’ll have to do a wiki-crawl on the Inuit; I already mined the Wikipedia entry on Sherpas when I was designing the Mountaineer class. I hadn’t considered geothermal. What would the temperature be like in a fairly shallow mine (no more than a mile deep) in an icy nor...

I recently finished a campaign that divulged a lot of historic events with dates attached to them. This campaign will take place in the same world but it is so far removed geographically, that nothing has to "mesh" just yet. I do plan on having several seemingly unrelated campaigns eventua...

This class started out as a bard knock off with a penchant for languages and without the music theme. What I wound up with was a sort of Bene Gesserit diplomancer that I'm quite pleased with. This class is meant to be good at social challenges, adequate at stealth and feckless in combat. To enforce ...

The basic design tenets are to be fairly resilient to physical abuse, able to perform all manner of non-damaging but useful attacks in combat (disarm, sunder, grapple, etc.), able to sneak, climb and survive AND to have a moonshine vat's worth of colorful flavor. This class would be the only one cap...

First off, I borrowed heavily from Frank's Fire Mage class in designing the class below. I also stole his layout design. Thanks for both. [br][br]I would also like to take this time to reiterate that this campaign will feature less combat than the normal dungeon spelunker of a campaign. As such, hav...

I'm preparing to run an adventure in a frigid and mountainous region that has been under the effects of an artificially created ice age for about 300 years. I have worked up three new character classes that my players can use which are suited to the setting. They're a pretty inquisitive lot so I ant...

Hello forum dwellers. I'm preparing to run a campaign in a frigid, Ukraine-along-the-Urals-esque location but I'm from central Texas so I don't trust my instincts when it comes to ad-libbing that scene. [br][br]Basically, the region (then largely uninhabited) enjoyed a gold rush of sorts which led t...

I have pretty geeky taste in music, which I listen to at work. I also hit up this forum occasionally during work (shhhh). So I'm going to spread the wealth and, in the spirit of discovery, I urge all of you to plug your favorite geek-culture music too. I’m gonna start with this song by Jonathan Coul...

As far as transhumanism goes (a movement I happen to identify myself with), Ray Kurzweil predicts in his latest book "The Singularity is Near" that the technological singularity should happen in 2045 (give or take a little). If that holds true than that should help out significantly.[br][b...

I've read a lot of the political discussions on this forum and I'm in agreement that our brazenly capitalistic ways are detrimental in the long term. However, I started reading up on planned economies and thinking of it critically and I am not convinced that its really the right way to go. To clarif...

No, the guy with two short swords, armor spikes, and boot blades gets +3/+3/-2/-2 to his attacks. The more weapons he adds the more attacks he HAS to make meaning the larger the penalty he gets overall. Plus, its unlikely a character's armor spikes or bootblades are going to be all that powerful. Se...

First off, know that I am using Spiderman 3 as my main example only because it is fresh in our minds. This is meant to be about American movies in general, without becoming specifically "Why Spiderman 3 sucked". It's possible that people have a re-envisioning of a specific story in mind an...

A small thing I noticed is that a Master Thrower gains "Insightful Strike" at 4th level but 4 of the 5 bonuses of that feat only apply to melee attacks. Since the Master Thrower's code of conduct require he rarely if ever enter into melee combat this blunts the real advantage of gaining th...

Why does Hollywood produce bad movies?[br][br]I watched Spiderman 3 over the weekend and had my fandom bruised. Its no big deal, every time a piece is readapted there’s always the chance it’ll be maladapted. The fact that a movie based on a comic sucked isn’t what baffled me, it’s the fact that the ...

Here’s my interpretation of the spirit of the RAW:[br][br]You have a hydra with N heads and each head is autonomous. They can attack independently of one another and die independently of one another. Since this is a pyrohydra each head can also breathe a jet of flame independent of one another. What...

Sorry for the thread reanimation (though it seems fitting considering) but I have some questions that don’t really bear a thread of their own. [br][br]Putting aside the issue of societal and diplomatic organization for the moment I’d like to focus on how an aspiring dark merchant lord can get the mo...