The idea of an "Ascension of Men" campaign has been floating around my mind. The idea being man* is still a 'young' race and the world is an uncivilized and hostile place ( Read more... )

We recently got a lot of Malhavoc artwork framed and hung up. A friend was looking at it and said she could tell that it was from our books because the women were sensibly dressed.
- Monte Cook ( source)

4e Excel Character Sheet - much nicer than the previous version I posted, includes both sides of the sheet, and some automated calculation.

It's been a bit since I post last, it seems. The week has been a nice mix of crappy, terrible, and depressing.

( A rough week at work... )

More bard thoughts.

I've been thinking over my custom Bard class for Arcana EvolvedWith respect to some of my previous comments on bardic music, I realize the implementation I have sucks, and really needs tweaking. One of those is the Perform check used to activate/maintain bardic music ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about bards. According to the "rules", it's impossible to do just about anything but attack while singing a bardic song.

How unbalanced would it be to just flat-out lift that restriction, allowing a bard to use bardic music while casting spells or using magic items? Or, perhaps make it just a concentration or perform check?

Hmm, interesting minor tweak to stock d&d. Caster classes can choose their primary Spell casting stat from a limited list, something like ( Read more... )

So, I'm looking for a relatively lightweight RPG system. Not -quite- as lightweight as The Window, but not as heavy as D&D and such.

Any suggestions?

So I'm rolling up a druid for megalomanicamie's boyfriend's DND campaign and I'm reminded of something vaguely amusing and annoying ( Read more... )

Monte Cook never ceases to impress me, with his game design theory. I really want to try this out now.