Recent content by Faolyn

That's true. Dragons are hard. I'm currently doing prep for a game that I'll run... eventually. When I'm further along, I'll take a look at LU monsters again.

I honestly don't know. I'm finding myself preferring lighter systems, and worrying that Level Up is quickly becoming bloated (in terms of 3pp material, not official). I know that most people aren't putting out monsters. I'll think about it. There are more to do; I just need to find the energy...

I don't think you're using the term noir correctly. What Eberron has is film noir--it's set in the equivalent of the 30s, after all. No other setting actually does that.

...but Eberron already has tech is magic. It's full of tech is magic. I mean, it has trains powered by elementals, for goodness' sake.

I think that if I were to do a 6e, I'd bring that back. I'd really try to figure out what each tier of play was supposed to be for and try to bake that into character progression. Heck, now that I think about it, I could see having an option for the game to "stop" at that level while still...

At least with the Realms, there's an apocalypse every new edition few decades or centuries which can be extrapolated as setting technology back a bit.

There could easily be a house rule where the GM can compel the PC by letting them use their experience for free. I'm not sure that Never Back Down is something that would need to be compelled, though, or challenged in chargen. In the D&D game I'm in, my swashbuckler character has the Flaw of...

Is this for that 6e project you were on, for D&D, or for Level Up? (Good luck with the meds!)

What do you consider the "Eberron approach" to be? For myself: the setting is OK but not really my jam. I prefer (my own interpretation of) Ravenloft.

Depending on how this is worked out, this could be very helpful in the monster department. I'm looking at monsters from 3x and there's a lot of that "monster's favored class is rogue" type of thing. Only back then, you'd have to spend a bunch of time statting up a monster with rogue levels and...

Well (in case I wasn't as clear as I thought), I meant like "animal person" with traits done like those of a shifter, rather than an actual shifter, so you pick "Vicious Predator: Get claws and fangs as natural weapons that inflict 1d6 piercing (bite) or slashing (claw) damage" and then decide...

Here you could simply do a generic animal folk. Take a look at how Ebberon's Shifters are done. Instead of doing each individual type of animal as a different type of Shifter (wolf-shifter, deer-shifter), they're divided up into rough types (beasthide, wildhunt) and the player choses one. It's...

Thanks! :D I hope they come in handy.

Good monsters can become enemies, either by changing their alignment or by having an opposing viewpoint that goes against the party's. Law vs. chaos is one way to do that. Also, evil PCs may want to fight good monsters.

Whereas I always took "roll play" to mean people who only ever did what was on their sheet and never tried to actually play as their character, just as a bag of meaningless stats. My table, when playing D&D, gets very deep into character, and most of our interactions with the world are social...