New World Musings

I've been thinking about my campaign world a bit more, thinking about the shape of it, the days in the year, the types of classes I want in the game, things like that. Most of the core classes from 3.5 translate perfectly into this setting, though I'll have to use the alternate rule system for the defense skill, since armor usage isn't very common and I don't want players getting hosed ten minutes into a session. I'll probably drop the spellcasting from the Ranger class and either up its hit die to a d10, give it more skill points, or give it some other little ability to make up for the loss of magic. The Sorcerer is being melded with the Favored Soul and I'm making a sort of "Shaman" class out of it, not too sure about the intricacies just yet, but I'm thinking of elemental masteries and a unique spell list. Duskblades will be in the game, but I'll probably just call them Mage Knights or Swordmages or something along those lines. The Blackguard prestige is coming out since I'm making a Dark Knight base class which is basically the Paladin of Tyranny from the Unearthed Arcana, perhaps with a little more flavor to it. Swashbucklers are a perfect fit for the world, but there is no culture in the world that even remotely resembles Asia, so the Wu Jen, Shugenja and Samurai are not going to be playable, though there is the possibility that I'll use the Nezumi (rat people) race in the game.

There's other stuff, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Thank you and good night!