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Dungeons & Dragons Game Mastering World of Malune

Dynamic Affiliations 4E

I mentioned a while ago that I was thinking about adapting the rules for dynamic affiliations from D&D 3.5’s Player’s Handbook II for use in my 4E campaign. My goal is to help differentiate paragon tier by giving the player characters mechanics to represent a wider scope of influence. The last post I wrote on affiliations […]

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Dungeons & Dragons Game Mastering

An Alternative to Death

His body numb, Rasper could do little as the lacedons dragged him away from his friends. Ren, a changeling sorcerer that had joined the party a short while ago, used one of her spells to pull the halfling out of the undead’s grasp, but within a few seconds the predators were pulling him away again. […]

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Gamma World

Archetype Origins: Wanderer

  This is another Gamma World origin designed around a character archetype rather than a mutation. You can see the other origins in the series here. The last archetype in my original list of 8 is the wanderer, which I originally summed up as someone who had “seen the world and learned more than most.” […]

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Gamma World

Archetype Origins: Scientist

This is another Gamma World origin designed around a character archetype rather than a mutation. You can see the other origins in the series here. When I first proposed my list of planned archetype origins and published the Survivor origin, Adam Minnie was inspired by the idea and started work on a Scientist origin. The […]

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Gamma World

Archetype Origins: Road Warrior

This is another Gamma World origin designed around a character archetype rather than a mutation. You can see the other origins in the series here. Lots of mutants stumble upon an old, beat-up piece of junk in the wasteland and decide that they’re the best driver that Gamma Terra has ever seen. In your case, […]

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Dungeons & Dragons

Paragon: More Than A Hero

According to the Dungeon Master’s Guide, paragon tier heroes “are shining examples of courage and determination – true paragons in the world, set apart from the masses.” Unfortunately, the game then assumes that characters in the paragon tier do much the same thing as heroic tier characters – descending into dungeons with a handful of […]