Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 30 Mar 2006 to 31 Mar 2006 (#2006-61) From: MYSTARA-L automatic digest system Date: 01/04/2006, 19:00 To: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There is 1 message totalling 70 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Glantri's Secret Crafts as Prestige Classes ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:11:29 +0200 From: Matteo Subject: Re: Glantri's Secret Crafts as Prestige Classes > Hi! I'm a new subscriber to this mailing list and I'm very happy to have > joined. Mystara is the setting with which I started playing DnD: it will > always have a place in my heart :p > I have recently started a campaign in Glantri as dungeon master (hard work > :p) and now I'm facing the problem of the Seven Secret Crafts. My players > wanted to use the new 3.5 edition of the rules. The information about > geography, history, locations is still useful as it is, but characters, > spells and so on need tuning. I was wondering if anyone of you has already > tackled the conversion issues. At the present moment I'm trying to put the > Wokani Craft into a Prestige Class, but I'm already stuck in a fundamental > point: should it be a five levels prestige class or should it be a ten level > prestige class? If it's five level, it should have very restricting > requirements and so it should be accessible only at high levels (I was > thinking 14 or so). On the other hand there are NPC that have levels as > Wokani and they are low - mid level (Carmina de Belcadiz is the example, she > is 7th level as reported in Glantri Kingdom of Magic). The ten level > prestige class, then, seems the solution, but I don't know how to distribute > the abilities. > Can anyone help me? I have written down a "conversion" of the Seven Secret Crafts as Prestige Classes for D&D 3E (3E, not 3.5: the work was done a couple of years ago). All of them are 10-level Prestige Classes, and all of them are built in a way that makes impossible to combine two or more different Secret Crafts classes (just to avoid Dracologist/Elementalist or the like by the strength of the 3E rules alone). Of course, as always happens in these cases, making a plain conversion from OD&D to 3E is not possible or unreasonable; also, the different crafts in OD&D where severely unbalanced, with some school being far too much more powerful than the others. Therefore, I took advantage of this to slightly revise a few of these schools, just to make sure the 3E version was more balanced. I have also playtested all of these classes along a campaign, and I tend to believe that they work pretty well. However, it should be noted that these classes have purposely been made quite powerful, at the level of Magic of Faerun or FR Prestige Classes for spellcasters, just to give you a reference. The idea is that there must be a sound in-game reason to justify why Glantrian wizards are so feared and respected and they are not easily crushed by Alphatian arch-wizards of corresponding level. On the other hand, obtaining levels in Secret Crafts Prestige Classes is by no mean easy, to say the least, if compared with the trivial requisites necessary for most of the Prestige Classes you can find in Tome & Blood and the like. There's a drawback of course: I have written the Prestige Classes in my own mother language, which happens to be Italian, and I am not planning to translate in English, since it is a pretty thick "supplement" (around 40 pages: it is very detailed, Magic of Faerun style as I said) and it would be too painful to look for the exact English translation of all the 3E game terms (which would be necessary to make a rigorous job). Matteo ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 30 Mar 2006 to 31 Mar 2006 (#2006-61) ***************************************************************