Shifter Information + Lore Threads (Amarice has offered to do)
Other ideas :
Hobgoblin Information + Lore Threads
Orog Information + Lore Threads
Ogrillion Information + Lore Threads
Maybe a shared Information thread for the three of them given the limited customization options.
Dragon Disciples could be fun to show off all their possible tail, wing, feet options, lay out the process, quirks, and guidelines involved in making one, and there's some available lore on them on the forums already to link to. What other races or classes could use this treatment or would people like to see done in this fashion?
Secondly, is there anything about the completed CITs that drives you outrageously upset that I could do differently? Do you find that they are leaving you with questions? Are things just phrased weirdly in them? Do you think they're just plain ugly? (The Kobold Lore Thread is probably due for a make over...)
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Shifter please, including various unwritten rules and limitations that apparently exist, as well as the various decisions in terms of true seeing, etc.
Shifter please, including various unwritten rules and limitations that apparently exist, as well as the various decisions in terms of true seeing, etc.
I might like it if you could do a CIT on Eilistraeean lore. Part of me wonders if more people would play Eilistraeeans if they had a good compilation of the faith's lore, and their way of doing things. I do know some players who were a little hesitant to play such characters because they were worried they wouldn't "get it right".
Otherwise, what about Dwarven information, or Paladin lore?
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I think there's already some pretty great Eilie lore posts stickied in the Eilie forum, aren't there? Maybe those would be better off more publicly accessible?
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Might be nice to cover the plane touched races available on Amia.
Yes please. After learning about a certain player who's not even bothering trying to RP their Aasimar race, instead is going entirely against it, this needs to be done.
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I agree, although this would involve a massive input from the DMs since it seems Amian Drow have a much different culture from canon. Which is fine, but not very well-documented or explained.
I don't think a compilation is the ideal format for (base) classes. I'd rather we produce something original and diverse like we did for paladins. It is better to offer inspiring material than to restrict with an incoherent assortment of rules. We specifically did not want to do something like that for paladins back in the day. To toot my own horn, I've already offered to work on druids and blackguards and have plenty of ideas.
Not to say you can't do your own thing. But if you're interested, joint work on something original to offer as a resource and perhaps for DM approval in the future might be fruitful. Yossarin was also interested, but I don't know how busy he is right now.
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Iron, I agree these things aren't particularly necessary for base classes. You'll notice I haven't been jumping to do it for, say, Ranger. There's honestly not much to say there that can't be found in the class entry, and there's not a great deal that Amia has changed about them to warrant that. Paladin is prickly because there doesn't seem to be a great deal of hard answers, or the answers are contradictory, or whatever. And beyond RP stuff, there isn't really anything knew.
I'm not so much content creating as content compiling or content aggregating. I'm looking to gather information and put it all in ONE place for easy reference.
I'm honestly not particularly interested in doing a group project, because I work on this as the desire strikes me, and I want to be able to just take what is there and put it together. If people want to pool or bring information that has already been deemed official by the Amia setting, I appreciate that. But I'm not looking to collaborate in any deeper way at the moment. The only reason I'm doing anything remotely like that for goblins is because it's an Amia-supported race that has almost no lore/information, beyond the subrace blurb, that is readily available or even present at all on the forums. It seems silly to have the race as an option and then be like, "Welp, there it is, you figure it out."
Blackguard would be a good one, potentially, because there is custom stuff and weirdly implicit stuff. It could probably benefit from a Q&A like the Shadowdancer CIT has. Shifters and Dragon Disciples, too. There's new content to make mention of, mechanics, lore, things that might not be readily presented. Not talking about spoilers and other things that are designed to be found by probing around IG, but things that will equip people in their character design and building, and potentially reduce rebuilds because of poor understanding or contradictory information.
Jolly good. In that case, I can't think of other suitable subjects at the moment. The suggestions here, possibly apart from drow (and that is being amended in game, not that it invalidates other attempts), don't really fit the format. Orcs are the only one I agree with, and even they have a pretty clear chapter in Races of Faerûn. Is there anything more than a Monster Manual entry for Ogrillon?
One possibility is to compile module-related information, I suppose. What faiths have notable representation (NPCs, infrastructure) and summaries of their church style, perhaps. These too requires some original content, though.
I am personally interested to see bardic lore (not so much class facts as in-world history and charaters) compiled, if that is the type of information that interests you. Scouring game books and novels for anecdotes and examples, history and institutions, etc. That would give background material for new characters. That is almost an IC project, though, and a little different from your previous work.
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I thought about doing Bards (who doesn't) in a style similar to the Shadowdancer one, but I found myself thinking the same thing about it being better as an IC thing - mainly because Bards are actually likely to pass along accurate information to each other reliably, in general, unlike some other classes. I might do something for their mechanics, so people who don't have a builder-brain can see all the factors involved in Bard song, but that's not really enough to fill out a whole thread for. I'm not sure how much the staff wants the custom songs advertised, otherwise I would add those in; if not in detail, then as teasers just to let people know they exist.
What you describe sounds like something Joon would do, and I'm honestly surprised that you aren't already. Assuming you aren't. Are you? You should.
But really, the CIT (extravaganza!) is really for races and classes that have a lot of questions surrounding them that have hard, definitive answers, lot of custom work or abilities/changes, or the like. That isn't the majority of the classes or races, by a long shot.
That said...
I've been playing around with some free sites and was thinking about putting up a sort of unofficial-but-condoned thing, like the Amia Wiki, that holds the CIT and other such threads, with a site map. So less on the forum navigation thing, more on a website lexicon style thing. I realize I could use the Amia Wiki to do this, but I can't stand the theme, and half of my interest in doing this is being able to control the aesthetics. From there, I could basically copy-paste things that have been officially stamped over there. A new ruling on Backguards, or whatever? It goes in the "Everything you want to know about Blackguards" section. No spoilers, but everything else; mechanics, lore, Q&A. For races/PrCs that have extra options, like Dragon Disciples, all the feet, leg, tail, wing, head options would be shown.
THAT would allow me to have all the compiled stuff in one place, and make it so that there would need to be only one thread on the forums as a master list to all of the content, which would be safe in case of any more hackattacks. (RIP, all that content we lost before.)
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