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I was looking through the pdfs on sale at drivethrurpg and found Doom Striders. Anyone bought it? Is it of any use for DragonMech?

The Velvet Souljah wrote:Just to be clear, when you refer to "the example," are you referring to the format outlined in the PHB?

example ritual

The web site open call has the link but they didn't post it here.

The Delve format was described in a Design & Development article. The early 4E Dungeon issue before the subscription service was turned on could be used as examples.

You could always pickup a new Dungeon Crawl Classic.

Okay, that’s the very basics. Just remember, 4E takes a more of a “get-it-in-the-ballpark” approach to monster stats, which is a huge departure from 3.5E monster stats. Once you get used to that, it’s actually a lot of fun designing monsters – and a lot less work! :D Which is a bit problematic to m...

Is there any chance of releasing a small manual of mechs in 4.0 rules rather than a whole book to please some of the people that have started a 4E Dragonmech campaign through Homebrew Rules in the short term? I'll still buy DM 4, but I would like to get a head start. AFAIK, goodman games has not sa...

Purchased the remaining DragonMech books when the pdfs went on sale. Squoli from Almanac of the Endless Traders HD: 2d8+4 (13hp) Skills: Listen +4, Swim +10 Feats: Improved Grapple (B), Power Attack (I'm not sure I like Power Attack but can't think of what else to give them without altering Skills/A...

Kobold Quarterly #7 has a number of new monsters for steampunk settings. I haven't read the entire article yet. I really like the Hateful Piston Chocker.

The gunpowder spell article might also be useful. The first few look like they could have similar effects with steamguns.

why don't you just require them to have resistance to all standard types to resist lunar, with their effective resistance equal to the lowest of their other resistances? Because I want the players to be able to specialize in lunar slaying but I don't necessarily want them to have an easy time with ...

Wolf replacement. Gorehound Medium Aberration (Lunar) Hit Dice: 2d8+10 (19hp) Initiative: +1 Speed: 40ft Armor Class: 14 (+4 Natural), Touch 10, flat-footed 14 Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+5 Attack: Gore +5 melee (1d8+4) Full Attack: Gore +5 melee (1d8+4) Space/Reach: 5ft/5ft Special Attack: Powerful Ch...

Are any other planets or anything mentioned in the DragonMech products? Just thinking of using Spelljammer and DragonMech together. Here were some thought I posted on the Spelljammer forum at Piazza : Depending on how advanced they got in the first age of walkers, they could have had steam powered s...

The constant clicking of a tik'tok sitting on the left side of the classroom increases and speeds up. Whir'Tik'Tik'Klop raises his hand. Technically he isn't the right pronoun but most people think of the young wizard as male even if the gearmen have no such distinction. After catching Prof. Willows...

Point is, if you wish a not-resistible energy, you just use untyped attack. I want is to resistible. I just don't want it be common. I want the lunar dragons to cause havoc and give rise to dragonslayers who get resist lunar items/spells/etc. You are right in a typical campaign you would be foolish...

One of the gretest errors in the previous editions was the introduction of new mechanisms, often forgotten by the players, in the monsters, as new energy type. I agree introducing lots of new energy types is bad. The reason I suggest doing so for lunar energy is because it is supposed to be alien t...

I'd make lunar (moonlight? moonbeem?) a new energy type rather than use radiant. For mechs, I would build the mech designs and then create a bunch of example mechs. I was thinking of how to do spelljammer in 4E. I was thinking of a way to involve characters encounter/daily powers. Here (6th post) is...

I just have to smile at all the folks in different forums (specially Paizo) that said 4E would be a dud. I never thought 4E would be a dud but it is a different upgrade from the past. When 2E came out I had no interest in playing 1E again. When 3E came out I had no interest in playing 2E again. Whe...

There is no secret. They are sick of being labeled so they decided they are not apart of any group. Unfortunately people started referring to them as the Nameless Clan which infuriated them to no end.

I noticed the same thing. I don't believe there are any hard and fast rules about this. Instead they seem to take the base from the DMG system and then alter them a bit.

Permanced Wall of Fire & steam engine. The problem is that steam engine aren't something you put together and runs perfectly forever. Things break down. If you don't have the ability to shutdown the fire source, fix problems is more difficult. Like mythfish, I like steam being an alternative to...

10 years? I hope the Aboleths have something cool. Definitely going to have to design some mechs for them if they don't. (Since I'm stuck without the Eye Tyrants, the Aboleths are a reasonable substitute.)

Dire Airswimmer Large Aberration (Lunar) Hit Dice: 4d8+20 (38hp) Initiative: +2 Speed: 10ft, fly 40ft (average) Armor Class: 17 (-1 size, +2 Dex, +6 Natural), touch 11, flat-footed 15 Base Attack/Grapple: +3/+15 Attack: Bite +11 melee (2d6+9) Full Attack: Bite +11 melee (2d6+9) Space/Reach: 10ft/5ft...

Airswimmer Swarm Diminutive Aberration (Lunar, Swarm) Hit Dice: 3d8+3 (16hp) Initiative: +1 Speed: 5ft, fly 30ft (good) Armor Class: 16 (+4 size, +1 Dex, +1 Natural), touch 15, flat-footed 15 Base Attack/Grapple: +0/-16 Attack: Swarm (1d6) Full Attack: Swarm (1d6) Space/Reach: 10ft/0ft Special Attac...

Bat replacement. Airswimmer Diminutive Aberration (Lunar) Hit Dice: 1/4 d8+1 (2hp) Initiative: +1 Speed: 5ft, fly 30ft (good) Armor Class: 16 (+4 size, +1 Dex, +1 Natural), touch 15, flat-footed 15 Base Attack/Grapple: +0/-16 Attack: - Full Attack: - Space/Reach: 1ft/0ft Special Attack: - Special Qu...

Mech design seems tedious in the current system. The options are scattered throughout the books. I'm hopping DragonMech Battle does a better job of managing that.

Considering the low volume of this forum you may not see much in response no matter what you post.

Are the lunar traits a leftover from 3E when the product was converted to 3.5? I was trying to write up a creature in the later monster format used by wizards and realized creatures no longer have half damage from things and vulnerability only adds 50% damage not double. I suppose it could be change...

My brother has played the 4e Shadowfell adventure. In his opinion a fight with a high hit point monster will probably take more rounds but rounds are dramatically shorter to run. So even if you have sandpaper down the hit points it won't take that long in real time.