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Only needs to be Eleventh Circle to have access to the spells he needs. Primarily: Shatter Pattern, Alter/Create Life, Dark Sword. Note that the adventure is supposed to be for Fifth to Eighth Circle adepts. Twelfth Circle is too high (For that matter so is Eleventh, but without Shatter Pattern, Alt...

make them all major pattern items then have one Rank Three thread attached that adds +3 to all the Defenses at each of the lairs. The only thing that will change is his Social Defense at those locations 10 [13] P. Note that it would actually be easier to have three defensive items add +3 Physical De...

Generally when my Player Characters were fighting in water in melee they received a -3 penalty to Attack and Damage Tests (This situation actually came up in the Prelude to War quest to raise one of the sunken airships in the river and they came under attack by water elementals summoned by a Theran ...

You cannot forget about the Elementalist's Second Circle spell of Flame Strike, which has nasty damage and no threads. Ice Spear is nice for its long range despite the thread and low damage at that circle as well.

Usually for my games it has been roll against the Difficulty Number for characters with the lowest step, success adds a +1 bonus to the character with the highest Step. For example, my troll monk and obsidiman guardian of Cathay are attempting to break down a door. The troll monk has a lower Strengt...

I switched to free Karma Points too, it eliminates unnecessary bookkeeping. Still under the old rules with the high karma maxes, people would still be paying LP for Karma in my games. But when a troll or obsidiman has 3 maximum karma points at Rank 1 Karma Ritual, the maximum becomes its own limitat...

so despite not getting it as a full talent, Thieves can use half-magic for using it until Second Circle, and it helps out Scouts who may not wish to take Detect Trap as a talent option.

actually, Thieves and Scouts can make Half-Magic Perception Tests to detect traps and secret doors.

I was using the Game Master Characters as an example of how we can simplify statblocks mostly. Then I applied it in the case of a Player Character Fifth Circle Swordmaster, then wrote up a list of powers that they could use as cheat sheet in games to simplify their actions. Telarus simply took some ...

this gives a general overview on what a Fifth Circle T'skrang Swordmaster could do in a round. Normal attack, aggressive tail attack, giving ground +tail parry versus physical attackers, tail parry + defensive stance versus spell attackers, maneuver, heartening laugh. You can also use maneuver to se...