d20 4e Open Design Iron Gazetteer.pdf

Gazetteer

4 t th edition dwarven paragons and powers

by Wolfgang Baur, Richard Green, Stefen Styrsky

and Open Design patrons

Iron

edition dwarven paragons and powers

by Wolfgang Baur, Richard Green, Stefen Styrsky

Gazetteer

edition sourcebook

of dwarven paragons, powers and perils

by Wolfgang Baur, Richard Green, Stefen Styrsky

and Open Design Patrons

Iron

a a 4 t th edition sourcebo ok

of dwarven paragons, powers and perils

by Wolfgang Baur, Richard Green, Stefen St yrsky

C REDITS

Design

Wolfgang Baur: Dwarven Feats, Dwarven Lore and History, Mountain Druid, Mountain Spirit

Scott Gable : Stone Pact Warlock

Richard Green : Caverns and Hazards, Perils of the Mountains, Gear

Stefen Styrsky : Ghost Sorcerer, Ruined Tombs, Rune Mage, Spear Ranger, Tomb Warden, and

Watcher of the Halls

Additional Design

Jesse Butler : Gearforged Paragon Path

Andre Araujo & Adam Daigle: Crag Drake

Scott Hall : Dwarven Backgrounds, Lord of the Iron Fortress

Ben McFarland: Frostfang Yeti, Glacial Drake

Ben Mc Farland and Brandon Hodge : Fellforged

Wolfgang Baur and Brett McLean : Gearforged PC Race

Tim Nickel : Feldspar Xorn, Gold-Veined Creature

John Steven Schutt: Gilded Devil

Dan Voyce : Dogmoles

Production

Neal Hebert: Editing

Stephen Wark: Layout

Malcolm McClinton: Cover Art

Lucas Haley, Arthur Rackham, Philippe Semeria, Hugo Solis, Piranesi: Interior Art

Jonathan Roberts: Cartography

ISBN: 978-0-9843159-1-8

is book references the game rules and systems of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 4 th Edition by Wizards of

the Coast, Inc. is should not be viewed as a challenge to that game’s trademark status.

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P ATRONS

Mike Alkema

George Andrews

Andre Araujo

Joel Arellano

Sara Ashbaugh

Michael Baker

Christopher Beattie

Katie Berger

Sasha Bilton

Craig Bishell

Pablo Blanco

Steve Blodgett

Jason Bostwick

William Bradbury

Frank Branham

Daniel Brumme

Markus Bührig

Jonathan Burstein

Jesse Butler

David Campbell

Alan Cannon

Francis Carelli

Jason Carl

James Carlson

Je rey Carpenter

Vicente Cartas Espinel

David Chato

John Coates

Jesse Cole-Goldberg

Andrew Collett

Andrew Cowie

Christopher Cumming

Scott Cunningham

Matthew Cutter

Jason Dawson

Mark Daymude

James Dezomits

Chris Doemel

Geo rey Duke

Bryant Durrell

Steve Elliott

Robert Emerson

Patrick Enders

Mark Evers

Bradford Ferguson

Ben Ferguson

William Fischer

Patrick Fitzgerald

Jeremy Friesen

Michael Furlanetto

Scott Gable

Philip Sharp Garcia

Christopher Gardiner

James Alan Gardner

Richard Green

James Groves

David Guyll

Scott Hall

Robert Harper

Geo rey Hart

Kristian Hartmann

Lyle Hayehurst

Amanda Heitler

Tige Herget

Brandon Hodge

Lutz Hofmann

Brian Isiko

Kevin Jackey

Jonathan Jacobs

Anthony Jones

Nick Jong

Jay Joyner

Chris Kazamias

Robert Keller

Jennifer Kuipers

Chris Kümmel

David Lai

Paul Lambert

John Leonas

Christian Lindke

Joseph Lockett

Martin Long

Ignacio Blasco López

Michael Machado

Duncan MacPhail

Patrick Malone

Matthew Maranda

Emiliano Marchetti

Ari Marmell

Angel Franco Martinez

Silas McDermott

Benjamin McFarland

Brett McLean

Robert McNamee

Douglas Meserve

Jon Michaels

Robert Miller

omas Milligan

Dean Mitchell

Michael Mockus

Sean Molley

Matthew Monteiro

Ryan Moore

Daniel Müller

Simon Mundy

Rick Neal

Tim Nickel

Christian Nord

Benjamin Norest

Andrew Nuxoll

Britian Oates

Je rey Och

Matthew Olivia

Ronald Olszewski

Mats Ondin

Brian Ording

John Overath

Chris Page

Nick Pater

Patrick Phillips

Leon Powell

James Quirk

Frank Reding

Frank Reiss

Bryan Rennekamp

Kevin Reynolds

Grayson Richardson

Brian Richburg

Jan Cornelius

Rodewald

Kurtis Rodgers

Franz Georg Roesel

To b y R o g e r s

Darren Sacre

Erich Schmidt

Mark Shocklee

Jonathan Sirico

Warren Sistrom

Michael Sixel

Scott Slonaker

Je rey Spencer

Todd Sprang

Phillip Stepp

Stefen Styrsky

Amy Sutedja

Scott Sutherland

Russell Taylor

Laura Teddiman

Constantin Terton

Todd ompson

William Valera

Oliver von

Spreckelsen

Daniel Voyce

Adam Waggenspack

Michael Waite

Jonathan Walton

Steven Wark

Eric West

Daniel White

Brenton Wiernik

Richard Wilcox

Mark Wilkins

Gillian Wiseman

Sid Wood

the iron gazetteer

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A N EW D WARVEN H ISTORY

modern era by J.R.R. Tolkien is a well-known and well-loved character: bearded, o en a

miner or mason, and exceedingly fond of ale. All of those qualities plus a sense of great

fortitude and stout defense are elements of the dwarf presented in 4 th Edition Dungeons &

Dragons .

Of course, it’s possible to do a lot more with dwarves. is book makes that attempt, pushing

the dwarven role into spear-and-pike ghting, into stone pacts with elder creatures of the depths,

and with dwarven druids as well as ancestral ghost sorcerers. Each of those grows out of existing

lore, but expands on it and takes the dwarf deeper than he’s dared to delve in the past. Which is

as it should be: the most interesting dwarves are de ned not just by existing legends, but by the

new roles we choose to give them in the legends unfolding at our gaming tables every week (if

we’re lucky, at any rate). In this case, the premise was “What if dwarves wandered south from the

snowy peaks and settled in a new mountain range? What if they broke with tradition?”

You hold the result in your hands; a view of dwarves that is both familiar yet new nonetheless,

giving more experienced players new choices for their dwarven PCs to explore in addition to

options that cleave to the more familiar. If ancestors are so important to dwarves, why do we

know so little of their burial practices? If dwarves are all smiths and miners, how do they eat? If

dwarves are the favored children of the Northern Gods, how have they adapted to living among

the gods of men and elves? And most of all, what traditions of the dwarves are kept, and which

are discarded over the years, as their society meets — and conquers! — its rivals and competitors.

e DM who seeks to make his or her kingdom of dwarves unlike those already familiar will

nd inspiration and tools here: dwarven culture is not a monoculture, and there’s no reason that

every dwar old must match the pattern laid down so excellently by the sagas and by the Lord

of the Rings . Both in terms of mechanics and setting, dwarves can o er us a variety of di erent

styles, from the mad-eyed berserker to the wily trader—and a few more besides.

So then, dear reader, meet the New Dwarves of the Ironcrags, a crew that is sure to surprise you.

Wolfgang Baur

October 6, 2009

T he traditional dwarf passed down from Norse and German legends and brought into the

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