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Table of Contents Æthercoil Magazine Issue 4 – January 17 Introduction 1 Brainstorming 2 Revisions 5 Loose Items 10 Roll20 Macro Tutorial 13 3 More Anthro Races 15 Dragonjin 18 Gunslinging Options 36 Intro to Æthercoil’s Twisting Halls 39 The Red-Haired Elf, Chapter 2 42 Social Media Links Google Plus: https://goo.gl/v8mGmf Reddit: https://goo.gl/TsnHJw Patreon: https://www.patreon.com Sample file /FoxFireStudios Player’s Wiki: http://foxfirestudios.net/ aethercoil/ About the Cover: In this Issue, a special DM-specialized race, the Dragonjin, is introduced. Because of this, I’m going to need to draw a lot of dragons, especially my own DM character, Ike. This is my first effort, using a pose taken from a modeled pic from Deviant- ART (Forgot the reference, help in finding it again is appreciated) and adding what I’d think Ike would wear in battle. (In a future pic, he’d actually have armor.) As I continue doing dragons, they’ll be better, I believe so. Page 0 Æthercoil Magazine Issue 4 – January 17 Introduction By now some of you have Googled my name and found out that I There are some things I need to let you had a very wild past. Only, that’s too kind: I was a raging lolcow in know about some conventions I keep my youth and I know it. I know it because even today there are while I’m writing. It’s in part because of people who are as incapable of resisting spewing hatred toward me my own personal quirks and in part as an SJW is incapable of resisting going into histrionics whenever because of me being autistic. they hear “President Trump” in any conversation. Most of the Fortunately, I keep adequate footnotes to content in Encyclopedia Dramatica’s article on me1 is a prime result help you be on the same page. to such hatedom, and TV Tropes had a ton of other examples before All the material in this magazine is they decided that they didn’t want to be another ED. compatible with Dungeons & Dragons One of the biggest reason why I got such a hatedom is that I make Fifth Edition. However, everything requires the Player’s Handbook™, Self-Insertion characters. I put myself in the story, so to speak, or Monster Manual™ and the Dungeon include original characters. While to some groups, especially fan Master’s Guide™ to use anything groups of anime and cartoons, this practice is the equivalent of properly. There are some parts in the drawing the Prophet Mohammad. In Mecca. During the Hajj. publications that I use which isn’t But during a conversation I had with two people who invited me present in the SRD or the Basic Rules. I’ll refer to the First Edition of the into a podcast, that thinking is as bonkers as some of my earlier documents for page references. fanfics. Many writers and storytellers create characters that were a bit like themselves. And if people want to hate on me, they must Attributes are referenced in two ways: hate on just about every major author and playwright, not to Their Scores by their full name mention some of those I look up to by the way, for the same reason. (Charisma), and their Modifiers by their I then described my reasons why some people hate on OCs because abbreviation (CHA). of the author’s overcompensating for some shortcoming and create Sometimes I use terms taken from 4th the dreaded Mary Sue character, but that’s not my point here. Edition to ream things in 5th Edition. ‘Standard’ means the same as the The point is, while you might think that some or maybe all of the unlabeled ‘Action.’ Ditto with ‘Minor’ for characters have a bit of me in there because I am in fact the writer ‘Bonus’ and ‘Long Rest’ for ‘Extended of most of these stories, I must go on record and say that I will tell Rest.’ If I mention ‘Rest’ without any you when I make a Self-Insertion Character. qualifiers, it means any rest longer than ‘Short Rest’ Eisenhower, the Dragonjin I’m introducingSample in this issue, file is a self- insertion. But once you read up on what a Dragonjin is, it might One last thing: While I know that there not be so bad. are varying genders out there, I default with binary male pronouns as a writer. I am also an adult who uses adult language and, as a Cis White Male with Autism, not only will I offend people, I am unable to give a fuck about it. You have been warned on all counts. 1 If there’s anything that is a ‘microaggression’ to me, it is people saying that it’s ‘My Encyclopedia Dramatica page,’ because I come by the adage of, “If I can’t open it, I don’t own it.” Some people take that article and claim that I own it, as if I owned a turd I flushed down the toilet which they got into the sewers, retrieved said shit, and showed it to everyone like they discovered gold. And they wonder why I included the Æ glyph for my Logo design for Æthercoil. Page 1 Æthercoil Magazine Issue 4 – January 17 Brainstorming Session Up til now, I could pace my issues of my public It took me a while for me to find the link—I worldbuilding notebook for every other month. was looking in the wrong place—but I Issue 4 will arrive a month later than managed to find the stream that I was in. It’s expected, February at the earliest or March if called ‘Bass to the Bone,’ is located at I can’t help matters. There’s more than just https://soundcloud.com/user-47740498, and the holidays which includes a family reunion could use some help with the logo and possibly out of state that warrants this. some web pages. I might design one as thanks for such a positive experience. It would’ve had I just finished reconstructing the Player’s easily denigrated to an hour-long prank, Handbook Wiki for my D&D campaigns and which might have happened before the turn of Æthercoil2. The initial form of the flavor texts the millennium, but it didn’t. for this Wiki, including various tutorials and home rules, will be written in the Magazine, That alone is enough for me to support this and then transferred to the Wiki. This will audio blog further. I might not be the most include revisiting former options (Including famous person around. Some would say that I the Engineer and Jester classes), give them am ‘famous,’ but I deny it; famous people don’t one more once over, and include that short have to worry about being on Social Security story snippets where each character option3. because people consider his social clout too I’ll also expand on the weapons, armor, much shit to be hirable. Famous people don’t equipment, kits and the other options such as have to look for someone to say anything Feats, Backgrounds, Spells, and the many positive about them. Before TV Tropes grew Prestige Classes. up and decided not to be a troll site, it exclaimed that there wasn’t a single person You can access the Player’s Handbook Wiki at saying anything positive toward me. Suffice it http://foxfirestudios.net/aethercoil Sample tofile say that I sympathize with Donald Trump As I did this, I also brought back Jamie’s right now. story. The Red-Haired Elf began in Issue 2 So, I appreciate people who approach me and and I intend on continuing her story come hell give me a fair shake on their blogs, which is or high water. Hopefully, the fiction will get what Bass to the Bone has done. They were the people interested in the campaigns. And nice to me, so I’ll repay the favor. vice versa. I’m not sure if Æthercoil will become my Forgotten Realms. But if this leads me into another setting, at least Æthercoil would’ve I only wished I could do more. I was granted me plenty of practice in playtesting Jamie with her Witch options in a worldbuilding. Not to mention working in a Saturday table, only to see her get literally field with a community that doesn’t get as knocked into another campaign by a dragon toxic as it did in DeviantART. Even with attack. These things happen. Yet into this reddit, things have been positive in comparison. So far so good. short time, I’ve had enough playtesting to make some needed revisions to my homebrew 2 In fact, any option that I experiment with or have a 3 Unless it’s taken from said rulebooks; there’s only so player in my table work with, will become Æthercoil much I can legally copypaste into the Wiki Legal. Page 2 Æthercoil Magazine Issue 4 – January 17 options for both Eladrin and Witch. I’ll start a new section of this magazine for such needed revisions. Probably the only thing I can say anything bad about Fifth Edition is its Starter Set. Compared to the 4th Edition Red Box, you feel gypped opening its current version. The 5E As much as I wanted to even as I wrote this— Starter Set has a pamphlet of basic rules, The even if I am an MGTOW, I’m not a complete Lost Mine of Phandelver campaign, a set of monster when it comes to women—I cannot Precons, a set of dice…and that’s it.