From publisher blurb:
Play as the Battledancer Barbarian, entering into a battle trance to fight your enemies with grace and dexterity rather than brute strength, or the Street Fighter Barbarian, for when you want to be a Barbarian who is also a Monk but multiclassing is for losers (I’m overstating the point for comedy, but real talk, subclasses are usually a better solution for combining the flavor of two classes together compared to multiclassing).
Or play the Battle Smith or Chirurgeon for the new Artificer class that’s like the old one except it’s in the Creative Commons and also good. By remarkable coincidence it has the same subclass breakpoints as the WotC Artificer so most subclasses built for the WotC Artificer should also work for the new Creative Commons Artificer, although it does depend on exactly what mechanics they interact with.
Speaking of the Creative Commons, the City Under the Dragon’s Claw will join the fluff from the rest of the Traveler’s Guide series in the Creative Commons. Also the Artificer, if this book gets funded so we have enough subclasses to make it usable. I first started contributing the Weskven setting fluff to the Creative Commons back in 2022 because I didn’t like how every third-party developer had to make their own third-party setting from scratch and I was nervous that WotC might not be very responsible with their control over big settings like the Forgotten Realms forever. I never guessed just how irresponsible they were going to get, but hey, luckily I was already working on a solution.
The City of Cenezi is ruled by the terrible red dragon Arkanthul, who came to power during a civil war several years ago. To win the war, Arkanthul hammered together a coalition of all kinds of local villains: Chiefly the mercenaries of Dragon Company, the Necromancer’s Guild, the orcish priests of the war god Razbol. The kobolds of the Piccoli Draghi run underfoot, hoping to win the favor of Arkanthul, whom they worship as a god, while Arkanthul’s beastfolk allies in the Ayaanga Tuurai tribe ride at the edges of the city’s hinterland, ready to reinforce the dragon if need be.
But the coalition isn’t as stable as it might seem from the outside. The necromancers and the orcs hate each other, everyone resents Dragon Company at least a little bit, the Ayaanga Tuurai still owe Arkanthul a favor for his assistance in defeating a rival tribe but they don’t have any long term loyalty to him, and the Piccoli Draghi are generally considered a nuisance only tolerated because they are eager servants for Arkanthul - and even he finds them only slightly more useful than annoying.
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