Gate Pass Gazette Issue #29 is taking off!

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The latest issue of the Gate Pass Gazette, the official magazine of Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, is taking off! You can check it out on Patreon.​

Fantastic Archetypes​

In one of Elissar’s forgotten ages there was a team of champions unlike any other: a cadre of four adventurers that achieved the impossible time and again. While the traditions they embodied (a brilliant artificer, a sorcerer aflame, an invisible rogue, and an adept as hard as rock) are unusually well-documented, their origins remain a mystery debated by scholars even today. Readers, however, need wonder no longer, as this article details the archetypes of these fantastical heroes. By Mike Myler.

A Synthesis of Science and Sorcery: Technological Spells​

Technology and magic are often seen as diametrically opposed forces, but there are those who know that both are, at their heart, merely different means to similar ends, with more in common than not. Much like an artificer’s craft, the following collection of spells exploit that similarity, bringing the two great sources of power together like a lock and key. By Clarke Peterson.

These Mean Streets: Exploration Challenges for Urban Townships​

Adventurers may see cities as places of rest and relaxation, a haven to rest in away from the hazards of the road and the dangers of a dungeon. Urban locales offer their own unique challenges, however, even when just walking down the street. From clueless tourists to political unrest, a party may find more adventure than they bargained for. By Jessy Mullins.

Enhance Your Battlefield: Combat Arenas​

Rain pours onto the ruined ramparts as a band of heroes confront their nemesis. A misunderstanding in a rowdy tavern spirals into an all-out brawl. Goblins peer from the rafters above, readying themselves to ambush the intruders below. Scenes such as these truly come alive with the Combat Arena system—an alternative to theater-of-the-mind and gridded combat that combines the best of both in a dynamic package that’s quick to assemble! By Jagger A Dillon.

Well done True Believers!

If the FF were adventurers in Level Up, which heritages other than the human heritage could you imagine them being?

Corinnguard said:

If the FF were adventurers in Level Up, which heritages other than the human heritage could you imagine them being?

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Reed has to be a (pompous) elf
Ben I feel fits well as oxfolk? The obvious answer is rockborn (which was me too! haHA!) but either works, I just like the idea of him being bigger.
Can't extricate the idea of elementaari for Sue and Johnny (air and fire, respectively; they could still have one shared parent)

Mike Myler said:

Reed has to be a (pompous) elf
Ben I feel fits well as oxfolk? The obvious answer is rockborn (which was me too! haHA!) but either works, I just like the idea of him being bigger.
Can't extricate the idea of elementaari for Sue and Johnny (air and fire, respectively; they could still have one shared parent)

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Just out of curiosity, but was the Rockborn heritage modeled after the Rock Lords in GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords?

GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Wikipedia

I ask because, like the Rockborn, the Rock Lords could curl up into a boulder form and roll.

Back in the 3e era, Dragon Magazine had an article for the Para-Genasi where there was some mention of what you would get if an Air Genasi had kids with a Fire Genasi. The answer was that such a coupling could result in air, fire and ash Genasi offspring. So, Sue and Johnny wouldn't really need to share a parent between them to be who they are.

Team Avatar as the FF. Aang-Air, Toph-Earth, Zuko-Fire and Katara-Water. All four of them as MoAR: Complete Elementalists.

Corinnguard said:

Just out of curiosity, but was the Rockborn heritage modeled after the Rock Lords in GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords?

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They were based on (and in the Veranthea Codex: Grethadnis book replaced the statistics for) a heritage called pantako, which are themselves replacement gorons.

Mike Myler said:

They were based on (and in the Veranthea Codex: Grethadnis book replaced the statistics for) a heritage called pantako, which are themselves replacement gorons.

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Never heard of this heritage before.

I think I would have converted the Earthen from World of Warcraft into the Rockborn.

This is all so cool. The Gate Pass Gazette is truly the World's Greatest Level Up Magazine!

Terrific archetypes. One question about the Walking Rock adept. They get access to the Adamant Mountain tradition, but their unarmed strike (and adept weapons) don’t count as having the heavy property. Should their unarmed strikes count as having the heavy property? (And what about small adepts, if so?)