A Song of Shards—the Polychotomy

Welcome, worried, weary traveler, to a Song of Shards. Here you will hopefully find knowledge to help you cope with the myriad weirdnesses of the (bits of) worlds among which we find ourselves.

• About the Shards and the Polyclasm
• The Phyles
• Points of Commonality – the Clock, the Coin, the Common Speech
• Religions among the Shards
• The Nature of the Soul and related issues
• History
• Some notable Places and Pubs
• General Background Articles
• NPCs of note
• objects of note

Information for Players

[The above information is all written for the characters, and from an in-game perspective. The following info is game-mechanical in nature, and is provided for the players. If this distinction makes no sense to you, you’re probably in the wrong campaign.]

The Polychotomy varies from standard by-the-(core)-book 3.5 D&D in a number of ways.

• Ten Things you need to know about the Polychotomy
• Character Creation
• Classes and Races available
• Prestige Classes
• Alignment, Standing, Purity and Taint
• Changes to the Skill system
• Feats
• Changes to Spells
• Regarding Portals
• Other variant rules
• Material from non-Core books
• Table Rules
• thoughts on 4th edition in the polychotomy