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Here’s how a Fire Elementalist’s airspells can be modified.

Cutting Powers of the Mind: Increase Reflexes, instead of Intelligence, to 18 (increase to 19 if it was already 18).

Stargaze [Starfire] : Has a AF of 2 against fire-based spells and attacks.
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There is something uncanny about the the new well which has been dug. Perhaps it is because the villagers found it in a forsaken part of the settlement, filled with ruins. Perhaps it is because the location is so obvious that anyone could have found the well already. Or perhaps it is because strange wails and moans have been coming up from the well?
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The lord of a large but sparsely populated fief (mainly due to steep hills and thick forest) has a headache. His bailiffs have reported difficulty in collecting taxes from the serfs and freemen and recently, some of them have disappeared, along with bodyguards. Fearing a peasant revolt, the lord has ask for succor and the adventurers got wrapped into it.
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The serfs from a small fiefdom have been disappearing. The lord has issued a call for investigation but his own knights have not been able to uncover the reasons. Suspecting sorcery, the nobleman asks the adventurers (which may include a sorcerer) to look into the matter.
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The story goes that due to a bitter feud between a knight and a sorcerer over a lady whom they love, the two challenged each other to a duel – with the sorcerer promising that he would not use magic. However, the knight doubted the promise. Knowing that he would never have any chance against the sorcerer’s spells,  the knight sought a blade which would ward him from magic. Having found one, he then met the magus for the match. To the knight’s surprise, the sorcerer fought fair and square with no magic and was beaten soundly. However, the knight was shamed by his own action and became a hermit instead.

The sword was changed by the event and is now known as The Grief of Shame.
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Sometimes in an arcade game where you have different types of entities, the most difficult part is to resolve the collision. Nope, the issue is not detecting collision (which is already one big headache by itself), but rather – “So something did collide; so what’s next?”
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The new edition of Dragon Warriors give a powerful “blast” ability to all elemenatlists – for every 1 MP spent, they got to do a blast which does 2d6 points of damage. Checking the stats of an average PCs as given in the book, a 12th rank Knight has 24 Hit Points. A 3-MP blast from an elementalist does 6d6 points of damage. Clearly the damage is off the charts!
What this article proposes is a re-balancing of the raw elemental blast power for the Elementalist. Read more…

The original rules require you to subtract the defender’s Defence from your Attack. Here are what you can do to remove the subtraction steps to speed up combat.
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The harvest has been bad and an early winter seems to be coming. But the villagers woke up one day to find snow coming much earlier than before. Suspecting witchcraft, the villagers has pin the suspicion on an old cottar who lives at the edge of the settlement.
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