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Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed (and the revision, Arcana Evolved) includes truenames. There's an old post describing it here. In that set of rules, knowing your truename can give a spellcaster an advantage over you. In general, knowing a target's truename imposes a -1 penalty to the target's...

Have I mentioned lately that I love the people on this board? I had some ideas, but the previous posters topped me on all counts. :) One question for consideration is how much the PCs know (or can learn) about this Angel...if it's going to be a tough choice, they may question the motives of...

Have you seen this on WotC's website? It doesn't fix the lack of a non-evoker wizard (along with the druid, barbarian, etc.) but it might at least ease the pain of that lack a little bit.

Comes from a post by ajanders in a thread discussing memorable die rolls titled "DM's head explodes, film at 11."

Several pages ago, someone made a side comment that vaguely relates to a topic I feel passionate about. Obviously people should be focusing on that topic, rather than such silly things as...whatever this thread was supposed to be about - I wasn't really paying attention. Now I will present a...

Um...yay? :uhoh: ;)

I apologize for adding to the post count myself, but really, I mean some of you are even posting more than one post in a row...wait...DAMMIT! ;) :p

I came here from the front page to see what this high post count was all about. I think this is ridiculous. Who would be silly enough to add another post here? ;)

I definitely think that any polymorph spell will spell out (no pun intended) exactly what abilities it can grant in the spell description. Or at least I think that's what they should do, and what the most recent shapechanging spells seem to be moving towards. I think some variant on the astral...

Mostly, I just second what everybody above said. The only thing I can think to add is that if you're using incarnum, you can also take Shape Soulmeld (Girallon Arms), which gives you +2 to Climb checks and grapple checks, +2 per essentia invested.

I suppose if I'm going to post a response here, I should post my own truths and lie... 1. I once DMed a D&D gaming session for two players who were taking the same CS course, and ran an entire encounter with cultists based on the professors and summoned monsters based on programming concepts...

Wow, I really need to start gaming more! :D

You gain some skill bonuses, but the part that helps with knowledge checks is that it grants the dragonblooded subtype and lets you qualify for Draconic Heritage. Being dragonblooded makes the Draconic Aura feat scale with level (which is very nice), while Draconic Heritage qualifies you for...

Oh, and to actually answer the original question: You present a 5th level wizard with (+6 Int modifier) + (8 ranks) + (1 from trait) = +15 bonus If this character takes Dragonfire Adept for level 6 (hey, breathing fire at will is cool) and takes Draconic Aura (Insight) as his level 6 feat...

If you have Dragon Magic, take a level of Dragonfire Adept, choosing the Draconic Knowledge invocation for +6 to all Knowledge and Spellcraft checks and LETTING YOU MAKE UNTRAINED CHECKS. If you have enough knowledge skill boosts from other sources, it's like getting Bardic Knowledge in...

For the question of whether the rogue's place can be filled by other classes, I point to Arcana Evolved. Monte Cook has said in interviews that the classes there are designed to divide up party roles using a different set of archetypes. Instead of fighters, we have unfettered for...

I'd also like to throw my name in as someone who's interested in proofreading/editing. I'm willing to work for comp copies or some similar arrangement. I don't have any professional experience, but like some others on this board I certainly have read through enough gaming products and found...

One thing I noticed one thing in The Mad King's Banquet, right at the beginning as the PCs are being given their mission: That seems unnecessarily negative to me. ;)

I just want to mention here that I know I appreciate the effort the mods have made to keep the flurry of furious flames (ooh...alliteration) under control. I know I was a bit sad when I heard the magazines would be going away, but some people seem to feel quite a bit more strongly about it. I...

Untapped Potential is an impressive offering from Dreamscarred Press that offers a wide variety of Psionic material. Overall, it is presented is a clean and professional manner. There were a couple of editing mistakes I caught, but only minor things. The artwork isn't spectacular, but there...