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Heh, nice. OTOH, I'd be the first to admit that I'm lazy, and would prefer to do something fun, rather than, say, accounting. Besides, one of our other players is big on accounting-style preparation and contingency planning, anyway, so he hands out the Alchemist's Bleargh as needed. It makes...

That is an option. It's not one that I like, because I've never found the image of flinging vials of alchemist's bleargh to be a particularly compelling one. In fact, I tend to forget I have those, because I dislike them so much. But I do recognize that it is an option. It's a better option...

Most can. My rogue had as his 7th-level encounter a close burst power, the name of which I can't be bothered to look up right now. A thief could spend a feat and take that, of course. Whether or not the feat cost for the extra versatility is worth it The problem is that once you use up your...

I'm very glad Niu survived. I don't know that I could've taken them being wiped out with no one knowing. I have to say, though, the timing seems weird, still: The hobgoblins report in. The elf rogue* polymorphed into a hobgoblin overhears the report. The elf rogue reports in (presumably...

I wasn't particularly impressed when I tried it on the Beta stress test weekend back in November. It'll help if you're a fan of CRPGs. I am not. So, the talky cutscenes got really irritating after a while. It honestly felt like a way of artificially extending gameplay, to have to listen to...

Yes. I personally could happily live w/o Vancian magic, but I realize people like it. So it should be an option, but not *mandatory*. Brad

Woo, I'm one of 3 avenger players so far! Me = Avenger, cleric (both PHB1 and warpriest), sorcerer, rogue (PHB1), warlord, and psion. Brad

The primary thing I hope to keep: Attribute Attack vs Fixed Defense This is just so simple and logical, to me, that I can no longer imagine playing a D&D game without it. Every single time I flip through my Pathfinder books, I ask myself why can't Pathfinder do that? Subsets of this include...

I, personally, did not care for vancian magic*. I can tolerate a spontaneous caster, having enjoyed playing two psions, a warlock, and a warmage, but I found that the dual sets of bookkeeping, both determining which spells to learn, as well as which spells I should use in my limited number of...

Embrace it. Frankly, the various and sundry players who choose to play clerics and paladins are probably among the last Divine characters in the world, barring living traitors and some weird nutjobs out in the woods who've gone around the bend. Let them have their moments. Among other ideas...

I figure it's entirely possible that he's gotten a level or two since Azure City. After all, that's an awful lot of summoned help, and we've never seen him use actual outsiders, only a fiendish mammoth. But, even with 8th-level spells "only," he'd've mopped the floor with the non-leveled...

I've always followed Mrs. Weasley's advice. I never trust anything if I can't see where it keeps its brain. Brad

Hell, we had a mother cat with tufts on her ears, indicative of some antecedents hooking up with bobcats at some point in the past. Said mother cat also wandered around much more than queens typically do, about as much as a tomcat. Brad

Yup, ECL+8 or more. I'm guessing that the high-level elf mages are all dead at this point, so the resistance probably has a couple more strips left in them. Pity. Brad

Something I saw mentioned that you could change the address on your Kindle, like, say, to the address of the hotel you were staying in (I presume, theoretically), and that would work. That seems a touch iffy, though. Brad

An Essentials class can take any paragon path it qualifies for. Look carefully at the abilities the slayer gets at Paragon. Some of those are for its native paragon path, Mythic Slayer, and others are for the class itself. Specifically, the slayer's abilities that it gets regardless of...

Fighter//Monk//Rogue? Lotsa skills in class, lotsa feats, lotsa BAB. Brad

So, one of my favorite series is the Shadows of the Apt, by Adrian Tchaikovsky. If you're not familiar with it, it's a steampunk fantasy set in a world where humans have insectoid qualities and traits...Beetle-kinden are tough and industrious, Wasp-kinden can fly and have energy stings, etc...

I loves me my Staff of Ruin. It does exactly what my sorcerer wanted, which is to Blow Stuff Up Real Good. No funky on-use powers to remember two rounds later, nice high crit dice, and a simple property that slides right into the math like it's meant to be there. The only reason it might be...

Wayyyy back in the day, in our 3e Birthright game, one of the players was a female elf rapidly going down the path of awnsheghdom. She died a lot, but couldn't die permanently. Hell, she once died twice in the same fight. Nobody, but NOBODY could remember her name. Not even her. She was...