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Some developers show customers a mockup of the interface early on so they don't wind up committing to a design the customer hates and having to jerk their GUI code around at the last minute. (This is also why some developers use a separate interface layer from the actual underlying code - if...

Depends on the setting, but directly and flagrantly violating a deity's core teachings when you're sworn to the deity in question usually doesn't end well. I can't say exactly how I would respond if put on the spot by a situation like that, but I'd at least consider stripping their powers in...

So, because it's just two words on the sheet, lawful good characters will go out and murder a village? Uh, nope. It sums up a lot of your moral and ethical outlook based on the definition in the book. That's the common reference right there, and it certainly has an effect on gameplay if you...

They lean toward it, but no, they aren't a striker. They're a serious powerhouse of a defender.

...other than your character's entire outlook on life, the universe, and everything. No, it's not really enforced mechanically (which some of us didn't in the first place), but roleplaying is still there, and it says a heck of a lot about what a character does and who they are. I'd say that's...

It depends on heavy use of milestones and very goal-oriented plots as well as a certain play style for the players. You've established your players wouldn't stand for it in two different posts. At this point, you're ranting about what someone else's group feels works in their game, and the...

It certainly encourages synergy, but optimizing a party isn't that hard if the players are canny and talk to each other in my experience.

Among other things? Because some of us like to make them remember that what they're doing is dangerous. Adventurers are rare for two reasons. First, not many people are crazy enough to do it. Second, of those that are, the life expectancy is not long. Most adventurers, the vast majority...

My, oh my, oh my, is this ever true. Wizards and wizard-alikes in 3rd edition may have gotten a damage knock, but dealing with the problem of your allies being in the area is nothing new to an old hand at wizardry. Pick your target carefully. If it's the last encounter of the day (or you're...

Definitely a keeper. I like it and will definitely keep it in mind. Forcefeeding it to the Character Builder might be a bit difficult (they need to open the data structure to allow user input of class elements directly, or at least provide a better editing interface), but worth the trouble.

Fey Origin has a very specific game effect, although it's not well-explained in the PHB at the moment. The MM makes it clear, though: All of the races that have Fey Origin (elves, eladrin, and drow at the moment) are fey humanoids, not natural humanoids like the other races. Currently, we...

For the Enhance Ability Score, I really meant for it to be one entry that is effectively two different effects, depending on the choice made, but your way is probably less confusing to less literal-minded people than me. On the Illusion effects, I second moving them to Create. They really...

*walks in a few days late, picks up the gauntlet* This should probably be under Cure. Personally, I would put this under Transform, but I'm not sure which colleges the core spell(s) this is based on are under. Also, I view the verb in question as being Preserve which seems to me more a...

I'm more than willing to playtest and quite interested. I can be contacted at moonsword22@hotmail.com pretty easily. I don't have any real playtest experience but I've been playing for a few years.

*dispatches nightblades after Rico* What was that again? *snickers*

I'm also glad you guys are working on the revision. I run as a GM rather than as a player, and I've found EoM useful for throwing a monkey wrench at players. Give them a very exotic spellcaster, but make them NPC assistant, don't let 'em see the stats. That way, they don't know what they can...

I suppose next someone's going to drag affirmative action into this? *shakes head* Like the people have said, this is a generic setting. It's not specific. I can speak on the issue of building a campaign setting, I'm in the process of it. FR and Greyhawk are pretty generic, which is good...

Already done. All the drafts are in a file on my hardrive at home. The planar mage needs to be rewritten extensively anyway, so that isn't exactly a loss. I'm buried in exams and a concert at the moment. The half-anarch will get out this weekend. I haven't had time to work on it, or the...

Spatzimaus is right, IMO. Changing the casting stat is a big change, especially when it's moved to one of the physical stats, particularly Con. That boots the hp of the sorcerer a lot since his highest stat is now in a combat area, and it belongs there. This will enhance long term survival...

I'm just keeping this stuff here for now while we hammer out the draft. These are draft versions, so at the moment, I'm posting them in this forum rather than out in the main set. I've been busy with school work lately, but the half-anarch should be out in a week at most.