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Regarding the "cute" mekillot vs the scary battle version: Look at the cute pillbug version. See those two giant scales on its face that go around its eyes, down to its mouth, giving it a smiley look? Perhaps those scales acted as a sort of movable face shield; in resting mode they are down in...

Yeah, but what's the point of worshipping some powerful being? The D&D world is full of all sorts of super power magic, so gods are nothing special.

This article didn't answer the question all Athasians mus have: Can you drink a water genasi?

Well, rather than arguing about this, let's seize this as an opportunity! Let's say your character has the Hand of Vecna. Then you encounter another person who also has the Hand of Vecna. What the heck is going on? Is there more than one Vecna? Is one the real hand? Are they both fakes? Is the...

It's because it's a unique item, and nobody else can have it because my brother's ranger has it. ;)

If you do play a water genasi, expect to be drunk. No, not inebriated... drunk.

I like the "turn to a swirl of sand" effect for fey step. A cool-looking teleport without resorting to planar travel. As for tieflings and dragonborn, they seem very Darksunny to me.

What if drow were stuck being the main food source of cannibal halflings? Mmmmm, Drizz't MacNuggets!

I think many of us view the feywild as a sort of mirror image of the prime material plane (yeah, I know they don't call it that any more... what is the name of the regular plane of existence now?); so it stands to reason that the feywild of Athas is like Athas, but even worse. Take all the...

It should not stack. Bow users are already powerful enough. If you give rangers magic arrows, you should give warlocks magic ammo for their rods too.

This season on Nemesis Showdown we'll bring you these exciting matches: Thief vs. Ear seeker Magic-user vs. Bookworm Fighter vs. Rust Monster Cleric vs., um, a misplaced holy symbol? Arbitrary "your god doesn't grant your spell"? Accidental use of an edged weapon?

It's good vs. those darn twin-striking rangers too.

I'm not against weird trap monsters... but in old editions the game relied overmuch on player knowledge, not character knowledge... at least in 4e you can do perception checks to notice the ear-burrowing braineater of death. And hopefully by seeing it first, and not by feeling the intense pain...

Ear Seekers. Very Gygax, for better or worse. What's next, deadly arthropods that mimic thieves' tools that sneak into your pouch and bite you to death when you try to pick a lock?

Um, I blame Corellon and those goody-goody elves for clouding my vision....