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That's not quite so preposterous as it would seem to be at first glance. Most air traffic control radars really don't actually see the aircraft, they see the transponder and the signal it's squawking. Militaries use similar IFF transponders to identify aircraft from beyond visual range. So...

Depends on the game. In our Birthright game, about half of the characters were married off at one point or another. My character didn't see his wife for months after, on an adventure, he was infected with lycanthropy, and until he could get that cured, didn't want to freak her out or possibly...

At least, not starring roles. Bit parts, now, he can do; I'm not sure when Around the World in 80 Days (the one with Jackie Chan) was filmed, but he had a little role in that, along with The Rundown. I vaguely remember something about Triple H being offered the role. Let's see...quick Google...

I'm okay. Not great, but okay. My two issues are that I'm bad at teamwork, and don't react well to changing events. However, I know how to pile fire onto a target, especially with surprise, and I'm very good at preparation. When playing RTS games, I get very dangerous if I'm not taken out...

Sadly, Polymorph Any Object doesn't do special materials; otherwise, that'd be an interesting way of breaching material DRs. Sure, it requires a 15th-level wizard or sorcerer, and it's permanent, and the spell description specifically disallows it, but hey. :) The only existing in-game weapon...

Also, apparently Egyptians and Meso-Americans thought dwarves rocked at magic. There are supposedly traditions about dwarves raising one of the Mayan pyramids in a single night. I say supposedly, since this comes from Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods, which might be a bit dodgy. But...

Hrm. Yeah, I don't see why it wouldn't breach DR n/adamantine, since the (admittedly 3.0) description you quote above says it's pretty much the same. If nothing else, it's the most durable substance in the game, and probably the best epic weapon material; once you're spending 1m+ gp on a...

Savage Species specifically allows half-celestial celestials (like, say, an archon and a guardinal having kids), so I don't see why you can't have half-dragon dragons. That's definitely crazy, but kind of cool. I'd hate to have it inflicted on me, but, then again, they don't get that much...

Gah. Starts out as a +2 cold iron longsword (cost of 10,330 gp), and then a +5 holy cold iron longsword (cost of 98,330 gp). SR of 5+ paladin's level, and greater dispel magic 1/round of paladin's level. The problem, of course, is that the other abilities work (1) only for paladins and (2)...

The xeg-yi (MotP, pp. 168-169, the negative energon) is the only one out there right now that I know of. I think there used to be more in 2e/Planescape, but I could be mistaken. Per the Sage Advice in Dragon # 308, no. If you look at the description in the 3.5 DMG, it mentions doing double...

1) Correct. 2) Urm, yeah, pretty much. You'll get a bonus feat at 20th level (assuming Wiz 5/Alienist 10 and back into Wizard), and a familiar. Of course, you also get your spellcasting. So, you may want to go prestige class shopping. Brad

For weapons, mithral's main appeal is that it's (1) cool and (2) light. It's also more durable than steel and cold iron weapons, but less so than adamantine. Honestly, it's probably best to not bother making most weapons out of mithral. Light/finesseable weapons might benefit, since the...

Psions can take Resculpt Mind (Dragon # 287, also on the Mind's Eye on the WotC website) and exchange those nigh-useless combat modes for metapsionic feats, which are almost definitely more useful than the combat modes...most of which you get back, anyway. Brad

Near as I can tell, you have to look at the monster and figure out what its ECL is; that, of course, is Hit Dice + Level Adjustment (LA). You can either figure that out yourself from Savage Species, or download the MM2 3.5 update, which does include LA for MM2 creatures. Next, you figure out a...

Subdual damage is now "nonlethal" damage. Almost every other re-naming I can figure out why they did it, but this...(shrug). Brad