Recent content by The Mad Kaiser

Perhaps the healing surge should be used to get over the effects, or to continue functioning while imbibing... I'm going to brood over this some more :confused:

Big fan of the drinking rules from Tournaments, Fairs and Taverns. Has anybody been using them in 4e, or is it time for updated boozing rules?

Have any excerpts to share?

What do Drow Buildings Look Like... inside and out? (Yes, spiders, I know. ;) What else?) I'm am very curious about their doors and windows, light fixtures, seating, pillars, etc. And do they have weird rooms surface peoples wouldn't have? (We have "sun rooms" and "flower gardens," things...

What do you think would encourage publishers to update their PDFs?

Thanks for the compliment! The demon-tree was a natural after making the celestial tree. That book was sort of an experiment, to see if I had the chops for a color, art-heavy book. I still think the "Blue Thistle Blighted" template was the best thing I came up with, sort of a "lycanthropy" for...

Has anyone tried The Digital Book Booth?

Most everyone shops at the RPGNOW/DTRPG borg-cube for their RPG pdfs, but has anyone tried some of the other pdf storefronts? What are some other places you know or have tried, and what were your impressions (good or evil)? Also, how has PDF technology improved your games?

Creedbook - The Book of the Sun This is an exciting new product for Players and Dungeon Masters alike! Clerics in most RPGs are described as being "devout followers" of various deity with a link to the divine, but in reality, many clerics end up as either "walking first-aid kits" or the...

Dungeon - asylum, aviary, bowl, building, cage, camp, cell, close, coliseum, compound, coop, corral, court, courtyard, den, garden, ghetto, hutch, jail, maze, pale, park, patch, pen, pit, place, plot, pound, precinct, prison, quad, quadrangle, region, room, stadium, stockade, sty, vault, walk...

Ah, but my gripe is two-fold: 1) Mana is an overused definition in need of suitable synonyms (which varázs and it's derivitives as synonyms perfom superbly) I will concede that Charisma is an acceptable defenition for magical influence, but since it is only ever applied in an anthropological...

I don't really have a problem with expressing mana as a quantifiable force, since that was the main thrust of The Magic Goes Away; that spellcasters were depleting a natural resource. Niven was, at the time, developing a once original concept for his book. But it has gone from being a clever...

Trolleri; it was mangled due to a sloppy cut-n-paste. Hurma, noituus, taikuus - Finnish

That's really my biggest gripe. Same ol' stuff. If it's already been written, do something new. But if you must rehash "tap magic energy" for the billionteenth time, at least make it smell different. :p

I'm not sure how they are being used out of context, but they also have synonyms. PC, Mac, CPU, Mainframe, URL, web content, HTML file, etc. BTW, I think Verve is a very clever suggestion, and shows how little work it take to NOT leech from other writers. Edit: A synonym of verve is esprit...