Recent content by Tiama'at

What I did: Free feats slots (1 per 3 levels I believe) from the following list: Skill Focus, Greater Skill Focus, Epic Skill Focus (I made my own, grants +8 to skill roll), and Skill-related feats. MUST be used linked to skills the Expert has chosen as "class" skills. Increase Skill Cap. (+1...

I'd be very careful about where you point THAT particular opinion. It is both facile and untrue. - Ma'at, 2nd level Civil Servant

I still like my idea more - and it didn't create any flame wars about religion. :) - Ma'at

Note - not a good way of explainging things but humourous to think about. (insert warning to the humour impaired here) 1. Hit them with a Bible or similar heavy book (math textbook, bibles used should be the Big Old Family editions and not the small pocket sized versions, only combined Old+New...

Re: Re: Curious... Originally posted by Felon Good lord, when Vampire the Masquerade came out in seemed that there were endless revised editions. If you mean that 3 editions in 10 years was "seemingly endless" then I cry for your math teacher. - Ma'at

Not vastly different ones, no. But some on-the-spot clarification in unavoidable. It's a case where the game world expects the Character-paladin to have had several years of training, including lessons learned about philosophy and the impact of act and thought on the nature of good and evil -...

I'm pretty sure Bahamut (The Platinum Dragon) is LG - the whole owning a residence in the Seven Heavens kind of cinches it right there. Perhaps you are thinking of Tiamat, his nemesis, the five-headed (or leather wearing dominatrix ala Dragonlance art) dragon who controls a hordes of dragons in...

Barring printing/shipping problems, expect it the week before Christmas (makes a great present :) !)

None. Is there a difference between Faerun and The Forgotten Realms? Mystara was the name they gave the world when they started codifying all the setting elements present in OD&D modules. The term 'The Known World' I believe dates back to module X1 - The Isle of Dread, which included a map of...

It's kept my WoD game going for 5 campaigns over 7 years of real time. - Ma'at

The penis size is just a side benefit. :) IT just comes from being able to say 'no'. Just because it's in a rulebook does not mean it's at the table. You have the extra benefit of knowing that d20 players are NOT exactly a rare commodity (unlike other systems), so turning away a munchkin...

BESM (Tri-Stat) also is a good system for balanced drawbacks, since, as a rule, you get less points from drawbacks than benefits cost (so a mute might get you 1-2 points, but that won't buy you very much).

In general I'm reading this thread and all I take fromit is that if your DM is a complete and utter milksop of course you can abuse any drawback system. The key is the miraculous ability of the DM (with a spine) to suggest alternative, say no, or in extreme cases, tear up your chaarcter sheet...

Well, for others it was a major stumbling block - all that narration and too little hard information made the setting a bit blurry. Since we were trying to attract new people, and get back some of the ones who were turned off by the narration (and the implicit importance of the signature NPCs -...

If the over-narration was a problem then your players will be very very happy with this book. There is a minimum of narration in the book (I think at most there is a total of 2-3 pages of it spread over all seven chapters). All information is written in standard, "objective" voice with solid...