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Yes - but far less restrictions than previous editions, which is the comparison point. Right - but those are not the core rules! They are campaign settings, which restrict the rules for the reasons of specific, campaign theme reasons. It's just like a DM saying "My homebrew has no elves or...

Explain how, exactly, you can draw the conclusion that this guy, whom you've known since 1E, and who has ALWAYS PLAYED THIS WAY, can possibly exemplify the "mentality 3E generates"?!?!? Seems to me he merely exemplifys the fact that, frankly, some players suck.

Key difference between the Barsoom campaign, and, for example, racial restrictions in 1e: Racial restrictions in 1e were handed down by the baseline game materials. In the Barsoom campaign, they are a sub-set of the existing rules, chosen to fit a certain theme. To my way of thinking, the game...

I used: PHB 3.5 DMG 3.5 MM 3.0 Three Arrows for the King PDF (bone archer prestige class) Angrimayiu's Reference sheets (the 3.5 conversion, credit to whomever updated them... thanks!) Some internet research regarding the average speed of a large river. And my rather large binder of campaign...

Expanded Psionics Handbook: No D&D Map Folio I: Maybe Complete Divine: Probably Eberron Campaign Setting: Probably Not Planar Handbook: No Races of Stone: No D&D Map Folio II: Maybe D&D Basic Set: No Monster Manual III: Probably Not Frostburn : Huh? Eberron Whispers of the Vampire's Blade...

I had a character make a construct familiar. It was pretty cool, and significantly tougher than a normal familiar (esp. with the adamantine we had salvaged from a demon's prison as it's exoskeleton - long story). In the end, though, it still rode around in my backpack, acting as a lookout and...

IIRC, it was a troll. Throw a regenerating monster at a newbie first time out. Greeeaaat. We beat it, though. But I lost my hat.

Further, it might just backfire. I imagine a scenario like this: You set up a certain death, fool-proof, way-over-their level trap/ambush/setup. The players, using the ingenuity bred over years of gaming, wriggle out of it in some unforseen but totally brilliant manner. (This happens ALL...

While it isn't a cleric domain, the drunken master PrC from Sword and Fist has some great drunkenness related feats and abilities - you might look into some of them for the granted power. I believe one of them gives you a bonus to CON & STR and a penalty to Dex & WIS & INT (???) per drink...

Ummm... yeah, based on what you are saying, I would say you are being a little bit lazy. And as to whether or not it is a bad thing, ask your players. This is probably the most important part of the whole game. Knowing who knows what, and what they will tell you, and what they will do, makes...

Also check out this thread: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=79647

We use a 28 point buy, straight from the DMG. I really like the balance of high and low that has provided, it can result in some high stats but not excessive. Most characters have two good stats, in the 15-16 range, and either 10-11 in all the rest, or a nice array with an 8 somewhere. The...

oooooohhhh... I just got a great idea.... Stealing again, this time from the Forgotton Realms, sorta.... I think the old gods are now walking the earth, reduced to mere mortal form... hafta think this one over... I was going to send them after the last remaining Master Wisard, but what if they...

IMC, there is one god - ORB - and he draws his power from the worshippers. When his church warred on the other churches, and won, their gods fell, and he went from a mid-level god to a highly powered (the only) god. They won the war not through divine intervention, but through sheer mortal...

Are you sure that Neutral is the correct alignment for her? I was thinking Chaotic Neutral... if she doesn't have a clear side that she favors, it leads me to believe that she is more interested in the conflict than the reasons. Which smacks of a chaotic nature, to me. At any rate, I think...

merchants are generally experts, with lots of skill ranks in diplomacy and appraise and knowledge (their specialty). usually between 1st-3rd level, master traders or heads of merchant guilds/houses might be higher. expert class is in the SRD. For a really great examination of all the...

I had a tinker wizard with a construct raccoon. Very cool color bit for the character, and figuring that a raccoon is quite agile with its hands, and that he was smarter than our party's barbarian, he could "Aid Another" on craft checks for my wizard. He rode in the side pocket of my Handy...

I would suggest looking to some literature: Dune (as has been mentioned), Ender's Game, and Stranger in a Strange Land (in particular, towards the characters who were highly trained witnesses - the bit about the house being white on this side...) jtb

Speaking of which, go rent A Knight's Tale and watch it for Jeff (Geoffrey Chaucer)'s parts as the herald and writer. Bard class all the way, and not a lute in sight. And you can't tell me that his stirring "introductions" did not inspire Sir William... as for how I play a bard character, I...

3.5 SRD. Most of the pictures in the 3.0 MM will suffice, so I haven't spent the $$$ on the new edition. Although I probably will someday, drooling fanboy that I am. jtb