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Considering they offered no defense at all except for Lee's grand speech, I can't imagine how it would have been any worse. Caprica Six, Baltar, and Gaeta are the only people aboard the fleet who could actually testify to Baltar's willingness to collaborate, and all three would actually be...

Yep, read that after I posted. Obviously, we won't know how well it works as a story until next year, but right now I find that information very disappointing.

Tyrol, Tigh, Tory, and Sam Anders. I don't think they are actually Cylons, myself, but they think they are.

I mostly hated it. That was surely among the worst-conceived and worst-written trials ever on TV. IANAL, but even I realized how utterly absurd all the proceedings were. And every bit of the episode -- the outcome of the trial, Adama's vote to acquit, the four "Cylons," the return of Starbuck...

There's a prestige class called "Bowman Charger" from Dragon (don't remember the issue), that is designed to be a Mongol-type archer. Edit: It's #325, apparently.

I noticed that recently when I was going to have an enemy cleric use summon bearded devil. After I read the spell more closely, I realized that it wasn't going to be a worthwhile trade to have the cleric just concentrating the whole time. The pendulum may have swung too far in the other...

This, to me, is the main problem with the class as currently written. If the druid has time to summon (not always the case, but pretty frequently), he completely dominates the combat, because he has so many damned actions. He's a bear, his companion's a bear, he summons a bunch of bears, they...

Add me to the list of people who would like to see the classes altered to include built-in bonuses to stats, AC, etc., Iron Heroes-style, so that the Big Six become less important, or go away entirely. I think the current system is most irritating when statting up classed villains. They're...

I'm with you on this. I think the theories discussed in this thread are really quite plausible and might make for fascinating viewing down the line. This particular episode, though, was really quite dull and cliched. Kara's death, which should have been an amazing dramatic moment, landed with...

That's the epic-level one, right? I always thought it would be entertaining to see a sidebar on scaling that one down for 1st-level characters: "Replace the advanced blackstone gigant with an animated chair..."

I completely agree, and am quite dissatisfied with WotC's editing, especially for stat blocks. However, even their poor efforts are light-years ahead of most hobbyist/fan-produced stuff, and many of the smaller "professional" PDF publishers' material. They may have some good ideas, but they're...

Ah, so I'm not alone, then. I think Moldvay/Cook did a fine job of making the game novice-friendly without being condescending. I also like Otus and (especially) Dee a lot better than Easley.

He was definitely enthused a few months back: Great line. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/sg/20061026a

Could be, but at one point he claims that it's in the MM. In that same passage, he sort of implicitly admits that there is no template, since he suggests using the stats for a rat swarm (minus the climb speed and the filth fever presumably). It seems to me that the obvious way to make...

I usually like the Save My Game articles, but this one was pretty poor. I notice how he also keeps talking about using "the swarm template," as if such a thing existed.

Mark me down as another person who understands AoOs pretty well, thinks they're reasonably clear, but still laughs at the strip. For me at least, the funny comes not in the supposed critique of the rules, but rather the idea that heroes would be arguing minutiae like this in the middle of...

Unorthodox Bards is a 47-page PDF from The Le Games which presents new options for bards. It includes five variant-bard core classes, a pair of prestige classes, and a number of magic items, including one supposed artifact. A pair of appendices reprint the bard's spell list and class table...

There's also the wakyambi elves from Nyambe. They're Medium-sized, but have a Climb speed (IIRC), fur, a tail, and are LA +0 (with a +2 Cha modifier, to boot).

All that stuff was apparently with the cleric. I don't why my dwarf needed a sunrod, but he had one. And 2 flasks of acid, and some alchemist's fire, and holy water. Our group dispatched the flameskull with no difficulty, but I'm guessing it's because the judge didn't know how to run it...

I would agree that it made some sense, but it was also a bit dispiriting to have my 7 Dex fighting man act last every bloody time :(. The other part of the initiative system that I found bizarre was the fact that spells automatically went off first, no matter what, followed by missile weapons...