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You're missing a poll option - I'll do 1-20, but I really don't like DMing at epic levels. I prefer about 4-10, though. My longest-running continuous stretch as a 3.x DM was from 6th to 14th over a couple of years' time, but I've done shorter games at various other levels.

My inclination would be to institute a "radiation accident." Hmm... How about this, assuming the whole party is pretty goodish: The party, en route to some other destination, begins having weird, disorienting (Wisdom damaging) dreams of someone reaching out to them for help - the get glimpses...

I'm aware of that. I can't speak to the other one, though, as I can't recall what it does. It's probably fairly useless (like the equivalent Vile "look I sold my soul" feats), though I would hope it does something worthwhile. Anyway, forget the business about the psion - it doesn't really...

Well of course there are a good number of excellent feats for the psion, but I don't think it's mandated that they need all of those, and I think VoP makes for a good swap-in for one of them. Probably not hugely overpowered, I think, but an excellent alternative choice.

And how would magical items be any different? Unless you don't buy stat-boosting and other vanilla items for your psions, which would be... different from what I've seen. Not like the character has to take those buffs. My experience may simply be different, but all of the psionic nastiness...

Hmm... Are you sure? I was remembering it differently (I don't own the book myself), but nobody had mentioned it yet and so I thought I would throw in what had annoyed me. Entirely possible I mis-somethinged it. :o Ah well, still don't like the feat, and still think the psion would be the...

Well, I'm not at all fond of the entire concept of Exalted feats, but that's neither here nor there. The thing that I intensely dislike about VoP is the type of bonus it grants you - the completely nonstandard exalted (or sacred? I may be misremembering) bonus. Which, unlike magical items...

Ah, yeah, that. I remember now. One of the "technologists as guys who make wands" classes. Those always annoyed me, for a few different reasons I won't get into lest I start ranting. :) Thanks. I think I'm going to try to find some reviews of Morningstar now to see how that would go...

I'm not entirely sure what you refer to here. Just to be clear, "spells as technology" (i.e., magic as mass-produceable items useable by anyone) is not my book, it's Mechamancy, to which I made a comparison in an earlier post. My book defines technology as something like a new spellcasting...

A "marvel" that inspires someone to "whimpering ecstatically"? Thanks! A little creepy, though. :D The book will be available at the ENWorld Game Store and RPGNow, as far as I know, and PoD at RPGNow. It should be a bit less than 10 dollars for the pdf, and I think around 20 for a print...

They complement each other as diverse takes on the same basic concept of "technology in D&D." The trilogy thing arose from my noting that ENP seems to publish an awful lot of these sorts of books, and that, looking at it in a certain way, the three books cover all the possible ways of having...

Hey, author of the book here. I'll field any questions anyone has. :) You mean Dave1001's Inventor and Tech Warrior? No, I am not that guy. While I am rather fond of his work (which has some affinities with the Dragonmech coglayer, among other fantasy-technological takes, and which is...

Actually, I would say this is possible. It would take longer than the spell's duration lasts, most likely, and so wasn't really worth mentioning, but the fact that the grease is actual, normal grease (as implied by its status as a conjuration (creation) effect) means that it responds to...

Wow, that is completely not how I understand the shapeability aspect of a swarm. Do you really think all 3000 insects can glom onto one guy like that to escape the grease and then mysteriously disperse when he steps 5 feet away as a not-an-action? Or that the swarm can easily and...

These can all be dispersed by a strong wind, actually. So yeah, they can leave the area, they just can't do it an have the same effects. And this one can be burned off, too, sans magic. "Unlike a fog cloud, the cloudkill moves away from you at 10 feet per round, rolling along the surface...

That's what I was after, yeah.

Not solid ground for me. I don't much care what it is for you. Though, oddly enough, the SRD doesn't contain the text you cite in the subtype description. That's some weird organization. And according to my SRD, bat and spider swarms are both immune to weapon damage. I'm not sure why they...

Well, a slight quibble, but "immune to weapon damage" arguably negates the extra fire damage dealt by a flaming weapon or a torch - if so, your supposed counter doesn't work. Even if the "immune to fire damage" thing doesn't cover it, flaming weapons and torches only affect a discrete number of...

My point, as IanB recognized, is that it doesn't matter one bit who's prone in your example. If the character's prone and the swarm isn't, if the swarm's prone and the character isn't, if both are prone or if neither are prone - the exact same thing happens until one of them tries to move to...

It's also not a very good example, IMO. There's no reason a "prone" centipede swarm wouldn't continue to deal damage to all creatures in its space. That's not what being prone does, anyway - in terms of blunting a creature's offensive abilities, grease gives a penalty on the attack rolls that...