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Eh, I can see a grease spell sufficiently sliming an area that the swarm can't make united forward progress without sorting itself out ("standing up" and making a Reflex save) first. Of course, it'll still deal swarm damage normally if anyone gets into its area. I think it's not really clear...

No kidding. The most recent adventure (for only 9th level!) could pretty easily lead to several thousand citizens of Greyhawk being converted into wights. While they're standing amidst a crowd of 15-18 thousand people. Yow!

I would recommend deciding whether you want this to be a simple (if deadly) weapon, or some kind of special attack. If the former, I would use the previous poster's Menace Manual stats and make sure the NPCs in question are as well-fitted to use the weapon as possible. Just don't ever give the...

See, comments like these make me worry since I just finished writing a lengthy sourcebook for pdf release. Fortunately, RPGnow offers print on demand for lengthy pdfs, and the quality is about as good as a regular perfect-bound sourcebook. And, at least in the case of my book, that makes for a...

No problem, and thanks. I assume that they already know how to get in touch with you, since you're a staff reviewer, so I'll just pass the word along. Nice to know my first published effort will get such a thorough review. Hmm, actually, I had better get back to work editing this thing. Want...

Hmm... Hard to say what you should do about the languages. My first inclination is not to mention them, since one language more or less is virtually never going to be game-breaking, especially since PCs can easily communicate with 98% of NPCs as is. The harder way would be to reverse engineer...

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Good review as always, but I think you made one slight mistake. You comment that King Kaius' AC is wrong because he has bracers of natural armor and his vampiric increase to natural armor working at cross purposes. I believe those stack, actually, as of the 3.5 revision, since doodads of...

I use 38 point buy. I find that the power boost is basically offset by not insisting on a cleric-fighter-rogue-wizard party composition. Since I don't want to insist on the "classic four", I further find that this works well.

No, the difference is that if it turns out not to be late where they are, the poster doesn't really feel insulted. If you suggest that they might be mentally disabled and they are not in fact so, you are that point effectively claiming that they are idiots, because their post shows clear signs...

If they actually were dyslexic, or mentally disabled, or whatever, then it's not pejorative. It's saying that they type like someone with a mental problem that's a problem, and saying such will make most people who do not in fact have some sort of disability pretty cranky, since it tells them...

Arrr, that be makin' yer shenanigans more acceptable. I would look at using faerzress as the fallout radiation. If I remember correctly, the stuff is poisonous in hight doses and definitely mucks with magic. I wouldn't screw with the Weave proper, though, since it's supposed to be a goddess...

It's in an issue of Dragon. And piracy is illegal and horribly wrong and blah blah blah. You, sir, are a bad, bad nothing-flavored individual.

I've toyed with the idea of giving raised characters a negative level that they cannot remove by any means. It goes away on its own after a year and a day.

So what, heroes have to be perfect now? We're only accepting paladins? And - for Odysseus at least - I would argue that he embodied a mode of heroism that the ancient Greeks would have seen in a better light than we do. These things go up and down, you know. Odysseus was a great cultural...

That's not how it works. Basically, the system involves converting monster bonuses to monster numbers, and taking the players' corresponding numbers and making them bonuses. So an ogre with a +12 attack bonus would have a 24 Defense DC under this system, and a player with an AC of 22 would be...

Now let's be fair here - Odysseus lost his crew because they were idiots. "Hey, here's a great idea - let's eat the sacred cattle of Helios! They look meaty, and it's not like the sun god will be paying attention to his property in the middle of the day like this!" "Ooh, I know, let's open...

1. Indiana Jones 2. Odysseus 3. Sherlock Holmes 4. Captain James T. Kirk 5. Robin Hood 6. Samwise Gamgee 7. Han Solo 8. James Bond

You're right about capitalism being neither here nor there; my non-sleeping addled brain got confused. But (as I see it), he's not arguing for any change at all, per se. He's merely claiming that the current IP laws are headed for an untimely demise (an arguably empirical claim) and that we...

This might be the case if Korimyr were actually arguing that we should tear down capitalism. However, as I read him, he'd simply arguing that we should start looking for better alternatives (with the awareness that there might not be a better alternative to be found). IF the current approach...