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Spellfire? The one by Ed Greenwood? I actually liked the book, despite a fair number of editing goofs/cuts ( go here http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2566/ed-novels.htm for a better explanation). Not that I liked the other two books, mind you (way too much lore-dropping, etc...

Yep. The only other thing I didn't quite like was how they altered ability score determination. The practical outcome is that eliminates the risk getting a sword that manages to get straight 18's (making Ego scores a tad high), then again the risk might've been lessened instead by counting a...

If one has the Arms & Equipment Guide, there's pricing for some feats in the revamped (yet still 3.0) Intelligent Item table section. From what I've seen, A 1st-tier feat (those that don't require another feat as a prerequisite) for an intelligent item generally costs 10,000 gp. In addition, the...

Here's my question: How do they stay in business? The law of survival ought to be coming into effect and yet...*ack*...

Methinks that if they went all-out to do a more exhaustive look at dragons it would easily be a two-book set. There wasn't room for the gem dragons (nor Sardior the Ruby Dragon, their deity, whose 3e stats can be found on the wotC site). Perhaps this other material--including the deific stats...

I understand the reasoning, but they could barely fit the material they already had on dragons within. To include Bahamut and Tiamat (found on pages 118 and 133 of the Manual of the Planes, and updated in the 3.5 MotP update PDF) would've forced cutting something else from the book. What parts...

Good review, John---what a surprise about the relative lack of misspellings. And to think I blamed my bad eyes for not catching many. :) Adrian Bott really does have a good mix in there. Some of the 'practical' bits in there beg to be adventure hooks. For example, take the crystal castle...

Once upon a time, there were splatbooks published by WotC with names like Sword & Fist, Song & Silence...and they sucked. Okay, okay, that's a little unfair. Feats and prestige classes were still a new concept then and these books (along with Tome & Blood, Defenders of the Faith, Masters of the...

Thanks, John. I was almost certain you'd beat me to this one by the time I got my copy. :) The stronghold-building section is what made want to get this book but I wound up enjoying the rest of it. Sirius Black, I'm not completely sure. I had the same problem when the first Relics & Rituals...

P.S. In case I gave anyone the wrong impression, it was the Relics & Rituals book that I could hear the crinkly-crackies when flipping through. Not the BSTD. (In some ways this is just like dealing with hard drives, if it's making a funky noise you know it's not long for this world.)

The Book of Strongholds & Dynasties, by Mongoose Publishing, is the first in the Classic Play series and, incidentally, also took the longest to for me to acquire. It's 256 pages, a hardcover with binding no better than that of Sheoloth: City of the Drow--which means it isn't as tight as...

Check out Telkoun's (sp?) tower, found in an adventure in the Silver Marches accessory. I've been going crazy trying to create a different (but affordable) tower/stronghold for my group the past few months and have been looking at that as a model (I only have 120,000 gp., and I'm still having...

Yep, yep, and yep. 100% agreed. I was happy it came out initially (despite being a FR gamer by then) but was sorely disappointed by the artwork and layout. The cover art was decent, at least. A single Greyhawk hardcover would be sweet, even at the usual $30-$40 price tag I've been seeing so...

I recall asking Mongoose about it a while back and apparently the shipment was held up by customs for a while...as for those who pre-ordered on Amazon.com, eh. I cancelled my order a while back, although I did go back and manage to snag a copy for $21.55 including S&H from an Amazon reseller...

And why would that be so bad? Especially if they took some of the better 2e adventures and updated them (as opposed to 3.0, which would make little sense)...I rather liked the two Dungeon adventure anthologies a few years back, I'd like to see a bit of that again. Of course, I'd also like to...

And how is that bad? They essentially lose their spellcasting capabilities but (from what I can tell) are given the ability to do 'x' or 'y' which is the equivalent of a spell, 1/2/3 a day. You're getting too hung up on the notion that the ability is explained away in the form of a spell. Work...

Try 'stormlord'. Much better.

Personally I'd rather get the +1 CL/every other level compared to what the previous bladesinger versions have had. So I'll add a hip-hip to your hurray (sp?). Puzzled by the extra FR PRC material but oh well.

I hope it's better than the SBG, frankly I didn't like how it handled construction (other than magical augmentations).

Amazing. Bloody amazing. The apathetic cynic in me has been bowled over upon hearing of this and then seeing how well people chipped in. If I were God's right-hand man I'd vote to give all the donors an honorary halo (in your choice of neon blue, pink, purple, or pale golden). :) And I'll...