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A young gnome in scholar's robes wanders into the tavern. She pauses for a moment to take stock of the company, and then proceeds to one of the smaller seats at the bar. "Brews, I presume? They told me to look for you, and ask you for something called a McGuffin. I think I may need one." As the...

Don't have Races of the Wild, sadly, or it might be worth looking at. Still, she likes elves. Ooh, that's an interesting idea. Thanks. Actually, that worked out pretty well, because she mentioned her desire to play a winged elf long enough in advance that I could set it up. The end of the...

The SA gives more raw damage if you can set it up, but you're right that skirmish would be easier to get reliably. Especially because you could do it with a bow. Scout doesn't have the social skills, but those can be subbed in easily enough. Good thought. I'm the DM and I'd allow it. I picture...

One of my players in an upcoming campaign has her heart set on a Winged (Savage Species Template) Elf rogue. Since I'll be helping her make the character, and I'd like her to be at least reasonably effective, I'm trying to think of things that might synergize with that. Flyby attack seems like a...

Wikipedia gives lists of famous people by ethnicity which I've found handier than baby name sites, because the Wiki entries give both first and last names. So for instance, all the frost giants in my recent campaign were drawn from List of Icelanders. The only really drawback is that, depending...

Sirrel Torralyn d'Sivis Name: Sirrel Torralyn d'Sivis Class:Archivist Starting Level: 1 Race: Gnome Region of Origin: Trolanport, Zilargo Size: Small Gender: Female Alignment: Lawful Good Action Points: 5 Deity: Aureon Str: 09 -1 (3 p.) Level: 1 XP: 0 Dex: 10 +0 (2 p.) BAB: +0 HP: 8 (1d6+2)...

Well, you know these people better than I do, but: 1) If her parents have given their word that she'll marry the man, and she doesn't, there can be all sorts of ramifications of the broken promise. If they signed a paper contract the spurned suitor might sue them. Even if they didn't, they've...

I run a fairly large weekly game (8 regular players). Five of them now have complained to me now about feeling unable to participate because two of the others are monopolizing the spotlight. Just one spotlight hog is pretty easy to deal with: make whatever she's not good at central to the story...

10) Mutants and Masterminds is your friend. 11) Really pay attention to party balance. In D&D it's not a disaster if the party is four fighters and a wizard. If the party is four Batmans and a Hulk, then the Batmans all tread on each others toes during investigation-type scenes, because each of...

Same here. I never plant red herrings, I just fill the world with potentially interesting people and places, and let the players interact with whatever they want. Sometimes they just walk by and get on with the adventure. Sometimes they play around with whatever it is for a little while, and...

I've got to say Chaotic Evil too. He's clearly chaotic. He believes first and foremost in individual choice, in bucking any social convention or law that doesn't suit you. His ideal world is one in which nobody tells anybody what to do: anarchy. That's as chaotic as they come. He's fairly...

1) Does the Arcane Mastery feat from Complete Arcane, which allows you to take 10 on Caster Level Checks, allow you to do so in combat? It doesn't seem like it should, since it says that it works the same way as skills, but the description refrers to "defeating the arcane defenses and spells of...

In real life, the ruler is the person the army supports; he doesn't need to be personally powerful, because there are a large number of people who, for whatever reason, are willing to enforce his decrees. This is no different in a D&D world, except that instead of a great big army, the important...