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Well, I think that a perfectly secular gamer might like Testament as it has good treatments of four ancient Near East cultures (The Hebrews, the Canannites, the Mesopotamians, and the Egyptians.) Plus there are elements of the rules that can be used in other games. (In the Forgotten Realms...

I can give you some details on the ritual warrior, as I will be going offline very soon and headed to bed. The ritual warrior is a fighter like class in Arcana Evolved. (Note that this is not Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved or the similarly named Unearthed Arcana from WotC which has optional...

Elephant, I am Jewish and I am not offended. Personally, I would go with using Green Ronin's Testament , which is a great book. Testament has the Ancient Near East as a setting and has Biblical characters and rules for different character classes unique to the book -- as well as how core...

Perhaps one thing that can help is to create a small group of characters for a play by post game, or read some of the threads in the PBP forum. I think that one thing to remember in designing characters is that individual characters will take different roles in a party. For example, I think...

BOZ, I am glad to hear that your wife was able to come back home. I hope she will not need to go back to the hospital soon and that both of you will be ringing in the new year surrounded by your family.

It was just a nightmare. Mind you these rules were not as much a nightmare as the grappling or psionic rules in earlier editions. I think that people have raised several valid objections to these rules. I would add that not only they bog down gameplay, one has to ask at what level do we want...

I am not seeing the benefits of the tradeoff either. As a spellcaster, the character has little to offer a party of 17th level characters except to be a support character. However, a PC of 17th level could have a cohort of similar spellcasting level.. Nor is the fighting ability all that...

Well. it should be Christmas for our members across the international dateline. When I chatted with Ruda and Kalanyr at about midnight Chicago time, it was late afternoon on the 24th in Australia. So, hopefully, Kalanyr, Festy Dog, Ruda, Merric B and our friends across the international...

My advice is to try the rules as written and get a feeling for them. As for accelerating training, I think that the core rules are designed with the assumption that it takes time and experience to truly gain power. Indeed, power that is not earned can often be dangerous --- at least that is...

Thanks, Rob! Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year for you and yours!

I have also run events at gamedays, and a table at the Worldwide D&D Gameday. I think that in large part the health of the hobby depends on us. Companies like WotC will market their products and may provide some level of promotion. However, I believe it is probably the current generation of...

Assuming that you are correct, Whizbang Dustyboots, the question arises as to how to get more of a crossover audience. I think that Hasbro, if it wished, could do a lot with promoting the game to MMORPGs and to a larger audience. Mind you, I do not see much advertising of the D&D game beyond...

Nah, they aren't. However, Anabstercorian would say they are tasty. ;) I think the distinction between a min/maxed character who is very effective within the rules, depending on what rules are used in a game, and a broken character is important. I have seen some min-maxed characters and...

I must have missed it. Were they an all bard party? :D

I agree, based on what I have seen of the designers. I think Hasbro could try to catapult D&D to a new level, but they have so many other products which they seem to focus their attention on. (Hasbro mostly aquired WotC for the CCG, such as Pokemon.) Mind you, Mouseferatu, I do generally...

If delayed blast fireball was cast on the mimes, would they be considered land mimes?

I think that it is important for a group to be on board with running an Exalted campaign. I have some problems with both the BoED and the BoVD, in that ultimate good and ultimate evil seem to be something that mortals can understand. (I would argue that on the scale of things in a D&D...

I ended up with Lawful Good.

Hi, Edena. Good to see this thread is still going strong! :) Generally, I like the PrCs -- especially the Loremaster and the Archmage. I did have a high level spellcaster who took levels in the Archmage PrC. The Mastery of Elements ability was very useful for my character, as was Mastery...

I believe that James Wyatt was behind the Mahasarpa campaign. Also, there was a 2nd Edition adventure created by the RPGA called Star of Kolhapur, written by Michael Selinker. I cannot comment on the accuracy of any of the material, but I can provide some details. It had characters from the...