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Never read it - I know my brother had a lot of Harrison books but not anymore - I think the only one I read was Stainless Steel Rat. Not my sort of thing. As to the warpig - it's one that I've had as a standard since 2e. An intelligent, easily domesticated animal that has the body structure...

I've never been happy with the idea of riding carnivores either. For both this reason and the point Frnak makes about the attitude of a carnivore as opposed to the herbivore. The result - I gave up on the idea of riding dogs - in my homebrew the 'vertically challenged' adventurer relise on a...

Fairy snuff - not much I can say to that one except... specialist base classes don't need as much room as some other base classes might. All the information on spell casting, spells per day etc can be done as a 'refer to base class X'. The only thing that needs to be set out is the differences...

I was really hoping we were going to see the various specialists done as individual base classes in their own right - give each of them appropriate class features - what the UA started but taken a bit further. And I don't think those variant features are going to be enough to do that... :(

Seconded... If your group is into the whole story-weaving emphasis then focus the story on some of the other guys. Beth and Alice don't need to be central to the plot - they're good at getting into it already. So build any plot line around one of the other PCs. It doesn't matter how much...

The single most important factor in my experience of trying to create a world that feels whole is the gods. It's a part I always used to really hate doing but now I've come to think that it's the most crucial event - particularly if you want your world to have been created by those gods. For...

<thread hijack> I once had a game that was exactly the opposite of this... the DM had a chance to put the characters (who hadn't met yet... first game in a very shortlived new campaign) together but made an EFFORT to keep us apart. God alone know why. Shortest campaign ever - after that...

The most useful thing I have is an Excel spreadsheet with the party in it and with all sorts of cross-references in it. So I can boost a strength value for one PC and the damage will change, or boost dex and AC changes. It's quite complicated in places and unfortunately not very easy to...

Sort of - not so much as a reward so much as a 'reality' thing - and pretty much as Baron Opal said. 3 months downtime - what are you all doing? Fair enough have these skill points. I handed out 5 each not just 2, but most of them were in Knowledge-Local and Profession-Farming/Mining - not...

As long as you don't use information that the BBEG woiuldn't have against them and play him according to what he's capable of I think you're doing fine (voted 4). But if you're making decisions on how to attack based on information that the BBEG just couldn't have then I think you're being a...

The 1E Deities & Demigods and 2E Legends and Lore both had the various Arthurian heroes statted out. Would require some fairly significant conversion but is at least a start.

DC 10 - one medium creature on soft ground. Thus the Track feat currently does a lot more than just the +4 to Survival which is proposed above. An alternative idea - allow people without Track to use survival to track but all penalties are doubled??? Not sure how that would work but would...

The ability for characters to develop into something of their own accord is only lost in 3.x if you allow yourself to be dominated by the system or the style of other players. If you allow the character to develop organically, taking the appropriate levels as you reach them, making decisions...

There's a half-drow template in Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary. Not sure how good it is but worth checking out - particularly as you can apply it to other races as well as humans.

Nice idea - just one suggestion Small change but requires that the character actually get out of the fire. Puts the characters on the back-foot a bit so replicates the fact that when you're fighting a fire you're not as in control of the situation as you might like to be.

The player can make them, stat them, design them, whatever he wants But the DM still gets to say whether or not the character can have it

Half-elves, Half-orcs and Half-dwarves are all possible, they're all fairly rare and they're all sterile - incapable of having children of their own. Elf-Orc crossbreeds also possible with the same constraints - however it's never actually happened. Other races I haven't considered yet, but...

So I told the players that various things like Goblin and Kobold are just nonsense words as far as their characters are concerned in my homebrew. Instead of just 'oh it's a kobold' I wanted to modify the monsters, and then describe the threat and have the layers react according to how much it...

Locations of the London Games Stores for you... not really the expert on all of their content though Playin' Games does have some older stuff to browse through that might be what you're looking for