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This is, fortunately, an easy one. Kazuu, wild elf paladin. Saved from death by the Call when his settlement was destroyed by raiders, he set off with a spear and some leather armor and an elk. While the elk was his mount, I think he might have gotten onto it twice. "Kazuu and elk are friends...

Yes on both, if "with multiclassing" counts. I've played a thieves' guild game (who hasn't?) - all rogues with a couple multiclass levels, a wizard's academy game (field trip gone horribly awry!) - wizards of various races and specialties, plus a sorceror trying so very hard to learn it "the...

I'm with Teflon Billy. Forgespeak = English with the non-Euclidean template. :D

Well, I'm only seven pages in on my first reading of this thread, but I'd like to share something. This is more or less my first exposure to The Forge, and while reading I was fascinated by jdrakeh's reference to the Narrativism definition. So I opened another Firefox tab and loaded up The...

An old DM of mine treated helms as optional elements of a suit of armor imposing a penalty to Spot and Listen checks while wearing it; -1 for light, -2 for medium, you see where this is going. However, they provided an equal AC bonus against the confirmation of critical threats. It's extra...

Quoted for truth. Having played from the red box on, I can say that 3.x in no way diminished my capacity to make interesting, fleshed-out characters that I really want to play. Instead, it gave me the capacity to make that concept fit into the rules with minimal extra effort. Clerics have...

To be honest, I'm only 80% sure Shaman's reading the same thread as the rest of us. It's not about full optimization. It's about having a concept, a character design, and having the DM give you a very thorough, rough, and dry :):):)pounding because the DM is putting his campaign idea ahead of...

To borrow from the squirrel, Hells yes. That association is the primary reason I trimmed gnomes out of my homebrew.

It seems to me like Cintra's nailed it there; it seems to me like Nac isn't saying "The DM won't let me be the most powerful member of the party by leaps and bounds", but something more akin to "With a lack of DM/player communication, it's entirely possible to make a character whose concept, as...

Well, all drama aside, I think Kamikaze Midget and Aus_Snow have more or less offered up my point. I DM, and when I have a setting that relies on significant variations from the norm, I ensure my players are aware of it. Well, more accurately, one needs to know my house rules and that the...

Take as much or as little of this as you need. I'd say it should feel dark, damp, and unsettling. The air is thick and moist and not so much stinking as tasting like brackish water. Water drips from the ceiling or runs down the walls. Fires won't burn for more than a minute, and magical light...

I played from the Red Box on. I read the Hobbit while my friends were working through Dr Seuss. I've been involved in D&D for the greater part of my life and fantasy for even longer. Do I have hobbits? No. Nor do I have Gondorian knights, men descended from Numenorean Kings, or a One Ring...

There's a lot of good ideas that've already been offered in this thread, so I'll keep it brief. Quite simply, I love monster books, ecology entries or not. All three Monster Manuals, FF, both ToH, loads of template collections, all the WotC "about monsters" books...I'll buy monster books for...

Primarily I want setting info, since I've got my own rules set that works just fine for me, but KidSocrates and ThirdWizard raise good ideas. Races early, and all the rest of the crunchies scattered throughout the setting info. PrC's in their nation or religion of origin, new spells in the...

Hmmm. I am in need of a setting to run horror games in, and I'd be certainly interested in throwing in some ideas as they come to me. I don't have a copy of Heroes of Horror, though, since the reviews have pointed me away from it; too much money for the roughly forty pages of mechanics I'd use...

I'm fairly sure arscott meant the genre, but that could just be because there are no capitals. :D Aus, I find myself agreeing with you fairly often on these boards, so I'm curious what other subgenres IH lends itself to in your eyes. When I read it, I see sword & sorcery in my head. I can't...

arscott and monboesen said a lot of what I was thinking. No more magic item dependance, more impressive characters...and yet, sword & sorcery doesn't appeal to me, and the magic system is shaky at best. I like feat chains, I like less shoe-horned classes...but then I play with the UA generic...

Certainly. Besides NPCs (who are typically riddled with those feats), my ranger/rogue took Alertness and Stealthy, the former mostly to make up for his 9 Wisdom. It doesn't come up often, but since the last PC I got to play had them, I thought I'd chime in. Mostly it's Alertness or Stealthy...

Committed. (Mostly I DM, and the most important NPCs I play are villains, archmages, rulers of nations; the movers and shakers. These people got where they were by force of arms, sorcery, and ambition. When they set themselves to something, very little gets in their way - except PCs.)

As suggested, discuss with your DM why he has no interest in bards being a useful character class, or at least why he has no interest in your bard being useful. Well, if it were my bard, I wouldn't stop short of leaving that group; at the least, I'd advocate a change of DM's.