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It just goes to show that no matter how weird the ideas we come up with for fantasy games, the real world offers stuff that's far more bizarre! :D But, no, I don't think I'll be trying to get a hold of any Kopi Luwak coffee!

Weasels on caffeine?!!?! Those little beggars are mad enough as it is, without getting them wired too! Now there's an image: a Wizard with a caffeine-hooked weasel familiar dancing around in his robes*! :) *this has actually nearly come up in a game of Ars Magica; read from that what you will!

I listed a homebrew not so much for the races, but for the way I handle them. You see, my Orcs are generally smarter than the orcs of the MM, and less primitive in some of their tribes. My own version of Bluffside is threatened not by lizardy-people but by a Grey Orc Empire, equipped with...

Hmmm... I agree with the first point - I think that spontaneous conversion to cure spells was an inspired idea, though maybe it ought to be expanded to one or two more spells (restoration, for example, comes to mind). But whilst I see your point about not having to spend all his healing on...

Out of interest, Storminator, what exactly did you do to tone them down?

Wow! That's not an answer I expected (which is always a good thing). But I think I disagree with your thesis. A Cleric with low strength can raise it through magic, and can make use of tools that are appropriate to that character build. He will still have access to the same BAB chart, and can...

Okay, I appreciate that this point has been debated before at some length, but since my memory is so poor, I wanted to ask the great and good of ENWorld for advice. Basically I want to create a clear divide between two types of Cleric. One, the Militant, will still be essentially the Cleric of...

I don't think that that is necessarily so, Kershek. Unless you are playing a very 'Gamist' campaign, where the exact power of the opponents is essential for the fight, and where DM intervention to reblance things on the fly is discouraged, then the exact details are not important. After all, the...

A lot would depend on what sort of feeeling you want from the campaign. Option A leaves the battle lines pretty clearly demarcated: there is Good and Evil who fight each other, though perhaps some of the Evil groups fight each other. Option B on the other hand, has the potential to be far...

The vast majority of everything that goes into a campaign that I run is of my own creation. Games that I run are generally fairly Role-Play intensive and relate closely to the game setting, so I find that other than pillaging a few ideas, modules don't offer me much other than maps. That said I...

Regarding actual 'time zones' I am sure that Faerun doesn't actually possess any. However the question can reasonably be rephrased as how does longitude affect local time in the Forgotten Realms. In principle that's calculable. Myself, though, I'd go for a gut impression. If they leave Waterdeep...

I'm an 'other' :) When I first looked at how I would picture familiars in D&D3e, I imagined the ritual summoning process. I have Wizards and Sorcerers draw up magical circles which in the space of the ritual draws an appropriate animal to the presence of the summoner. Whilst the player decides...

I'm sorry to say that ol' Devis is far the more handsome fellow, and with that sword of his, he really knows how to win any field of combat: physical, social or magical! ;)

It's certainly an interesting idea, and would make the Feat considerably more valuable to a wider range of characters. I must confess that I prefer Earthdawn's approach to Hit Points. That game gives every character a number of hit points, based on Toughness, at First Circle (level), typically...

Thr trouble with that argument though Doc, is that the first level Wizard is already so weak, even with Toughness, that a single hit puts them into neagtive territory anyway, and quite possibly kills them. Not getting hit is what a first level Wizard needs! ;) I tend to see D&D3e's solution to...

I found that as presented, no-one ever took Toughness - it just wasn't a good use of a Feat slot, even for a Human Sorcerer or Wizard. So, long before Neverwinter Nights came out I adjusted it to a once-only +1 hp per level (for a while it was +3hp at 1st level and +1hp/level thereafter, but...

I've commented before that most camapigns could give a fig for a 'realistic' price list! :) For starters, you'd have to specify a particular milieu in order to use any historical information. And since the 'default' D&D setting seems to be a rather chaotic mix of eras and locales, it would have...

Why Bodaks? I agree with satori that Bodaks have great flavour. I haven't directly used a Bodak in my Shattered World camapign yet, but they fit right in with the cosmology. I have a place that is effectively the source of Evil, and that place has servants and agents. In the right...

Ryan I read through this thread, trying hard to think what to say to you. Like many others I feel that I know you through these boards, so your news is my news too. I can only add my voice to that of others here: the people of ENWorld are with you through this, and will think of you often. I...

'Side Quests'? I admit I use them. But I suppose the major difference is that I don't have a single main story arc. Instead I weave a skein out of several threads, so what appears to be a sidequest at any given time might actually the development of a main story arc, just not the one they think...