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First, I want to mention the Advanced Gamemaster's Guide has some suggestions for playing with how often characters get feats, and I found it all to be well thought out. Second, I have played in games where everyone gets a feat at every level, and found fighters lose out nothing. In essence...

And I strongly suspect you aren't in the top 20 vendors by dollar at RPGNow, which means you apparently fall into the catagory I said needed reviews here. You may well be in the top 50, but if so I'd guess between 40 and 50, which may mean my break-point needs to be the top 30 or 35. I think...

My best guess? There aren't going to be any more updates to the SRD. Wizards is working towards 4e (not this year or next, but before 2010), and they're moving away from 3e things already. The new stat block is a perfect example. It's not open, so no one can use it except WotC and it's partners...

I hate new editions before I get them. I'm often very happy once I have them. I'm still sore from 3.5, not becuase it isn;t better (it is), but because it's only a little better, and it was a much bigger change than it should have been, much earlier. In my opinion it's too early for a 2e of...

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As a 1e adventure, it's terrible, since if you miss a Find Traps check and miss a check, you die. You can't Take 10, or Aid Another, or make Knowledge checks... you just die. Converted to 3e, it all depends on the conversion.

Dies the Fire, by S.M. Stirling. On the on hand, it's not as good as the previous series in the same universe, but it is a heck of a setting for a d20 Modern game. I had the same expereince with Gor. The first 3 are fine, the next 3 are okay, the next one is a little worse, and I'l scanned some...

My guess is that if you;re in the top 50 or so producers on rpgnow, reviews make no difference. You already have enough of a following (and your new products automatically act as portals to your back catalog) that a review doesn't really expose you to a new customer. People below the top 50 (or...

Monte Cook certainly. Especially if running his home campaign (which is about to be a major d20 release after all). James Wyatt especially if he's running the Indian Oriental Adventures game he put together (the free notes for which were nominated for an ENnie years ago, if memory serves). Owen...

Okay, having heard from Erik and Owen that Dragon still outsells Dungeon significantly and Owen isn't writing for the magazine only because he's too busy, I will cheerfully and soundly admit it looks like I'm wrong to be worried. Even so, Owen if you can make time to write some more stuff (and...

I'm amused you give your own opinion strongly, just before noting it's pretty well worthless. Of course, your basic premise is wrong. If I give you advice for free or if you pay me $40,000 doesn't matter if it's the same advice. What you really mean is that people who manage to give advice...

I loved all the articles with names, languages and phrases. Those were immediately useful, and never needed rules crunch. Many are printed out and in my folder right now. The old additional classes. The jester, anti-paladin and Incantrix in particular. I'd love to see new core classes for 3.5...

So, I mention there are three authors I'd like to see more of in Dragon to make it more relevent (since everyone seems to agree Dungeon is already geat). In response, I'm told one writes in Dungeon regularly, one is going to co-write something in Dungeon soon, and one (who is the "Sage" of d20...

I'm not bashing Dragon. I'm giving specific, applicable advice on how to make it better. While I'm in that mode: Where are the articles by James Wyatt? Where are the articles my Monte Cook? Where are the articles by Owen Stevens? All these people used to do articles regularly. Now I never see...

Practiced Spellcaster (Complete Arcana). No doubt.

The rule is difficult to find in 3.5 rulebooks. Look up flight in the back of the Monster Manual for the light-load rules. Myself, I see nowhere that gives separate loads for walking or flying, so I'd use the same even for a quadruped, but I wouldn't object to your x3 house rule if I ran into a...

First, let's cover the basics. Dragon has to be about D&D, and it has to mostly be about core D&D (rather than some specific world). All efforts to do anthing else have been met with howls of anger from the existing readership. while Paizo -could- decide to ignore existing readers in favor of...

KaeYoss is correct. The important thing to keep in mind if you're not familiar with the feat is that it only boosts the effective level at which you cast spells, -not- the level of spells you have access to. For example, a 1st level wizard/4th level fighter can take Practiced Spellcaster to...

I've used a caster level rule for several campaigns, and never had a problem with it. when first introduced it led to a flurry of multiclassed PCs, but the players soon discovered their characters weren't -more- effective than a base class character, they just weren't pathetic. In one of...

I don't know about exact game balance, but conceptually those are very cool. There's a Pyramid article called Class Feats, or something like that, that does class-specific feats for all the core D&D classes. Since subscribing gets you access to every article Pyramid or d20 Weekly has ever done...