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Draconomicon FC1: Hordes of the Abyss Lords of Madness

Dude, it's marketing. What do you expect them to say? "Well, really, last year's product was just as good as the one we're producing this year, but buy our new stuff anyways, 'cause I've got a kid in college, an 11-year-old with braces and an $800-a-month payment on my Navigator?" I mean...

None of the above. Over the years I've bought hundreds of books I'll probably never use, but I picked them up for a variety of reasons. Curiosity, an interesting concept, recommendations from others, a cool-looking cover, or a sticker marked "70% off". So I end up with a pointlessly large...

Oh, aside from the corporate firewalls that block .pdfs? Or the difficulty in getting a browser to properly display the .pdf if you happen to have both Acrobat installed, instead of Acrobat Reader? Or the download managers that sometimes choke over .pdfs? I'd rather have them zipped, myself.

Can I offer a somewhat tongue-in-cheek piece of advice that nonetheless works great for me? Before we sit down and play, I run off a few rounds of 1-on-1 Deathmatch UT2k4 with my wife. That puts us in the proper no-favorites mood, and the rest of the game sails nice and smooth.

Guess this qualifies me as a RBDM, but in my campaigns, not only can you not take 20 for anything, but if you fail your roll, you can't try again until your skill improves. I'm OK with taking 10, though. But if you take 10 and it still isn't enough, you can't try again until your have a higher...

Libram of Ineffable Tarnation-- causes the reader to henceforth speak like Yosemite Sam. Veil of Obscurity-- the wearer gets a +30 bonus on Knowledge (Useless information) checks. Sort of like Cliff Clavin. Hat of Change-- Magically exchanges any coin put inside it for an equal value of the...

83. If I'm eating dinner with the hero, put poison in his goblet, then have to leave the table for any reason, I will order new drinks for both of us instead of trying to decide whether or not to switch with him. Oh, the heck with it. My guards will burst in after the appetizer and gun him down...

As long as he didn't take undue pleasure in the actual humiliation, I wouldn't even worry about the paladin participating. That's a great example of a punishment fitting a crime without over-reacting.

Mayfair Games also had a combat expansion system for 1e/2e D&D that used an insane number of different combat moves, distributed among several different difficulty and training levels as well as monster-specific ones. Blood and Steel.

You know the one type of Necromancer I've never seen played, but would love to? A jolly one. He's friendly, charismatic, treats undead as old friends that he's happy to see again, treats them with respect. He views the control of death and undeath as a responsibility and it's his job to make...

I'd get this in a heartbeat. But it would need to have the original ship aesthetics, the Polyhedron updates were just plain fugly.

No particular order Star Wars D6 Planescape 2e boxed set 1e DMG Fiendish Codex I Rules Cyclopedia Honorable mentions-- The whole Monstrous Compendium / Manual series from 1989 on. I liked how each entry gave an ecological niche and place for those monsters to actually fit.

Are you looking for what she calls herself, or what others call her? What society or race interacts with her the most? What sort of culture are the titans who guard her? For what she calls herself, <Sound of freezing sleet blown through an evergreen forest in the dead of winter>; it's a...

Oh, heck, I'll give it a try. 1. I once DM'd for a group that consisted of Speedy, Glaphre, Assur, and Balder... and those were the players' real names. 2. I have played D&D inside a WWII-era Japanese communications bunker on an island in the south pacific using a kerosene lamp as the only...

Given a choice between a .pdf and a print version at the same price, I'd go for the .pdf every time. Why? Ctrl-F; Ctrl-+ and ctrl--; Ctrl-C, alt-tab, Ctrl-V; an entire library on a stick the size of my pinkie; drop-dead-easy map prints and enlargements; easy markup and notes without permanently...

The corridors will be one foot high? OK, now that's insane. I wouldn't go into that for love or money. You can't even crawl in that, you have to inch along on your belly, and even a normal-sized human would be scraping the top and bottom as he did. Even a halfling would be crawling! And air...

The friendliness I referenced comes from everything I've heard from my wife, who is Micronesian, form one of the outer islands of Yap. From Yap in the west to Kosrae in the east, journeys for no other purpose than to just socialize and trade trinkets were common; an arriving group from just...

Wealth and social status would be derived from the ability to make longer sea journeys to bring back materials that aren't available to some of the islands See yap stones. There would be very few land-based predators, most every dangerous monster would be either aquatic or amphibious. There...

As it began, all was silent. Some things never change. I did. Tarrasque? I have to clean myself. Please, my sons, avenge my death. Death came swiftly, for the fortunate. Red dragon? White paint? Oh, crap. As I fell, my Lord survived. My money or my life? Hmmmmmmmmmm.... Laugh at me...