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Not for any normal definition of fey (though I'll grant that everything related to D&D is abnormal). Fey is an adjective referring to: Fate, particularly fatal dooms. Suffering from an enchantment. Being otherworldly, supernatural, or enchanted in nature. Unnaturally high spirits, usually...

Iron Heroes is still available for sale: here. It's forum is still open, including a discussion over the upcoming Iron Heroes 2: here. True20 Skill Challenges are similar to the ones in Mutants & Masterminds (2E). Good luck.

Not boring at all, in my experience. I've run the same pre-gen campaign three times. Each time it has been wildly different, due to different PCs (some different players), different choices, different ideas, and different inspirations that combined into completely different stories, each of...

Things to consider: While the DM knows all the answers, the NPCs do not. Think about what they know and have them give advice and perform actions based on that knowledge. You've got a lot of characters to run. Every single character that's not the PC(s). My advice is to figure out a couple...

If you played before 2007 then the answer is "Yes!" I haven't seen anything that was in that format. However "skill challenges", which are similar but less restrictive and totally unrelated to what 4E has under the same name, can be found in Iron Heroes, Mutants & Masterminds, and a few other...

As a standard action, Cover is utterly and completely worthless. Which is wrong. Make it a Move action and it is situationally useful. Make it a Swift action and it is usually useful.

That's totally irrelevant to this discussion.

Well, one issue is that you're immediately missing out on one of the biggest benefits of the Trailblazer / Pathfinder method: if you train a class skill then it has at least four ranks in it (1 for trained, 3 for being a class skill). That means that even basic training in a class skill makes...

Nope. Increased Charisma, the Extra Turning feat, and possible class features for various prestige classes (as well as assorted artifact powers) are the only ways to increase the available number of Turn Undead attempts. Sorry. Good luck. And Ahnehnois is correct about how the levels stack...

United States Marine Corps. 5th Batallion, 11th Marine Regiment (field artillery).

Depends upon the military. ;) Most squids never spent more than fourteen hours, over the course of six years, in body armor. Flyboys, and their ground crews, aren't much more experienced. And even doggies and jarheads have certain MOSes that rarely go to the field (or train in body armor)...

First, Holy Water is about as effective against undead as alchemist fire is against people. I.e. crappy because D&D doesn't want characters dying from only those attacks. The larger immediate damage is balanced by no chance of ongoing damage. Should both of those be more useful? I think so...

This is an argument for leaving the reduction at a lower level than the maximum for the weapon category. The armor can stop those rounds, reliably, but some of the force transfers to the body, and that force can prove fatal even though the round never penetrates. So, make the armor good (say...

Partially true. It won't be directly connected, but the prevalence of cell phones with wireless connection systems (blue tooth, IR, etc) plus near-constant broad-band internet access means that any iPhone in the same room can provide external access to the "secure" computer network / data...

Fast poison, knife in the neck, or gunshot to the brain-pan are your best bets. The key to killing folks without freaking them out is to make the entire event a surprise. They shouldn't even be aware that they are in danger (this is why sleepy-time is a good choice), and you should use a method...

Well, for the terrain issues, just look at the movies: Almost all of their space fights take place in suicidally tight quarters. Asteroid fields, planetary rings, skimming along the hulls of capital frigates, skimming along the hulls of space stations, flying through the debris fields of...

Mine's going well, so far. (Running the Shackled City adventure path.) The PCs decided to do stuff on their own, playing with the various hooks and red herrings that they've come across so far. Along the way we had our first PC death (and the follow-up RP has been excellent, right down to a...

You need a healing mage about as much as you did in D&D 3.5. Which means: for in-combat healing you need either potions or a healing mage. Between combats, you're generally fine with the "natural" healing (5 + Level + Con for a short rest, 10 + level + Con for a night's rest). And if you have...

Or she. Historically, the masculine form was also used for gender-neutral in English. That recently went through a reversal, partly due to the political correctness movement. The current guidelines are less clear-cut. He, she, she/he, he/she, are all considered equally valid from a technical...

I got to play in a Dragon Age campaign for a couple of months. It fell apart (like all that group's games) when the DM found his new shiney thing, but it was fun. Cons: Character creation is extremely restrictive. You have a very limited set of options to use, putting serious constraints on...