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In Celtic Brehon law, even a slave had an honor price and a body price. If a king commited a crime against a slave, he was bound by the law to meet the proper price as a fine. In Israel, all (Israelite) slaves were freed at a certain regular festival. Slaves could be prisoners of war, or they...

Oh yeah, I yanked those for my home grown campaing world as soon as I saw them. Sigh, I still need to do some final polishing work for the fit of a few of them... But my (somewhat flawed) memory is of a WotC Forgotten Realms book with a list of starting occupations similar to the ones in...

IIRC, Thieve's World from Green Ronin has occupations in it. I would swear that i saw them in a Forgotten Realms book as well, but I cannot figure out which one, or if it was just a hallucination caused by gaming withdrawls.

Umm, no. Class is independant of occupation. That fighter you mentioned could have had any number of occupations that made it possible for him to learn how to effectively wear armor and use his weapons. His dedication to that learning is what made the difference between his being a fighter...

I got both of those books precisely because of that cinematic feel that they add, CS and the skill tricks give that swashbuckler/Errol Flynn feel and Bo9S adds the wuxia feel of wire fu, a la Crouching Tiger. I really don't see the mechanics as being all that complex, nor is it a great deal of...

Vader is very much LE, even during the Bespin events. That was an illegal operation, leaving a garrison behind put the Empire in charge and restored law and order. Betrayal of the Emperor? That is purely evil and does not effect the law/chaos axis at all. Execution of the incompetant...

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That is a very monotheistic concept, and would not hold true in a polytheistic society. Most people would woship most Gods, and call upon Them as appropriate. None of this "Kord is better than Pelor" nonsense. If anything, it would have the oposite effect. "Oh, so that's what Fharlanghn...

You almost ruined my computer with this... I was taking a drink of tea... Watch the young'uns at play some time. All it takes is one item, like a helmet and bang, there's your fireman. If you have a helmet, a jacket and a hose, then three kids can be firemen. Well, that is, if they are old...

I'm still fiddling with the rules, but a campaign that I have been working on is "A Game of Houses" and is based around the idea that the PC's are members of noble houses. If you remember the TSR suppliment A Mighty Fortress, based on Rennaisance Europe, it had social standing as a 3-18 stat...

But a gold coin is most definately NOT a penny. Pennies are copper, or at least copper clad around another light metal. Gold is heavy.

A long time ago (1st edition) I had a thief that was trying to save someone's life as a large group of archers was getting close and we were stuck on the end of a pier with no boat. I stuffed him inside my (greatly oversized) BoH and dove into the river. I have also gamed with a different...

I was truely upset to see that WotC failed to correct their error from 3.0 when going to 3.5. A long bow cn be made just as strong as a composite bow. The ONLY real difference between the two is geographical: areas that had long bows were damp enough to disolve the glue of composite bows and...

Mostly good, but I quibble with the rider fails and the horse passes. I see the possibility that the horse could emd up panicking, since it can detect an "obvious" threat to which its rider is not reacting. Even a war horse could panic at suddenly finding a snake in the grass.

I have the impression that you might have skimmed over some of the previous posts. The point that was made in several of them is that there is no real distinction between what you call the physical and social addictions, at least in terms of effects they have and the difficulty in dealing with...

But that is a case of the rules making a factual error. A 6 foot diameter, 10 foot deep hole has enough air for almost 4 hours, not 10 minutes. Without circulation, carbon dioxide build up will make problems shortening that time, but not down to ten minutes. Most scuba equipment is based on...

It was updated (a little) and released as D20 Past, a D20 Modern suppliment covering everything from the 17th century up to WW 2. If you are already playing with 20 Modern and don't want to have to learn new rules, then I would recommend it. There is also Gear Krieg, from Dream Pod 9. Worth...

Bad DM, no donut. The horse acts when the riders tells it to. I suspect that most of the posters who have said otherwise don't have a lot of time in the saddle of a real horse. Not that I am an expert, I haven't ridden a horse in several years now. The only way surprise would matter would be...

Bathalian, is what they call them. I love B'thuhl, Bathalian Pirate (#3135) a fine mind flayer er, bathalian swashbuckler with cutlass raised high.

I am just now getting ready to start a new campaign, and I am planning to use the tail end of the Old Republic. I have told the players to think of it as a few years before Phantom Menace for things like politics, ships, Jedi/Senate interactions and all that kind of stuff. On the other hand, I...