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Also, you can consider giving this Sith Lord a destiny too...

This has all the makings of a morality story. The dragon in question would clearly be either an Oriental dragon (Ch'iang Lung or Tien Lung) or a Gold dragon. The dragon's goal is partly to be repaid, but also to teach the wastrel king a lesson in fiscal and political responsibility. The king...

I'm not Moridin, but I'd make a Duros pilot... :) Anyway, depending on where the characters find the AR-170, I'd probably give it the Archaic template. Museums and collectors tend to restore things with their original parts, mothballed ships need maintenance before they go active and probably...

Instead of going solely along the Talents route, why not have the Martial Arts Manuvers feat; Every time you take the Martial Arts manuvers feat, you gain access to specialized Martial Arts Manuvers. These manuvers give you options not available in the basic combat system, like Throw or Cripple...

The Deflect Talent does indeed allow the possibility of completely negating a critical hit. That's why it's a Talent as opposed to flavor text or a straight bonus to reflex defense. Deflect, Block and Redirect all simulate the Jedi prescience in battle.

What I don't like about the Yakmen is the way they were introduced. Al-Quadim, a Middle-Eastern/Arabic setting in which Geniefolk played a large role, and who are the big bad guys? Demonic shapeshifting Tibetan cattle. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't fit. I could understand Rakshasa, as...

Oh, god, I remember those... "Now you're working together!" is one of the few times I can honestly use the word "declaim" instead of "said" outside of a theatre. Derisive howls of laughter were the near universal reaction when TSR first showed that video at that year's GenCon... what was worse...

Ah, yes... Also, the trick was that if you're wrong when you attempt the test (trying to cut iron with a +1 blade), the weapon had to save vs. crushing blow. :) A pretty easy save to make, especially for a magic item, but still risky. I always thought that Magic Resistance was a pretty clear...

Yeah, trust is always an issue when ID'ing magic items. My DM once told me that my character had identified a ring as a Ring of Multiple Wishes (fully charged). Now, since this was my secondary character who was identifying it for a different group of characters than the one he normally...

It's correct as far as I can tell, though using the first four significant digits of pi (3.1415) gives me a circle area of 314 5'x5' squares.

As I understand it, the falling rules were miswritten back in 1st edition. The original intent was to make it cumulative damage. +1d6 per ten feet, to a maximum of +20d6 at which point you've hit terminal velocity. So, first 10 feet is 1d6. A twenty foot fall would be 3d6. A fifty foot fall...

That's because it's easy... it's easy for many parents to just let the kids sit in front of the TV, or the computer, as a way of keeping the kids occupied so that the parents can do whatever they need to without having to worry about the trouble the kids are getting into. And, of course...

I pronounce it, "Not available in my campaign."

Involuntary movement does not trigger AOOs, was the last ruling I'd heard.

Use the Force is only a class skill for characters who are Force Sensitive. If your character isn't Force Sensitive, your character can't even have Use the Force as an untrained skill. Also, you can use most skills untrained, and end up being pretty good at them anyway. As a reminder, all...

Maybe, but Ed Greenwood seems to write gratuitous nude scenes for female characters rather frequently. And by "realistic" I believe that means psychologically realistic. Many of Ed Greenwood's heroines end up having extremely similar (and exhibitionistic) behaviors.

I have a rolling, lockable briefcase, meant for hauling legal briefs to meetings and/or court, which I got from Office Depot during a "store moving" sale. It holds 11 of the hardcover books and has an expandable pocket on the outside for pens and other things like calculators and notepaper...

So many flaws and mistaken assumptions... Some playtesting is being done by RPGA members. RPGA members don't just play RPGA scenarios. Many of them have their own home campaigns that they use. However, certain RPGA members, being organizers and writers for the various Living campaigns, have...

Look up Empire of the Petal Throne. MAR Barker did indeed give TSR the rights to publish the Tekumel setting using the OD&D rules in the early days. IIRC, it was actually published before Greyhawk was. Since then, Professor Barker has had Tekumel published under a variety of rules systems, and...

Come to think of it, I'd probably replace "orb" with "lens" or even "mirror" since those are more appropriate and portable/practical forms.