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I didn't pay much mind to the maps in the Faithful and the Forsaken at first simply because the ones Ed did for the Termana hardcover were fairly useless - they didn't show anything that the color maps inside the covers didn't, so I felt they were primarily a waste of space. However, having...

Hmm. Buggery boards. Just you wait, this is going to turn out to be a double-post. Ahh, my thoughts on Faithful and the Forsaken? I've gone into the book ad nauseum. Suffice to say, I find it to be the worst Scarred Lands book I've yet read (having not read the Penumbral Pentagon). Anyway...

Ahh...eh. The new additions don't seem necessary by any means. The flaming/flaming-burst properties are already covered in part by the burn ability, and they're not terribly unique - ergo, nothing that that original writer couldn't have put up in the first place, so presumably deliberately...

Balance is important, but not of the utmost importance. All that matters is that everyone gets to do something, and more or less regularly. If one character can do everything another one can, and something more, well, something's wrong, and that requires some tinkering with. Otherwise, so long...

For me, low magic means that, for the world at large, magic is not a common thing. Society isn't based off of it, and it's more valuable than money can usually afford. It's not in the hands of store clerks, kings or even the local priest, but instead, rests with saints, hermits and other folk...

Generally, I start with a character concept and build from there. Considering all the prestige classes out there, it's not too hard to find one that keeps you more or less competent yet also fits the bill, concept-wise. I still haven't found any bard prestige classes that really strike my...

From what little's been leaked, it seems that the planes of Scarn will be fairly mercurial, shaped in part by belief - thus the planar structure for, say, the elves, may differ from that of the charduni. With a little luck, Divine and the Defeated won't be neglected and we'll see a few of the...

Firmly Chaotic. Two Chaotic Neutrals, along with a Neutral Evil and True Neutral character. Previous characters in the party made for two more Chaotic Neutral characters, two Chaotic Good ones and one more True Neutral. That's the Scarred Lands game. As for Ravenloft, I believe everyone is...

What do I think? The exception will usually be what I like better. When the 3rd edition books first came out, I really liked the way they looked. They were different, in comparison to the old 2nd edition covers, which generally bore artwork of some sort - efreet or horseman or what have you...

Simple; I keep the characters all at the same level, anyway. New characters start at whatever level the other characters are at. Unless a PC suffers a level drain or the like, or uses XP for spells and the sort, then they're all at the same level. I want my PC's to take risks and for the game...

As an aside, I don't really think the DM should be mentioning information like that in the first place - it's not like the ranger is going to know the answer to that question. If the ranger wanted to find some sort of in-game answer, via communing with a god, seeking out a bard who might have a...

Core class-wise, I don't use the monk, almost regardless of the campaign I'm running. Even if it's a campaign setting where they're included, I'll probably drop them. If the world is pseudo-European, which most are, the monk gets the boot. I extend my cross-cultural acceptability to around the...

Ahh, well, a first name came to mind quite swiftly, but a last name that fit with it was found lacking. In either case, here it is: Thessally. I've also picked up an affectation for including the name Amaranth along with elves, but Thessally Amaranth doesn't seem to flow right.

Not too surprising, but, the Revolutionary League And I'd put the silly HTML up, but it's being persnickity with me at the moment (and by persnickity, I mean I'm lazy and mildly stupid at the moment). Though this leaves me curious as to whether or not I should finish my own planar faction...

I believe the archetype was what they were going for, and this is what attracted me to the gods in the first place. The gods fit together better because of it, and by taking these broad archetypes, as opposed to breaking them up into little subtypes, there's more room for any number of concepts...

Eh? At no point did I say that Corean and Goran are related. This has been all about how Corean is the deity most associated with being chaste, and that this belief is strongly believed by his followers to the point that they don't even want to discuss anything to the contrary. Not even if the...

Heh. That's actually why, when writing up a little primer on my house rules and the like, I put in a section on character death and how a character who winds up in an afterlife out of sync with his beliefs (or is just out of favor with his deity) might not able to be resurrected or, more...

No, but it can easily be inferred that they don't believe their god has sons or daughter, and are quite adamantly against the idea. It's not like Goran or Tamul are exactly opposed to the ideals of Corean or in anyway tainted to the point that his followers would want no such association with...

It also depends on your definition of low-magic, as well. For my part, I generally run things fairly low-magic, world-wise, but the PC's, as they should be, are the exception, so not only tend to have the standard gold amount that a PC of their level should have in magic items, but a bit more...

Ineffable. Because Aziriphale is just the best. Anyway, though not running a homebrew at the moment, the afterlife is essentially an unknowable thing within them for the most part. Religious texts and even gods may say what it's like, but it's nothing that the PC's could ever experience...