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I was wondering when that monthly old chestnut would pop up! :) I know that "how now brown drow" is the "official" and generally accepted pronunciation, but I never could and still can't stand it. It sounds silly and ridiculous. I much prefer "throw the drow low before he grows". That...

I guess I'm the only one who would pronounce Ghaele like ghee-lee. Or perhaps a softer ending e, like ghee-luh. I take my cue from the pronunciation of the British "encyclopaedia" to be the same as the American spelling "encyclopedia", where the "ae" dipthong is pronounced just like a long e -...

I agree with Ishmayl here. In my opinion, the old 1st/2nd Ed. Espruar font looks ridiculous and particularly ungraceful for a race that is supposed to be known for grace. I agree entirely. The new 3rd Ed. font is a great improvement, and much more suited for elven script. There is a TTF font...

Question... Where do you get this from? There's no limit at all to the number of spells a wizard can learn, outside of the Int-based limit to the highest level spell that can be learned. A wizard gets two free spells per level by the core rules (a rule I house-ruled out; no freebies). A...

Dragon Annuals numbers 4 and 5 (for 1999 and 2000) were both great, having lots of articles useful in a game. The 2001 annual, though, was a "d20 Special" that was pretty much completely useless and a waste of paper. It was essentially nothing more than a big advertising blurb for various d20...

Books should be expensive, a treasure in and of themselves. The very cheapest books should be on the order of 20-40 gp for a single book, with the overall average price around 100gp and rare books being worth hundreds or perhaps even a few thousand. If you look at the component costs, though...

One other thing might be useful to keep in mind, especially for the paladin of Torm... The Steel Regent (or Steel Princess, depending on what year you are playing in) Alusair is herself a follower of Torm. There are probably a number of Torm-worshippers in the Purple Dragons too, although...

The requirement for an adventuring charter, with an annual fee, is canon and that's fine and good. There are reasons why the Crown mandates that. They want to keep track of any armed force in the kingdom to make sure it doesn't become a threat to the security or safety of the kingdom or its...

My own opinion.... I think that 3rd Ed. art is mediocre at best, but much of it sucks. I do not like the fantasy punk style, or gothic punk, or anything punk for that matter. When I was growing up, punk was a negative term, a disparagement, not anything to be pleased with or proud of. Even...

Faraer, what's your particular source for that? Every 2nd Ed. map I've seen, has the Stonelands as being only north of the Storm Horns. The area south of the Storm Horns between the mountains and Arabel is called the Helmlands, because of the wild magic there after Helm killed Mystra there...

Put it on any border road you want. It's intended to be a typical border outpost that will be at any road border-crossing. You can expect a similar sort of setup for wayposts on long stretches of road between towns within the kingdom too.

If I recall correctly, the Stonelands are inhabited by few if any humans. The terrain type is badlands, and they're mostly orc and goblin infested. There are scattered ruins and caves, and if I recall there's a barony to be won from the King of Cormyr for anyone who can tame the area.

Oh, good, a chance to vent and rant! :) Good riddance to "pretty pages"!!! (As far as they've actually gotten rid of them, anyway!) I'm probably in a very small small minority, but I positively hate and despise pretty for pretty's sake, art for art's sake, cuteness for cuteness' sake...

In the Forgotten Realms, orcs are often called 'tuskers'.

The Purple Dragons are the primary agents for law enforcement in Cormyr. By law, they have the right to question or search any one at any time. Players can expect to be searched at a border outpost whenever they enter or leave Cormyr, but once inside the kingdom they shouldn't be harassed much...

Yeah, now that you mention it I remember. Probably the single most out-of-character film he did, and ultimately, it got him killed (the cancer he contracted from radiation from a nuclear weapon test site near the filming location). That movie was Howard Hughes pet project. Still, it's not...

I've got to agree with Ranger REG. John Wayne is the ultimate cowboy, indeed possibly even the ultimate American because he is the archetype of the Rugged Individualist, a view of life that is sadly increasingly lacking in our modern world. A man like John Wayne is what every American ought to...

I've played D&D for about 23 years now: OD&D (the blue box set), AD&D 1 and 2, now D&D 3, and believe it or not, not once in all that time have I ever been in a group in which more than two characters used 2-weapon style. The majority of the time there was only one character that used it, and...

What I originally said: Then I didn't insult you. There is nothing in what I said that could be construed as an insult if taken as written. A suggestion that you may be "desperate for fun" is not an insult, at least not where I come from. If you're reading something into it (that I didn't...

Woodelf, I think you and I are mostly in agreement, but... This might be true for some people, but I don't think it's generally true. People complained about balance before 3rd Edition was ever created, and the game designers responded to that and turned "balance" into the incessant and...