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Darkness Just finished reading Descending Darkness by Harry Turtledove, which is rather relevant here I think. The Darkness series is approximately WW2 redone in a fantasy setting - dragons instead of planes, ley-line caravans instead of trains, "eggs" instead of bombs, "sticks" instead of...

Has anyone seen the new earthlink commercial? It has people talking about why they use earthlink, and they have these little earthlink symbols (which look like comets) orbiting the peoples' heads. I saw this and said: Ioun stone!

Thanks for posting that, I found it very helpful. On the original question, the DMG has guidelines on how many NPCs of what level can be found in a city. I think it is in the world building chapter.

Thanks in advance Shouldn't that be AdvaTHANKSnce?

Beaten to death, but... Yet another explanation of the Monty Haul problem: This has already been explained several times, but I was finally able to convince myself, thanks to the pea&cups puzzle. As noted in the p&c puzzle, the fact that the guy reveals a cup with no pea adds no information to...

Complete Warrior deals with an actual phalanx (pg 124), assuming that weapons give up to 10' reach max. I have been told, however, that pikes were as much as 30' long... can't decide whether I believe that, so if one of you guys has a reliable source talking about this, that'd be great. If they...

darklone said: Out of curiosity, whose tests? I've heard that before, but I generally hear that they were intended to bend. As you said, later romans used longer swords... but see Kriegs diagram on the first page; it is possible that each time the gladius was shortened it was to facilitate...

rkanodia: I looked at Formation Expert for my leionnaire, but it takes a BAB of +6; Phalanx fighting (also from CW) works well, and you could use Formation Expert for super-elite soldiers. To expand on that: ***Leveling Legionnaires*** Hp: +5 per level BaB: +1 per level skills: +1 to each skill...

It all about class... I think the difference between "barbarians" (not the class) and Romans (and other highly-trained armies) is best defined by using different classes for them. About the warrior npc class, the DMG states (pg 109) (emphasis added): - "The warrior is a strong, stout...

Why aren't there 24 days in 1 of what we call a day? 1:00, 2:00, etc? why just sun-up, mid-day, sun-down, and mid-night, for 4? And if all math is fiction and everything I have been told is a lie, how am I supposed to disprove anything? Everything I say will be based on a lie, or a lie itself.

Cool setting, but system doesn't work right This is very true, especially as the characters gain experience, and I found this kind of hurt the system. D20 is quick and transparent, which allows you to focus on whats happening in the battle. Exalted's mass dice rolling slows things down so much...