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Five words: The Ancient Band of Thebes. The thought of transferring that into a 'gyro western' warms my heart. :)

You mean like the Goad feat? (I forget which book, but it already exists - albeit with a bit of a different mechanic.)

10 pieces of chalk -- every character. Never used it, but if we ever end up in a maze, I'm ready. Mirror -- only the bard. Used it daily. 50' silk rope -- every character. Only the bard ever used it, & nm what for. ;) Grappling hook -- characters strong enough to handle the weight. Used once...

I agree that the money statement limits things to LE or NE, depending on how closely a code is followed. It was interesting reading the passage, since up until the final part I was actually seeing a lot of similarities with my own assassin character -- who is (thanks to a house rule change to...

Wisdom, definitely. My headstrong bard was a blast to play -- pretty as heck, knew it, ran into every battle first. Once he even snuck away from guard duty to go into a secret & potentially dangerous area we'd discovered ahead of the rest of the group... waiting for morning & the cleric's augury...

Ah, that reminds me, I did add a 'tinker gnome' subrace to my homebrew inspired by the very same residents of good old Ak'Anon. I don't remember the stats I came up with off the top of my head, but I did give them favored class: artificer.

Inspirations for adventures, adaptations to classes or races, tactics... in what ways (if any) have computer games impacted your roleplaying experience? Having played EverQuest (& now EQ2), I once got a D&D group to bowkite a group of zombies. The basic tactic was perfect for the encounter -...

Spells, granted, but I think the point was meant to focus on the skill aspect, where rogues outshine bards. If a 'typical' rogue isn't as good at face skills, that's by choice of the build not inherent quality of the class. Knowledge yes -- but then the rogue can deal with traps, so I'd say...

Not only can I not answer for my combined experience across multiple characters, I can't even easily answer for most of my (reasonable play-length) characters individually. Galorin, barbarian (mostly) -- started very everyman, as a young tribesman who left home to see the world. Entered the...

INTP here -- marginally T, reasonably strong I, solidly N, & 'holy crap' off the charts P. Yes, you can all envy my mighty 'P'-ne... er... nm. *cough* Anyway, I think the interaction between some of these 'categories' can really blur the supposed discreteness of them. For example, even though...

I like bardic music, & the bardic music feats that let you use it for other things. I dislike spells, & would love to see a bard variant (full class, not PrC) that drops spells for (some combination of) more songs, more bardic music uses/level, limited sneak attack progression, or full BAB (or...

I've had just the opposite happen, where a DM went into a whole bit of a side-scene with my character involving his stolen dagger as a plot device. I eventually mentioned 'um, he doesn't have a dagger' & *POP* suddenly he did! Was funny to play on that when my character was telling the others...

Ah, good to have the insights of someone who has seen the weapon in use. I was going from the linked article which mentioned deftness as more important than strength in use. How long is it, though? The article said 5 1/2' at most. Perhaps this is one of those areas where D&D physics (where a...

Urumi statted out? Hrm, I like that urumi -- & it actually exists! I'm wondering what the D&D stats would be? - Damage die as... rapier? Flail? - Slashing - Light weapon - Exotic (difficult to use, so should require a feat) - +2 to Sleight of Hand checks to hide on the body (can be...

In a 1e game, my druid (I forget his level, would've been between 6th & 10th IIRC) charmed a titan. The fight leading up to this had just about destroyed the other characters, so while they slept, my druid's New Best Friend went through the dungeon with him, squashing encounters left & right...

Well, I stand corrected on the huge rare issue. Actually, it seems like it's the huge uncommons which should be renamed then, since they only come 1/pack (unlike regular uncommons) -- not saying the numbers work out that they'd be less common overall (since there are less of them to draw from)...

I'm just weeping that the Tundra Scout is a Huge Rare -- which really means ultra-rare, even though they won't say it. I mean, if there's only 1 huge figure per pack, then Huge Uncommon has the same frequency/pack as a regular rare, & Hure Rare is somewhere between that & 'chase'. *sigh*...

Don't go for digital download, either -- or if you do, back up your files! My hard drive just melted, & the few bucks I saved going digital is so not worth the pain of having to download a full gaming group again!

Hehe -- tavern brawler is one of the few commons for which I actually want more than 1, & kobold zombie just sounds too too cool (& I don't even really like kobolds... but kobold zombie servants of my goblin hordes, oh yeeeeeessss! :cool: )

Cool. I can totally see doing a random table for a forest fire where the fleeing party runs into a stream (yay!) or downhill slope (yay!)... or a brushy clearing or patch of conifers (mwaha... I mean, eep!).