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Leaving Conan alone... I haven't read one of Jordan's Conan books, but if he can't maintain his standards for his claim to fame, he shouldn't be given more work in any serious production. The first WoT book could be done, if the two forsaken who popped out could be made to seem like the two...

Since so many of the feat chains already start with weaker feats, I have been leery of the feat chain bonuses. For reasons of flavor and coolness, I like the martial arts styles in the right campaign situation. But as it is the balance is weighted against a generalist fighter. If you want to...

Flavor Thoughts: -the Tarchon is highly carnivorous, supplementing the lack of green stuff with various insects. -they live in long, camouflaged huts. Ambushes from the bog's muck are their favored form of defense, even at the final line of their own homes. -they have border guards who live...

Cool spell. Instant caltrop field. If clear means invisible I don't think a reflex save at the base amount is good- it should be more difficult as only feeling the spikes can help. Maybe take out the saving throw, but make it a partial action to move through the field without taking damage...

Thanks for the cartosmography offer. That would be a new word :) We'd love to have you contribute any way you want to. At the moment I'll say I'd love to see how you present Nifft's cosmology. Its very hard to hold it all in the mind's eye at once. And now I will inform Telgian, the great...

Hey Moonsword- I really like that you've taken a dropped Open project of mine and picked it up again, but I'd like some credit somewhere since its going public. Also, there are a couple references int that document to things that don't exist- like a part of the main netbook that never got...

Nice phrasing. You forgot- and some people talked, others thought about killing, and several people were feeling highly ambitious. But none of them matter to anything until time starts moving. Maybe the 'Crossroads of Time' is the point at which all things are happening, but nothing is...

Surviving in the wild is not DC 10 unless you are in fairly standard terrain- a forest with wild berry bushes and small game around. In a blasted wasteland, that DC is going to skyrocket. Sustenance is such a basic part of traveling, and such a major concern for any but the wealthiest of...

No Plot. No sub-plot. No Character Development. No climax. (Okay, there was a climax I think. its associated with a barely explained event and is the only mystery in the whole book.) Half the book was new/tertiary characters. It felt like *every* character Jordan had made needed to be...

Interesting thought for playing an ascending character: Just as a mortal's acts will stain his soul, a god's follower's acts will stain the gods. Maybe what a mortal does in a god's name will effect the god. Maybe not his nature- that should be pretty immutable unless the gods are agents of...

I understand what you are going with the water & sonics, but for much the same reason as you call Earth-sonics tremor, I think water-sonics lacks flavor, for all of its science. I've always like the idea of a water elemental owning you when under the sea, but I have always pictured it as things...

take 2, first attempt being lost... Does being believed to be a god have a metaphysical result in this world? Other than that, if you're believed to be a god, you get free stuff from people who bow, and that's it. The generic, culturally-stripped ethics of pretending to be a god make it a...

Are you asking about the metaphysical state of divinity in your world, or the cultural state? ANY D&D cleric in Earth's history, even of first level, would be accounted a major saint, very much touched by god. Think of it this way- to your average 1st level character cure light wounds is...

I think I would change Super Sonic Voice so the spells can be cast inside a silenced area, but the effects are still treated as normal. Thus, someone in a silenced zone is protected from the effects, but wrapping the character in a second level spell and standing well clear is no protection...

At first glance this looks like a book outline. When I look closer it seems to be the beginnings of a 'choose your own adventure' tree. The DM follows each answer to get what type of planar interaction he's going for. Well, either way, it looks interesting. I need more to go on.

Just some quick reactions: Wood: 1. Cold Resistance: Some plants have extreme reactions to great cold, causing them to burst. 2. A cool special attack would be planting an elemental seed in soil, or flesh, and having it grow over a period into a tiny Wood elemental. I can see such a thing as...

Where indirect shooting makes sense to the *DM*, the target is considered to have one greater level of cover. Or two. Simple, easy to apply to multiple situations. Now... how about ricochet shots?

I don't like that feat. Sure, mechanically it is balanced, but in practical terms, that's one feat for several hundred languages, and that's just Earth -> humans. I don't think so. You'd add a line saying that while such a feat will give you a speaking and general reading comprehension, the...

ruleslayer, epic level handbook is optional, not core. So a house rule can safely ignore it. Is this an issue with what Heighten does, or what it does at the cost of spending a feat? If its a feat issue, try doing something like Potent Spell [Metamagic] You gain the use of the Empower Spell...

Good idea. I agree with the consensus on this. Mindblast a power, other modes freely gained, Psionic Bonus Feats. Even in the general, this is a great way to get a Sorcerer with different flavor from the wizard. But the psicrystals were the best innovation in the whole book.