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Oh, but the appeal of a critical with a burst weapon makes up for lower damage overall. In my campaign, our barbarian uses a shocking burst longspear, and when he crits it is memorable (I especially liked the one-hit-one-dead-mindflayer he achieved in the last game I played in.) I still can't...

Re: re A ranger is a viable stand-alone class in a group without a fighter, barbarian or paladin. As hong said, if your DM is unable or unwilling to adjust the adventures for your particular party, forcing you to play the "standard fighter-cleric-wizard-rogue" group, then you should get a new...

I planned to convert when I first heard about the revision, but the amount of changes I will not use, or ban, convinced me otherwise. Nowadays I'll just use some rules and clarifications from 3.5 and continue my campaigns. (I converted in mid-campaign from AD&D to 3E back in the days, but 3.5E...

This whole trend reminds me of Everquest. Some uber-guild made of fanatic minmaxing 24/7 multiboxing players defeat a boss mob with less PCs than the designers expected, and the boss mob encounter gets adjusted to compensate... and no one cares about the "normal" players whose characters are not...

Oh yes, I was SO missing the old 2E idiocy where you could advance in 2 classes at once and be only one level behind the single classed characters for most of your career... not. In effect, we already have that system... you need more exp to level up your dual-classed druid/cleric, in a party...

I voted No. IMHO the old 2E wizard/clerics were about as overpowered as the 2E bladesinger or the 2E psionicist. I don't want a revival of anyone of those in 3.X E. Besides, a cleric with the right domains can come very close to a multiclassed spellcaster already while remaining relatively...

If only it would have come out 2 years ago... I have been running this campaign for 2 years now, and cobbled together my own regional sourcebook using 2E "Old Empires", 3E FRCS, National Geographic issues, GEO issues, Web-based history sites and my own imagination. I just hope Testament offers...

You know, it suddenly dawned me that the "it should be special" "reason" has similar spin-offs. The lack of changes for the half-orc has been explained by the fact that apparently enough players choose them. (I am not sure if WotC or posters here justified half-elves' mechanical disadvantages...

I pre-ordered the book long ago, and only hope it will get shipped soon - I am currently running a campaign in an egyptian-style setting, so I will probably be able to use most of the material (apart from the biblical stuff) in the book.

I tend to buy based on reviews of products, not of companies. So far no company or designer has offended me to a point where I would not buy their stuff if I was interested in.

Then they have much to answer for... :)

I myself use this NPC-generator, which offers, imho, more than Jamis': http://www.stanford.edu/~marke/npc.html I especially like that the generator gives a list of prepared spells and that you can customize the output that well and easily. It might get updated to 3.5.

Knee-jerk response? If I don't have problems in my game with a 12-20 threat range, why should I change?

I have no problems running two modified FR campaigns where magic is rare (but powerful), magic items cannot be bought (apart from some potions and scrolls), and spellcasters rare as well. I can't use the "official stats", but then, I make my own NPCs anyway.

Scratch another 3.5 rule that won't make it in my game. Neither the duelist nor the weapon master currently played in my campaign pose any problems.

wolfen mentioned a point I would like to elaborate on: The DM rewarding a correctly played "dumb" PC. IMC a player has a very naive and not too bright barbarian. He routinely gets ripped off in "bargains", spends his hard-earned coin on fake potions and amulets of protection, and is generally...

Setting: Heavily modified Forgotten Realms, Mulhorand/Unther region Level: 14 Mulhorand/Unther are structured after egypt, and are almost twin cultures. Religion-wise, I remodeled the Mulhorandi pantheon and culture. There are still gods walking the palaces in Skuld. No good gods though, only...

Great mind think alike, it seems. I have the exact same problem when building my arabic world region in my campaign. I hope those links will help.

In one campaign we had 75 points, distributed on a 1-1 base as the player wished. In another we have "choose your own stats, total modifiers not higher than 13". Since my campaigns usually run for years and the PCs tend to stay as well I'd never consider rolling stats - the imbalances would be...

Show him this link: http://www.stanford.edu/~marke/npc.html I use this generator when I need a quick NPC with roughly smart stat, feat and skill choices and fitting gear including prepared spells. Often I modify the results, but the npcs are usually good to go if you just need a few warm...