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Let me echo what Bhaal just said: While he's there, ask him why the pacing of the books changed so drastically after book 6. Maybe I'm reading them upside down or something, but it feels like it takes 2-3 books now to cover an amount of storyline, whereas earlier in the series that same amount...

At your age?! What do you mean by that: you need recovery time or something? ;) Just kidding. Actually, I'm about your age and I play weekly on friday from about 9 pm until about 2 am. That's about five hours a week. It's just a matter of organization. (Of course, the group I game with has...

What will the future support rate be for the 2000AD licences? How many products can we expect per year for a game like Slaine? What kind of supplements are you planning: regional/city guides, rules, adventures, dungeons, monster supplements, ...?

Okay, what about a levelled breakdown of the playability of an archer. How does he work lvl 1-5, lvl 6-10, lvl 11-15 and lvl 16-20? I'm especially interested in a low level character. It seems to mee that noboby plays anything below 10th level.

This gives new meaning to the word munchkin. ;) But I wasn't looking for anything fancy like this. (Enjoyed the read though)

Thanks for all the advice. I wasn't looking to find a powerhouse of a PC, I just wondered if the archer concept in 3E could stand up to the rest. Apparently it can. I was thinking about a skirmish-type character. Low or preferably no magic. Fighter with a few rogue levels. PrC are nice, but...

Funny, I had the same feeling with Crown of Swords and Path of Daggers. Winter's heart was somewhat better, but I still don't understand why he has his main character sitting around during the whole book and waits till the last chapter to finally do something. I really wanted to keep liking this...

Martin is great. But so are Vance, Leiber and Moorcock. Don't care for Gemmel, Eddings or Weiss & Hickman. It's all very personal, like Eric said.

Hi, Has anyone ever created an archer? What were you're experiences with such a character in D&D? Did you manage to make him as powerfull as his "ordinary" fighter with a longsword?

I'm with Oni on this one. Some PrC are just variations on the normal character developement. Others are campaign bound. IMHO the first should be easily accessible, but have strict mechanical prerec's, the latter should be more limited and have prerec's that are achieved story-wise, rather than...

Nice. Corruptability in Tolkiens work seems to lie in the ability/decire to create. It's almost an ancient Greek theme. Look at Melkor during the song of creation. Look at Feanor and the Noldor who brought about their doom because of the creation of the silmarils and finally look at Sauron when...

I think this is a great thread. It sums up a lot of my feelings towards high-level play and the use of prestige classes. As a DM, I like to cee PrC as something special, tailored into my campaign world. Some can be rather well -known (knightly orders, mageguilds, ...) others more arcane...

Gondor still has a few cities: Dol Amroth, Belfalas,... The south has af few, the most notable being Umbar. Rohan is a rather 'recently' populated area: the Rohirrim are actually restetled northmen. And the north is actully morstly depopulated. The great kingdoms in the north all fell and the...

Aren't there supposed to be battles in the north as well? I was kinda hoping to see some of these. Thats why the great exodus from Rivendell struck me as a bit odd. Maybe they'll skip this in the movies and have a rerun of the battle of the five armies, but this time before the gates of Minas...

I believe both he and Goldberry are supposed to be Maiar: spirits that existed before elves and men. Read "The Silmarillion" (Sauron and the wizards (Ishtari) are beings of the same type, b.t.w.)

Guidelines we use to keep discussions to a minimum: only roll if and when the DM tells you, always roll where everyone can see your die, DM has final rule as to a die being cockeyed or not, write down what you're taking along as equipment. And since we're not playing for money, there really is...

The big deal about Tolkien, in contrast to ANY other writer of fantasy, is the depth he has created in his stories. No other author to date has creted a world that breathes such a sense of historical realism as Middle-Earth. More interesting characters and plots have probably been written. But...

I've been looking into this lately. Too bad my players aren't interested in a long-term superhero campaign. I was actually thinking about using a call of Cthulu campaign and boosting it somewhat. Masks of Nyarlathotep would work I think. Of course, it would be less doom and more boom. On the...

Thanks, would you considerthe extra postage worth it? If my math skills are holding up, I guess that brings it at 7euro per issue.

Hi, Are there fellow Europeans that subscribe to Dragon? Or do you all just buy them in game stores. A decent game store seems hard to come by in these parts of the Old World, so I was thinking about a subscription, but the postage cost seems rather steep(its more than the subscription itself!)...