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I'll check into the metaorg thing. I know there's some sort of arcane academy I can maybe sign up for. I'm in Verbobonc on the Tuflik, Fals, and Velverdyva Trade Route. Thanks for all the interesting ideas, folks. I'll have to take a close look at all the feats suggested. I like the sound...

I need to come up with a second Living Greyhawk character. I want to burninate my foes with my kewl arcane powers, but I have no experience playing a spellcaster in 3.5 D&D. Should I take a wizard or sorcerer? Any tips for feat selection, race choice, skills?

He owns or part-owns Multi Man Publishing, a wargame outfit. He has been known to ocassionaly post to a couple of grognard mailing lists my wargaming brother-in-law frequents.

Swashbuckling is just as much about doing things with the right attitude and proper style as it is about supporting mechanics. You can be a swashbuckler in full plate, you just need to do things with a sense aplomb and savoir faire and other little-used words.

1) I like half-orc assassins, but all sorts of race and class combinations trip my trigger. 2) If the DM pre-makes the PC, I think you ought to hand the newbies a half-elf sorcerer. Tell them to steer clear of the monsters and be ready to use one of their spells. In the modern era of...

I ran a action adventure game where the crime lord of Hollywood, the mysterious Mr. W., turned out to be Christopher Walken. He didn't last long once he made an appearance on screen because one of the PCs brought a tanker truck full of jet fuel to the fight. Of course his body was never...

Q: Is the new paper softer? A: It's not thinner! Oh boy is it not thinner! Not that you asked me if it was thinner I just want to state here that it's not thinner! WTF?

As a player I find it useful but not necessary to have all 4 traditional roles filled. As a DM I don't really care what the players choose to play, but I won't change any encounters because they lack a cleric or whatever.

As soon as Amazon will let me order one (as opposed to pre-ordering a copy) I plan on buying it and some other D&D stuff.

Stat blocks drive me nuts as well, but if I forego using them I feel like I'm not doing my job.

Obviously our play styles are different. I would see no cause to complain if I ran a paladin with a 12 Cha and 14 Wis with everything else a 10 or 11. High stats are not a make-or-break thing to me. Surviving an adventure with a suboptimal character can be a very rewarding experience.

Players of Paladins WANT good Str and Con like a fighter. They don't need those stats to be high for the class to function. If they have a Cha of at least 12 and Wisdom of at least 14 then they can use all of their class abilities. That doesn't sound like nearly as bad as the prerequisite for...

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a MAD?

There was a third party Call of Cthulhu module set on an oil rig. I can't remember the name of the module or the publisher at the moment.

Does Living Greyhawk not count as support?

It's as simple as that, then? Maybe I'll get it now.

The earliest references to familiars I've seen are from the records of witchfinders and things like that. They usually report that the witches had multiple familiars of various types. This has lead me to an idea in which the familiar ability works like the Leadership feat: you get one tricked...

I vaguely recall reading somewhere of a Return to Undermountain product in some stage of development at Wizards. If I was certain WLD could be run as a come and go dungeon with little difficulty I would already own a copy. That's my preferred style of play.

My party's last kill was a tinpot necromancer type and his toadies (a pair of hateable rogues and a fighter with a bad attitude). They were kidnapping children for unknwon but nefarious magical purposes. We tracked them to their lair in the sewers and killed the whole nasty lot.

My solution has been to do the mapping for the players while I am describing the layout of the dungeon. I have never been into twisty get-lost labyrinths or map-futzing traps, so why not just draw the durn thing out? In the event of a chase sequence I sometimes take the map away. That can be...