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I'm still reading AU, but what strikes me (and I've had a lot of experience statting and comparing races) is that the races in AU are point-for-point weaker than the ones found in the core rules. The presence of the bonus feat in addition to the one everyone gets at 1st level seems to be more...

My 2 cents: Being a Lawful Good entity, a paladin has certain duties to agreements and friendships. Now, if an evil cultist negotiated a surrender for mercy as long as he ceased fighting and the paladin accepted it, he'd be expected to uphold the agreement. Of course, if the paladin suspected...

Midnight forces you to change up your campaign mindset. It's no longer about glory and bringing wide paths of territory under your control. In Midnight characters have to be a bit more intelligent and crafty. Attacking orcs is okay, but the best thing to do is pull it off when they have low...

No, and with the exception of a handful of creatures, all the illustrations are the same. The first edition of this book was rife with Challenge Rating errors, among other things. I'm sure the Revised book is much better on this (especially knowing who did the first round of revisions), but...

Honestly, I have to agree with the guy wholeheartedly on the internal combustion engine. We have the technology to make a reliable electrical engine with the same output as a gas-powered engine without severe charging restrictions... yet why hasn't it been put to use? Because that would put a...

I'm not bored. The system doesn't bore me and I don't always need some new rules or twists to enjoy playing it. What excites me is a cool character concept or a new plot idea that hasn't been played out before. I think standard high fantasy RPGing is kind of blase to me these days, but the...

One thing to remember is there is a difference between "not looking" and not looking. "Not looking," in this case, means you aren't actively searching out someone to date for the purpose of having a date, but you remain open to any and all opportunities that happen to present themselves. Not...

*Ding* Thank you! The gratuitous plug for one of my spells is appreciated :D For whatever reason, the designers behind 3e took out all the spells and abilities that altered the course of aging. That means everyone progresses through the age brackets naturally and dies when their time is up...

If you use the PHB standard explination of the sorcerer, their ability to tap into magic is the result of a latent bloodline descended from another race that has innate spellcasting or spell-like abilities. We don't question how a dragon with sorcerer-equivalent spellcasting knows what...

I'm in the process of designing a world right now, and the entire creative process got started from two lines in a Bon Jovi song: "I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride And I'm wanted (wanted) dead or alive." That got me to thinking about how cool it would be to have a post-apocalyptic world...

I'm aware of that. I just think that should be the norm with the current norm as an optional rule. It won't happen, but I can always be optimistic :D

Anyone but the Braves and Yankees. Please God, let them lose early!!!! Ahem, sorry about that. Just as long as the Cubs don't win. That, surely, will be the first signal that the apocalypse is at hand. :eek:

(Note: Thanks to Voadam for posting this - it makes it easier for me to give my answer) The key with a paladin is to wed them to a religious order at character creation, then go look up (or make up) the belief and morality system of said order. The paladin becomes the strict defender and...

Yeah.... You know something, I'm not sure what the worst thing about that was. Leonard Nemoy singing, the lyrics and melody of that song, or the dancing of the girls in sweatshirts and elf ears. What a piece of campy '70s crap. And people still have the gall to make fun of the '80s? :confused:

What'd I'd change in 3.5e Psionics is the following: Psions: They need to be tweaked to be on par with the power level of the sorcerer. I'm not sure if giving them more power points is enough of an answer, but it's a suggestion. Also the option to take a combat mode or a metapsionic feat...

I personally believe that in combat there are few units that are more dangerous than the three person melee combatant, missile combatant, flanking rogue unit. You get three sources of damage, one of which is augmented by sneak attack.

All I know is this: Blackmoor is being published under a partnership between Zeigeist Games and Goodman Games (I get the release schedule of it from Goodman's website). Dave Arnson is involved in the project and it's supposed to be a full 3.5e conversion of the setting, divorced from the...

Two things: It seems traditional fantasy paints the elven culture at matronly. Take a look at the elven books WotC and TSR put out. You'll notice a much larger amount of "she" pronouns used in reference to the elves. Also, the Mystara/Known World setting really has no elven queens per se...

If you think about it in the terms that both started out as campaign settings for their respective creators' games (and that many of the best-known NPCs were PCs in that world at some point in time), some of these similarities make sense. For example, in the dungeon delve day of D&D (how's...

Say, hasn't Blackmoor slipped as well? I seem to recall it coming in October, but now it seems November is when it's supposed to street. Dawnforge sounds really neat. Might be interesting to amalgam the two worlds such that you make a 50/50 world where Dawnforge is Midnight before the fall.