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Merry Christmas! Happy Hannukah! (apologies if I screwed up the spelling) Happy Festivus! Or whatever you may be celebrating. And Happy Birthday Jesus!

Best Moment in game this year. 3 HOURS. That's how long it took my group to do the massive Battle Temple fight in Part 2 of the Age of Worms, The Three Faces of Evil. And yet interest never flagged or waned, and everyone stayed attentive during what ended up being an absolute nail-biter of a...

Here's the problem. FR is developed. To the nines. There's nothing there that hasn't been done before. Because of its age and fame, FR is now "generic fantasy setting 122.8". Eberron offers something familiar, but with its own quirks.

Melf's Acid Arrow anyone? Should it be able to stay as an arrow without magic? As it stands, I have no problem with the Orb of Acid being as it is. Ideally it should work more like Melf's or Vitriolic Sphere, but eh. Now Orb of Force, that one is stupid as it is, as are the other Orbs (I...

Warning Shout: Immediate. Allies are no longer flat-footed. OHHHHH YEAHHH! This may be one of the most useful spells EVER printed!

I was actually thinking more of things like the Earth Dreamer, Shadowcraft Mage (<- this is the BIG ONE) and Runesmith PrCs, the Gnome Bard RS levels, and the Dwarf Fighter (AKA Fighter Plus) and Sorc RS levels. Then we'll just throw some of the other material in that book into the mix, like...

And people wonder why I hate Racial Sub levels. Races of Stone (or Hard Cheese as I call it) is probably the worst offender.

Damn. No more "Die Cleric, DIE!" Then again, it did an incredible amount of damage for a spell of its school (which doesn't normally do damage!) and level. You mean its no longer Xd6 negative levels, reflex for half? Is it actually something resembling balanced?

Complete Adventurer and Races of the Wild both mention it. It also applies to several other advanced weapon forms such as the Heavy Poleaxe, Greatspear and Warmace.

Then they can almost never be acquired though. Lets say you start with a Wis 18, and sink every boost into it on the way to 20th level, getting you a 23. A Manual +5 gets you to 28, representing a truly massive wealth investment. You still need 2 more points. And at any rate, an inherent...

No godless Clerics. Ever. Only humans can ever be Psionically active, and even then, the psionics system is tweaked to be dangerous, and most are Wilders. Druids, Rangers and Wu Jen all use Telluric Magic, not Divine Magic. Anyone can find and disable traps, not just Rogues. Teleportation...

Whoa. Lot of heat building up here. My theory is that there's a lot of feats that damn near require item-boosted scores (especially when you get into the realms of Epic). An item means you can qualify. If you don't have the item, then it doesn't work. Works for me. And on the matter of...

And then of course, there's Leonidas' famous response to the demand that his men lay down their arms, "Come and get them."

The Courtblade is from Races of the Wild, its a Finessable two handed weapon (!) which marks the next step up from Thinblade.

I vote for this!

And at this point, you lose me. The instant you say "better", you're like all those other pontificating "One True Way" sayers with their Mark Rein*Hagen era White Wolf books. I personally hate movies like "Deuce Bigalow" and pretty much anything else featuring Rob Schneider, or anything in...

To elaborate, Wolf Creek isn't strictly based upon any particular incident. In Australia it was billed as being "inspired by actual events". In this case, its the Backpacker Murders commited by Ivan Milat, and bears more than a passing resemblance to the abudction and murder of Peter Falconio...

And FRealms. And IK. And Arcanis. And any homebrew. Jeez people, so fruggin' what? You know the names, you can keep using them if you want! I don't see anything in the book saying that the WotC IP Gestapo is gonna smash down your door if you continue to use the old name.

Mechanically, sorcerers get 0 slots of the next level up at 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17, so they can metamagic up into their bonus slots of that level. They also get Use Magic Device and Eschew Materials, using XP for costed components and foci. Conceptually, it comes down to how Arcane...

LeShay. If I can defeat the angst factor of the race, its perfection. If I can't be a LeShay, then Ethereal Doppleganger.