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I looked at your reviews for the books I had purchased (which includes practically everything by WotC, as far as d20 is concerned). So, what do I look for in a review? What can I use in a campaign, or recommend for a friend's campaign? Ie, most items end up being taken piecemeil. For me...

Oh right, just remembered one little adventure... In the winter, of course, there is snow and ice, and on the marsh these things get even more deceptive. A friend of mine collapsed into the water once, all the way... Keep in mind he weighed all of 60 pounds or so. We had to get branches to...

There is a huge swamp right by were I live (this is Minnesota) with all sorts of secret trails made by kids going through it. The tall grass is dense enough that (when I was 10-12 anyway) we could beat down solid trails through it. But if you weighed more than 70-80 pounds or so it would be a...

I made two new skills, one is called metamagic, the other is called 'magecraft'. Magecraft is a group of skills (class skill for wizards, cross-class for all other spellcasters) that covers all of the item creation, and the skills have a TN according to the amount of XP being put into the item...

In a massive battle with a lot of people, do you really want to stick your sword (or any peircing or slashing weapon, really) in what amounts to an inch of rock? Plus any helmet involved... Beyond the fact that it's the easiest to defend. If your weapon gets stuck in combat you're in trouble...

In the many games I've played, the only race I see players generally avoid is gnomes. Many dwarves, elves, halflings and, of course, humans.

A friend of mine is a civil engineer specializing in water mechanics, the ocean's water has a cycle time of about 5,750 years, compared to the atmosphere's cycle of three to five days (which is one reason why predicting the weather is such a pain).

Re: Re: Re I would be fine with this if the fighters didn't get to rack up attacks (12 in a round!) I like Shadowrun/AEG's 3-second round where multiple actions are very, very hard to pull off. As it is, I think the spells that need the most work are shield (rules-messy), Blasphemy and harm...

Titanium is actually quite soft. There are a few titanium-beta alloys that approach the hardness of some steels (while still being half the weight), but they are very, very expensive, and many steels are still far stronger. Titanium has a higher strength to weight ratio than steel, it is not...

A friend of mine tested chain mail with some fun things. 4-in-1 chain mail (what you usually see people wear) will not stop a 45-pound bow worth jack, though 6-in-1 (each ring has six other rings linked to it) will, however, though the guy on the recieving end will not be enjoying life...

There are people here who can't write a paragraph without expousing on the glories of their settings. It's also why I don't even touch them, but since you posted this question I doubt you could be half as annoying.

All I know is: 1: George was interested, and looking into doing, such an RPG. 2: George is an avid GURPS fan. 3: Said RPG will not be d20 This was all in a foreign interview some time ago... Rather interesting :-)

They get the saving throw on top of any percentile roll, remember, and a beefy one at that.

We know quite a bit about Earth. There are millions of books, covering thousands of years of history across thousands of cultures and hundreds of landscapes. It really is quite excruciatingly detailed, almost as if it were the real thing :-p We don't have much else to go on, Earth being our...

I get 25% on everything I special order. It's essentially a garaunteed 15% profit off of MSRP, minus his time, resources and shipping. He also sells most items slightly below MSRP, depending on volume. He's also pretty smart - he caught on to Pokemon before anyone else in the city (this is...

It's interesting to note that Paris and London occasionaly suffered severe famines in the middle of their hinterland's most abundant harvests, because the price of food dropped so low that no one would sell it there. Venice (and other cities) stopped this problem before it started by giving tax...

Sometimes that's not the point of these adventures though, I mean, in one game I'm in we've got several 'side-campaigns', where each character from the main party went and did their own thing, and the rest of us played 'minor' 'NPCs' (all at 11th-14th level) to the part. We've also done...

A consensus on something is typically viewed as the only serious opinion held, ie, most people believe the Earth is round, even though some idiots still believe it to be flat (perhaps I wouldn't call them that if I didn't have my own verifiable evidence that the Earth is round, but anyway :-)...

The United States, Russia and China do not officially acknowledge these treaties, including the one over Antartica. They respect their intent as long as it is diplomatically important to do so. The issue with Mars, or even the Moon, is that once such a colony is self sufficient, there is...

Swap blink for nondetection, if your party is smart enough to keep See Invisible up.