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Half-elves are strictly AD&D unless they show up in the Rules Cyclopedia - they aren't in 2nd Edition D&D. Gnomes and half-orcs debutted in AD&D as well. There was the monk 'class/race' as presented in the Master DM's guide (or was it companion). However in 2nd edition you could branch out...

Eventually I just didn't care anymore. Mom: "You -STILL- play D&D?" Me: "Yup." hehehe. When asked, I'll say it's gaming night. If asked what game, I'll say D&D/Shadowrun/L5R/whatever it happens to be. Sometimes when talking about another RPG and they compare it to D&D I will make some...

This is kind of murkey. On several levels. If WotC is willing to do this for one book for a certain specific reason, what keeps them from doing the same if another book, for whatever reason, becomes so overwhelmingly successful that they see it cut into their sales? In that sense, it makes...

I've been thinking along much the same lines, however... My games tend to be about people in a world. They may be kick-ass people, but they are still a part of the world - not its core feature. I've been thinking, however, to use the character's charisma bonus in matters relating to 'attempt...

It is a common legal practice to bring as much as you possibly can to a lawsuit, which is why many of the points seem 'frivolous'. Of course they are frivolous alone - but everything taken together...

Metamagic is a class skill for sorcerers and wizards, and for each rank you purchase in it, you get a metamagic ability (like the feat). As for item creation, each one is a seperate magecraft skill - some are split up (shields, ranged weapons, armor and melee weapons for example) - and some are...

What does this have to do with the fact that it's hardwired? Seriously, there is a part of your brain geared to addition, subtraction, and counting. It can get damaged and you can lose it. The Chinese used the symbol for 'void' in its place, don't know about other cultures. Don't see why...

Feel free! If I was going to be all posessive and clustered about it I wouldn't have posted it here :-) I was hoping for any information anyone had regarding other abilities of humans that could be taken away from other races and still make them playable in the same context... But, I think...

I actually have the feat at every odd level in my standard campaign. It isn't much of a change, really. You end up with 11 feats at level 21 rather than 8. Three feats are not game-breaking, though it is certainly nicer given the vast number of feats out there. I also moved metamagic and...

The term 'erotica' was coined due to the influences of Greek art. I mean, Christianity is so Hellenized... Calling the work of the Greeks mere 'base porn' is an insult to our cultural heritage! Look up 'the unspeakable vice of the Greeks' for a few pages some would not touch no matter what...

Then you really ought to study other cultures more. Preferably without censoring blinders... The U.S. is the most productive nation in the world, not only in total but also in per capita. Learn Spanish and visit Spain, or learn Portugese and visit Brazil, or learn Japanese and visit Tokyo...

Perhaps a bit of historical understanding is in order. America (as in, the United States of) is a rather odd country in that it gets its morals and work ethic from the Puritans. That is, the belief that work is good and that entertainment is bad (especially sex) as a general rule. This ethic...

I think you are being a little narrow here. Evolution happens due to selective pressure. In a harsh climate, you have food shortages, and food shortages require that, through some means, population be kept down. Selective pressure due to climate is easy for humans to work around. If trees...

For a species that builds its own (potentially heated) shelters and walks upright though, being tall and thin isn't as much of a drawback as it could be. We have hair on our heads and where thick enough clothing :-) Such a rapid change in what amounts to two thousand generations would not seem...

Actually I was just debating on having humans resist weather and climate effects over time (making current ones a little harsher to balance). Drop the skill thing (confuzzling) and making sure that a feat change has to be pretty well explained.

Heh, I'm in a campaign that's sort of like this already - only there are humans who are fighting the 'True Cause of Humanity'.

You will notice I was not talking about attribute changes, but I was talking about things that may be easier to say 'humans have x' ability, rather than restricting every other single race from doing 'x', because humans are one of fewer races that can, say. That's one part of this - to...

It is a benifit. There also may be a lack of vitamin D in Scandanaivian diets - don't know, should check that :-) In cold weather, you want to conserve heat as best you can - you have any number of ways of getting warm - it's conserving that energy of warmth that is important. During the...

Apparently the incidence of mental disorders is unusually low in humans. I'll need to find a link somewhere.

That's where I'm starting, yes. Then I try to think of what I can do for the other races. I don't want to go -too- overboard, but enough to put them in a league of their own. I'll give an example: Dwarves. I've always thought Inuit were paler than their asian ancestors. At least that is my...