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That sounds like a good idea. I'll do that. I don't really have time to read a long book anyway: as it is I'm going to be late for the Anubis Gates discussion.

Alrighty then. I'm having a bit of a dilemma. The book that I would really like to pick is fairly obscure, and probably only available through buy.com or amazon.com (and even then they might not have very many copies in stock). OTOH, it's a fairly short book (around 250 pages), so I'm tempted...

When are you thinking of starting play? This sounds like fun, but I won't have any free time until the start of April. Would you consider using the UA general spellcaster, or allowing spells not on the sorcerer list, so people can choose more idiosyncratic spell selections?

Ping? I'm eager to play, but won't have any free time until after April 1st, because of a mountain of research and writing I have to do. Perhaps my character could meet up with the rest of the warband when I'm able to play. Though if you'd prefer to just call up an alternate, I'd understand...

To expand on what Shadow wrote, in Chinese writing there is a character for each syllable, and most Chinese words are made of two syllables. However, a lot of the time, the two characters used to form a two-syllable word do not have meanings outside from the compound word. I don't know about...

The plane of the dead sounds a lot like the Greco-Roman hades, the despairing grey realm where all dead souls go to and fade to shades of their former selves. I do agree that the planes are a bit too straightforward. I also think there are too few of them. It would be more interesting to me...

There are a few, but only a few, and most of them don't write traditional pseudo-tolkienesque fantasy. Steven Brust, Guy Gavriel Kay, Charles de Lint, China Mieville, and Neil Gaiman all write self-contained books.

It's been a while since anyone has posted here. What's going on with the game? (Sorry I havn't posted my character yet - I've just had a couple of weeks from hell)

No advantage whatsoever, if your GM allows you to create new items not in the book. The sad truth is that the item categories in D&D are purely arbitrary, and really don't mean much anymore. A much better approach is the one in Arcana Unearthed, which replaces the D&D item creation feats with...

The suits were threatening to cancel Babylon 5 during its third and fourth season, causing JMS to accelerate the main storyline in order to finish it by the end of season 4, which no doubt is part of the reason why season 5 was a bit lackluster. As for Connor... Joss has always been very good...

Ironically, with UA there essentially is an acrobat and skill-monkey base class. A very simple Rogue variant, in which the sneak attack progression is replaced with the Fighter's bonus feat progression, fulfills both of these roles.

The gestalt character section is much more comprehensive than you give it credit for. There's a good descripton of how to modify CRs to be more appropriate, and in-depth descriptions of the ways in which it radically changes the balance, including several that aren't apparent at first. I agree...

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Uzumaki, severe depression is often the result of a chemical imbalance in the brain. They way you're feeling may not have much to do with who you are, but with a physical disorder, not terribly different from feeling weak from the flu, having extreme emotions from alcohol, or feeling jittery...

Essentially everything is OGC, except for a few PI names, and the racial paragon classes of the PI races (githyanki, etc.).

A month or two ago, Andy Collins as much as said that it wouldn't be put in the SRD. That's too much work for a big supplement. That's why they just made the book itself open.

I've been meaning to read that book for a while. In fact, the copy I reserved at the library came in yesterday.

Would it be okay if I tried out a variant or two from Unearthed Arcana? Two that would particularly fit my character are the Druidic Avenger (give up animal companion and spontaneous summoning, and -4 penalty to wild empathy, in return for rage and fast movement as a barbarian) and spell points...

It would also work for settings where virtually all characters have multiple capabilities, such as in Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos books. Vlad is simultaneously a great assassin, a very good fighter, and a decent sorcerer and witch, while Morrorlan and Aliera are fantastic fighters as well as...

Is it? I've never read wheel of time. I took it mostly from the tale of Thomas the Rhymer, who, after being the consort of the queen of faerieland, could not speak a lie. He could still be vague, in the way that prophecies only make sense after the thing they predict has come to pass.