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Can you handle one more player? This setting sounds like tons of fun.

I don't buy every issue, and more planar stuff wouldn't make any real difference in how often I buy it.

Missed well --> Mistwell

How long was the casting time for the Artificers' enhancementts? What was the coolest thing about playing one? I'm dying to know as much as possible. Was there any new information that wasn't in the Dragon article?

sticky black substance made from small, furry fish --> minnow tar --> Minotaur I'm not sure where the furry comes in though.

If FBI recruitment is anything like CIA recruitment, they're looking for a fairly specific group of abilities and character traits. So if the rumor you heard is in fact true, it may not be a "character flaw" but just a possible indicator for traits they don't want. If, hypothetically, a large...

Oops, I meant to write The Phoneix Guards. I edited my post above. Zelazny's books often defy easy classification, so I included Lord of Light because it's excellent and might be fantasy. ;)

Tigana, Lions of Al Rassan, and A Song for Arbonne, by Guy Gavriel Kay Jack of Shadows and Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny. (The Chronicles of Amber can also be considered a standalone book. Although it was originally published as 5 books, it's a single coherent storyline, and at about 500...

Interesting. Alternatively, you could use the Eberron Artificer class featured in the current Dragon magazine. You could even go so far as to remove their pseudo-spellcasting enhancements, and give them more skill points and hit points to compensate.

That's one of my main irritants of D&D magic, especially after character reach 7th level or so. However, in my experience playing AU, this hasn't been a problem. Casters each tend to have a basic group of spells that they always have readied, and only swap out one or two to suit a particular...

I might as well post on how I answered them. Fire and forget: Change. This is an artifact of D&D history, and could be easily changed without affecting the feel of the game. The most balanced method would be one like the "spells readied" system in AU. Actually I've found this type of system...

Patience guys, it took a while to write out the options. ;)

There has been a lot of discussion lately about D&D's magic system. I thought it might be interesting to find out which specific aspects of the system people like and which they don't. Which of the above aspects of the D&D magic system should be kept, changed, or removed entirely in the next...

You know, I think we're all arguing based on different definitions of what "vancian magic system" means. Some (such as myself) use the term to refer to just the fire and forget aspect, while others use it to refer to the entire way magic works in D&D, including spell slots, spells with specific...

Hmm, the vancian side has caught up since I last looked at that thread. My mistake. :) Nevertheless, the pro-vancian comments mostly seem to be "it works well enough" and "that's the way D&D has always done it, so it shouldn't change" not "it's great, and getting rid of it would make D&D a...

That sums up my opinion of it exactly. As for statistics, the people who post to EN world probably aren't a representative sample of D&D players as a whole, and the sub-sample of those who choose to vote in the poll is even less so. Nevertheless, the fact that the overwhelming majority of...

You've never actually been inside a prison, spoken to anyone who has, or read books by/about people who have, have you? Prisons are hellholes (well, the high security ones anyway, not the relatively cushy ones they reserve for white-collar crimes). Virtually everyone that ever gets out of one...

I'm also curious where in Philly she is. There is already a decent comics/games store on South St. downtown. In the northwest (in King of Prussia) there's a Compleat Stragetist that is one of best stocked RPG stores I've ever seen. To the south of Philly, just over the Delaware border, is...

Just imagine how many lists it will be on when the 5th edition fixes the combat rules and broken TeFo combinations. :cool:

1) Ars Magica 2) Fading Suns 2nd edition 3) Riddle of Steel (even without roleplaying, just dueling with the combat system could be hours and hours of fun) 4) Arcana Unearthed 5) Mutants and Masterminds (and smuggle in the random character generation tables from the original Marvel Superheroes...