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Star Wars Saga Edition (Wizards of the Coast); 288 pages, 39.95? Release date projected in May 2007.

Another reason for Drow to have black skin is the, shall we say, intercourse they've had with demons... After all, where does their innate magic resistance come from? And their ability to levitate at will? And the Faerie Fire thing? It's not all due to the 'strange radiation found in the...

Dungeons and Dragons Online chose to 'nerf' warforged. Turbine gave Warforged characters "resistances" (+4 to saves) instead of "immunities." As a result, very very few people played warforged. Further, in actual play, Warforged turned out to be less powerful than an equivalent build from...

In Woodbridge, there's Game Parlor's Woodbridge store off of Smoketown Road opposite Potomac Mills. The RPG room back there isn't used that often, and it's a beautiful location to game. Bright, clean, spacious... RPGA events tend to happen on an irregular basis there a couple of times a month...

Most of the Unearthed Arcana stuff was okay. Cavaliers were balanced, *if* you or your DM enforced that code of conduct. The cavalier code does restrict character behavior. Barbarian had to be heavily modified before being usable. Thief-acrobat wasn't a problem. Drow have social/reputation...

I have run multiple PCs at one time... this has sometimes led me to forget which PC I'm speaking for at the moment (that led to an alignment violation once, though it was a minor one and easily atoned for). I can usually keep them straight if I've been playing them for a while. However, two...

Basically, low-level magic items, like +1 weapons and armor, are fairly available; players in my campaigns regularily sell excess magical weapons if no one in the party has a need for them. Scrolls are generally kept by whomever can use them. Potions are as well. Wands are almost never sold...

In 1st edition, there was this lovely little thing called a "% chance to learn spell". I had a magic-user blow his chance to learn Detect Invisible. Another mage I had blew his roll for the Invisibility spell. Neither of them will ever be able to learn those spells. In that campaign, when you...

Vance certainly inspired the system of memorization in D&D. It is not purely Vancian, though, since with Vance, magic was rather more limited for even the best magician. One high-level mage could only memorize, let's see... Free Action, a nasty Telekinesis variant, Water Breathing/Airy Water...

One of the D20 publishers recently tracked down Erol Otus and convinced him to do a couple of covers for their modules.

Ultimately, I think it's because the drawings and artwork weren't drawn, for the most part, by artists who went to commercial or fine arts schools. Some were talented, some were... less so, but the lack of a unified 'look' to the art made these books feel more honest, somehow. The new art just...

Rules? No, not really... However, usually when a lord grants a fief to adventurers, he's giving them undeveloped, raw land, typically on the edges of the wilderness. Before the peasantry are going to come out there and start farming, they need to be convinced it's safe, so someone's going to...

Well, in the hands of anyone other than a Paladin, a Holy Avenger just acts like a +2 longsword... Paladin has strict code of conduct regarding evil. Violating that code of conduct means Paladin loses all Paladin abilities and becomes 'just a fighter' until atonement happens. Paladin asks Evil...

There are D&D minis out there that Wizards is doing. If you find a bald human figure wearing plate armor and wielding a two-handed sword, call it Minsc and have done. The CotF minis for Star Wars are part of the compilation of characters for the Star Wars miniatures game. Those minis aren't...

I use ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, Ad-Aware SE Plus, Spybot Search and Destroy, Spy Sweeper, AND Spyware Doctor. What can I say? Each of these programs caught at least one spyware infection that the other ones didn't.

That's because the list of devils in the Monster Manual II originally appeared in a series of articles in Dragon, wherein the designation of the asterisk is explained. You may be remembering the articles in Dragon too.

They have different emphasis. Personally, I have a character who is currently sor 6+2/Fighter 1/Spellsword 1/Elemental Savant 1. I don't plan to take another level of Spellsword; the bonus of having -10% arcane spell failure chance is more than enough for me, as that allows +1 Mithral Chain...

I'd like to point out something about Major Kusanagi's background: As I understand it, Kusanagi's biological body was dying very early on in her life; like age 5. Her parents apparently sacrificed much of their life's savings and income in order to keep her alive and developing normally by...

Jedi in D6 were also in an odd position. For a very long time, a Jedi really couldn't do a whole lot with their powers, because Control Sense and Alter were attributes and improving them was expensive. The d20 system makes Jedi more powerful from the beginning with all the force skills that...

WJW Pity, that. I'd like to see the third part of the Metropolitan trilogy. However, unlike LoTR, which was one novel broken up into three books for publishing reasons, Metropolitan and City of Fire can stand on their own, having very, very few unresolved threads between books. For me, Martin...