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The main method for wizards to gain money is item creation. Make items for NPCs and fellow PCs (perhaps giving PCs a slight discount); this has a 100% rate of return, less discounts and XP. Cast spells for NPCs, roughly following the guidelines in the PH. You should get a few hundred gold...

I voted E (fine as is), but if you wanted to do something C (human skill point bonus) or a bonus to Intimidate checks -- shared by orcs, of course -- would work too.

Alright, I'm calling them new to 3E.

On Elemental Fire? That's evil.

I use the same resource myself; in fact I link to it at the end of my page. I also thought that the arrowhawk was new. Do you remember the source for the "example" you mention? I'd love to quote it. Anything you can remember might help me -- I vaguely recall reading something like that, but...

Do you know of the books where these came out (or at least a book in which they appeared before 3E)? What was the frost worm originally? Yes, I won't argue that.

Scott, a quick question of terminology if I may... What was the progression of MMs? There was the 1E Monster Manual, the 2E Monstrous Manual, the 3E and 3.5 Monster Manuals -- right? 2E also had Monstrous Compendiums: were those expanded MMs or were they more like the MM II? It's been a long...

Yeah, you're probably right. At least I'm pretty sure now I haven't missed something -- I thought there might be something obvious that I overlooked. Good point on the urd.

Gez, if I'm ever over in France, I owe you a beer or something. :D

+3 would be fine for Widen if it also Heightened it by +3 levels. It's much too weak at +3 otherwise, and not worth using at +2. It's pretty powerful at +1. Cry Havoc has War Spell, which is +1 level and is much better for mass combat. Brief summary (the feat is 1/3 of a page long): Range...

The art gllery has a much more convincing ethereal maurauder, called the "dropper".

I think acid arrow is a fine spell as is. I don't think the orb spells are balanced, so I don't allow them. I don't think I'm losing out on a whole lot of flavor by doing so; they're fairly bland.

I thought about it. Formians had been around since before 3E, though; why would they call them bug troopers? The other monsters were either new ("claw monster" = destrachan) or used the names older editions gave them.

Cool. The wriothling and the trolls aren't showing up for me, though. I see that your maps are based off the British Isles -- are your campaigns themed to match early England, or are they typical "D&D fantasy"?

Does anyone know what 3E MM creature this is? http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm_gallery/BugTrooper.jpg It's a concept sketch from the Monster Manual Concept Art page, which says "Just to make it tricky for you, some of the monster names may have changed from the sketch stage to the final...

I like the various thoughts on save-or-die spells, especially flesh to stone. I use a similar mechanic for basilisks in my campaign: they deal Dex damage, halved with a Fort save, and losing all your Dex turns you to stone.

Yep, I have that quote in my D&D Monster Origins page. I'm thinking of emailing him to see what other monsters he may have made.

Technically, it's not in the SRD at all. It's on d20srd.org, and it was released as OGC, but it's not in the SRD and needs to be credited apart from it. I have a variant monk class, the mystic, on my website and on the forums here somewhere if it would interest you...

Ah, thank you -- I was able to track this down, since I knew what to look for. I missed that the first time around. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/alumni/20060927a

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