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I figure creatures that have roots in mythology are easier to pronounce, just go to wikipedia. ;) (except for monsters from pre-columbian america; in that case its hopeless.) Another one would be Aasimar. I always found that one tough. And btw, am I the only one who pronounces death magic...

Has any one ever ran into a player outside (or even inside) you group that pronounces DnD words a little . . . differently? Does drow rhyme with cow or slow? What about the elder of annihilation? Is it the trask? Tarask? Taraskyu? Is it necromatic or necromantic? Are sea devils called...

Did anyone else see the question for "What is best is life?" - One of the options was "To protect, heal and smite the enemies of my gods." My would I protect and heal the enemies before I smite them? :) Poor wording. Edit: After completing the test - I don't think this was very good. It might...

Pfft... I put chocobos in my game long ago. If WOW can do it, I can too. I am sad, though. I was hoping the class would be more like the Skylord from Book of Exalted Deeds without the exalted bits. I was have a winged mount division in my campaign's elven army called the Wybrenrhibased off...

I love the 3e fiend folio and here is my interpretation of one of my FF favorites, the magic hating Sarkrith. It is hard to make monsters that eat magic in 4e, but I think I did well. Let me know what you think.

A fourth possibility in why characters take craft skills is they actually want to take pride in the work of their character. I, for one, enjoyed taking in game time and crafting a sword, rolling well and knowing that the piece came out well. I know it came out well because I have a numerical...

Reading greek myths when I was 8 > Dragon Warrior > Palladium > White Wolf > DnD 3.0 Btw everyone on this thread who said Dragon Warrior was awesome... IS awesome.

I thought the FR books were well written and formatted. Not a giant encyclopedia for me to wade through before I can run a setting. Eberron has always been good to me, ever since its release. I have high hopes for the setting but am very willing to houserule away any new rules they implement to...

Yes, that would be too situational. The whole turning into a phoera thing is purely flavor in a 4E game world. A racial power is something that normally needs to be called on whenever the player needs it (in the form of a 1/e).

In the 3.5 MM3, there was a remarkable race called the Phoelarch that always made my imagination soar. I'm trying to figure how to make in into 4E, but one of the things that bugging me is their fire-y nature. It seems natural to give them fire resistance, but wouldn't that cheapen the tiefling...

The only one that has been visited so far in my HB is the Tomb of Horrors, but I have plans for placing Castle Ravenloft in soon. The Tomb of Horrors TPK'd my players!

Oh the creativity of me tonight! I'm reskinning the races of ol' DnD (see my halfling thread) and I'm now on Shifters. I've decided long ago that they were to be spiritual plains folk, hunting the purple buffalo, or mastadons or whatever. I got to thinking about plains people across the globe...

Thanks for all the great suggestions! I especially enjoyed the idea of halflings as gunslingers. Thats just bad ass! I decided to go the pirate route and this is what I ended up with: I used the uskoci pirates (and the Shrews of redwall of course) for inspiration and the Taino language for...

This is exactly what core halflings were in 3e. 4e does the same thing, they just replaced the wagons with rivers. I'm trying to find something a little less standard. Hobbits are boring, but I do appreciate the suggestion. Now this I can get behind. Excellent suggestion. Funny enough, a...

I have always wanted to make my homebrew unique from the standard settings and one of the ways I do this (of course) is by giving races new schticks. Elves are more tribal (sniped by 4e), Dwarves are more gloomy and magical, dragonborn are spiritual warrior monks. But I can't figure out a new...

Can anyone get a wordcloud for the Eberron Setting? Or perhaps the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide? It'd be interesting to see the 'hot words' that separate these settings from each other.

I also express my desire to see a collection of these fine articles, Shark. Keep up the awesome insights and good work.

The best is Neceros' sheets! I've been using his for years.

With the trolls, drow and giants, it sounds like a revenge plot for their defeat a century past; so maybe a title about revenge or something? Maybe the big bad drow is the daughter of the matron that invaded prior? Didn't appreciate the embarrassment of defeat. I know its the title for the...

I have a sort of prequil homebrew setting set 2,000 years before the current timeline where I've based the political setup and personalities from Three Kingdoms China while maintaining a western Europe Sword and Sorcery setting. It ended up playing like the War of the Roses... with demons. Also...