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I think it's very difficult for me to extrapolate from my childhood gaming to today. My brother was my first GM and as a 10 or 11-year old the best that I could buy at the FLGS were the Metagaming microgames (tiny wargames that cost very little) because I didn't have much of an allowance. I...

But the Gestalt Characters aren't even supposed to be balanced with regular classes. This is... well it sounds very powerful, and I also don't like it because it forces particular numbers of dice on each attribute for a character class. Sometimes people like to play atypical characters. What...

Sorry, Aaron, I have to disagree with you a bit. In the passage from MoI that you condensed, a bit of detail has been lost. Are both Harllo and Stonny to one side of Gruntle? In your version, that's a possible interpretation because "flanked" is vague. In Erikson's passage you can picture...

Gee, I thought this was the first post for that "who's responsible for balance" thread. :) In that particular case, my answer would be "no" because I am aware of the fact that the Swashbuckling Adventure classes are designed to be used in a Thean environment without much in the way of magic...

Well, I thought the episode was good for this tension exactly. I guess there have been other episodes (one in TOS?) in which the crew decided they had to mutiny to deal with the captain's irrational behavior, but I don't think any of them were recent. I figured out what was happening before...

Steven Erikson's world/writing does contain similarities with Cook, but more in terms of a darker tone than a terseness of style - which actually in the case of Cook was more a matter of Croaker's style. I found the later Black Company books just as wordy as Steven Erikson, and actually less...

I definitely thought it was a bad film, but if all you want to do is shut your brain off for an hour and a half...

I'm not sure it's such a great deal for rangers (I'm playing one and considering it). You could get a bit more flexibility with skills (take Tumble or UMD or something else not on the ranger list) and the general benefits are nice, but the Human Paragon has fewer skill points, you lose a point...

Personally, I think I'd have the same reservation as you. "The multiverse belongs to who can grab his share of it" suggests that taking something from another (arbitrarily or for yourself) is perfectly fine; the person who couldn't keep it obviously wasn't strong enough to deserve it. That's...

True, but the trebuchet wasn't invented until later.

Probably still true, but they're +6gp each. THe book says that 10 such arrows cost 70gp each, which seems a bit odd to me since 20 normal arrows cost 1gp (to me that says 60 gp, 5sp for a set of 10).

Point taken. But a 6x increase in cost for a writer's gut feeling is odd. If one wanted an item which allows Speak with Animals a couple of times per day, would you use the same increase in price? Sooner or later there's going to be a very big disparity between the cost of a weak item and a...

Ah, that explains a lot, thanks. :D The torc description says "Its wearer can use a speak with animals effect at will."

A Torc of Animal Speech (3.0; Masters of the Wild) costs 12k gp. A Ring of Animal Control (3.5) costs 10.8k gp. Both of these are spell-effect items based on 1st level druidic spells, with no material components. The Ring of Animal Control is a command-word item (1800gp), with the effect of...

Actually Erikson isn't published in the U.S. yet but they should be reasonably priced if you order them from amazon.ca (Canada). The first book will see U.S. publication this summer, June I think. The Garrett P.I. series is GREAT fun. Sometimes it does get a bit dark but Garrett is generally...

Well, if there are enough NPC spots in a background story, you could have the other players take on those roles. For instance, in that nobles' conspiracy story, what if two of the players took on the roles of the father and older brother who got killed? I think you'd have to lay out quite a...

I've been planning to try this with my character's hawk (not actually a companion, but an extra animal). If it's possible to have magic items commissioned, by my reckoning an item to grant speak with animals a few times a day would not be too expensive. Even once or twice extra per day would...

It is a house interpretation, then. :) There is nothing bad about rolling a 1 on a search check; it just means that you don't notice anything, and if there is a trap there, and you trigger it (a separate action, opening the door or hitting the tripwire or whatever), it will go off. But...

The Gem of Amara - it was dealt with in an early episode of Angel called In The Dark (1x03). This is a great episode for a number of reasons, one of them being Spike has some terrifically snide commentary about Angel.

This sounds like potentially a variation on the expert. You might see if such have been posted in House Rules (a lot of tedious paging, if you don't have search, I know). There was an interesting PC-level expert posted in rec.games.frp.dnd recently; you could find it at groups.google.com by...