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Cash payouts etc I know people are asking how the 250+M can turn into only a 80M payout if you take the cash. Not sure if it got answered. If you read the fine print, the 80M IS NOT the after-tax amount for a cash pyout. If you get the cash payout, you ONLY win the amount of cash they have...

I believe they mentioned this exact setup on the last D&D podcast, and if I recall correctly, what they ended up with was... kids playing D&D 'wrong'... but having an insanely great time playing it. And not a little wrong. Like wrong on serious, fundamental levels. But people loved the heck...

For me, I would say Wizards is still relevant. It's strange that as the cycle of publishing for 3.x SEEMS to be wrapping up (Rules Compendium, Spell Compendium, etc) that the books are becoming more interesting. To me at least it seems they're both moving towards interesting topics (I heart...

I like the idea of unravelling reality, myself. I know, not spectacular and Kablooie, but... Very insidious. You wake up one day, and realize things are missing, but you're the only person who remembers they ever existed. It also solves the problem of heroes saving the day -- who's going to...

Again, it seems to me that this discussion is another "I don't like GleeMax, and I was Right In The First Place." Again, it would seem that the ToS is arguably better now. Instead of them owning everything you write, they reserve the right to use whatever you might design that they think is...

My understanding and memory of the term 'Splat book' comes from the fact some publishers were cranking out anything they could as fast as they could. I think it comes from the sense of the 'spray-and-pray' approach of just slinging and slinging until something stuck. It seems to me I first...

I think it's interesting to see the way they've developed paladins and their abilities. Not many of us have probably thought of paladins with shark mounts. I wonder if we're beginning to see a larger plan unfolding for the defenders; as he points out, he picked O-chul to defend the throne room...

That's tough to say if you'd be better off to parcel it out for sale, or try to sell it as bundles. If you're going to ebay as bundles, the obvious guess would be: bundle each seperate; ie: 3e, FR stuff, etc. I'm lucky that I have McKay's near here in Knoxville, catering to the po' student...

I have always loved that Homer Simpson quote. Why would anyone hire first-level characters when they could hire more experienced, better equipped characters? It's cheaper. The value of having to pay less means, if they fail, you can just afford a completely different group to pay. And again...

I went to Gameboard in Knoxville on a whim, and caught the tail-end of their annual 'clear the warehouse' sale. Seventy percent off of anything but Magic cards. So, I bought what would have been about three hundred dollars worth of gaming things - including WLD, a lot of old Seventh Sea and...

Well, there is an already established tradition regarding beings of near-infinite power and the presupposition of neutral gender being referred to as a 'he' or 'him' instead of an 'It'. Of course, I merely made a typological booboo. Of course, I could be sexist and speak from experience: What...

I concur with Arhkhandus. More or less what I was trying to say, but a few steps further. And better,

You have to remember: V isn't the only person with a red cloak in the city. Case in point: Redcloak. :) And, it was more of the 'I detect a PC' check than seeing him; you only see the cloak's bottom peeking out from the crowd.

I don't know. Book of Exalted Deeds covers what it means to be Good in pretty good depth. Is making war on Evil good? Yes. But not nessecarily as good as giving to the poor and helping your community. Here's what I think. To me, a lot of the answer is in the details. To me, the 'I didn't...

I actually laughed at that for various reasons. 1) the 'Hopefully . . .' comment. 2) Holy cow. Are we going to see V's character change a tad? 'Well, I'm down to an illusion spell; that's completely useless since it doesn't mass-obliterate gobbos.' Heck of a spot check by Elan.

The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer does have the pantheons etc. However, they're not divided up by race/region etc - so the Suel gods are mixed in with the others, etc for example. Definitely good reading; there were some deities I'd never even heard of.

The games I've played in, I've seen people switch to and from a 2h fighting style to sword-and-board, or two-weapon with the same character. We had a player we teased because of his 'golfbag of doom' -- he collected one weapon of every special material in the game world, because then he'd...

I completely agree. But, the OP was talking about changing the way damage is done, instead of it being a wound issue, it became a morale/surrender issue -- if I understood properly. Kind of how you see in some video games -- you have a boss fight, and at a certain percentage, he just...

I don't think that the cleric role is nessecarily required to be the Healbot 2k7. To me, clerics in general are there to be healers, warriors, morale boosters. In my mind, it goes back to people trying to convert others by example. Right now, I've been playing a cleric of Lathander/combat...

Rogue/Expert. Rogue for his side adventures; expert fits his 'dayjob'.