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I'm curious how Termana supports a more normal game than Ghelspad due to the existence of a good kingdom - seeing as how Ghelspad has one, too, in the form of Vesh. Darakeene is also viable as a place to play without any evil overtones. And you're thinking of the Silver Isle, the island run by...

As said, I don't think mechanics were ever Sword & Sorcery's strong point. The only book I bought for the mechanics were the original Creature Collection and Relics & Rituals. The rest after that was for the setting, simple as that. I never read the Slarecian book, anyway. I've a general...

Hmm. Posts about core setting books for the Scarred Lands and not one mention of The Divine and the Defeated. That is absolutely the most important setting book for the Scarred Lands. It does rather require the Ghelspad hardcover, but the Ghelspad hardcover can also be traded out for the...

Considering the Scarred Lands line was cancelled not too long after, it's really no surprise. Would you have preferred they not produce the book at all? As it stands, I never think Sword & Sorcery was exactly all that great with their crunch, anyway. The setting was great at times, but I was...

Right now I'm on a reread of George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords, with occasional forays into a collection of his short stories, Dreamsongs Volume II. My jonesing for A Dance of Dragons has just recently pushed me into looking into some of his other works. Alas, Shell Games wasn't quite up to...

Yeah, they used the same name. The Silk Spectre is essentially analogous to Black Canary - who is also a legacy character, with the mother as the first Canary and her daughter as the second. And I'd say Silk Spectre II was assertive - certainly more so than Nite-Owl. As for the way the...

Comparing them isn't quite fair - there are a number of differences in storytelling style, the sort of story they're telling, all of that. But when you get right down to it, I think Martin's a greatly superior writer. Tolkein tends to be very, very dry by comparison. He can spin a good plot...

It's a great idea, all except the "Jason Todd becomes Batman" bit. Particularly since, whatever Final Crisis may be, it's coming to us at the hands of Grant Morrison, a New God among comic writers.

By the rules, it's completely legitimate. As a role-playing thing, it's a little more questionable. What you can do is just "gussy up" the rules with a ritual or something like that - essentially, point out what the rules allow, then say anyone with enough, say, Knowledge (nature) or the...

Because I'm rabidly opposed to directly derivative characters like Batwoman to begin with? I sincerely hope not because, one, I like Power Girl and would rather see her stay right where she is and, two, I hate Supergirl with the power of a 1,000 burning red suns and would rather she just went...

Right now I'm running a Mutants & Masterminds game set in the DC Universe. Big comic book geek, loves me some DC, and I find pre-established settings in general easier to run - less work. As far as D&D is concerned: Scarred Lands. Off and on again. First off because, as mentioned, I like...

One other observation is that you could just make things easier by only really being stringent about alignment extremes; chaos, good, evil, law. I would like to think most players understand that any sort of alignment extreme, particularly when it's linked to a class, has the potential to...

Acrobatic Bluff, Power Attack, Sneak Attack. That should do the trick right there. A martial artist is bound to have a high Acrobatics rating, of course. So take these three feats and you can feint as a move action with -5 to the roll and get a good wallop of a Sneak Attack in. Add in a little...

Rules that say "This is roughly equal" when things aren't roughly equal...are bad rules. That's currently what Level Adjustment is. And the best sort of rules need minimal house ruling. No, it doesn't serve the majority of D&D gamers the best. It serves a small portion of DM's who can't say...

Actually, no. A monster just using its innate abilities like, say, an ettercap, has only a Challenge Rating of 3. Meanwhile, a 9th level character with gear is supposedly a Challenge Rating of 9 (I'd argue an 8 or 7, but whatever). A 5 HD, +4 LA ettercap comes in at an ECL of 9. That number...

If a book tells me monster X is roughly equivalent in power to PC of Y level, I expect them to be roughly equal. When they're not, that's a bug, not a feature. Any DM who can't put his foot down and say "No" to the "menagerie" of monster PC's is, simply put, a bad DM. You shouldn't need the...

I DM. For maybe the past five or so years I DM'ed almost exclusively until about three of my friends all at once decided they wanted to run games. That said, my buying habits are a bit spotty at times, for one. My funds aren't always quite so ample as I'd like. With that in mind...most of my...

Of course, that's always been one of my beefs with Planescape - the fact that the vast majority of planars are going to be nitwits as well. I've always used New York City as an analogy to Sigil. New York is one of the more cosmopolitan meeting points for much of the world. It has the UN, a...

You're going about this all wrong. The appropriate response is... "You're fired." ... Anyway, that said, I can only cringe at meshing together Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms. Both have worthwhile aspects, but something like that could only go down in flames, in my opinion. The best bet...

The bloodlines from Unearthed Arcana are one way to help simulate things. Another would be to add the half-celestial, half-fiend template. Just base which template gets applied on the alignment of the character or, in the case of a neutral individual, on just which side the individual mostly...