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Oddly enough, I have been planning to have the PCs in the next campaign I run taking on a cult dedicated to freeing the mad goddess of elemental fire that the dwarven god had sealed away thousands of years before. I had originally planned on putting their base in a bog-standard volcano, but the...

3.5 Updates of Monster Manual II and Fiend Folio, or better yet, a "Monstrous Compendium" collecting both books' contents updated to 3.5. Born of Magic- A guidebook on magical beasts, oozes, and constructs, expanding on the origins and nature of purely magical creatures beyond "A Wizard Did...

I have found that Grippli are a real hit with female gamers in my local group, especially if you treat them as being evolved from jungle tree frogs as they were illustrated in the issue of Dragon magazine where their 3.5 stats appeared. While bullywugs and other frogmen are more common in...

I just realized where I had heard the whole "fantasy boat-gypsies" archetype before. 4e Halflings are the Gyptians from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, only short. Of course, that wouldn't be the first time WotC has given a nod to Northern Lights / The Golden Compass in their...

My taste in halfling appearance leans much more towards Lidda and the illustration from PHB2 that Zamkaizer posted. As a Monte Cook fan, I tend to go with the idea presented in Ptolus that halfings are just a subrace of elves anyway, the saelas faen (which he latter spun out into the faen races...

Before I go further, I would like to note that my experience with Ravenloft was primarily in a homebrew version of the setting that drew heavily from both S&S's 3E materials and 2E modules and sourcebooks, and built upon a timeline that had been established by two previous Ravenloft campaigns...

I second New Crobuzon, Ptolus, Ank-Morpork, and Sigil. I also nominate the floating city-state of Armada from China Mieville's The Scar, a city composed entirely of ships and rafts tethered together, and whose economy is based on piracy and aquaculture. Each of its districts or "ridings" has...

I think "crap" is a little strong. Sure, some 3.x stuff was Crap, but some of it was good. I also agree with the guy who stormed off that it isn't fair for you to call 3.x "crap" when the 4E naysayers keep getting told to rein it in. I'm not going to throw up my hands and stop posting/reading...

Note that I am assuming that "humanoid" means only those creatures expressly considered humanoids in D&D, and not just things with a human body plan. 1. Orc 2. Goblin 3. Drow 4. Kobold 5. Hobgoblin 6. Lizardfolk 7. Gnoll 8. Werewolf 9. Wererat 10. Bugbear

I identify myself as a gamer because even though all the gaming I do is d20, most of it is homebrew or third party. I suppose you could say that I am a fan of the underlying mechanics of the game but not so much of the inconsistant execution or some of the sacred cows. The main reasons I hang...

The Two Deaths of a Loresong Faen I would say that both of my character deaths have been quite memorable. The only things that have ever managed to kill one of my characters are an Undead Half-Field Colossal Green Dragon with the Tempest breath and Quickened breath feats and a conjoined twin...

Five humans, one gnome.

I also like the use of "Primal" as a power source. While I agree with most of the ideas presented here so far, one thing that hasn't been mentioned is how a druid could use some of his classic "spells" other than shapeshifting to help him in the Defender niche. For example, the dryad in the...

EDIT: Disregard post. I didn't notice that the thread specified something *yoinkable*

Hyudra's harpies remind me of the ones in WoW, who are descended from female elven nobles who were warped by demonic forces. While they also practice the abduction of male elves and humans to propogate their race and keep it vital, they are capable of reproducing asexually as well, their...

Good to hear that this idea is working out for your group! This thread has inspired me to work on my own non-core setting, which I have aptly named Naankhor ;) . Set several thousand years after the fall of the Human civilization, the two dominant races of the world, the Illumians and the...

Paizo's pathfinder adventure path has introduced two new shapeshifting types, the Faceless Stalkers and the Totenmaske. The latter is particularly creepy, as it drains flesh away (con damage) and thereafter can assume the shape of that person. It also can drain memories with it's bite to gain...

There are two broad categories of monsters that I dislike. 1) Boss Monsters like Beholders, Dragons, and many high-level devils. While cool conceptually, they are generally much more difficult to run as a DM. Since players are completely unpredictable, there's no real way to plan ahead for...

I think that Monte has a point about it being a hard sell. Whether it will be more of a hard sell than 2E, I can't say, but the fact that many people are happy with 3.5, and that the SRD can live on through the web and the contents of our harddrives means that those who are happy to stick with...

The following list is just of the physical books I possess. WotC 3.0 PHB 3.0 DMG 3.5 Monster Manual I Monster Manual II PHB II Complete Adventurer (currently missing/misplaced :( ) Sandstorm Stormwrack Monster Manual V Malhavoc Press Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed AU DM screen and player's...