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Can't they be Arcane, Whimsical, and Threatening? I voted for Arcane, but I also like the idea of making them frivolous and whimsical as well as Fey and threatening. For me, Elves are like the weather, mercurial, unpredictable, and powerful. They are ruled by their passions, not reason, and...

As a relatively new gamer (I started in '99, right as 2nd Ed. was on it's last legs) I never developed a great deal of attachment to D&D's races. While conceptually, I have no problem with Dwarves, Elves, Orcs, Halflings and Gnomes as depicted in fantasy fiction, I've never been a fan of their...

I'm not that kinda orc! I really didn't get into Fantasy until I was in highschool, so my first exposure to Orcs and Ogres was in the original WarCraft: Orcs and Humans PC game. While the Ogres were pretty much a footnote, the depiction of ape-like, tusked, green-skinned brutes with pointed...

My "Hot" Patchwork Homebrew My homebrew setting, Thraevin, borrows heavily from dozens of sources. I've found that if one borrows from enough dissimilar sources, one produces a unique mix that's not entirely recognizable at first glance. To give you an example, my current Urban Campaign draws...

Nice bit of flavor text, I especially like the forms of address, and the thought you've obviously put into their cultural development. Giving them access to runes in their racial levels is also a very nice touch, and something I'd never considered for my own AE games, but might want to...

I'm currently running an Urban Campaign, and I've found the thing that works best is to have several plots going at once, with the PCs choosing the order in which to do them. Clearly, you've already figured this out for yourself, since we have 1) A magical storm that could lead into...

Stop the Ceremony! Ritual and ceremony in AE are entirely flavor text, don't get hung up over it. Mechanically speaking, ceremonial feats are no different from core D&D feats except that they cost money to take and do not function in an anti-magic field (being supernatural abilities). In...

One mechanical loophole that I realized which comes up in using D&D races with AE classes. Beware of the dwarf akashic or wolverine totem warrior, who is perfectly capable of maxing out tumble and using it while wearing heavy armor (since heavy armor only prevents tumbling if the armor reduces...

Based on the stats of the Rhodin warrior on page 408 of AE, I'd put them at +4 Strength, +2 Constitution, -2 Intelligece, -2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma. Darkvision, and a racial natural attack (headbutt). No racial HD, no LA. While the mental penalties are steep, it does balance out to +6/-6...

Whatever the "official" version of Sturdy is, I run it as per example two (an 18 Con gives you +8 HP from Sturdy in addition to your HD+ Con mod from your level). If your constitution score is raised or altered by adding ability score bonus points or magic, this is also taken into account...

Who have I always wanted to fight? Strahd von Zarovich. Preferably the nigh-epic 3.0 version of him that actually had levels in Fighter and Rogue to make him physically imposing as well as magically potent, not to mention the Dark Lord of the Demiplane of Dread. I joined a Ravenloft campaign...

Arcana Evolved is, without a doubt, my preferred rules set for d20, as both a player and a DM. I started playing in my first campaign the fall after Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed came out, and fell in love with the races, classes, spell system, and many of the feats. I began running my first...

Complete Setting When Complete Adventurer came out, and effectively "covered" all the bases again, I suggested the idea of developing a setting around the idea of having only the twelve base classes from those 4 books. How would such a setting look, and what about the world could cause those...

As a fellow "casual artist", I salute you for your prowess, and don't blame you in the least for needing requests to motivate you. ;-) Personally, I'd like to see a finished version of the above Blue Dragon. I really like the pose, and what detail you have put into the face. Oh, and while I...

In the first campaign I DM'ed, the party happened upon a bloated corpse wearing a courtier's outfit floating in a sunken ship. Making a Knowledge (nobility and courtesy) check, they recognized the son of a wealthy merchant family, and decided to take the corpse with them and eventually return...

Definately the Divine/Arcane magic distinction. Magic is Magic. I don't mind having a few spells that are more "divine" in nature among the mixed list, (perhaps calling for a spiritual component that can only be provided by honest belief in a deity granting the power) but the whole seperate...

Half-Elf and Half Orc, first of all because they have terrible mechanical benefits and drawbacks, and nothing would ever convince me to play one. Secondly, I really dislike the idea of halfbreed races, since they often bring in a lot of emotional baggage. If the character isn't dealing with...

I'm pleased to see that my home city (Lexington, KY) is ranked #8. As the former president of the Miskatonic Student Union of the University of Kentucky, I know we had something like 40 active members during my tenure. Since few if any of our members were involved in D&D Meet-Up, I'm guessing...

I've always thought it more interesting to see these stereotypes turned on their head as a story progresses, rather than being different from the get-go. The World of WarCraft (which incidentally, does have a d20 version in print in addition to the PC version) has actively transformed standard...

My Icon Mine is an icon from WarCraft III's expansion, The Frozen Throne. Specifically, it is the icon which activates the "Storm, earth, and fire" special ability of the Pandaren Brewmaster hero unit, which seperates him into three elementally themed panda-warriors for a short time. Tis a...