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I'll second whoever suggested getting paperback 'graphic novel' collections. They're usually a fairly self contained story arc so you get some closure and have somewhat of a rising and falling plot that you won't be jumping into midstream.

I'm trying to pull together an adventure and figured I might as well see what kind of ideas people could come up with to help flesh out a rough idea. In a forgotten realms game the pc's will return to Waterdeep to find that Khelben's tower has gone into full 'defensive' mode- the mage was last...

How could anyone pick oozemaster or cancer mage as worst class? Most physically repellant maybe, but interesting concepts w/ odd abilities not easily emulated by other classes or feats. My most hated prestige class is would have to be the Archmage. Not because its the worst balanced, though...

Yeah, the swarm rules do seem like they'd be best. Instead of doing damage to those the swarm envelops it could have them make saves or be hampered in some way like making spot checks or spells harder to use. As you gain levels the DC's could go higher and the swarm could gain hitpoints, though...

Heh, I don't post much but for some reason I find this one of the more interesting questions I've seen on the boards, maybe its the image of a spell slinging adventurer surrounded by a swirling cloud of butterflies.. neat. Anyway.. I'm pretty sure the current 3.5 rules don't support having a...

Yeah, though many players still want it, the sneak attacking archer rogue is really not all that viable; if you want to get a lot of sneak attacks (which really can add up to a lot of damage if you get a full attack in flanking each one is a sn. attack) then you really need to focus on hand to...

Robots ;)

Honestly, I don't think you need a specific reason unless you want to use one. Characters in game are not necessarily identified as their stats. In character, how would someone tell a rogue/sorceror from a gestalt r/s? Its just defining abstractions. PC's are already powerful compared to the...

Hmm, you're right, getting rid of the -2 altogether would probably be too good. I like your ideas for TS mastery feats w/ the slight penalty reduction, although reducing the check penalty is not a huge concern for me personally. When its at -16 already I pretty much just plan on failing any...

Is there a feat somewhere that negates the -2 penalty to hit when using a tower shield? I thought there was but none of my books have one so perhaps I'm imagining things. If this doesn't exist, would such a feat (or a similar one) be balanced? I'm playing a dwarven stonelord and have been...

I think maybe the point of the original post was how, in general, an archer character deals with foes w/ damage reduction; not specifically bludgeoning resistance. A melee character can power attack and such to deal large amounts of damage while archers deal more in lots of small hits. I don't...

I was really disappointed with this book, maybe I just expected too much from the ending. I've kind of liked the Dark Tower series less and less after book 4, not really sure why, maybe because it seemed to be less about this epic journey than about scrambling around back and forth between this...

Interesting idea to help give sorcerors a more unique feel. However, some of the granted abilities are quite powerful so I think that having them as well as d6 hit die and 4 skill points is too much, making them much better than a wizard.

Ack, a new game starting up and I'm too late. Well, if you need an alternate I'm available; I've never played-by-post before but would like to give it a try. I was thinking of making a human fighter heading towards Purple Dragon knight, seeing how the game starts in Cormyr, kind of a young...

I've never seen clerics buffing themselves up with combat spells to be all that effective. The armored war cleric in our game often spends several rounds of a fight buffing himself with the usual array of spells, then must move his slow self into combat. Of course, the rest of the party is now...

I think you said you wanted to use the bastard sword two-handed as a flavor thing, but you're wasting the free exotic weapon proficiency if you do so. A 2 handed b. sword is not exotic, only if wielded in one hand. Just pointing this out if you hadn't realized it.

I wonder how one would 'see' the invisible creature. I can imagine noticing little bits of dust or something that they kick up with their feet, just enough of a disturbance to make someone detect something fishy. What if they're flying, as many always invisible/hovering mages seem to do- would...

In regards to royalty and assasination, some kingdoms in my world have ancient edicts that prevent kings from being raised. Anyone who has ever been raised is also ineligible to rule these lands; the reason behind this being that some very few people come back from the dead slightly different...

I'd probably just let you take it as a normal familiar, but w/out having it giving you any added bonus like a plus to a skill. This seems like a simple balanced solution to me, as a chimp doesn't really seem worth spending a feat on compared to what kind of other improved familiars you could...

Well I was going to start a thread like this of my own but I might as well add on to this one and bump it upwards. I'm interested in playing in a Pbp game, never having done so before. It would be nice to get in on a fresh starting game, but seeing that there don't appear to be any starting up...