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If I am not in California that weekend (I'll find out within a week or so), I'll be at the Gameday(s). In fact, I'll even run a game: "A Marriage of Inconvenience" -- a "White Wedding" (Billy Idol) themed adventure for Shadowrun, 3rd edition.

I just picked up my Sc.M. in Planetary Geology last weekend. Two more chalk-marks on the cell wall, and I hope to earn my Ph.D. Read all about it at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00642.x

As far as effects on the game go, making poisons common in a campaign is like making traps common in a campaign--it will make the players expect poisoning at every meal, leading to serious use of detect/neutralize poison, which may or may not slow down game play (along the lines of, "I take 20...

Conan the Librarian? I love the concept.

The more I think about it, the more I think there's no good reason to take Halfling Outrider levels to make a small mounted archer. Taking all the lead-up levels in fighter (read: Ftr 1-6), a halfling can pick up the following feats: Level 1: PBS, PS Level 2: RS Level 3: Mounted Combat Level...

Thanks for the input. I guess my concern is that archers are so feat dependent (PBS, PS, RS, MS, etc.) that fighter was the only way to go (especially as I will miss out on the starting human feat being, say, a halfing). The problem, then, is keeping the mount alive without animal companion or...

Given the importance of mounted warriors in historical and fantasy settings alike, I've been thinking about making a mounted warrior for my next PC. Having looked over the mounted combat rules, it seems like the choices are to make a charger (who gets one attack with a lance at the end of a...

IIRC, the only size control on wildshape abilities comes with the halfling druid racial substitution levels from RotW.

Remembering that wizards are part of an arcane brotherhood, even if they are solo adventurers, can help shape a name. Regardless of surname, a lot of character can shine through a wizard's choice of "last names." (e.g., honorifics, patronymics, etc.) My last wizard was named Damothoneil Arlo...

What you felt, Bullgrit, was suspense. The only thing more scary than the unknown (e.g., what's on the other side of the door? What could it be?) is the known (80 ft of crushing, drowning, horribly cold water). It's scary to wonder how long the door will last, knowing how creaky and leaky it is...

For high INT monsters/adversaries, my rule is "smoke 'em if ya got 'em." Anything else doesn't make sense. Also makes the PCs thing twice about sundering those weapons....

I could see gnomes getting excited about building a fantasy RPG version of "power armor" (something like Gnorgold's Animated Armor") which would increase strength for the purpose of overcoming encumberance. Then again, looking like a travelling tag sale is not always the best fashion statement....

For a little historical accuracy, most "maps" in a medieval/western fantasy setting should be little more than pictures/sketches of major landmarks, shorelines, mountain ranges, etc. Map-making really only came into its own post-Renaissance, with the advent of reliable surveying tools and a need...

The ruler/tape-measure is a staple of war-gaming--the hobby which (aside from story-telling) is one of RPGing's most important ancestors. The idea in many war games is that it's much more fun to build a model of the rolling green fields of Waterloo (sans graticule) than to scar up the pitch like...

Face wounds leave behind dashing/sinister scars. Groin damage is seldom something folks want to show off.

As for roleplaying counsel, I'd recommend decking your acid wizard out in a stained and burnt leather tanner's apron. Sure a warmage can wear a mithral breastplate, but it doesn't work for me in character: something about storing acids with metals....

I've been playing SR since 2000. All around, a great adventure and RPing system. I'm a magic user nut (there's just something about casting spells 'till your brain is fried and oozes out your ear). There's something about playing a burned out thaumatology grad student that is eerily close to my...

I heartily recommend Jeux Descartes. A joint with such a punny name deserves patronage (it's also a good pair of gaming stores).

Ah, time to break out my Icy-Hot mace +2

Gotta go with Dino riding cowboys (and Gypsies) a la Valley of Gwangi.