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I see the point about the grappling rules, but believe me when I say that I intend to get my warlock involved in grappling as little as humanly possible. Even at the last game, I only got grappled because I "took one for the team" by blocking the path for even worse at grappling psion. The...

Or maybe she got a scanner some time in the last two decades. :) Frankly, if we haven't developed terraforming and sufficient space-traveling capabilities in the next few million years and can't treat the sun going as a big fireworks show, we don't deserve being more than a footnote on the...

Wait, nevermind. I was right about the book, but I re-checked the errata, and it clarified that Eldritch Blast is an invocation there.

Fun fact, though. Looking through the Complete Arcane, I don't see any point where the Eldtritch Blast is in fact called an invocation! The attachments are, sure, but it seems to be only listed as an ability, albeit a spell-like. I might be wrong, of course, and just missed it, but I didn't...

No problem. Sorry I posted in the wrong forum in the first place.

My first Warlock character is getting into higher levels and more advanced incantations, and I was hoping for a few rules clarifications for the decisions I can make now. First, when deciding the DC for an Eldritch Blast's effects, is it based on the total level of the Blast or the effect that...

My first Warlock character is getting into higher levels and more advanced incantations, and I was hoping for a few rules clarifications for the decisions I can make now. First, when deciding the DC for an Eldritch Blast's effects, is it based on the total level of the Blast or the effect that...

Ugh, that was terrible. :) I mostly remember this issue (besides it being my first, of course,) for that Yamara strip, actually, since it starts the longest and arguably weirdest story of the series.

I've run the odd DMPC in my time. The trick is to make them out of necessity, not vanity. If the party's missing a cleric, then you can toss one in. Ideally, you'd then make them as boring as possible. They don't offer suggestions for party decisions, they don't go off and do weird...

Poor, stupid biclops. Did Milhouse allow that to happen? Now, I liked the Averx as a kid, if only for the art. Their actual abilities are kinda blah. As for the Galeb Duhr, I'm amazed at their longevity. They even got into the 4th edition monster manual, didn't they? Glad to see the Toon...

Yup, this was my first official issue. Now I can follow along with your updates. That Robin Hood article was one of my earliest "don't railroad" lessons, ones I hopefully took to heart enough when I started DMing myself. Oddly enough, the Skullport article arguably makes the very same mistake...

Barring a single random issue I bought a year or two back, I think my first real issue is the NEXT ONE. So speed this up, unreason! Though I did borrow a lot of these issues from the library at the time, and a lot of them (like that decanter article) are very familiar. Oh, and I had a...

Well, we're only a few years from the Jurassic Park movie. I tend to treat that as the end of the "dinosaurs are slow and stupid" concept among the mainstream.

I know it's when I started actually subscribing instead of just picking them up at the library. So expect my comments to increase soon. :)

Nope, I checked my notes and it was a Dzalmus, so the spelling might be different, but otherwise the same thingy. So look forward to a remake of that guy come 3rd ed. :) Heh, define "end." That adventure ended surprisingly well. Well, not that well for the two characters that died, but...

Hmm, the Manni sound a bit like the kenku do. Do we know which one predates the other? But then, the kenku didn't really get turned into flightless goblin-class crows until 3rd ed, either. The three headed dragons sound familiar; I think I used that one on the party before. As for the spell...

Huh, really? 3rd Edition has six full monster manuals (counting the Fiend Folio) each in the 200-300 page range. I thought they did alright with monster. Hell, you should see how long my monster summary file is. :)

Oh, I remember that letter. Didn't they have an army of loyal planar-hopping giant allies who brought them their own personal mountain or something like that? I loved that. It always struck me that using their nigh-infinite power to build a slightly more secure castle was a real waste of...

I enjoyed it as well, but I have to admit that as it got farther in, I started losing interest. Part of it was was too many Greyhawkian terms and that new Red Steel stuff they tried to push, and part was how out there with the living ship and other planes and hollow world, so I started losing...

Oh, Strider! That was an old standby for me. I thought the length was actually pretty good for a game of that era; it had more weird control issues IMO.