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But you need a really good reason to explore in a survivalist campaign. If the huntin' is good right here, there's no reason to move. If you think of prehistoric humanoids as just a little more advanced than the smartest animals, one doesn't think of animals as all that motivated to explore. I'm...

I've thought about it but I would find it too hard to run one as an exciting ongoing campaign. The list of classes and equipment available would be pretty small, and instead of aspirations to become rich and powerful in a kingdom full of political intrigue, the PCs would be mostly trying to...

I also like the idea of trading skill points and feats, as long as you can't build instant feat chains a character of low level should not normally be able to have because that could cause headaches; 25 points for one feat might cover that anyhow but I haven't done the math. The Skill Focus feat...

Ken Hood's Sleeping Imperium has the Bushfighter, a non-magical ranger. http://www.sleepingimperium.rpghost.com/d20downloads.htm

I voted for "great" for all the usual reasons of flexibility, customization, and intuitiveness (oh, and stats for monsters! :) ). The only things to make it fall short of superb in my mind are certain headaches with the "sacred cows" of class/level advancement and HP. The best of the three...

That is the most munchkin XP reward I've ever seen. TV writing is broken and the other commercials got the shaft.

People are angry up here about the Detroit thing because it came mere days after the "friendly fire" death of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, and are really sensitive about it, putting the two things together. I don't know how many Detroiters in the building knew about that.

I won't bother to start a new Poll: over it, so - would you rather have archdevils and demon princes in the Book of Vile Darkness, or the MM2? Would you care very little about the BoVD (ooh, new acronym to get used to) if the fiendish lords were not in it? That is freeing up a number of pages in...

It shouldn't be in the official rules, but I'd still ike to see a good, optional, disadvantages system for d20. Maybe each disadvantage could be tied to a key ability so you couldn't rack up a ton of Charisma-related disadvantages for your half-orc barbarian... say, if you have Cha 10 you may...

the elevation itself (noun) is the apotheosis, pronounced ah-POTH-ee-OH-sis. but when used as a verb, as in to become divine, it's "apotheosize", or ah-po-THEE-oh-size. The Apotheosis of Homer by Jean-A.D. Ingres, 1827...

Yep, you got it. Parthenon in Greece: http://www.travel-library.com/europe/greece/venkat/Parthenon-02s.jpg Pantheon in Rome: http://users.abac.com/dkiel/italy/rome/pantheon.jpg

If the lands north of Rokugan contain a vast, hot desert, does that mean Rokugan is located in the southern half of the world it's in, or is there some kind of magic at work?

Go about two-thirds down this page for British and American WWII slang. http://home.att.net/~g.wheeler/greenhow.htm edit to add warning: link is not suitable for Eric's grandmother, as some coarse soldier language is there.

It will sing "Sword of Damocles" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[b] Well, finishers have an aura of lethality and invincibility attached to them. It supposed to be the thrilling climax of the match. Except in some video games, it's supposed to be very rare to kick out of one after you get hit with it. I just wouldn't want a wrestler delivering a boot to...

Would d20 be the best system to handle it? I don't know. Some rambling thoughts: I think it would be fun to have a system with disadvantages like "takes time showboating", "easily distracted by managers", "long hair easy to pull", etc. Going a point buy route you could make very desirable...

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, together! (see third paragraph) edited to fix link.

WotC's Book of Strongholds is due out in May. Sorry that doesn't help you now though.

How did you handle combat scenes between a human and a gnome? ;) The fighters have probably had a bit of fighting experience by the time they're fighting creatures much larger than themselves. They could be savvy enough to know how to avoid the worst of the claw and bite attacks (at least until...

There was more "downsizing" at WotC, resulting in the scrapping of a number of projects we the public never got to hear about anyway. There was also a flurry of news that took place at the GAMA Tradeshow that you can read a recap of by going to the March 2002 news archive and going to the 22nd...