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FLIPPIN' SWEET. When does it start?

Update: Planning a trip to Vegas next month, and we'll definitely be swinging over to Rachel to get a look at this, along with the requisite field trip to the Little Ale'inn. Anyone notice the landing strip right next to the circular array? Check the Topo Map if you don't see it. What's...

I've seen those irrigation systems before, but that seems like an awfully big circle for it to cover. Do they have ones that can sweep a half-mile circle? That seems like a really bizarre place to grow crops. It's pretty inhospitable terrain. When you drive around that valley you see some...

I don't know man. I've driven out there, and there isn't a lot of green to be seen, just bare rock and sand. They almost look like crop circles, ha ha. Humanophile, they don't really look like "blank spots". The spots where there's no photos or just empty white spaces. That's definitely...

My friends came over tonight and showed me Terraserver, Microsoft's clickable satellite maps. We had fun for hours looking for our houses and workplaces. After awhile, we started looking for famous places, and after looking at stuff like the Hoover Dam and Alcatraz we (being big Area 51 buffs)...

Hmm, I forgot about that one. Now that I take a look at it, I see it replaces the whole bardic music system as well, folding that and bard spells into the spellsong system. Seeing as how I'm borrowing ideas from Monte's Arcana Unearthed for my magic system, maybe his bard wouldn't be a bad way...

Is there a good non-spellcasting Bard variant class out there? I like bardic lore and bardic music, and don't even mind their spells that much for most games, but their spellcasting doesn't fit with the homebrew world I'm working on. Rather than kitbash them into the magical model for my world...

I have taken many, many stabs at the Mechanika section and I still can't figure it out. That said, PG was pretty cool. Had a lot of editing errors, but that seems to be par for the course these days with RPG products.

Well, there are some diehard 3.0'ers who refuse to upgrade to 3.5 who might have need of it. Just make real clear that it's not the Expanded book.

The Great Druid Oalian? For a 1st level Comprehend Languages spell? That's like calling Steve Jobs because you can't install a printer on your iMac.

"Magic" in its basest form is a semi-sentient elementary particle found in all matter in the Million Spheres. They serve as a blueprint for the potentiality of any matter they are found in, dictating what it can be, how much energy it can be converted to, etc. A spellcaster or psion learns to...

I'd get the new one and burn the old copy. Deny ever owning it.

Yeah, Ikea's got good cheap chairs. Not that I would ever recommend anyone ever go to Ikea, but replacing those lawn chairs is worth a trip into Retail Hades.

Well, assuming the song list above is the order you're going to do them in, I'd think you'd need something a little upbeat after "Time After Time" (great song, btw), and if you follow the rock concert paradigm, a crowd-pleasing singalong at the end. How'bout some Prince?

How about a chunk of antimatter contained in a powerful force effect, and the "ritual" is a massive cooperative-cast dispel magic...

I don't know. I could see good-aligned fanatics having a very twisted view on this. Perhaps they believe that the material plane is inherently corrupt, and that by destroying it and killing everyone, you release their pure souls into heaven. They might see world destruction as a sacrament...

Meh. Magic is one cow that ain't so sacred, IMHO. Hit dice, armor class, alignment, classes and levels all make the game easier to teach to newbies, albeit at the sacrifice of a certain level of realism. But the magic system is actively HARD to teach; I've yet to have a first-timer want to...

Jolly Giant and Mythusmage: Cassius is getting gnawed on too. He and Brutus are in there feet-first, while Judas went in head-first for extra pain.

A step away from the magic system as it is now. Just about every other aspect of the game has changed over the years EXCEPT magic. Fire-and-forget is just so clunky, plus I've never seen a DM enforce material components limitations (most DMs I've seen, myself included, just assume you have 'em...

Okay, I looked through all 4 Complete books, the two Races books and the Book of Exalted Deeds, and all I could find was the 1st level spell Lantern Light from Exalted Deeds. I skipped the FR and Eberron books. Slim pickin's.