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The sidebar itself had to be ruthlessly edited down for wordcount, even before it was cut for space. Pre-editing, my contribution was; 7) This room is canted at a slight angle, and dangling from the ceiling, illuminated by sunlight shining in from a large crack in the facing wall, are a...

Nope, just the opinion of a GM who doesn't dislike his players. If one of them has a neat idea, and no rules contradict it, and it's not terribly unbalancing, why the hell would I oppose it? Similarly, as GM, I can put whatever I want into the game world, and I try to stick to the same...

Vampires (and perhaps Ghouls) have the best hook into Druidism, since, unlike many other undead (particularly Liches), the vampire ends up still tied into natural rhythms, such as the need to feed. It's not like one can ban someone from being a druid for becoming something 'unnatural,' since...

Oh wow, the last time I saw a vermicious knid write-up, it was on UseNet (and statted up for GURPS)! And yet, they have survived.

Much of it is usable as is. Ideally, there would be Domains for each of the Titans (not for Clerics, but for *Druids* to choose via Natural Bond), a Sorcerer Bloodline for each of those Titanic areas of focus (twistblood for Gormoth, gluttony/hunger for Glaurak, serpent/venom for Mormo...

Zakara, Kara-Tur, Scarred Lands and Freeport. I can't pick one. I'm also very fond of Greyhawk, Eberron, Golarion and the pre-ToT Realms, 'though. If someone made a campaign world that included Zakara, Kara-Tur, Nyambe, Hamunaptra, Naranjan and Freeport, I'd probably explode from sheer...

My rabid enthusiasm for the Realms pretty much dragged my friends (who were into Greyhawk or Dragonlance, mostly) kicking and screaming into this setting for years. And then the Time of Troubles came around and, for me, pretty much kicked my enthusiasm right in the jiblets. (One player was...

In a Vampire: the Masquerade game, I had been playing a Tremere who had followers and influences and all sorts of grand plans for how to make his mark on the world. Every single session revolved around increasingly pointless combats with foes that simple proved immune to reason (begging to be...

I always liked Io's Blood Isles, from the Council of Wyrms setting. Plotzing that map down somewhere in Faerun (I kinda want to put it where Evermeet is, because I never really liked that place...) and using it as the launching point for the Dragonborn might have been an interesting option.

Oh wow, Zakhara and Kara-Tur, how much I miss those settings!

He might reach for a tool or an item, and find it conveniently at hand or in a pocket or behind his ear, only to later discover that the tool he was reaching for is in his toolbox, and he's holding an identical copy of it. Before his eyes, it dissolves away. This lack of control, initially...

A few years back, there was a pernicious flu. Very few died, but it affected almost everyone in the kingdom. The cultists spread this custom-tailored contagion as a test, but it lacked the potency that they would need for their end goal, of 'sacrificing' the entire land to Morgion with a...

You could turn the Shadow plane into the realm of the Unseelie Court, and make a more colorful 'Spectral' plane or something for the Seelie Court. You could even tie the whole of it more strongly into a realm of dreams and nightmares, and completely replace the shadow, astral and / or ethereal...

One 'transhuman' variant is the people who download into computers and live on as virtual intelligences or whatever, perhaps even hopping from body to body. Magic Jar is pretty much this. A magic jar item, with a repository of cloned bodies (or even simulacra of various species, including...

When you would be affected by a fear effect, you can take nonlethal hit point damage equal to the level of the spell to ignore it for one round. You can continue resisting as long as you remain conscious...

Any of them. You don't have to have an ancestor who got busy with a dragon or an aberrant to have the draconic or aberrant 'bloodline.' Perhaps grandpa was attacked by a Chaos Beast (or enslimed and dominated by an Aboleth), and barely survived, but now carries some lingering effect from that...

Without a list of minor abilities, such as the Dwarf, Gnome and Halfling get, I'd be fine with Hobgoblins having a +2 Dex, +2 Con and no penalty to a stat. If they are fleshed out, a penalty to Int, Wis or Cha could be viable, for different reasons. Endurance would equally fit that theme...

A more organized race, like Hobgoblins or Kobolds, might fit better with the whole 'kingdom-building' thing. Pathfinder Goblins seem far too disorganized and 'silly' for any sort of long-term goals like this, and Orcs might work, but would be pretty far from their stomping grounds, and less...

I grew up reading 'chick fantasy' that my mom had lying around (Andre Norton, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia McKillip, Linda Bushyager) as well as some various sci-fi/fantasy hybrid stuff like Fred Saberhagen and Roger Zelazny, and reading comic books, where mind-reading, hypnotizing people, throwing...

Players Guide to Faerun p 33. +2 to Perform checks, +2 to one Craft check related to the arts, +3 uses of Bardic music.