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In my last two campaigns, one set in Hollowfaust, the other set in Freeport, each PC had a mentor from among the NPCs either already present in the town, or of their own design, or of my own design. Each was assumed to be 'getting trained' off-screen in-between adventures, and occasionally...

Goblins work well for the small techno-race. You could mix them up visually by giving them two pairs of eyes, and have one set of eyes have darkvision, and the other dayvision, so that they are always walking around with one pair of eyes closed and one pair of eyes open. They might even have a...

1) Halflings *are* the 'fair folk,' and live 'under the hill' in warrens concealed within local woodlands. They are almost supernaturally stealthy, and they are the subject of all sorts of rumors, of cattle being 'elf-shot' or of little people under the hill stealing children or of mysterious...

So, so *bad.* Now I have to go watch the video on YouTube...

I take Spell Focus (conjuration) and Augment Summoning (which *does* affect the Summon Monster SLAs, according to the designers) first, followed by Improved Initiative and Toughness. I dump Int and Wis to 10 (I don't do negative stats, just a quirk), and try for Str 14, Dex 14, Con 13 and Cha...

Alchemy can also provide cheaper lower-magic options. A salve that makes wood hard to ignite, suddenly those wooden hoardings aren't so useless. (Plus, the vast majority of fire spells and attacks don't actually *start fires,* so, barring the few that do, like burning hands, you might not even...

Back in ye olde days, there were odd ways to attempt to prevent people from travelling ethereally or astrally through one's castle walls (gorgon's blood mortar, or a layer of some living tissue), or scrying into sealed areas (thin layers of lead), etc. If the game is going in that direction...

Is this an adventure or one of the novels? In either case, knowing the approximate release date would make it easier to find on the Wayback Machine. 'Cause I looked, but didn't see it, and the load times were so outrageous that I gave up randomly opening archived pages...

Hamunaptra is all sorts of coolness.

I really didn't care for Blood Bayou or Blood Sea very much, so I've got nothing on them. I actively dislike the Slarecian stuff, and Echoes of the Past is pure Slarecian stuff. Edge of Infinity is useful for what it is. None of my games made it to the 'plane-hopping' stage, so it wasn't...

Spell point systems, IMO, are just a grainier version of spell slot systems. It's still, "I cast this X times, which may be the first spell I ever learned, and I've been casting for ten years now, and then it *stops working.*" Spellcasting in the fantasy genre generally has some other cost...

Dark Ages of Camelot has a staff and robe fighting 'cleric' that really fits that Friar Tuck mold well. It could be interesting to see a D&D class that followed that theme.

Alignments. Never really cared for the concept. I don't mind Clerics, but it would have been interesting to see a non-spellcasting cleric that had the ability to channel energy in different ways, similar to more cinematic depictions of 'holy power,' to ward off foes, heal wound, smite the...

My Orcs were pretty much ripped off of Klingons, particularly the bits about talking all sorts of smack about honor, and then spending the majority of their lives stabbing each other in the back, poisoning their leaders and dealing behind the scenes with their hated foes. Wrath & Rage (from...

These are hilarious! Stone Giant = Rockhide Tallperson Otyugh = Dungeater Tentaclemonster Rhinocerous = Dire Unicorn Pixie = Butterflywing Tinyperson

I've heard Geoff's pronounce their own name 'Joff,' so it's probably confusing for some. Being a Queensryche fan, Geoff is not exactly on my list of 'exotic' names. Drizzt, on the other hand? Funky, and it seems to get pronounced 'Drizzit' a lot, in my experience, since Z and T aren't...

Sometimes simpler is better. Have the race call themselves 'Stone.' "Wha-What are you!" "We are Stone." "I can see that! I mean what do you call yourselves?" "We are Stone." whispers to allies, "I don't think he understands me." "I hear and understand. You are meat. We are Stone."

While I'm not a fan of seeing it in 4e, I was a bit annoyed by the preponderance of it showing up in 3rd edition as well, with the Soulknife, Warmage, Soulsage, Spellthief, Duskblade, etc. What's so 'exotic' and difficult for newbies with good, solid class names like Crusader, Scout and...

You've got your attack as a hit with a torch that does quite a bit more damage than a torch inflicts, according to the rules on page 157, which have it doing damage as a spiked gauntlet sized for you (1d4 for a Medium user) +1 point of fire damage. Where is the +1d6 fire damage and chance to...

[tangent regarding converting Eberron races to Pathfinder] Over at the Paizo boards, there are a plethora of threads on porting races like the Warforged over. One particularly fun one deals not with the mechanics, but with the flavor text, trying to find places where a shapechanging race, or a...