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I love this one. Maybe the baby djinn's 'wishes' stem from his being able to cast prestidigitation at will, or minor image, or something.

Libris Mortis has some notions for 1st level Undead as racial classes. You could just do a default Gestalt game, with each undead PC automagically gaining levels of their Undead Class for each level they gain in their adventuring class, until they reach whatever the maximum is for their type...

Hell yes. I'd like to see not just some *new* races, but guidelines for how to play a mechanically 'weak' race like kobold or goblin, alongside mechanically 'neutral' races like human or dwarf, alongside mechanically 'strong' races like some sort of PC undead or dark elf or serpentfolk. And...

1) My first choice would be monsters-as-PCs, but I don't think that the Pathfinder folk are going to be any better at it than the WotC folk, and come up with some lame kludge like the Complete Book of Humanoids or Savage Species or 'racial levels,' instead of having done the ground work to make...

Ooh, I love that! Also Kerrick's notion of Gruumsh-as-Odin and Orcs as Viking raiders! My own tweak; Elves As 1/2 elves are to elves, so are elves to an elder fey race that can't exist in this world without sickening and dying, being of otherworldy spirit-made-flesh, and unable to live long...

Love the flavoring of the Kenku, Bugbears (type 2), Grimlocks, Goblins, Hags and Gnolls! (The Gnoll one gives my Buffy flashbacks, like a reverse Wendigo sort of situation.) My own tweak for Hobgoblins, Goblins and Bugbears is to make them descended from Unseelie 'shadow court' fey, with...

One of the coolest 3.5 parties I played in consisted of an ex-slave hobgoblin chain-fighter (using the same chains he used to wear as weapons), a goblin wizard (pyromancy-nut, lived by the alchemical fire, died by the alchemical fire...), a red-furred female bugbear rogue (surprisingly sneaky...

Conan, Fafhrd, etc. seemed to get along just fine in fantasy worlds with no elves, dwarves, gnomes, hobbits, orcs, etc. It's certainly not required, and only helps to highlight the significant differences between various human cultures if you go the route of getting rid of the vast majority of...

Random low-level magic items; Sojourner's Soles - these boots allow the user to Hustle for four hours per day before taking nonlethal damage (normally one suffers damage after one hour of Hustle). As a free action, the user can invoke the power of the boots to move at double speed for a...

It sounds like Elements of Magic would rock on toast for playing an Ars Magica or Mage: the Dark Ages style (everyone is a mage) campaign using the d20 rules. (Either of which I'd kick puppies to play in!) I wonder if mashing it up with Iron Heroes or the Book of Nine Swords classes (both...

That's the only magic system I've used that has a 'freeform' mechanic, and I loved it. I've also used the Freeform Psionics option in Trinity, which was pretty sweet as well, where you could increase the difficulty of the rolll (or spend more of whatever) to increase range, damage, etc. on the...

There's a difference between playing the game, and gaming the game. Your Wizard was using his spells conservatively, not knowing whether or not any given encounter would be the last for the day, and not wanting to fire off all of his bullets in the first fight of the day. He wasn't...

Immunity 5 (sonic) is treated as 5 ranks of Immunity at 1 PP each. They would reduce to 1 pp / 2 levels with a Flaw (limited), which means you'd pay 3 pp. So instead of going to cost / rank zero, it goes to 1 pp / 2 levels. There are even examples of some pre-made powers that cost 1 pp / 2...

Neither specifically says whether or not it applies to channel energy from other classes, but I'd allow it to apply to the Paladin channels. The Sun domain states that the bonus is equal to your Cleric level, so it would be +1. I'd say yes. Precedent from 3.5 is that Extra Turning...

Aquerra is a fairly interesting setting, with a heavy nautical focus. aquerra - home

One of my favorite fighter archetypes in all of D&D is the Mameluke from from Al-Qadim, exotically tattooed members of elite fighting orders of soldier-scholars who are all slaves to the ruler of their nation. Historically, the Mamelukes ended up with significant political power, manning the...

Non-primary spellcasting classes, like the Paladin, Ranger and Adept, don't seem to get unlimited orisons. Bards, on the other hand, do. I think of the Factotum as being more like the Bard, and yet the Factotum doesn't necessarily have arcane (or divine) spellcasting all of the time. An...

One creative backstory I saw was a halfling rogue in Spelljammer who originally found his way into space in an attempt to steal one of the 'glowing jewels that like up the night sky' to give to his girlfriend. He was disappointed that the stars weren't glowing jewels, but ended up finding a...

Those little islands off the shackles, with towns named Quent, Ollo and Drenchport seem like the best options. Since some interpretations of Freeport have a nearby city starting up (Libertyville), one of the other towns could be that new community. Putting it in the place of Quent would...

Of the ones who got write ups in the FRCS; Azuth - Nethys (true neutral god of magic, both creative and destructive) Bane - Asmodeus (contracts, slavery, tyranny) Chauntea - Erastil (agriculture) or Gozreh (the elements / weather) Cyric - Norgorber (deception, poison, thieves) Eilistraee -...