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All right, here is my kvetch. I had this highly experimental campaign of a game within a game (essentially having the players play players of a MMORPG in which they are fully immersed). My first mistake was, of course, just publicly asking who would be interested in such a game among my...

I have used Troll & Toad mostly for buying playing cards but I have also bought some RPG materials from them. At least for me there has never been a problem with them although I have read about some suspicions at one point. I would advice you to go for it from my experience. There are also some...

While I shy away from the "exemplar of this value" at the beginning of the PHB, I checked them for this. The intelligence is equal to your run of the mill ogre or troll. The person is a brute, no question about it. I would prefer if illiteracy were gifted to these kinds of characters for...

Oh, right. Since this was brought up by Evilhalfling... How about Shadowstrike? It's at least in the Magic Item Compendium. For 5000gp you can have a blade that extends at least part of the time and can catch foes unaware. Of course the original flavor makes it more of an sneaky weapon of...

How about at least one bane weapon since they are the stuff of legends among people who despise or fear a certain type of foe? Preferably one made as a traditional weapon of the people in question. My personal favourite would be Magebane (from Complete Arcane) since it has a wider range of...

For the most part, we as well. (I have led one campaign in Planescape and attended one in the Realms when I started playing. There's an Eberron campaign coming soon but other than that.) But I see your point: while you play in worlds large enough to sport distinctive regions (with their own...

Not really looking for a specific character idea or anything. Like I wrote in the beginning, this is mostly me being curious. Of course, in case I see something really exciting, I might integrate it in one campaign or another. Oh, and I just realized I didn't mention that the focus was campaigns...

Yeah. Especially the Book of Nine Swords often seems so disconnected with the rest of your average fantasy world that it seems best fitted for a "limited niche world" like that. Of course, it is also oriental in theme to begin with which is openly declared. In most of our games, it has been used...

This thread is motivated by pure curiosity. I'm interested in the ways people combine the material of their theme-specific splat-books. It seems to me like the variety of 3.5 books and the multitude of dimensions they cover allow for some really great specialized combinations instead of...

@Omegaxigor: Also, you might want to try non-language specific dictionaries which can be found online. I use a Finnish site so there would be no point in giving a link but it allows me to search for any word in some language and to see the translation in approximately 20 languages. That way it's...

I'm a shameless borrower. While I do use some "original" names such as Zan-See-Ovr for a Synad merchant in my Planescape campaign (each part denotes one of his "minds"), most names I use are either relatively common but with an exotic surname or borrowed from somewhere else (MTG being a personal...

Having finished an exam on social justice a quarter-hour ago I would recommend Brian Barry's "Why Social Justice Matters" to Evenglare, possibly "Disadvantage" by Wolff & De-Shalit as well. But that would be dragging politics to a discussion about a geeky table-top game. On the matter actually...

To me, this sounds mostly like a Warlock-thing. It seems like you can actually throw Eldritch blasts even when holding things ("When a warlock casts eldritch blast he creates and fires from his hands or implement a purple bolt of crackling arcane energy over a range of up to fifty feet."...

Ah, right - I seem to have meant modules. A simplish error with great consequences, I suppose.

Regarding the abuse by players: That is probably true. Then again, it is intersting that thay offer 24h protection in the first place, now that I think about it. It's not due to easiness to track: you still need to keep in mind the time of day you fought it (which might be problematic in case...

Hi. Ok, here's an interesting phenomenon I have noticed: many if not most monsters are at their best against non-casters who are already at the bottom of the pecking order among characters. Yes, there are a great many monsters with Spell Resistance, sure. Even immunity to spells, as in the case...

Ok, great. Thanks. I was thinking more along the lines of DM & Player options and preferably in official WotC publications but I'll definitely need to check those.

I bought Expedition to the Demonweb Pits from a sale for 10€ (a real bargain, imo) thinking that it might come in handy and recalling that it probably had the rules for Cambions. When I actually received the book, I was dumbstruck with joy: it has the rules for Dabuses, Cambions (though...

Suel Arcanamach in Complete Arcane is a prestige class for an ancient anti-wizard enforcement agency. I think there is also something similar in one of the Faerün books. Netherese, mayhap? In any case, Karsites are a nice idea if there's been magical breeding or experimentation on the corps...

Well, for a steampunk game, I had one idea in my previous campaign. Basically Gnomes were steampunk tinkerers in a world otherwise a gargantuan jungle. Their culture was not ancient but there was a clear division between "old" and "industrialised". For example, Gnomes received their names...