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*smacks head* Tome of Horrors! I own that book. No wonder I thought I'd seen them statted up somewhere. I'll have to take a look to see how well they'd work as my campaign's big bad (with chaos cults being major antogonists throughout). And you're right, Whizbang- they'd make a pretty good...

Were the Slaad Lords (originally presented with the rest of the slaadi in the 1E Fiend Folio) ever stated up in a D20 book? WotC or third-party, I'm interested in either. Thanks in advance. Just had an idea for a campaign arc, and the Slaad Lords are one of the ways it could go.

"Can you see me now? Ok, how about now?" :) I can see this too easily abused by the DM. Practically every monster in the dungeon has the time to take 20 on hide. I'm having visions of surprise rounds starting off each encounter. I'd give a +2 circumstance bonus if you have plenty of time to...

That's certainly perked my interest in the RC. I notice they don't have a listing for the Complete Warrior 2 (or whatever it's going to be called). With Complete Champion due out in May, it seems like the fourth one should come some time in the seven months after that. I suppose fighters will...

Welcome back! Best wishes on a fast and full recovery.

Charging smite is a devestating attack. It might be too nice for what you give up, but it's a lot more useful in a dungeon based campaign than a mount. I have not insisted, but have heavily recommended druids take the shapeshift alt. No more looking through every MM to find the best animal...

Another mostly DM. I have been able to try out a very little of the crusader, the swordsage, the scout, and the knight. There's a number of others I want to try out, but I'd need to have someone else run. If I included what I've had in my groups, that would add 12 more classes used (running...

I had an idea for a fighter starting off with combat reflexes and quick draw. I'd walk around with a reach polearm, so if a foe beat me in inititive, I'd still get an attack when they closed. Once they had closed, I'd drop the polearm and quickdraw my heavy flail for some close-up beat-down...

Let me tell you a tale of two spouses. My wife joined the group before we were officially dating (although we were already pretty close). She worked hard at learning the rules, although she is not as enthusiastic about crunchy bits as I am. She can create her characters and level them without...

The ones from High Forest are, IIRC. But, there are also Veluna and Furondry branches. A D10 for Ranger does make if more viable as a tank, but you're still in light armor without a shield. Doable, but not IMO ideal. As others have said, a crusader does make a good tank. D10 HD, delayed...

Oh, bologna. Sure, feats have been ramped up. They can't all match the power of a +2 to two skills feat. But the new classes are head and shoulders above the old? No (not getting into it about the Bo9S classes here). Duskblades are pretty awesome fighter/mages, but that D8 is putting them...

You say you're going to play a tank, and then you propose a ranger? Light armor and D8 HD do not a tank make. Effective damage dealer perhaps, and dwarf would help offset the lower HD, but I think you'd be taking a lot of hits. It's not the worst idea by far, but not where my mind first goes...

Scout/Dervish. We also grandfathered in a mounted combat character. Rideby attack + skirmish worked very well. The other scouts I've seen tended to open up fights with a charge, and looked forward to grabbing spring attack later on.

I went with the first answer, but it was not satisfying. My character dropped just before the berserker, but survived the encounter, and I don't think anyone else was seriously hurt. I was not at the time well versed on the berserker, and looking back the DM might have made some mistakes with...

I don't have a rules quote at the moment, but I'm pretty sure a medium creature being grappled by a large creature is considered to share all the spaces that the large creature is in. Kind of like a human riding a horse occupies all the spaces the horse is in.

Holding your breath was ineffective even in the early days of 2ndEd. "The Ecology of the Dragon" from an issue of Dragon around that time stated the chlorine gas would burn skin. I think only a necklace of adaptation would save you if a green breathed on you.

Check the Ask Wizards archive over on wizards.com. I'm pretty sure it was there (along with a bunch of other Bo9S rulings).

My current setup is attribute points every third level, and feats every level that you don't get an attribute, with two feats at first (so three if human). The only problem is, I'm the person in my group most familiar with what feats are out there, and I'm also the DM 90% of the time. So...

I had to go with Phil. I have been amused by the antics of all the others in the Paizo actual play threads.

An interesting question, maybe. But would it have happened? Gary was making plans for 2nd edition while he was at TSR (with the Mounteback and Savant and other stuff that did and didn't end up in UA).