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Well, I said I was almost as fanatical as Tolkien - but I'm nowhere near as good. My names are pretty standard for a high fantasy setting. There is an ancient city state called Tai Larak (officially the the Ancient and Illuminated Free City of Tai Larak). The Madani are one of the twelve...

I am fanatical about names, almost as much so as Tolkien; I actually started creating a language for my Kadas homebrew. I got as far as syntax, noun and verb declension and conjugation, and a small list of roots. It certainly helped to give NPC and place names a sense of consistency. Tolkien...

I homebrew because world-building is my favorite aspect of being a DM. I draw inspiration from published settings and other people's homebrews, but in any given setting there is always *something* that turns me off, that just seems counter-intuitive, or dumb, or simply doesn't sit right with my...

I like historical fantasy. We did a few mini-campaigns based on the green books; our Viking campaign was my favorite. The PCs were all aged 12-18, a band of boys, really, and had their own ship. Much havoc ensued. We even did a one-shot set during the English Civil War. But it was kind...

That is the way people usually do use the word: as a verb. On the other hand, 'metagame' as a noun can refer to anything that is above (or literally, 'after') the game itself. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but Aristotle's Metaphysics was so called because it came *after* Physics.) On the other...

Hands down my favorite 2E books.

Another one for Zanzer Tem. I tried running it for my dad after only having played one game with a friend of mine (we were nine). I obviously still didn't understand the rules because I had him rolling to hit (hit, not damage) on 1d8 and he died in the first room. The first published module...

Thanks, Whizbang.

1. If you ever find yourself in Humboldt County and desperately in need of the latest RPG supplement, you will have no choice: Northcoast Roleplaying. And if you say *anything* about D&D to the guys who work there, even if you just ask a simple question or make an offhand comment about your...

I agree about the old settings: Spelljammer, Planescape, Birthright, Dark Sun. Especially Birthright - just last week I was talking to the guys at my FLGS about how totally sweet it would be to play a Birthright campaign. We got so incredibly pumped that we almost started flipping out and...

Better yet, act as the PCs' unconscious. The night after they massacre the trolls, you pass one player a note describing a very disturbing dream that causes his character to seriously question the morality of his actions. I use dreams and synchronicities all the time in my game, and players...

Resolution In case anyone is interested in how this situation turned out: Lane's player and a couple of other people from our group came over last night for drinks, etc (not game night). We got to talking about the campaign (of course) and I brought up the matter of Lane's code...

Zog: Yes, I suppose. I still don't understand Eberron's double standard for clerics and paladins. How and why are paladins "mystically called" to a higher standard? In a setting where alignment is supposed to be, at the very least, subjective... I could assume that the writers of that book...

Wow, there are some great ideas here and I'm afraid it would take me at least an hour to address everyone's comments directly. Hussar: I agree completely. I also tend to like my Paladins LG. OTOH, I haven't played one for ten years, probably; and yet, even then (at age 11, and armed with my...

Thanks for the input, everyone. ThoughtBubble and Land Outcast: Yes, I am the DM. Yes, I am aware of Rule Zero. I suppose my question was more along the lines of, "What would you do in this situation?" Harmon: I am definitely planning to talk to the player before our next session. Since...

Okay, so we are a couple weeks into my new Eberron campaign and I am a little worried about Lane, the paladin. She is level 2 and works for the King's Swords, a branch of the Citadel, which is a secret service type organization loyal directly to King Boranel of Breland. The rest of the group...

In my homebrew, elves and dwarves are the only playable demihuman races. But I've modified them to make them more rare, mysterious, and powerful. They have ECLs. Half-elves exist, in some places, but they're extremely rare. The ruling dynasty of the West Kingdom does have elvish blood, and...

I'm going to lurk around on this thread and watch your design process. I'm currently working on my own homebrew, and I remember reading those Dungeoncraft articles in Dragon - but I don't have them anymore. Could someone please e-mail me the articles? I would be most indebted. My e-mail...

Wow! I'm really impressed with some of the ideas floating around here. Here's what I'm currently considering using: 1. Stagger the spell progressions for the spellcasting classes. Thus a Wiz20 would be able to cast two 5th level spells/day (+ bonus spells) just like a normal Wiz10. This is...

I do like your idea of using noncasting paladins, rangers, and bards. For this world I've also thought about making paladin and ranger into prestige classes (tied to the setting) anyway. Good idea, and although it would it involve some work it's not nearly as bad as making up all new spells...