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What officially lies under Thay? Dirt. Lots of dirt. You mean what UNOFFICIALLY lies under Thay, that you could get killed for knowing? I have no idea, I prefer being alive.

Yes, but remember: Since you can't DO anything to the undead, as compensation, you get first *cough* *cough* pick of the loot *ahem*. In fact, the entire weighty *cough* *cough* responsibility of making sure that, should the party lose the battle, through no fault of YOURS, of course, you don't...

How do you know it was him, and not merely an impostor who saw his name on the boards and pretended to be him, which is far more likely? Consider the number of people who read the boards and have heard his name, vs. the number of people who would actually be him. I think that the former is a...

Really? I've always pronounced it "*ngh*", as the exclamation point indicates to put volume or emphasis on the thing which comes before it, and if it's by itself, you put the emphasis on nothing, which results in a sort of from-the-stomach wheeze, or "*ngh*". And I always thought "splatbook"...

That's like saying nuclear weapons are only of value if not everyone has them. Yes, you don't gain anything by having them, but try NOT having them when everyone else DOES.

Anyone who complains that rogues are useless merely because all the opponents are unsneakattackable doesn't understand rogues at all. If you're not able to contribute in the combat...DON'T! You're a rogue, known in previous editions as the "thief". Shouldn't you be helping yourself to the loot...

Towels. Lots of towels. You have no idea how useful towels are. Furthermore, they don't cost your character a single gold piece, if you can swipe them from the inn.

Well, if you're choosing between human vs. half-elf....this one's a no-contest: Human is better in practically every way: Extra feat, extra skillpoints. Half-elf gets, well, none of that, and no favorable stat adjusts that would favor you, while being otherwise the same as humans. So, go with...

I'd generally do combat-relevance statblocking. Block out everything that the player would actually care about. The villain's +17 modifier to Craft(Basketweaving) won't, in all likelyhood, come up, so you don't need to worry about exactly how many points he had left over after REAL skills for...

Sounds like your DM didn't have enough ranks in his Bluff skill. The key here is, that, as the DM, you must vary your reaction to the player's "discovery" of "the solution", from neutral disinterest, as if this was expected, to surprise, as if the player had come up with something you didn't...

Massively outdid defense? That's not the pre-3E rules *I* remember. In 1E/2E, everyone got one attack, PERIOD, except for those high-level fighter types, and they got maybe *2*. Hell, in 3E, 2 attacks a round is "just getting started" territory for fighters. And rounds were longer, much longer...

The most cunning escape plan that the PCs will be very hard-pressed to thwart is the pre-emptive escape plan: The PCs battle their way through the villain's lair, striking down many (weak)minions, surviving (not so) deadly traps, and bursting into the villain's inner sanctum.... Which is...

The more interesting question is what happens when 2 mice attack a third mouse: Can the two mice, if they have rogue levels, flank and sneak attack the third mouse? Logic would suggest that yes, two mice could flank a third mouse. However, when everything fits inside a 5' map square, it's kind...

If you're ready to invoke the darkness effect on the darkvision-impaired, you've already got a better way of wiping out the entire group than worrying about who can sneak attack who. Simply close your book, and announce, "You have been eaten by a grue." All players, of course, know full and...

It doesn't matter either way: He can STILL wait for the fighter to move, THEN make his move. The fighter won't get any flanking bonusses in the process, but this is completely meaningless, because fighters really gain nothing from flanking anyway. So the fighter will simply slide into a position...

There's also the spoiler effect: Some players, like Brian of KoDT, will buy up all the adventures he suspects the DM might use, commit them to memory, and use this information to breeze through it. Some people are more subtle about it and can avoid being caught doing this, but the adventure...

Generally? Over the charred, smoking ruin that was once the PC party. Alternatively, the villain doesn't escape. Unless the PC party then proceeds to go to great lengths to try to make sure he NEVER returns, if I so decide it would be amusing to for him to return, and I don't do this often (if...

Well, fighters *DO* have a goodly number of feats: 18. Unfortunately, the vast majority of nonmagical feats pertain primarily to hurting people and breaking things: All of the noncombative feats are useless and provide no practical benefit. Therein lies the problem: How many feats are there in...

Well, unfortunately, there aren't, at present, any feats which actually improve your skillpoints. That'd make a pretty nice L1 feat idea, though, a feat which gives you +4 SPs, +1 SPs/lvl, but it doesn't, at present, exist. That means a fighter's feat resources are, essentially, not convertible...

Well, it does seem like the sort of items wizards would seriously make. I mean, seriously, you're a wizard: You're going to: A. Create a Sword of Smiting and Delification that you can't even use.... Or B. Create something to do your laundry. I know what I'd pick.