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Think long and hard...and read some O'Brien and Cornwall. You know. To help you think. Not in the hopes that it will make you do this. Really. It might be interesting, but for what it's worth, I think I'd find it easier to add magic to a historical game if I wanted it than I would to...

I think a lot of the best classes/PrCs/feats for druids and rangers have already been done, though, so it would probably wind up being either too sparse or too exotic. Complete Mental is called Hyperconscious, by Bruce Cordell. ;) J

Well, sure. And Weapon Focus is useless if you never get into a combat, too. If your game is set up that skills aren't important, then of course this feat is going to look OK. In my games, the characters frequently wish they had more skills, so this would be too good. J

Only in that I bought the first Amber novel when I was a wee thing, thinking it might explain just what the #$%& was going on in X2. J ...it didn't.

You only count them once. The general rule is, you can't get more than your PL benefit from powers to any one roll. So Armor and Protection and Force Field and Amazing Save: Damage are all limited, in total, to the PL - but Toughness and Con aren't affected by the limit, so you could have a...

Funny that we got so much use out of it, with nobody playing a Wu-jen. I guess I've been doing it wrong. J

So there I am, dangling from a tree by a rope around my ankles. Hey, whaddaya want? First level thief, so I blew a Find Traps roll. Trouble is, I'm never going to make it to second level, because I hear something tall, dark, and ugly heading my way. So I twist up and climb up the rope using...

This isn't any different than if you raised your Int, so the additional bookkeeping is minimal. Based on prior precedent, you would not lose skill points for losing the feat - once one has a skill point it is permanent, barring level loss. J

Attractiveness of a particular ability is not necessarily an indication of that ability's power. Anyway, that's why I expressed it as a range, because the strict value isn't really that important. If you think the bonus feat is worth 2.5 feats, then that still leaves the +1 skill rank as being...

Keeping in mind Tolkien's mythological bent, I'd say his healing abilities have as much to do with his being the rightful king as they do with him being a ranger. (After all, the alternate name for athelas was 'kingsfoil'...) It's pretty common legend for the touch of a king to have miraculous...

I agree, thus my assessment of the open feat being worth somewhere between 1-2 feats, and the bonus skill ranks being worth the rest (which is to say 2-3 feats). I'll note that while +2 to skills (or +1 to 3) is on the weak side for a feat, low-light vision is on the strong side, so it kind...

Not quite true. The trolls could be arranged thus: AABB AABB CC CC With that arrangement (as if they were surrounding him) he could choose the squares on the inside corner and great/mighty swing three trolls. J

Eh. After War, Empire, Fields of Blood, Cry Havoc, the Black Company, and a bunch that I've forgotten, this kind of strikes me as "too little, too late". Of course, it's WOTC, so it'll sell. J

Not the idea of the nickname in general - just the fact that it's "Bob". It just seems too jarringly modern (yes, even though Robert is a perfectly respectable name going back centuries). Admittedly, "Ray" would be just as bad, especially if the horse's real name was something like "Glorious...

But he's not. If he were counseling despair, why would he bother to keep fighting? What's the point? Why keep living, keep fighting, etc? Something in him must not have given up, because no matter how much he complains, he still goes and does it. Believe it or not, some people do play in...

Woo! One monitor and a chance at a bruised tailbone. I'm in the zone. More seriously, I have never been able to take a Bob seriously after "Bob the Cleric", the NPC band-aid for a pubescent, spike-laden barbarian, a halfling ranger with a three-legged riding dog, and a chunky elven sorceress...

Recently, my FLGS got broken into and robbed of a couple of thousand dollars worth of CCGs - right before a tournament, which meant he had no cards to sell the people in the tournament, and probably got hit a lot worse than he would have been at any other time. I did know one light-fingered...

Also, I'd like to change my vote, because I wouldn't let Cedric in the game with a steed named "Bob". ;)

Granted. Significantly worded! The priests, and not the deity. Here's where I disagree. They may be correct about some of the God's desires/authority/rules but not all. They could still receive spells because their rules are a superset of the deity's rules, and those rules that are not...

Actually, I wasn't disagreeing with your assessment, which was that "some people regard his behavior as dishonorable" - not the same thing at all. Since honor has vastly different meanings in different times and places, as a DM one has to decide the final arbiter of honor with regards to...