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Woo! I'm in (literally) august company! Gar

Arcane Eye has slowed the last few sessions of my game down to a crawl.

Y'know, that actually is a very good summation of rpgs. I don't agree with the decision one bit, but they do seem to have actually thought about it.

Inland seas, I think. There's a river south of Morne which is the same colour.

Sounds about average, if on the high side. The challenges are tough, but not insurmountable if you have good tactics.

It is an inescapable law of the universe that any spelling flame, even one in jest, will contain its own spelling error. Or to put it another way, quite literally: damn your eyes! :-) Looking forward to the Titans review. By the way, John, Mongoose were looking for more proofreaders a while...

"Similarly, plot hook scan" should be "plot hooks can". Was this review proofread at all? :-P Seriously, thanks for the kind world and solid review. I'm proud of the book, despite its flaws. It got a bit hurt by a late switch to 3.5. I hope Book of the Sea works for you. Gar

Her: 'So, what do you do?' Me: 'I'm a writer.' Her: 'Really!? Wow, that's cool. So, what do you write about?' Me: 'Er....today I wrote about gnome demographics for six hours. Tomorrow, I hope to get onto notes about how to act like a gnome.'

Mongoose are also doing Classic Play: Book of the Planes.

My character in a severely infrequent game (second session next week) is Greendog. The GM wanted weird characters, so Greendog is an ordinary wolf given vaguely humanoid shape by the sentience of the Green to act as a defender of nature. He's only four years old, and travels with The Brother...

It's not like the book is monster free - there are 20+ creatures in there. And it's presentation in the adventure that counts, not base stats... As for character level - the 10-level spread works for horror games in my experience. While you can model characters like Mulder and Scully or Van...

Cheers for the comments. Yeah, the monster chapter is sparse. As soon as my schedule clears, I'm going to try to rectify that a bit, but in the mean time, there are quite a few other d20 modern monster books :-). And holy water is technically in there. Any monster vulnerable to it is going...

Remember there's a Sense Motive check (DC15 for Dominate IIRC) to notice that someone's under magical compulsion. I'd play it with the noble breaking, sobbing "I'll tell, I'll tell", and then being unable to actually reveal the information - he just stops talking, despite obviously wanting to...

I share your pain. Last night, I threw a CR12 red dragon up against my CR9 party. It was supposed to be a foreshadowing encounter - the dragon had 200+ hit points, so it was supposed to fight them for two rounds tops before retreating if they engaged it at all. It was really there just to show...

Er. Wizard6/Sun Mage 3. Has fired a crossbow once or twice, but uses a Wand of Magic Missiles or spells in combat. Dwarf Ftr/Cleric: Axe and shield bash. Elf Ftr/Rogue: Short sword or longbow. Human Paladin: Greatsword. Human Cleric: Mace and shield. Heavy use of tactics; everyone gets buffed...

Bruce has stepped down as line editor, and Chrysoula has taken over. Work is being done on Fires of Creation (the scenario book) at the moment as far as I know - at least, I sent my stuff back in last month. I've no idea of a schedule, though.

Off the top of my head, there's Whispering Vault ( play ghostly hunters hunting down aberrant entities from beyond reality), Nephilim (play immortal serial-incarnating elemental spirits), Wraith (ghosts) and Orpheus (ditto). Some permutations of Nobilis might also qualify - the characters are...

The High Elves who dwelled in Valinor were termed Gnomes in some early writings - he used the derivation from the Greek gnomos (wisdom or learning or something). However, he found that people got mixed up with the conception of the gnome as an earth-spirit, who he stopped using it. I think...

Woo. I was wondering if the book had sunk without a trace after all the Draconomicon buzz. Nice to hear it's appreciated. Gar

Some sort of teleport or scry block, like a mobile dimensional lock or mind blank?