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Interlude: As The Bishop said to the Pyromaniac.... <in the old monastery courtyard on Opium Way, Little Ajakhan, Narayan:CITY, just past sunset> “What lies beneath has many names; Tonjours Faim, Faim Gauche, EfFame Gauche, Mauvasie Faim or simply The Bad Hunger. It is a fragment of an Elder...

Cake And/Or Death And indeed, there was cake. Dark cake. Foul, vile cake, as evil as...something very evil indeed. BURNE HAS A GIFT FOR METAPHOR. "Devil's Food Cake" of the most bleakly literal sort, in fact. MATCHED ONLY BY HIS CUDGEL-LIKE WIT. But I get ahead of myself. In basic...

Can't remember the name of it, but there's a feat in the Miniatures Handbook that lets you throw a weapon as you charge.

Charm? Invisiblity? Dispel Magic? All available to the Warlock, albeit with limitations. (Charm, for example, can only have one subject at a time. If you Charm someone else, your previous victim is freed.) Healing? Play a Binder, Bind Buer, and you can heal 1d8+level damage all day long...

At this point, I feel myself more inclined to shift things in favor of the players' preferences, rather than my own. If a guy is enthused about the character's he's playing, then he's more likely to have a good time...and that means that I'M more likely to have a good time, which is pretty much...

Of all of them, I think that the Changeling is my favorite. It's a fantasy archetype that was conspicuous by its absence, and it's the sort of thing that is a lot of fun in the right hands. There's a part of me that really wants to run a game where *all* of the various humanoid races exist...

If the player were of a mind to do so, I would cheerfully allow him to change the "special effects" of the Warlock abilities to match whatever background he likes. Infernal, Celestial, Fae, Draconic, Genii.... I remember reading a post somewhere about where a player was using the Warlock in...

Please Sir, May I Have... Your Soul! With a word, I kindled luminescence upon a bolt, and fired it down into the darkness. It provided enough light to allow us to see that there was a chamber some fifteen feet below the surface of the courtyard, and that it extended some distance beyond our...

Life After Death Rackhir emerged from making the "Priest with Two Backs" with Tawny Portal as red in face as he was in garb. I, cloaked as always in my own dignity, forbore to comment. While Meiji, as I recall, snickered in a decidedly foreign fashion, and made a variety of off-color comments...

She Can Make A Blind Man See, She Can Make A Dead Man... Better So there was Rackhir, his corpse slowly cooling in the late morning air. The Tenor was still weeping fist-sized tears, broken in the alarming way only a sad man as large as a barn can be, and Kenji, stalking about the courtyard...

I occasionally feel the desire to stat up the Bonnacon as a 3.5 beast. An aberration, probably. But thus far, good taste has prevailed. Nothing is weirder than the stuff that showed up in medieval beastiaries, people.

Rackhir, The Dead Archer So. There I stood, surrounded by foreigners of the most disreputable sort, watching a shamanistic greengrocer give orders to a musical giant. I wish that I could claim that this was somehow unusual, but alas...this seems to be the sort of pattern into which my life...

Interlude: Yesterday at The Chapel of Love “Did you ever wonder why our confessionals have the little slot at waist level?” “No.” Donatello Pazzi de Gallina, better known on the Street of Costs as the Right Reverend Don Magic Wand, known for his flashy robes, plentiful gold-seeming chains...

The Glorious Return of Burne Some men are born to greatness. Others have it thrust upon them. And some? Some stride forth boldly, seize greatness by its collar, shove it up against a wall, pull down its trousers, and show it who is in charge around here. It should surprise no-one that Burne...

God knows, I didn't....

Interlude: The Incredibly Sad Story of Not-So-Innocent Calliope and her Hapless, Priest- Abused Addict Mother They steal through the alleyways away from the burning ruin of Maison Chatons. The House of Kittens is no more. They walk quickly in a near-silence punctuated only by cries for the fire...

As someone who hasn't played a lot of sorcerers, I have to ask this: Barring the DM's disallowing it, why would anyone NOT take Versatile Spellcaster? It's hard to imagine a better feat for a sorcerer, and goes a very long way towards differentiating them from wizards. Is there a downside I'm...

There's this book, see? Probably the greatest book ever written. Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars, by Daniel Pinkwater. It's a children's book, mind. I first read it when I was 10 or 11 years old. But it holds up well, trust me. It's got the secrets of mind control and interdimensional...

There's a nice bit from one of Joel Rosenberg's "Guardians of the Flame" books, in which someone is trying to give a healing potion to an unconscious individual. He's admonished that he could choke the victim that way, and the response is, "This is a healing potion; The only way I could injure...

I tend to remember Brust's Phoenix Guards at times like this.... ...which is damned near poetry. I tend to use actual English, for the most part, or slightly twisted versions thereof. My current campaign is set in the Free City of Stonhaven, whcih is bordered by Aestica (to the west) and...