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Sounds pretty awesome, actually. Gave me a feeling of mystery and excitement, an echo of when I first started looking through the PHB. If they can give the new edition that feeling, even for players who are far from new, then count me in.

Ultimately, the power lies with the group, not with any one person, not even the DM. Now a DM is perfectly within their rights to say "When I am running the game, this is how things work." But conversely, the group is then within their rights to say "Ok, well then we choose a different game...

First off, I'm assuming that by "item loss" you mean loss of pretty much all your items, for an extended period of time - not just drinking some potions or having to leave your magic sword home when you go talk to the king. In most cases, I'd say players fear item loss more - and that's for a...

Although there are tons of choices, generally only a few are needed 90% of the time. For instance, Summon Nature's Ally I - you pretty much always want a Wolf, unless there are special considerations (underwater a Porpoise would be better). I'm ambivalent on the PHBII variant. While simpler...

The problem is that usually an Exotic weapon ends up just being the same as a normal weapon but doing slightly more damage - not even enough to merit the feat, in most cases. There's the cool image, but given that weapon descriptions vary anyway, it's generally simpler to just say your...

Actually, most undead, not possessing the (Evil) subtype, or any subtype, do not register as any alignment except their own. If one is good aligned, it would register only as good. Whether creating undead is evil is somewhat debatable, but primarily is a campaign setting element - it depends...

Well, since you are the ones pregenerating the characters for it, why are you making one of those characters a "Paladin of ultimate Goddie-two-shoeiness" if you think that will cause problems with another of the characters? How about a Shadowbane Stalker or Greyguard instead? Or a Paladin of...

First off, I notice that most people against "Magic-Item Marts" seem to be assuming that it's unreasonable to buy things for the base price, as if that were the warehouse price, or the MSRP. IMO, that's the average price - sometimes the item is hard to get and you pay more than that, sometimes...

Ok, I can see the argument that it would take a while in game time, but that doesn't mean it should take a long time in real time. When someone just goes and "buys" Gloves of Ogre Strength, the actual process may be something like: 1) Ask around town for who might know about such an item. 2)...

That's all the more reason to confuse the issue. Glamer your armor to look like robes. If possible, get some spellcaster-friendly armor (Twilight mithral shirt, for instance) and Glamer it to look like heavier armor. Have the spellcaster wear a monk's robes and carry a sai or nunchucks. Have...

I think the new changes are in completely the wrong direction, for a number of reasons: 1) Sorcerers get the shaft. It was bad enough when spells like Emotion and Symbol were split in their component parts, but now a Sorcerer can only turn into one or two things, ever, because each form is a...

First off, props to Hussar - that's a point which often gets "conveniently" forgotten when people start talking about "the good old days" before powergaming or magic item proliferation. Secondly, my view on fudging is this - fudge the stats beforehand if you need to, but don't fudge what...

Interestingly, I think this one proves that Xykon is a Sorcerer, rather than a Wizard: * Has a Maximized Magic Missile even though he calls it his weakest spell. * Switched easily from his previous anti-living type spells like Finger of Death to energy spells. * Apparently has little in the way...

Actually, despite people's initial reactions, I've found the Bo9S, in both theory and practice, doesn't outdamage traditional warrior-types much. First off, don't use a Fighter as a base for damage-dealing, use a Barbarian. The Fighter has never been the master of damage-dealing - it's...

I've still having fun with it. Of course, we don't play it every day, so the total number of games hasn't been as high as the OP yet. But there's definitely strategy involved, the way we play. First off, we do have one house-rule - any kind of card can be traded, and you can make complex...

Well, the fact that the main realm that they travel through to reach different multiverses has an atmosphere made of Sphere of Annihilation material does seem like a hint that they're playing pretty high level. ;) But man, I don't know if I could make a level 100 character - making a level...

I don't demand perfect realism, but c'mon - I just went to google images, typed in "spider", and on the first page there were three diagrams and a number of pictures showing that spiders have two body segments. And also - legs coming from the abdomen - that's just stupid, it'd be like having...

Heck yes, it does! If the prior battle seemed anticlimatic to you, that's because it wasn't the climax. The real showdown starts now! And I'm betting the Paladins have quite a bit better odds now (as long as they don't try to heal themselves). Their utter defeat before makes their comeback...

One of the things I like about powergaming is that it lets you successfully pull of character types that would otherwise be totally impractical. For instance, take the afformentioned clumsy oaf. Often, you have the character who's basically pretty useless, and doesn't even know why they're on...

First off, a minor note - the more I think about it, the more I think that people are readying actions to hit spellcasters, because it'd be pretty bizarre if neither Xykon or V could cast defensively. And now, your feature presentation: Ok, I'll say it once more, since nobody apparently...