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For a while, I was buying a lot of GURPS books -- they were cheap, and fascinating. Now, I've glutted out on GURPS. I think it's the fact that I have all the G4 stuff I want (the Magic book I've pretty much already got in Magic and Grimoire). And, in general, I've started spending less as my...

Oboy, I can just hear Pat Robertson now.... Not only are we teaching our kids such Anti-Christian ideas as Evolution; Not only have we removed prayer from our schools; Not only do we have plenty of violence already in our schools; But also our schools are actively encouraging Satan worship...

Speaking of Mr. Laws, it seemed to me that he had a heavy influence on that part of the DMG -- but perhaps they all just had the same sources. I've got one character now whose parents were in a kind of Romeo-Juliet romance and died tragically after she was born; another whose pursuit of her...

And in Atlantis, Major Sheppard managed to chase off the Genai all by his lonesome and they got the shield online in time to ride out the storm. Then the Wraith started coming.... The upshot is, the Wraith believe that Atlantis was destroyed and the humans are content to leave it that way. A...

I once had a 2ndEd game in which the player of the thief (Hah! Yes! A thief! Not a namby "Rogue!" :p ) wanted to know if he could carry around some soap. Okay, I said. Usually I take my PCs' cleanliness for granted, but if he wanted to buy soap, well, it was on the equipment list. All was...

One of the profs I work for had me type something up for him today. He came into the office at one point, held his hand out for the print-out, and asked for a butcher's. I knew what he meant, of course, but it was a bit surprising to hear someone with a string of letters after his name use the...

Night on Bald Mountain. Twa Corbies. TWK

The Minister's cat is a Steeleye Span cat. TWK

Not much to tell, not much drama. Suffice to say, I had a brainstorm and created a character that I really liked, an aasimar sorcerer who thought he was a paladin, just with nonstandard abilities. The DM was fairly new, and had played with her old-school husband-DM for a while. She just...

D'oh! Cha 19 = +4. What a boneheaded mistake! Fortunately, that's the only place that it crops up. His skills check out OK. Hmmm... no, not an adventurer. How about some eagle's splendor potions, and a tweak to his feats? TWK

The following is the first of four NPCs I'm making up for my campaign. I'd appreciate any comments, please -- I need some experience designing characters! Male elf, 8th-level bard N Medium humanoid (elf) Init +2; Senses Low-light vision; Listen -1, Spot -1 Languages Common, Elf, Dwarf, Orc AC...

I take it, then, that shapechange is a different spell than polymorph? With the latter, you can't turn into undead. Is it possible with the former? TWK

Okay, so how does the ^ over the "u" in Faerun change its pronunciation? I used to say, FAY-run, oh so long ago. But since I got the FRCS, I've begun to say, fay-RUNE. Is that right? Oh, yeah, just to stay on-topic: I've got a group of players who will ALWAYS mispronounce any name I give to...

Actually, it's the third. In the first two books, he's in the Underdark. He only comes out onto the surface in Sojourn. I think that's perhaps the best of the Drizzt books. And I've always pronounced his name like that little boy. But I've never run a drow ranger with two scimitars. I have...

ca. 1390 CE: The peasants of England march on London in protest of King Richard II's LARP game, in which he tried to involve all of his subjects. Their main grievance is that, despite being the most important class in the game, they are given short shrift in terms of stats and abilities...

Does anybody have any notes from the development team explaining why the only requirements for crafting simple magic arms and armor is the feat and a certain caster level? Almost everything else needs at least one specific spell. I would have thought that magic weapon and mage armor would fit...

Hi all, I am currently designing an adventure in which the party discovers it must make contact with some elfs who are on the Ethereal Plane. I figure there is a portal to the Ethereal nearby, but I want to make it hard to get open. My basic idea was to write a riddle describing the portal...

I use the Leveled Weapons article out of the Oriental Adventures issue (long time ago). I tried using the martial arts move generator from that same issue, but the players all laughed :( Any column of "Dungeoncraft" is extremely useful to me. I recently equipped some goblins with polearms...

But, if he was Left Behind, be grateful -- every mind flayer who was Taken was obviously more evil than he! :lol: Sorry -- bad joke! Seriously, this book does look interesting. One of my players is running a deepwood sniper with a leveled longbow -- out of Dragon magazine. Its advancement...

OTOH, there are other creatures besides oozes that destroy weapons outright. The rust monster comes to mind (not that it would apply here), as well as the caryatid column (Fiend Folio, save or break your weapon). Now, I'm not so sure about the caryatid column, but I'm fairly sure that...