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What are these campaign cards? What is their function in Living D&D games?

You've been active around here the past couple of days, haven't you? ;) I'll go with: Sharn Arcana Evolved Book of Iron Might Mystic Secrets (print) Complete Arcane

Good stuff, Whimsical! :)

Mike Mearls and Jared Sorensen are the coolest game designers I know, but the question makes it sound like I'm not evaluating them on their game design. ;)

If you're going with claws of the beast, I'd definitely switch out psionic weapon in favor of psionic fist. ;) Psionic body is a good feat that will serve you later as you pick up bonus psion feats at the least. You'll want to save a feat or two for greater psionic fist and unavoidable strike...

Right, I forgot you'd be going psychic warrior, so you dont' need inertial armor. I'd replace it with one of two options: - Force Screen: gives a +4 shield bonus to AC that doesn't scale up as well as inertial armor and only lasts for 1 min/level. Still, it protects against regular and force...

That would work, Strangemonkey. You'd still have access to the two lynchpin 2nd-level seer powers if you were a 3rd level psion. I forgot about the kalashtar social bonuses, which would be a big help for this character. If I were choosing two psychic warrior powers and was thinking about...

Taking one level in psychic warrior and the other four in psion is a great idea. You get to improve your psi-prowess and you can pick psionic feats that will be handy to your later development as a psion. Make the character a human to avoid multiclassing penalty ugliness (the kalashtar are a...

I didn't mention any psionic feats for this character, but this one seems appropriate: Inquisitor: gives a +10 bonus to Sense Motive checks to oppose Bluff. ;)

No one every considers the poor psion. ;) There's no better detective/inquisitive in 3.5e than a clairsentient psion. If anyone on the Eberron design team had even a scrap of interest or familiarity with psionics, they wouldn't have wasted the space on the prestige class. Take a level of...

From an upcoming campaign I'm itching to get going: The characters come from villages that live on the edge of a vast Sea of Grass which is crisscrossed by nomads on 20' stilts. ;)

Part of being an effective illusionist is getting the other PCs to cooperate. The seeming spell is no good if the party always wants to go for a full-frontal assault on the dungeon. ;) Discuss the matter with your players and help the illusionist gain the cooperation of the other players to...

Toughness, without a doubt. In the long run, 3 hp isn't likely to save you from the ancient red dragon's breath. It's possible, but not likely. ;)

Omnipotent wins! Fatality! :D

That's right! Represent the CP2013, yo!!!11!!!11!!eleven!!11 It really looks like some stuff that is "heavily-inspired" by Patrick Nagel: http://www.patricknagel.com/html/gallery.html ;)

Why shouldn't all feats be equal or as equal as they can be made? It would be poor game design if they were otherwise. If we are going to allow that all feats need not be equal, then how would we criticize a feat that gives a character three wishes per day? If players aren't generally taking...

But having PCs with such uninspiring abilities seems to fly in the face of Eberron's pulp tone. The DM section has section headings like "Player Characters are Heroes!" or "Cliffhanger Action!" or "Excitement! Danger!". The game describes itself as half-pulp in tone. Pulp action isn't about...

Keith, I agree that the Marks you listed are probably the most valuable. I suspect this is because of their obvious use in combat, which is the central focus of any D&D game. The vast majority of the rules in the PHB are devoted to combat in one way or another, which is why I believe that...

I can appreciate this explanation, Keith, but it's fairly useless in a standard D&D game. It's a bit of setting fluff that doesn't mean much when you're on dungeon level 3 and gearing up for the big fight with evil wizard and his living spell henchmen. Good feats add abilities that are...

It sounds to me like you're heading for an IRL train wreck in that group. You and your players seem to have conflicting game desires and goals. They all chose low CHA PCs because they don't want their characters to get involved in the social side of the game. You said that they become...