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100 being human body temp, to my mind, makes sense. Fahrenheit temperature is the one area where I find Imperial better than metric, though being an American I pretty much always use Imperial (except when dealing with sciences, where everyone uses metric). Really, Celsius is just as arbitrary...

Dude, you're gonna need to sell off some of your books. I was where you were at about a dozen years ago, and it's the only way. Take the books back to the store and sell them. Actually, if you can, sell some of them on eBay, especially the recent stuff. Yeah, you'll take a hit, but you'll...

Complete Arcane? Argh! Wizards, this is another case where you can and should reuse a classic title: Tome of Magic!

Actually, the Compendia are hardly UA-like. CI is more like an enormous splat book made so SJG didn't need to keep reprinting the Secret disadvantage. CII is a little more UA-like, but there was nothing that actually changed the game. FWIW, GURPS CI is the second-most battered RPG book I own...

What are the variant specialist wizards (for each specialty) and how do they differ from, say, a normal specialist wizard? Quick summary of the abilities of a couple of them?

Nah. But be careful. I ran a party through dense forest two weeks ago and combat was as slow as hell. Don't let terrain get in the way.

Specialist Wizard variants Alright, what are the specialist wizard variants? Different specialties or enhancements to existing specialties?

Si hoc legere potes, Fur es qui librum meum sumpsisti! -- inside cover of my Monster Manual 3.5. It'll be just my luck for some barbarus to take it and not be able to read whither to return the book! :)

Thanks. Personally, for two feats and losing all my items, I agree, but there wasn't a consensus at the table, and the guy who makes the group rules decisions wasn't there, and he's tight ... Oh, FWIW, the book is nice, better than the BoVD (and plus you have the good fortune to be coming out...

Darren -- how can I convince my GM that the Vow of Poverty is balanced? It's perfect for my monk, and I figure at 12th level, when he can actually take it, he'll have AC 32, so any verbal ammo would be welcome ...

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1 Spell Focus (Conjuration) 1 Augment Summoning 3 either a skill booster or Scribe Scroll 6 Natural Spell Spontaneous Summon Nature's Ally and Augment Summoning is just too freaking useful. If you want to multiclass, ranger is the obvious second class. Three levels of it gives you Track...

1 Spell Focus (Conjuration) 1 Augment Summoning 3 either a skill booster or Scribe Scroll 6 Natural Spell Spontaneous Summon Nature's Ally and Augment Summoning is just too freaking useful. If you want to multiclass, ranger is the obvious second class. Three levels of it gives you Track...

'Tain't nuttin'. Epic Druids with the various wildshape feats kick hella hella over shapechange.

Never had a problem. In fact, I was the one with the basement for gaming. My father dated a gamer, and he was a guy who didn't care if I drank or smoked dope or had sex (of course, it was high school, and I didn't get much of the last one :( and I was not into drugs), so D&D was pretty much...

The list of most useful spells makes it worth SOMETHING. It's not like they weren't clear, but it gives you something to list as goals for your spellbok.

Hero Builder's Guidebook. The splat books should have had half the page count they had, but they had uses. The HBG, OTOH ... for new players who wanted to waste even more money for a little help, help they would not need in 6 months.

I did know that before you posted it. SKR said on his site that for an attribute, adding 5 to it was a doubling of it, based on the Strength carrying capacity table. I took a look the other day, and lo and behold, that's how the thing worked.

At Str 1-10, carrying capacity is just 10 x Str. Starting at Str 10, the principle is that every 5 points of Str is a doubling of carrying capacity. Thus, the progression is a smoothing out of that principle. I suppose something like ... If Str < 11, Capacity = 10 x Str If Str > 10, subtract...