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  1. Bran Blackbyrd

    "Planar Handbook" - completlely useless?

    Fiction? Are you talking about the rules or the novels? I've never read a novel based on a D&D world and I never intend to. Even if I did, it would remain a separate entity from the game products. Like so many other people, anything that happened outside of your lifetime appears to also be...
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    D&D on NPR

    It didn't air here on 89.7 FM, but thankfully the interview is on the site. Streaming audio never works on my connection but miraculously this one did, without a hitch. Unfortunately the link to the extra audio they mentioned wasn't working for me.
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    Stats, how you come about it!

    I created this method of generating stats simply to make fun of my friend, who was constantly making up increasingly elaborate, convoluted and lame ways of rolling ability scores. I ended up having my players use it to roll their PCs for my current campaign (FINALLY coming back from a very long...
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    Blandest d20 Product?

    It's a three-way tie between the Hero Builder's Guidebook, the Planar Handbook and the Player's Guide to Faerun. The Player's Guide to Faerun should have been called, "Errata with Pictures". Bland, bland, bland. The only way it could be more bland is if the cover was made from brown, paper...
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    Campaign Settings III

    Planescape. And since TD is usually busy doing other jobs these days I'll suggest Vinod Rams as the exclusive interior artist. I think he is the only current D&D artist that could capture the Planescape feel.* Covers and cartography can be done by someone else. The only other setting I...
  6. Bran Blackbyrd

    "Planar Handbook" - completlely useless?

    That's like saying that most people who were born yesterday can't do long division. If you started playing D&D after 3E came out you might have the same reaction to mentions of: Al Qadim, Hollow World, Mystara, Time of Troubles, Dark Sun, Council of Wyrms, Maztica, Red Steel, THAC0 and possibly...
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    "Planar Handbook" - completlely useless?

    I have to agree with this. As someone who really loved Planescape, seeing half-assed bits and pieces of the setting scattered throughout the 3.x books makes the bile rise in my throat. If it doesn't sell well enough to merit its own book, so be it, but don't pick the carcass clean. As I've said...
  8. Bran Blackbyrd

    About ... your table

    Let's hear it for basement ping-pong tables. We played on one in the game I was recently in. Now that the DM has gone away to college, I'll be resuming my campaign. Since no one at that house will be around anyore we won't be playing there, so I'm not sure what the playing conditions will be. I...
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    Bringing back old product lines as one-shot books

    One book, one setting. Then I get my Planescape and no one has to die. Well....They still will eventually... But I'm not sayin' they have to. But they will anyway...
  10. Bran Blackbyrd

    Fantasy Banking-

    LOL, that's bad. Good and bad.
  11. Bran Blackbyrd

    Eldritch Wizardry and nude women! D&D history help, please.

    You don't know what you're talking about! I condition my hair every day and I can still appreciate a good nude.
  12. Bran Blackbyrd

    D&D Movies Which Should Never Be Made

    Girallons in the Mist An Aglarond Wolfwere in Lantan Reservoir Blink Dogs Ravenloft 65000 Highlander II: The Hastening Beauty and the Dire Beast Teenage Half-Fiend Monk Turtles Charlie's Celestials St. Elmo's Fireball The Quick and the Undead Schindler's Lich Dr. Strangeflumph or: How I Learned...
  13. Bran Blackbyrd

    Which 'Campaign Classics' would you buy?

    Planescape Just so you remember.
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    Fantasy Banking-

    Absolutely. Banking doesn't have to be a huge complicated addition to the rules, it can be modular. Add as much as you are ready to deal with. It takes zero effort to let players know that there is a banking institution with buildings in the larger cities and that, rather than carrying around a...
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    Fantasy Banking-

    Just thought I'd mention that there are banks in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books. Off the top of my head I think there's a modest section of New Spring (the novel) that deals with letters of credit and such. I've said before that with enough ranks in Forgery and enough cajones you can...
  16. Bran Blackbyrd

    d100 CITY CONTENTS [Edit:] Complete & Available for Download!!

    #86. Hanger’s House (Tavern) Description: Hanger’s House is a large tavern run by Albrecht Hanger. It was a rather large inn at one time, but the top floor was accidentally burned down one winter’s night by a careless patron with a naked flame. Albrecht bought the inn for a song from the...
  17. Bran Blackbyrd

    d20 Future - Buying?

    Wow; 36, 9, 9. Right now the yes people double the total for the other two choices. Mine is on preorder. Dammit Amazon! People talk about getting stuff from Amazon the day it comes out... When I preorder from them they usually say they still don't have it for a month after the book is out. :mad:
  18. Bran Blackbyrd

    What did you do with your 3.0 PHB/DMG/MM when you updated to 3.5?

    I managed to get the 3.5 boxed set for around 3 dollars, so I upgraded. However, I don't take them with me to games. It's amazing how much wear and tear you can put on books just by transporting them. So until I fashion some sort of armor for my boxed set, I won't be taking it anywhere. Not only...
  19. Bran Blackbyrd

    Starship miniatures?

    It's all about the Legos.
  20. Bran Blackbyrd

    I hope Eberron is a flop. Am I evil?

    Ignorant? Maybe. Insensitive? Perhaps. Petty? Almost certainly. Evil? I wouldn't go that far. Keep trying though, all journeys begin with a single step. EDIT: Although anyone who wants to see a 3E Planescape book produced can't be all bad. :cool:
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