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Any idea how to pull Net & Trident fighting off. Is it possible to make a decent fighter build using this?

Three more exotic weapons, based on the bastard sword and dwarven waraxe mechanics. Exotic Weapons One-Handed Melee Weapons Cost Dmg (S) Dmg (M) Critical Weight Type Estoc 30 gp 1d8 1d10 x2/19-20 6 lb. Piercing Goupillon...

Part of the problem may be with world design. If you have powerful and benevolent gods, kingdoms and NPCs you are going to have problems with why kobolds aren't all routinely hunted down and slaughtered by 10th level uber-characters. Why not have powerful characters be disinterested or absorbed...

Is this worth getting? I'm a big fan of Martin, but am reluctant to pick it up for just one story. I think Hobb and Gaiman are okay, and loathe Feist and Brooks.

I think this is a really good idea. I think the down sides are: (1) two different lists to keep track of, and (2) I think the spell list results in a down powering of the wizard. For example; at 5th level a normal specialist has 5/4/3/2 spells. A variant specialist has 4/3/3/2. Spell level also...

I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying reading these. There's some bad stuff. But the good stuff is just about as good as it gets.

Three more big weapons. This time exotic elaborations on the greatsword. Exotic Weapons Two-Handed Melee Weapons Cost Dmg (S) Dmg (M) Critical Weight Type Executioner's Sword 60 gp 1d10 2d6 x4 12 lb. Slashing Flambard...

I agree. Small modules are great, mega-modules should be a series of connected small adventures. Is anyone else sick of the 1st edition retro-style? It seems to me a lot of modules are trying to ape a style that doesn't have much going for it, rather than try and do something new and original...

Fantastic, that's the sort of thing I'm looking for.

I remember enjoying Elminster's Notebook, shame it slowly died...

I make out that his complain is the "use of the term "broadsword" to denote all broad-bladed European swords" when he thinks "it should imply a basket-hilted sword of the late 1600’s to early 1900’s". To do this he just ignores that the word broadsword has been in use for 1000 years and that...

Is there anywhere I can get my hands on a list of potential adventuring locals? I'm just looking for a list on names of interesting places, together with short descriptions of what they are, and hints for why the PC might want to be there. Suggestions?

Thanks for posting the Clements article. What is about fencing that turns people into obnoxious pedants? I thought the part where he willfully attempts to ignore early uses of broadsword - they obviously didn't mean "broadsword" just "swords that are broad" - was particularly enlightening. I'd...

Perhaps the mass of a weapon isn't the only factor that influences the damage caused by a weapon? Perhaps it's also best not to get too hung up on history, when the fantasy literature D&D draws upon isn't that hung up on it either. In anycase, there is room for a sword that acts as a [1d8...

These are valid points; but so long as you don't create uber-weapons (I'm all for making sure this doesn't happen) and so long as you can make weapons mechanically different (so diminishing returns hasn't kicked in), I'm all for expanding the weapon lists. I realise it's the intent of the...

At the moment if you get a critical hit you do double (or more) damage. Are there suggestions anywhere for more creative consequences? I'm thinking of trading extra damage for knocking someone off their feet, smashing their weapon or armour, adding some more variety.

Doesn't this bring about a similar problem? Assuming a certain level of wealth (which PCs and their enemies will obtain very early), why should anyone use a longsword? If broadswords are better in terms of hp for a negligible price increase, haven't longswords just been designed out the game...

I see where you're coming from. On the other hand, adding it gives more options for players, and more flavour to the game if there are more mechanically distinct weapons to chose from. Why not have broadswords, cutlasses, epees, sabers and so on? I realise the current rules are very minimalist...

Would introducing a 2d4 (19-20/x2) weapon be an absolute disaster? It'd be a bit like the current Greatsword vs. Greataxe situation with two-handers. Do people out there see themselves taking the 1d8 alternative. Average damage isn't everything; killing in one wack is sometimes important too...

Gnolls come - very indirectly - from Dunsany. See in the Book of Wonder, How Nuth would have practised his art upon the gnoles. http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/d_nuth.htm http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/main/classicsdunsany