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It shouldn't be a bag though. It should be a barrel. After all, what's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? I think it shouldn't be priced too much less than a bag of tricks, but certainly not more. I'd be ok w/ pricing it the same or a little less personally.

Basically, I'm talking 'real world' for my medieval fantasy, so... Guns are ok, though they'll be hard to reload in combat. THey had reloadable early versions starting around the 1400s, and had single-shot type dealies in the 1100s in Asia, so we can do medieval guns really easy. Printing is...

OK, let me just show an example: a human fighter 20 vs. a perfect fighter 18/Barbarian 1: Given the elite array, and they both prioritize Str and Con, with the next biggest scores in Dex and Wis, while saving the mediocre/bad scores for Int and Cha. Human fighter has 15 Str, 14 Con, 13 Dex, 12...

I know the Drunken Master PrC gives the ability, but I'm pretty sure it's a class ability and not a feat. It's actually surprisingly powerful in the right situations, and possibly worth more than a normal feat. The problem comes when you start messing around with 'reasonableness' in terms of...

I probably should have used an emoticon now that I think about it... I just don't like to use them in web forums, so I sometimes don't use them when I should.

Humor, my friend, humor. It just seemed too perfect, considering that tieflings are mentioned as an 'outsider' race and are of the [outsider] type.

Aren't they in fact humanoids or monstrous humanoids? Tieflings are the outsiders you want... EDIT: more on topic, I'd say these are perhaps LA+2. A weak LA+2, but LA+2. You are essentially giving humans a template that says "+2 to all stats" without taking away an HD or two, which is a...

Personally, I think sentient AIs are a likelihood, and quite probably a necessary consequence of our path to faster computing. We are researching neural net systems, and one of the interesting things about neural nets is that they can be self-modifying. Given a task, such as "put a priority on...

I wasn't really looking for information that might be used in game. It was fun-time reading about Victorian oddities. VASTLY different.

Basically, the weasels were far more vicious, and would do the entire 'bleed the rat to death' thing. He said he didn't use them much, because they were vicious, though others did. And it wasn't reasearch.. it was me looking it up after I saw a link to it on BoingBoing, since I like Victorian...

That's because most of them don't like seeing other cats stare at them. So they try to reduce the 'friction' by looking away. But force a cat to look into a mirror.. they start acting funky.

For something even closer to the potential effect of the spell.. put a cat in front of the mirror and watch the cat go nuts trying to kill the intruder.

Right now, I almost want to see if statting up the Japanese Bakeneko would be doable. I'm not sure what the abilities of the beast are, mythically.. and the stats for cats in D&D are already a bit screwed up. Beyond that, I would love to see animals that have paragons that have the mythic...

Well, I just saw on Project Gutenberg a treatise on ratcatching written by a Victorian ratcatcher which mentioned using ferrets, weasels, and dachshunds to catch rats (and he had different animals for different purposes. All three had their specialty in his mind.. which makes me thing they...

Well, in d20 Modern, all basic classes get a talent every 2 levels, and a feat on every level they don't get a talent, so they ALL have bonus feat lists. Most of the AdCs (they're kinda like easy to get into prestige classes that are generally accessible by 4th class level) also have 3-5 bonus...

I just thought of something.. not only should any bridges be single-file, but they should also be weak enough to cause problems (because it will collapse/ have the floor crumble) for any idiot dwarves, elves, and humans who decide to stupidly attack. This is best ensured by having lazy workers...

Well, I've always thought of talents as the 'building block' special abilities.. they're only available to certain classes, so you can't take them unless you've already got levels in a class, and they level up in a class-based manner. Feats could then be those abilities that don't require a...

Why not give them some ability to transfer magical bonuses from one weapon to another? So for them, assuming they have a greatsword, longspear, shortsword, and a bow, they can cannabalize their bonus from one weapon, temporarily, and add it's +X value after all magical abilities are assessed as...

No, real-life pirates almost always questioned the authority of their captains. That's the reason they were democratically elected. Plus, any member of the crew with sufficient power (and that was the majority of the crew) would be able to call a vote of no-confidence in the captain or his...

Heh, to be called a Tool is a high honor on Erf...