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I'm inclined to give Burlew more credit than that -- it's just a bit too easy. What would be a worthy story is a truly redemptive experience for Miko, a tale of soul-searching and self-sacrifice that will elevate her back, if not to paladinhood, to the path of righteousness.

That's a fine way to read it. But it's also fair to acknowledge that Miko is despised by many readers (myself included) because she has embodied what is frustrating about poorly-RPed paladins for many D&D fans -- the arrogance and high-handedness and so on. I've often felt that to RP a paladin...

That was highly, highly gratifying. I enjoy the juxtaposition between poorly-roleplayed paladin (Miko) and well-roleplayed paladin (Hinjo). Rich is instructing us.

Par for the course with frank. Pay him no mind.

Is that a joke in poor taste or a mistaken reference?

Yes. I forgot to mention that the lvl 10 warlock IMC is a wand specialist. He's got half a dozen of the most iconic wizard spells on wands (glitterdust, invisibility, fireball, web), and with Quick Draw, he's pretty good at whipping them out during combat.

I like the warlock a lot. It's my favorite of the non-core classes. I think it's a fine class from 1st to 10th level, because those are the levels I've seen. Going forward, I'll be very interested to see how he plays out. The one in my player group picked up dispel magic at will, and though he's...

No. My core rules dwarf barbarian 1/fighter 11 could easily top this damage. In an average round he did about the same; in a good round in which he'd get a full attack against multiple foes, he'd easily top 200 damage. More if he got to cleave multiple opponents.

Gotta admit, the favored class requirement throws a monkey wrench into some of my niftier character ideas. Might do away with it myself in future campaigns.

I allow most spells from WotC sources, provided I have a copy of the book. The caveat for clerics, however, I got from Piratecat--your spell list is limited in size such that it must be equal to the list in the PHB. If you want to use new spells, you have to make room for them by giving up old...

I ran a similar encounter once. My sahuagin snuck onboard during cover of night, while everyone but a few sailors were on watch. If the PCs are on watch, chances are that they would have noticed something was amiss, because PCs are cool like that. But my group didn't; all the PCs were alseep...

I'm not acting hurt. I'm telling you you're being a jerk. Totally different. Again, you don't like it, ignore it and move on. Not hard to understand. Here, I'll show you.

But why would you say that? Why make a rude comment at all? If my post held no value to you, the correct response would have been to ignore it, not to make a snarky cutdown. That just makes you look like a jerk.

I'm sorry. I didn't realize that I was writing a research proposal. When I complete the study I'll publish the results in the Scientific Journal of These Are My First Impressions And I Thought That Would Be Obvious By The Nature Of My Post.

The sky is falling. News at 11.

Those are Spell Compendium spells, and thus are not going to be on any new class list because a given supplment cannot assume that a player has access to anything but the three core books. But as with anything, a DM can simply house-rule in spells from other sources. So far, I've seen a...

Speaking as a person who finds the cleric too powerful, I think the favored soul makes a better-balanced alternate. You better believe that in my next magic-based campaign that a favored soul variant with turn undead will replace the cleric. More and more as I play 3E, I find that I dislike...

Dragon shaman. Neat mechanics, but doesn't fit my homebrew.

You are my motherbleepin' rock star. What's interesting to note, however, is the difference in attitudes this time around. When this was Eric Noah's 3E rumor site and he fed us tantalizing 3E tidbits, the scene was abuzz with excitement. Now, when the same rumormonger we know and love mentions...

I insist that my players keep an electronic copy of their character sheets, preferably in Excel or Word. The players hold on to their hardcopies, but each time there's a major revision to their stats they email me their updated sheet. I keep all the PC sheets on my hard drive so that I can be...