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I consider it a good idea for certain playstyles, however I usually start characters at level 6, so I suppose it isn't my cup o tea.

I'm perfectly fine with vaguely mammalian races, or really anything based on broad concepts: reptiles, crustaceans, etc. As long as the racial development is good, interesting, and the race is sensible for the environment, I think they can add a lot to a campaign. I run a game with 63 races...

Let's not forget the lock lurker and the gambado. There was also some monster from Al-Qadim that was basically a half a person with a wing. They all carried daggers and were assassins. For the life of me I can't remember the name, though.

It sounds like a form of dungeon with the rather pretty name "Oubliette" (roughly, little place of forgetting). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oubliette I don't know if the place you are talking about exists, specifically, but it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination.

limbeck is an abbreviation of alembic, which is an old alchemical apparatus used for distilling stuff.

It varies considerably. The world has a particular feel to it - I guess it feels very old, more than anything else. The setting I run has gone through four separate cataclysms, and is dominated by the remnants of old empires and civilizations once again meeting one another after a long period...

Ah, sorry- I didn't really mean that. The thrill of rare magic is going to be the same regardless of how much magic is in a setting because rare is a relative measure. It was an example, intended to illustrate that in a setting with small amounts of magic, you're more limited in considering...

the assumption of the fantastical is probably about the same, I'd say, if more flashy. And I love fantastical elements in my game. The more the merrier, I say. So, I'm going to: 1)tell you why, and 2)connect the lack of magic to another problem people seem to complain about every so often. I...

As a DM, I've always strongly disliked incorporating NPCs that someone else has written into my adventures; it always seems inauthentic. Using NPCs makes me feel like I'm writing fanfiction, which I'm allergic to. It makes me break out in suck. But in dealing with FR NPCs, one thing...

Edmund Taratar - not so european Edmund Orson - pretty european Edmund Green - downright English Edmund Piaccio - yeah you see where this is going and it doesn't make a lot of sense Edmund De Verrasi - little more bizarre Edmund Emmot - alliteration Sir Edmund Winterbottom VI - ridiculous...

!Faeyr'eor'szti'iyr There, perfect! (pronounced "clickBarney")

As long as you can establish a few common phonetic conventions in any given language, you should be able to build a few names that sound appropriate. Take it a little farther, and you can build an accent, and farther than this (grammar) and you can start pinpointing the types of problems a...

Yeah, you can definitely tell who comes from where by looking at their outfits IMC. I also retooled all the magic items (like armor, weapons, etc) to have regional effects. There are no swords +2 around. More like a machete designed for hacking through regenerating vines (cancels regeneration...

On second thought, if you want to go by current mainstream Western values (outliers like torture apologists excepted), I guess I can do an assessment. - He would never harm a child or defenseless person. Good! - He wants to save the world from a tyrannical and thoroughly evil organization...

This is why I use an alternate alignment system. Antagonist/Moralist.

An irritating lantern archon follower who's sent out with the party, eager to see the multiverse. It should talk in a voice like that fawn from the hercules cartoon and be more or less useless, but it somehow survives everything intact... ...And then makes inane comments about whatever event...

I don't know, the idea of recording sessions is really weird and implies a serious lack of trust which will probably damage the game. "I'm recording our sessions just in case you try and call me a child molester" "Oh that's cool." NOT GONNA HAPPEN

I.. I don't know. I just started saying it one day, and I can't stop. help

I don't think those were errors; I really liked what happened to petitioners and thought that generally, Planescape was totally rad. IMO the apex of official settings. So many opportunities for strange bedfellows.

I don't think you did anything wrong, I just think your players have developed an expectation that anytime they see something that looks like it could be nasty, they have to kill it. You can just inform them that this isn't always the case, or you can be more subtle about it by throwing some...