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A good 95% of what people criticize 3.5 for on these boards and elsewhere are problems I never see in my games, or see only in very small corner cases. This being the internet, they are of course blown way out of proportion. The main flaws I see aren't areas where a system is bad or wrong (like...

Why abandon a term which has such an aptly analogous function?

Amen. Paladine and the "good" DL gods blew up the world to fix a problem they created through their own inaction and incompetence, when they had any number of less cataclysmic options available to them. I can believe a chaotic neutral or chaotic evil deity would act with that kind of cosmic...

Not only do I need skills to play D&D, I need the d20 system in general. I want feats, prestige classes, the ability to craft magic items without having to crawl on my belly over a field of broken glass, high rolls are always good, a tightly-integrated core mechanic, and so forth. I want it as a...

Another person scarred for life. My work here is done. :)

I have the brain of a thirteen year old boy. :p

Maybe it's because I didn't grow up with Transformers (It was on at like 6 AM on Sunday mornings in my town.) but my brain went to a totally wrong place there. :)

But Agamon just did.

Shomei died in the confrontation in Afiqhtan, which I think took place in late 2002. That's about where Sep hit writers' block, though I don't think the story hour caught up for a year or so. I'm pretty sure we haven't heard anything about her fate beyond this except that she was indeed in Hell.

These are all quite old. Back before 3e had a decimal. "Despite the fact that my weapons and armour are in desperate need of repair, I blow the entire reward on Ale and Whores!"--DWARF "Rule 5: Let the players feel ill-luck or stupidity does them in, not pure malicious gamemastering."--DMaple...

If he is, I'll be sad. But it was worth it for the game we had while it lasted.

The ur- prefix, when used in English, generally denotes the original version. Its use for the PrC from the Book of Vile Darkness is an interesting touch in Monte's part.

I'm planning to give out action points. One hopes that would help a little with the dying. I don't mind killing a few PCs here and there, but too many leads to plot rot. Few of my players ever seem willing to take a raise dead or resurrection (even without level loss!) unless they just can't...

How's Age of Worm's been for you? I'm pretty strongly considering running it myself. I generally hear good things, except for Blackwall Keep being a bit too easy and Spire of Long Shadows being a bit too intense.

Only on the bookshelves. I like the idea of it, but I've never found or been able to convince a group to play a WW game. I think I got lucky to score an Alternity game a few weeks ago.

My shame is too great.

I'm the freak. My players are obsessed with the Crater Ridge Mines. At one point, I more or less told them that they could move on to the Outer Fane. No good. They wanted to clear all three elemental temples when two would have sufficed. One of them accidentally released the bebelith with a...

I don't know; I think I could have gotten a reference to a polearm in there. :)

Or for that matter, the standard editorial in every print issue of Dragon or Dungeon? Lots of those amount to an anecdote or two about a recent or past game, reading a game book, or whatever, with a nod towards the content of the magazine that month. That's hardly different from what Shelly wrote.