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I had been planning on running a steampunk and sorcery Planescape campaign eventually and I wanted source material.I went out and browsed the book based on what I heard in these threads and must admit that I liked the book enough that I bought it. Let me say that I am very, very pleased. The...

It entirely depends on how you are getting the wish. If you are busily capturing efreet to milk them for wishes, they will attempt to screw you as hard as they can on those wishes and they SHOULD. I played a sha'ir in an Al-Qadim game for 5 years. I received many a wish from genies of all types...

Who is to say what "properly" is? There is a world of a difference between an efreet who is granting a wish, free and clear of all encumbrances because you have done something to help it and an efreet who has been captured and bound. Tzarevitch

Play Al-Qadim with a good DM sometime. It is ALWAYS possible to twist a wish. Read the classic short story about the monkey's paw wishes. An angry efreet is a terrible thing. Remember IT is the one bringing about the effect of the wish not the PCs. A PC casting the spell himself is one thing...

Kick a$$. :D That is much earlier than I had expected. Tzarevitch

Whoa! [ducking the exchange of fire] That old Maryland vs. Virginia rivalry seems to be resurfacing again. I live in DC, I game in VA and I travel to MD extensively but I am a born and bred New Yorker and I can tell you the issue of which state is better is irrelevant because neither holds a...

That is not what I was trying to say. You DO get to find out generally what the spell was trying to do based on what you felt or witnessed (i.e. burn you, paralyze you, teleport you, transform something etc.). You do NOT get to get a full dossier on what the spell's capability is (name, range...

I agree. The very reason I go to game stores instead of buying online is to browse and see if I really want something. Preventing browsing does not save much wear and tear but it DOES dampen impulse buying. Game Parlor is a wonderful store (best store-hours of any game store I have ever been...

I only allow that if it is a common spell or the character might somehow have heard of its capabilities. If Bob the Wizard created a new spell that is only known to him and has never been documented before, no amount of Spellcraft is going to let the character know what it is as far as I am...

Game Parlor shrink-wraps their books too. It irritates me to no end and that is why I don't recommend them as highly as Dream Wizards. They will freely open one up for you if you ask but I personally hate having to ask. On the other hand it cuts down on impulse buys (good for me, bad for them)...

Does anyone know what day Alderac's "Secrets of the Crane" is due to reach stores? Alderac's site just says that it is due in August. Tzarevitch

I love the cover art and I have had many fond experiences with Wolfgang Baur's work in the past but what is the estimated release date for the book? Tzarevitch

Game Parlor is FAR, FAR, FAR from any metro. You need a car. Try Dream Wizards instead. It is in Rockville and is metro accessible (with a little walk) from the White Flint metro stop on the Red Line. (It is just down the street from White Flint Mall.) Dream Wizards 11772 Parklawn Drive...

Ouch! I haven't had to figure out the centigrade temperature scale since high school so I didn't realize it was THAT hot. Summer here in Washington, DC has been rather cooler than normal. It is humid as hell though and it keeps raining every day. I visited my parents in Westchester, NY (NYC...

Yes. If your character was a necromancer/bard you could also cast the very same spells with your bard spell slots that you are forbidden to use with your wizard slots. Tzarevitch

Honestly, there is no good reason other than the fact that the rules seem to SAY that you can't. If using the rod functionally is "free" in terms of spell slots and "free" in terms of the wizard's need to prepare the slot beforehand I don't see why it isn't also "free" in terms of the extra...

Actually, Rope Trick is easily found by a mid-level cleric using a Divination spell to get a general location. Find the Path is even better. If any enemy spellcasters have the Transdimensional Spell feat from the Unapproachable East, then they can bombard them INSIDE the pocket dimension...

I agree. Some of Monte's points are valid, but there is enough that seems like nit-picking that I wonder about objectivity. I agree with him on some of the new prestige classes. Some like the Eldrich Knight and the Mystic Theurge are pathetically easy to get into yet provide much more...

I am not sure that the square-facing rule is there just for miniatures. If you've DMed then you have run into the question of what happens if a large, long creature like a worm needs to pivot and there is a character on the flanks like this? _ | | | | 0 | |...

Yet they already took away 1/3 of the maximum normal threat range for these very same weapons by taking away use of one of the two regular means of expanding the threat range. My argument is simply that allowing multiple increases of a weapons threat range (at +1 apiece) is better than only...