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Kundarak has an explanation as I recall. Tzarevitch

I have run it in both 2e and 3.5e. My 2e game ran for years. For 3.5e I did a Planescape/steampunk game with Sigil as London and dwarven steam trains and gnomish zeppelins traversing the planes. I modeled the Bloodwar on WWI with Hellish and Abyssal forces clashing with fiend-possessed...

My Eberron game is up to 17th level now and I can say if you design a character to use AP and take the feats to enhance them they can be pretty powerful. If you don't, they are just a minor boost now and then. What I am wondering is how many DMs assign APs to the NPCs too? I give NPC groups a...

I second that statement. PHBII is a godsend for fighters. Now, at mid to high level they can put out whopping damage AND complete 2-3 feat trees to gain special maneuvers. Really, a fighter is as powerful or weak as you build them to be. It is just that now, thanks to PHBII, it is actually...

Druid spells have always been like that. It is the same throughout their list. They come in a couple of flavors and that's it: 1) Moderate Healing, 2) Plant/Animal effects 3) Terrain/Weather Control 4) Elemental damage. There are some occasional other types like the odd divination or protection...

This has been my experience too. In epic levels, if you are running up against a creature's good save, save or nothing = nothing. Rays and targeted spells that inflict damage with no save or SR become paramount because it is hard to beat the SR on some epic creatures and if you give them a save...

Yes. That is correct. I was assuming the ability to fit the maximum dex possible under the armor cap and I was avoiding the mention of the animated shield because of a general distaste for it. Also, if the fighter uses the super-heavy armors in Races of Stone, the gap widens again. But in any...

Exactly the point I was going to make. They tend to be quite good at lower levels when ACs all around tend to be low and HP are low as well. In later levels barbarians tend to take horrific damage because of their low AC. Once the fighter gets enough money for better gear, the AC difference can...

They are VERY close. A few of the invocations are the same between the 2 clases although the warlock simply has more total invocations because of the blast modifying invocations. If I remember correctly (I don't have my book with me here at work) the dragonfire adept gains d8 hp/lvl. Also, if I...

Are you serious? The only difference between CR and the old straight xp system is how many levels of guesstimation and math are required and how big the numbers are. Remember BOTH systems boil down to a straight guess on what value to apply to various abilities or flaws that a creature...

Pretty much what I was going to say. Tzarevitch

In my Eberron campaign, I use rakshasas regularly. Personally, I "correct" their CR to 8. Note that in the Eberron book, the zakya rakshasa which exchanges sorcerer equivelent levels for fighter equivalent levels and a better layout of attributes is a CR 8. With SR about 24, Str of 18 or so, a...

Popular Collections has done very well by me. I've stocked 2 full shelves of minis for my DMing needs by buying from them. http://www.popularcollections.com Tzarevitch

It seems almost necessary for the crusader. Honestly, the crusader is the only one of the new classes that I would seriously never play. I think the randomization and the reasoning behind it is idiotic, and that is not a word I use lightly. It makes no sense to me to give someone a set of...

Nothing that I saw prohibits it, as long as you don't try to claim someting as prerequisite for itself. Tzarevitch

That would make sense particularly since certain maneuvers duplicate the effects of a feat. Tzarevitch

Ok. Here's the take I get on the martial adept classes vs. the traditional fighting classes and why I disagree with the idea that the Martial Adept classes are more powerful. This is not to say that they are weaker, just not more powerful. Here is how feat users (like a fighter) compare against...

It does sound strange, but as I recall that is how most of that group of them work. Tzarevitch

I don't think you can use them out of combat. Most involve you making an attack. I don't have my book in front of me here so I can't be sure though. Tzarevitch

That is my logic too. It just makes more sense. Why would creatures that live in dreams use minions that don't dream? Your are building the seeds of your own destruction because you can't mind control them. It just doen't ring true to me. Unsleeping warriors built to fight creatures that attack...