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Whoah, I missed this part on my first read through. Re. Slavery: in a significant amount of the "d&d source literature," as well the majority of the historical periods and places that inspired D&D, slavery is common and accepted. One could make a compelling case that in a Roman Empire or...

I love the Fiend Folio! I especially like how that a significant percentage of the monsters within plants eggs in the adventurers they're fighting, with the differing gruesome consequences detailed.

My suggestion for an "evil" campaign would be to open the players' minds to evil different from "Dark Lord" and "Serial Killer" archetypes to a different kind of evil. The kind of evil in Spaghetti Westerns, James Ellroy novel, Cohen brothers movies, Black Adder, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," Jack...

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I find the quoted text hilarious. Not that I'm flaming you, or think that it's ludicrous (DMs should be aware of things like "player boundaries", "individual sensitivities", etc.), but I'm just imagining a young, new gamer reading a Dungeonmasters Guide...

"Actually, to be honest, I'm kind off embarrassed of my elven heritage. All that wind chime, leafy garments and eating honey-seed cake stuff is lame. And don't even get me started on those pretentious, poncy eldarin. That's why I wear a hat over my ears. yeah, sure my father may have been an...

Thanks for your encouragement Paka, I'll keep FIght On! in mind! BTW, the Mu link in your sig. is broke

Thanks Paka, BTW, were you involved with the Dictionaryy of Mu? I haven't got a copy, but what I read about it sounds amazing and right up my alley. Is it out of print/limited edition? I really like Fight On!, and would be jazzed to contribute, but I almost don't feel worthy...Melan/Gabor Lux...

Thank you, it's made for sharing!

Updated with The Sage, a sword & sorcery "cleric substitute" and the, um......"Cactoid," a class for playing one of the cactus people of the deserts of Algol as well as being a ranger substitute.

"I had no idea your character was black. He should act more black!"

Awesome!! My human character a standard D&D games sarcastically stereotypes the elf character "Of course can he sneak upon them! He'll be frolicking silently on blade sof grass while songbirds continue their song perched on his pointy elf hat and baby animals come up for him to pet them."

Ahh, I meant it more in a "having fun is a priority over method acting" manner. I'm not in a position to judge how good a job someone is doing portraying an imaginary being kinda philosophy. Regardless of a player's racial choice, some players will assume funny voices, come up with elaborate...

Regardless of the boundless opportunities for a half-elf to seem and act human (I think of as some milkmaid met the elf king in the dell or else the elf king replaced the human baby with a created being that looks mostly human but has an elf's blood, too much Poul Anderson)... ...I don't find...

PLANET ALGOL Inspired by the Wilderlands, Formalhaut, Carcosa, Lin Carter, Clark Ashton Smith, the Dying Earth, etc.

Evil characters may rescue the princess and then sell her to enemies of the kingdom for more gold.... Evil characters recover the McGuffin and shake down team good down for their pocket change, magic weapons and daughters. IME, evil characters are pretty damn proactive. Evil characters don't...

Had a rules dispute on sunday. A player was trying to place a close blast and the DM insisted that it could only be placed the same ways as in the example in the PHB graphic. Like below, with the Xs representing the blast and the 0 the caster. XXX_ XXX_ XXX_ ___0 or XXX XXX XXX _0_ All of...

Sometimes riding the DM's train is a lot of work, and the result in my case is characters that want "simple" yet adventurous lives. My 3.5 rogue: "We have to save the kingdom from the undead demon orc warlord? Undead plagues, buried demon gods, indestrutable evil artifacts? Yeesh, I'm having...

It would be good for a Beer and Pretzel dungeon bash or skirmish game. Like those big dungeon crawls at cons.

Ditto. My gaming group has enough terrain to fill a 10'x10' room and we still use the lowly tiles. - To avoid 'no room for fingers/minature' issues in certain situations such as narrow passages. - To quickly lay out what's behind secret doors. - To represent large areas with a fairly even...

Those suits at WOTC can say whatever they want...Blues will always be a desert dragon to me. It is interesting that the appearance of the blue dragon seems to be heavily influenced by lizards that live in desert conditions, especially the heavy spined tail (which they cannont use as a weapon...