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Right -- but mirrors don't work in darkness. They work by reflecting light. I brought up the "magical mirror" question because I was considering what might happen if one looked into a mirror of opposition (etc.) in total darkness while using darkvision. I'm just thinking that darkvision was...

When you say "work however you want," do you mean that there could be variations in the effects of "darkvision," or that there could be variations in the underlying mechanics? Do different DMs actually adjudicate darkvision differently? E.g. character with darkvision looks in a mirror -- DM #1...

Well, in the earlier versions of the game there were two types of infravision. Normal infravision, which granted infravision out to 60 feet, only allowed the character to see into the infrared spectrum. Characters with superior infravision (120 feet), the type possessed by drow and deep gnomes...

Interesting . . . my campaign is somewhat similar -- Gnomes are the "Petty-dwarves" (i.e. smaller dwarves) of Tolkien (see The Silmarillion etc.) and could potentially "cross-breed" with the "true" Dwarves, but Dwarven racism prevents this from happening. I also have Half-dwarves (i.e...

Really? Not being to up to date on 3e I did not realize this. I assumed it was so for elves, but 1e describes orcs as being "fecund" and creating many cross-breeds such as orc-goblins, orc-hobgoblins, etc. (Elves are mentioned as a race with which orcs cannot cross-breed.) I assumed that given...

It definitely won't be Rob Kuntz' CoB. NG and Kuntz severed their business relationship over a year ago. Kuntz' CoB was just released by Kenzer & Co. for their HackMaster game. There's more to it than that but it is probably not appropriate to comment on it here. You may want to visit Kenzer's...

What would really be cool is if WoTC's "Basic D&D" so resembled Troll Lords' C&C that the latter sued the former! Of course, I just love contention. ;)

Gary probably doesn't "understand" the 3e rules enough to say, write a 3e module (he has editors who convert his work for him), but I don't see how that's necessarily a flaw.

It's not "stupid" at all. It is a perfectly rational decision. It's not the player's fault that the 3.0 Ranger class is front-loaded with virtual feats.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Worse. Character. Name. Ever!! Zarathustra is another way of saying Zoroaster. Zoroaster was the founder of a (monotheistic?) religion that flourished in ancient Persia and still has adherents today. (Note: I don't know much about the religion so I apologize in advance if I've...

Re: BOEF's press release. The OGL is "perpetual." (The D20 STL is not, but the BOEF is not being published under the D20 STL AFAICT.) Even if Wizards came out with a new version of the OGL that was not perpetual, third-party publishers would still be able to use a prior version of the OGL...

Re: Why controversy? Which is why the ancients prohibited laypeople from reading certain books from the Bible (especially the Song of Songs) until they reached a certain age (the customary age was 25).

Gary has covered this in his Q&A. The reason that D&D was not featured by name in E.T. is because there was money on the table at the same time that the kids were playing a session. Gary thought that this would give the impression that D&D was some kind of gambling game, and when he asked...

Problem is that Kenzer's A&EG is named something like The Complete Arms and Equipment Guide. Can't claim to be "complete" if you're not going to include the WOTC stuff, too, right? ;)

This is also what I had heard. However, I do remember David Kenzer saying on the Kenzer boards that their D&D license "effectively" started when they first produced Kingdoms of Kalamar (I'm thinking of the older boxed set, not the newer hardcovers and suppliments). Perhaps he simply meant that...

[This review was originally published on RPG.net. I have tried to correct errors in the review, as well as make a few updates now that some errata have appeared for the book. The Spellslinger's Guide to Wurld Domination is slated for reprint by Kenzer & Co. and is due to be released in May of...

It used to be traditional in Quebec for children to be given at least three names (plus the surname). The first name would be Joseph (or Marie if the child was a girl), the second name would be that of some relative (like a grandparent), and the third name would be what the child was actually...

I hope you have a back-up name in case you have a girl. ;) Maybe your fiancee would be less offended by Xavier if you came up with an "A" name that wasn't Alexander. Alexander Xavier is an awful lot of Xs and Rs. Perhaps Aidan ("fire"), Andrew ("manly"), Augustine ("exalted")? (Amazingly, I can...

Yes, that's true. There's an episode in The Silmarillion in which Thingol is called a "Dark Elf" by one of Feanor's sons, a deadly insult because Thingol had been to Valinor as an emissary and seen the light of the Two Trees. Celeborn's history is confused. At one point he is termed a kinsman...

Oh, I don't read the KJV. ;) I read the Revised Standard or the Douay-Rheims.