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Something I'd like to see, especially in a post-Chaos-War setting, is rules for Draconian characters. Don Perrin's Draconian stories and novels are some of my favorites.

This is too easy. I did it with a single human bard. Not going into too many details, but essentially here's it in a nutshell. Using Greater Magic Weapon on his bow and his adamant, brilliant energy arrows to make touch attacks versus its measly 5 touch AC, and fill it full of holes pretty much...

I'm with you on this one. We rebuilt an old high-level party and are going through Bastion of Broken Souls. We house ruled the ki straps to a +2 DC modifier instead of a +5. I'm playing an 18/1 Monk/Henshin Mystic and a good number of the things we've run into have saves so high that the...

Upcoming supplements include: The Swashbuckler's Handbook (from AEG... it's basically 7th Sea for d20 like Rokugan was L5R for d20). All for One (from Avalanche Press... basically adventure in Alexandre Dumas' france).

I think I've been scarred for the rest of my life. Geez...

What am I looking forward to? Hmm... more Dragonstar. What am I playing now? GURPS (Kingdoms of Kalamar conversion) Werewolf: the Apocalypse And that's about it. I'm on d20 hiatus for awhile. <g>

Yea, we played Street Fighter. For like a year and a half, actually. We hated the system, but we had a real blast with the game because of the players and the GM. God, the awful lines that came out of that game... <g>

APL's Prices Just FYI, Avalanche is planning to charge $16.95 for its 64 page, perfect bound softcovers. Mongoose charges $14.95 for books of the same size and so does Green Ronin. So $2.00 doesn't really seem like a big deal. As far as prices are concerned, Privateer Press seems to beat them...

Right. So if you take the awakened animal as a cohort, do its hit dice count against your total for Animal Companions? Or can a druid with Leadership effectively do an end run around the hit dice cap by Awakening one animal and having an intelligent cohort and then taking up to his limit in...

I know at least two APL authors who didn't particularly like the covers, but really had no control over them. Then again, while their books don't sell as many copies as say, Mongoose, their latest couple have gotten good reviews regarding the content. Additionally, APL's print runs tend to be...

Here's my question. Can a druid combine the Awaken spell and the Leadership feat to theoretically break the hit die cap on animal companions by making one of them intelligent and taking it as a cohort? Example: an 8th level druid has a 6 HD dire wolf as an animal companion. Upon reaching 9th...

I voted for the Deepwood Sniper because it's, IMO, one of the better put together of the classes, and I like archers. I think some of the other classes are a bit overpowering, like the Shifter, with it's ability to gain the exceptional abilities of the creature it turns into, and some of them...

Their d20 rules stuff has been getting better in their past couple of books. Read Psion's reviews of Jade & Steel and Twilight of Atlantis.

Yes. It's called a Gamemaster. <g> Just like in D&D, where you are perfectly within your rights to deny a sword of use-activated Energy-drain or a mighty-composite longbow of use-activated True Strike, you are perfectly within your rights to axe any character concept that you just don't like...

One *hundred* classes. Geez. Well, if it's going to be d20 7th sea, then sign me up for it, insane number of character classes or not. <g>

Well... Dragonstar has the Mechanist prestige class. He's pretty much an uber-gadgeteer who is a gizmo-whiz. That's about the only one I can think of.

The only way to avoid something like that is gamemaster supervision, which is something you require any time you run a game. Even in a stock fantasy D&D game, I still want to watch the players make characters (actually, I prefer to have all the players roll at the same time). That way I can...

Problem, Psion. Unless your class or career path is so flexible that it ceases to be a class except in the broadest sense of the word (armsman, arcane spellcaster, divine spellcaster, and so on), it can't by definition, cater to all character types. Case in point: A young recruit in a...

All these systems are pretty interesting, but they seem to drastically overcomplicate the system. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing a classless, levelless system that keeps the best part of the d20 system (the relatively fast and easy to understand game mechanics) but isn't level-based D&D.

First of all, I disagree that GURPS has no variable difficulties in its rolls. Difficulty is determined by applying a bonus or penalty to a skill or ability check. Also, because GURPS is a point based system, it theoretically permits players to do exactly what you suggested. Then again, the one...