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The Pearl of Storms Well, I have been away from EN World of late, but I am looking forward to the next gameday. So, I would like to run The Pearl of Storms, a D&D 3.5/Arcana Evolved event, during the morning. (I will get up the details sometime tomorrow.)

Thanks to Buzz for organizing the Gameday and Curt as well as everyone at Games Plus for being gracious hosts. I also would like to thank Mark for his GMing skills, and my fellow players for a fun time. I had a job fair earlier in the day, and may be the most overdressed gamer ever at a...

Let us pause and be grateful for Gary Gygax, who with Dave Arneson and many others, breathed life into a hobby that has introduced me to many friends and wonderful people throughout the years. From three little books, to the World of Greyhawk products, and so many others, I feel as if I have...

Hussar, I think that you have suggested a good format for the new FRCS- a few pages on what came before and then starting up again. I thought that the FRCS was well done for 3rd edition, but some areas received very little attention. (Murghom and a few other places received a paragraph.)...

I tend to think of species that are fairly close to humans as having about as much diversity in appearance and culture as humans. There could easily be different types of halflings in different regions, with respective cultures. If you consider the diversity in human populations and cultures...

You might want to check this out FR "Drizzt" cover is a placeholder. The new picture will involve one of the Shade, a dragon and a fortress. I don't have a problem with Drizzt, and I understand the ranger two weapon style was introduced before Drizzt. (Aragorn does something like that with...

I agree that it pays to bring it in house. Having people in the company, who answer to the company is definitely a plus. Of course, one has to ask how much work a new DI team has to do at this point.

I am concerned about this as well. I wonder how much Radiant Initiative has done, and if they are going to work with the developers at WotC. Mind you, I do think having the people in the D&DI in house is a good idea. My hope is that they will have a team of technically skilled people who are...

Sometimes, angels or messengers of divine beings have been portrayed as appearing perfectly human or very non-human. So, alternate forms would work easily. Klaus, it was the mother of Dionysus who died on seeing Zeus in his true form.

While reading the boards, I thought of a few products that WotC has not printed that I have used with Third Edition. For example, I have run D&D 3/5/Arcana Evolved events at the Chicago EN World Gamedays. Here are a few of my nominations for products to update to 4E. Monte Cook's Arcana...

Thanks to Curt and everyone at Games Plus for being gracious hosts, and Buzz for organizing the game day. Mark, thanks for running the games and thanks to all of our GMS for stepping up. I think that we need to keep talking about how to improve the Gameday. I do think that starting with a...

Buzz, Sorry for making a last minute change. However, please sign me up for Slot 1, Game 2 - By Land and By Sea and for Slot 2, Game 1 - A Deeper Darkness. Thank you!

Sorry that I am so late on this, but I have been swamped. Sign me up for Breakfast, for Morning Game 5: Best Laid Lines of Demons and Men and for Afternoon Game 2: Operation: Obelisk. Also, Buzz, if there is a cancellation, e-mail me. I can run something from a previous Gameday. (This would...

Yes, but it is rather hard to swing a +5 sword with no arms. Also, the D&D rules traditionally have made it easier to destroy magical equipment than to permanently (short of a regeneration spell) maim characters. Some equipment can enhance a character, as pointed out by Mourn. However, we...

Interesting news, kheris! I think that we will not only see a few triumphs of evil, but a few bold stands against evil that will serve as inspirations to PCs whether because they were successful or at least showed courage. (On another thread, I speculated that PCs might want to visit the site...

We will have to see how much healing is allowed in the rules, and what degree it impacts the feeling of verisimilitude. For most purposes, a party with a few wands of cure light wounds comes close to infinitie healing. I do like the thought that more of the power of characters will be...

Edena, I doubt that the a player character can save himself from the Spell Plague if gods, include Mystra, and Savras, the deity of divination magic, are either unaware of what will happen or cannot save themselves. There are limits to what mortals can accomplish. The idea that Flynn brought...

This is not as frightening as it seems, as it reminds me of travelling through road construction at rush hour in Chicago. ;) The warlock, as the fluff shows, does model the spellcaster who makes a pact with strange powers. So, the fluff at least has some legendary and literary precedent...

I would suspect that some deities will collect their worshippers, depending on the afterlife of each faith. (So, worshippers of the Norse pantheon would end up either in Valhalla or Niflheim for the most part. (I seem to recall the Eddas mentioning Gimli as a hall for the righteous.) )

This could also explain the Elemental Princes of Evil -- they could have been elemental leaders who came to close to the Abyss -- or just became corrupt on their own accord.