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I'll confess, there's not much I can add to this discussion because, as strictly written, I'm not a big fan of the "Dungeon" that 3e tried to take us back into. It might make some sense from a wargame perspective to place your combatants in an enclosed space like a castle or a dank tunnel and...

Everyone assumes, and I can't say incorrectly, that a fight with a dragon automatically equals going at it sword and spell to claw and breath in the dragon's environment in a winner-take-all situation. That's a stirring visual from fantasy, be it Bilbo and the dwarves in the Hobbit or Ashram...

HA! :D That's frickin' great! Something tells me that list didn't have a Fighting Irishman on it. 'Course, if he was a fan of the other college that breeds hate of Michigan (Ohio State), he'd be pulling for reincarnation as a buckeye treant! :confused:

B1-9 In Search of Adventure sort of made a ham-fisted attempt at cobbling the B series into an adventure path, but it required changing the locale of a lot of the adventures to do it. The X series had a two parter, Master of the Desert Nomads and Temple of Evil (not sure if that's the right...

Ghostwalk - Yes, this is on topic I love Ghostwalk. I've always wanted to use Ghostwalk. Never got the chance, but man, my homebrew world incorporates it from the get go. War is a big element of that world. So is religion and the divine vs arcane aspect of magic. The priests of the world...

I'm kind of picky when it comes to my monsters. I like monsters that challenge the perceptions of my players. And I don't mean monsters that use illusions, I mean monsters that work against their expecations. Most of the people I've played with have been around the block enough times with D&D...

Personally, if the system starts to break down around Epic levels, it comes from a two part problem - inherent assuptions and hasty afterthoughts. One of the driving forces behind 3.0 from the get go was the idea of balance. Everything has to be balanced with everything else so nothing is more...

Recently I was working on a bit of fiction which, I'll admit, was partially inspired by D&D with a little bit of Arcana Evolved to spice things up. So I'm creating this world and it occurs to me, "How do you reconcile the hard-coded, D&D Vancian magic system with the more traditional...

Once I was playing an elven bard that was a bit of a ditz. We were captured by orc slavers and were making an escape with nothing but a couple of makeshift knives. We had overpowered an orc and killed it and were now manipulating it to make it look like it was "escorting" us through the...

Okay, I totally derailed this thread.

Eldrich has also quickly become trite. Everybody and their brother uses it in D20 products these days. It's kind of like the phrase "no quarter asked and none given" in Scarred Lands products. Time to crack open the thesaurus and dig up something else.

You know, I'm not sure that there are any good Eberron-based feats for a bard at 1st level. I've always been a fan of building an archer-based human bard from the ground up - it lets you contribute a bit more in combat than just playing music every time. Point Blank Shot and Precise Shot (both...

If you're looking for a pseudo-scientific reason for most undead being inhertently evil in the D&D world, it has to rest with the energy that powers them. Undead (as opposed to Deathless) draw power from negative energy, the very essence of death and decay (which is sort of ironic that it keeps...

I don't see why you can't drop D&D demons into D20 Modern. Obviously, you'd have to adjust for the players having far fewer resources to combat them. The CR would probably go up and you'd have to give them new weaknesses unless you're also using Urban Arcana and the players have some magic...

Bang for your buck would probably be Arcana Evolved or Iron Heroes. AE would require the least amount of changes to the overarching system (spellcasting is slightly different and some feats work differently). If you've got access to a number of other books, you could piece together classes...

Ding! We have a winner! Of course, if you want all-out western feel, you have to stay mostly in Cimmaron County. If you start to go back to the east you get more of a Portugal and Spanish Inquisition feel to the setting. Go further west and you get some French, some Imperial English, and...

Bottom line, I think you are on the right track with the neutral requirement as an extension of the neutrality of the natural world. I don't think the concept it meant to imply a druid should help evil from time to time to keep a "balance of good and evil in the world." The idea is the druid...

You know, one of these days I'm going to finish my conversion and post it online somewhere. But damn if real life hasn't got me bogged down. I've always said, If I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it right and go all out. So, honestly, I can make the valid excuse of, "I don't have all the old OD&D...

Is there no love for the Gyspy Bard? Oh well, I made my own about three years ago that does the job well.

From my perspective, Complete Warrior and Complete Adventurer have the most universal appeal. That's not to say that Complete Divine and Complete Arcane are poor books, rather, they're going to see a lot more utility for clerics and wizards. If you aren't playing one of those classes and don't...