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Go to Wizards.com. Click on "Corporate Info" on the sidebar. Click on "Contact Info" on the sidebar. It'll redirect you to a pseudo-message board page. Click on the "Email Us" tab. At this point, I think you have to make a login for their support page, but after that I think you can...

Automaton is the word that popped into my head. Of course, there is also the Grandia 2 mistranslation of that word. They turned Automaton into Automata. But I kind of like the idea of having two names for them, the original and the vernacular. Best two I've seen for that are Tireless or Forged.

A paladin is a better character if you have a high Strength, Wisdom, and Charisma, but it's not necessary. The argument that you need high scores in all three stems from trying to do too much with the character. The bottom line is the spellcasting potential of a paladin is pretty poor...

I'm a big fan of repackaging racial mechanics that get me "almost" to where I'm going. For example, I was working on a psuedo sci-fi setting based on Phantasy Star. They have a race (numans) that are a cross between human and bio-monster genes. Shifters got me close, so I stole their crunch...

One thing I've noticed is that, normally, sci-fi (and I mean honest to god, real sc-fi, not space opera or sci-fantasy) has a socio-policitcal message behind it that uses advanced technology or futuristic society as an extended metaphor for an issue facing us today. Take a look at a film like...

Hi, I'm Estlor, and I'm a recovering FR basher. Here's my problem with the setting: 1. It's an old setting and it's been overdone. If you look back into the vast history of D&D products, you can find about two products for every square foot of geography in FR. Maybe that's a touch of...

You know, part of me wants to limit the complexity of the game by going through the feats and spells carefully, evaluating what I want and what fits the "feel" of the game I want to foster, and restrict PCs to just those on a specific list. That's partially against the "options, not...

I had a Mystara campaign that dallied in the Savage Coast for a while. We picked up a PC fighter/ranger that was a cowboy right down to the pair of guns holstered at his waist. Another player in my campaign detested guns in D&D and always asked me how long they would continue to function (as...

I've never really considered using DragonMech, but any of the times I've toyed with the idea, I've found it would be pretty easy to come up with a MotU themed D&D setting as long as you don't mind it having a touch more of the wave 1 minicomics "Conan" feel and a touch less of the 80's/2002...

I usually like to go for the continent route. Keep the focus of the plot on something about the same size as a single kingdom that can be crossed in a couple of days on horse (maybe a week on foot), but make it part of something much bigger. Now, when I'm making a world for fiction (which is...

There's also a 3rd party stab at the Thoul in the Blackmoor Campaign Setting book from Goodman/Zeitgeist. Dunno if this has been done/falls into the "Castle Amber" category, but the Living Statue was always an iconic monster for me back in the Basic Set days. I'm kind of shocked it hasn't...

I don't think it's terribly odd that players looked to the flaws section first. It's probably not because they wanted to create their negatives before they thought about their positives; rather, they probably had an idea what they wanted to make and wanted to find out how they could maximize...

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Coming this fall from Malhavoc Press.... The Book of Eldritch Iron!

1. I like the human bard. Really, bard + anything is good, but I prefer human because it allows me to take both Point Blank Shot and Precise Shot at first level letting me fire into melee from a distance. It's really the only way a low-level bard can be useful in combat. Sure, at higher...

I don't have a gaming session to test this in, but some thoughts just off the top of my head: I'm a bit concerned about the present of unbalanced ability adjustments in the first part of the page. In D&D, the standard rule is physical ability scores (Str, Dex, Con) are worth twice that of...

I've been in a dry spell for about, oh, two years now. Real life killed the gaming group I had been playing with since '95. I don't really know anyone else around here that plays D20 and still haven't gotten out from under that real life thing. In the meantime, I've been trying (somewhat...

From a purely folklore sense, fey are natural beings from the Other World that dwell in the borders (i.e. where something is neither one thing nor another). Fey are fascinated with humans and human behavior, but because they are alien and strange, their manifestation of human behavior is often...

I really like the cultural details of Goliaths and the niche they would fill in a party. I'm usually not too keen on LA +1 races because of the sacrifices you make early on, but in a non-psionic situation you can't beat the benefits of powerful build. Moving beyond that, I like the shifters...

This is beside the point. In fact, it's kind of a straw man. Whether you agree with it or not, D&D grants certain connotations to certain creatures. An intelligent, standard PC race is viewed in an entirely different light than a monster. The assumption in D&D is that a party will be...