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If you want a simple, real-world name that has a bit of a fantasy sound to it, I doubt you could go wrong with Celeste. It sort of rolls off the tongue. But I'm hardly the person to speak with on this topic. I'm firmly in the, "GIVE THE KIDS A FRIGGIN NORMAL NAME ALREADY!!!" camp.

"Nobody rules these streets at night but ME!" :D

Good is good. The main difference between LG and NG is someone who is LG will try to foster goodness through law and order (or the replacing of corrupt law and order), while a NG will try to foster goodness without regard to the structure of the realm around them. That doesn't give a NG person...

If you're not a spellcaster you can reasonably get away with two low, two average, and two high ability scores. (Note: By "low" I mean the 8-10 range, "average" is the 11-13 range, and "high" is above 13.) A fighter can put his good scores in strength and constitution and take a penalty in...

What continually amazes me is how people keep asking this question under the assumption that taking the adamantine body of a warforged is like looting armor off of a fallen foe. Um, no. It's like flaying the warforged and trying to sell its skin for profit! Within the scope of the D&D game...

And, of course, this concept doesn't include feats at all, which given the number you can choose without any prerequisites, makes for a number of options for each race/class combination (and even more for humans). If it wasn't for the fact that most options found outside the core rulebooks are...

There are really three alignments I like to play (and am good at): LN, NG, and N with evil tendencies (aka Neutral-Selfish). I like playing people who embody pure law above everything else, good without respect to societal concerns, and slightly selfish and willing to do whatever it takes to...

A guy I used to work with told me the story about Ms. King. See, his wife worked for social services and one of the more memorable people she met was a lady by the name of Ms. King and her son Nosmo. Of course, like anyone would, she asked Ms. King about the name of her son, because Nosmo is a...

I'm not sure how much I can add to this discussion without crossing over boundary lines, but I'll make an attempt anyway. I think the paladin described herein suffers from two things that keep him from being a true paladin - misogyny and fatalistic doubt. And by that I mean 1) he had no...

Semi-Radical idea.... What if, instead of spells, bards had Incantations like a warlock, getting fewer but being able to use them as many times as they wanted throughout the day. Of course, you'd have to modify their spell list a bit, because I'm thinking a cure X wounds incantation would get...

I won't say that I'm any worse than I was years ago, but I find myself turning into more of a min/maxer than I used to be. In high school I used to play things because I thought they were cool, regardless of whether it was a suboptimal character build. These days I obsess over skills, feats...

I've read through this entire thread and I've been reading through the colored Fairy books to get more inspiration, but there's one thing I've been puzzling over... What happens if the PCs leave the path? I'm about to go read your story hour to see if I can glean some more info from that...

Yeah, the Writer's Market is an invaluable read. I'm still in the "aspiring" phase of writing, but it's really helped me think about the mechanics behind what I'm doing. In the past year I've really improved the "art" side of my writing as a result. Look forward to many rejection letters in...

I think I'm just a whore for D&D (or d20) products. I find myself getting caught up in buying things. In the 2e days I only really played in Mystara, yet somehow I ended up with stuff for Ravenloft and the Council of Wyrm book before I pulled back and said, "I don't use that." Same thing...

First, the planetary name of the Mystara (or Known World, if you prefer) setting IS Mystara. It is a sphere, slightly smaller than our own Earth, with openings at either magnetic pole to permit travel into the hollow inside. The planet is surrounded by a "Sky Shield" that keeps the atmosphere...

The only way I can envision a warlock/soulknife coming off as anything but a sub-optimal choice is through the gestalt rules in UA. Of course, I've never felt the draw to play a soulknife so I may be wrong. The biggest problem with the mix is you weaken the main draw to both classes. The...

Back in the 2e days the only race I wouldn't really consider were half-elves. My hat of AD&D hafl-efl no know limit! The design philosophy behind that must have been, "Elves are great, but level limits suck. Let's make a race that has all of the benefits of being an elf without any of its...

In Soul Calibur II, Ivy called her weapon "Valentine," but that's not a name. Since I don't think there's a historical equivalent of this, invent something. Sword-whip. Sword-flail. Or mix the two. Whord. Swip. Flord. Swail. Or not.

Yeah, but today's sporting events don't usually end when your team gets mauled to death by a lion. *rimshot* ;) I don't want to argue about whether we have too many classes or not. People will always want more (or less). But let's get one thing straight. There are exactly 11 core classes in...

Excellent job! It really does make me feel like I'm in the 6th grade again... Of course, if you want to be totally accurate, you need to make it landscape and not portrait...