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The factions and their philosophies are the things I love about Planescape. The art was also delicious and entirely different from anything else related to D&D at the time. Unfortunately, I don't care for Sigil or the planes/planar travel in general, so that presents a problem. *heh*

Yeah, as much as I dislike the setting, Eberron is ideal for a cartoon. Heck, it's already a comic. Just make the pictures move! Like it or not, Eberron has all the bizarre, cinematic, "uber-cool" things to make a cartoon work: Warforged, necro-elves, dino-riding halflings, shapeshifters...

I would welcome such a character with open arms. I much prefer this sort of character to some lumbering brainless hulk who just wants to smash down doors, chop up what's behind the door and take it's stuff. I prefer interesting characters over optimized characters any day of the week.

This was a very difficult question for me to answer. Looking back over the last fifteen or so odd years I realize that pretty much all of my games were essentially High Fantasy. High Fantasy seems to provide for epic storytelling and for roleplaying (in its more literal form), while I think of...

Yes. I don't quite believe that relevance is entirely dependent on a company's next six months' release catalog. While it's true that I feel I pretty much have all I want (and way more than I need) from WotC, that doesn't make them immaterial. Like it or not, WotC launched the d20 ship and...

Breastplate! :lol:

This is more like it. Unless you are playing in a starkly real game with players that are comfortable with and want to engage in the darker side of human nature, I think having a character violated in his or her sleep is uncalled for. Rape is not about sex, generally speaking, it is about power...

My list has recently gotten longer as I'm looking for a new setting/style after an extended Greyhawk campaign. I'm also dabbling with a Wilderlands campaign, but I'm ready for something just a little different. Some of these have been around for quite a while, but I'm playing catch up: H.P...

In my college days there were a few females in my gaming group, but most of them were girlfriend gamers--gamers by association, if you will. My girlfriend at the time played, too, but she was clearly not very interested in the whole thing. In fact, I've only met one female gamer in person who...

I particularly dislike this thread as I spent the entire month of July in the Kingdoms of Calamine. That's the last time I help someone clear brush without a hazmat suit... Oh, and does thinking of caramel custard anytime I think of/see the Flanaess count?

While I'm unfamiliar with Schmidt's work, I have read Pickover's The Science of Aliens and can second the recommendation. It's a fascinating book. Just...um...beware of Chapter 6. :o

Splended isolation! Oh, well. At least I'm not in Madagascar.

Bears repeating a few dozen times. The farther you get from something you can understand and identify with the farther you get from something you can convincingly play. Hence the problem with the Inchoroi.

If you ever decide to follow your friend on the path to enlightenment, I'd be glad to take those earthly distractions off your hands. ;)

My advice is to throw in some NPC allies. Make them friends, family or associates of hers (the PC), not just henchmen. Play up their relationship, maybe even make one of the NPCs the de facto leader. Shortly after the adventure begins, however, you can take out the leader in some dramatic way...

Back when West End Games went belly-up they had a huge sale: all of their hardcovers for $5.00, all of their paperbacks for $3.00. I bought pretty much the entire Star Wars WEG catalogue as well as Indiana Jones, Necroscope and a few others. I spent less than $100 on around 40 books. A few...

My first response to this question was allowing the Wanderer*/Swashbuckler/Dread Pirate in my campaign to take the Extra Finesse feat from Swashbucking Adventures (AEG). Essentially this feat allows a character to use their Dexterity modifier for damage with any light weapon (also the rapier and...

I compare it to cooking. I don't necessarily need a recipe, but I do like to have all my ingredients and supplies in front of me before I begin. I've spent hours planning out and writing detailed adventures in the past and more often than not they don't happen anything like they're written...

I ran a six-year campaign in Greyhawk taking the characters from levels 1-14 (actually, those who survived were level 15 by the end). It began in the Sheldomar Valley (mostly the Uleks) but eventually became centered in Furyondy. While Iuz and Turrosh Mak of the Pomarj were the immediate and...