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I can't say I've purchased in downright horrible games, but I've certainly bought a few that I could never quite figure out how to play. I'm not talking rules necessarily, just conceptual problems that might show my own limitations more than the games' themselves. Changeling: The Dreaming...

Although I've been gaming since '91 I didn't start buying Dragon magazines until after the D&D 3.0 edition hit the stands. So if my favorite issue seems relatively recent it's because I live in an area with no local gaming stores (even the nearest bookstore is a two-hour round trip). I never had...

Just canceled my pre-order of Complete Champion to instead purchase a Community Supporter Account. Enjoy your cannoli!

I'm a DM and I "cheat" in favor of/against the players quite a bit. I've always felt that the rules were simply there to support the game, not the other way around. I figure if my players want something where mathematical equations and an almost obsessive knowledge of how to build the most...

AEG's Swashbuckling Adventures offers some great classes, prestige classes and feats for pirates and swashbucklers. Granted, the classes (and feats, for that matter) are for the most part overpowered and require adjustments for 3.5e, but it helped form the basis of my recent swashbuckler...

The Phoenix, a flying ship with a living figurehead (image of a phoenix, named Simorgh) using the rules from Dragon #294. The figurehead was linked telepathically with the captain through an altered version of the Phoenix Helm from the Complete Arcane (recently updated in the Magic Item Compendium).

Outside of the core three: 1) Unearthed Arcana 2) Spell Compendium 3) Player's Handbook II 4) Magic Item Compendium 5) Complete Adventurer

I was raised by baptists and catholics. Looking back I'm surprised I made it through the front door with the box. In other words: No. I'm fairly certain I was the first in my family to play the game with any regularity.

Let's not forget Paganini if we're going to discuss musicians making pacts with the devil.

Seconded. MM2 has some great creatures and concepts in it, but it's one of the books that suffers the most from the 3.5 update. I'd snatch up a revision in a heartbeat.

I agree. I own MM1, MM2, and the Fiend Folio. Although the MM1 is still the book I turn to about 75% of the time, there are some great things in the other two volumes. I browsed the books that followed, but each one seemed to have fewer and fewer useful creatures and more and more variations on...

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: After the works of Dostoevsky, this is probably my favorite Russian novel. It is a perfect combination of philosophy, satire, and humor. Heavily influenced by Goethe's Faust. "Gimmicks Three" by Isaac Asimov: A short-story which should be read by...

More fun than a cow on laxatives. Indeed.

I have never claimed (nor appreciated) sanity. ;)

Perhaps it's the second Tuesday of a full week? May began on Tuesday this time around. Who knows. It's almost as complicated as Easter.

Anyone know the precise release date for the Complete Champion? It's the only item in the preview I intend on purchasing.

The next Complete volume. I'm a completist. So, obviously I must have them all. (The real reason I will never buy minis.)

While I share your overall concern, smootrk, I use "tabletop" gaming and "pen-and-paper" interchangeably and the closest I've ever come to using a mini is arranging dice to show the positions of characters and what not. As I've said in previous posts, the day that I'm required to buy a single...

QFT I feel there are enough options without having to throw in an entirely different set of books/rules to complicate matters. The only "psionics" I use are those that built into the creatures (such as mind flayers) or characters (say the Amazon Warrior class from Player's Guide to the...

Looks terrific, smootrk! I'll have to give it a more thorough going over later, but I really like what you've done with it. I'm proud to have had a small part in it! Just one small thing that I almost feel ashamed to bring up...my username is ivocaliban, not invocaliban (as referred to at the...