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Thanks for clearing that up. Banshee

The movie lacked the gravitas of a Ridley Scott production, but I think they did a pretty good job with it. And I liked how the Templar were depicted less as villains or guardians of the grail, but more as I've read about them in history books. Unfortunately, I guess I've kind of spoiled the...

I don't think WotC cares what the fans think of the way the business is run, as long as they continue to purchase product. At the end of the day, they're trying to run a business, and, as long as bad press doesn't interfere with their ability to sell product (in their eyes), it probably won't...

I think one of my concerns with the dicefreaks project is the overall power levels. The Daonie Sidhe are CR18 which is rather powerful. I've kind of seen the Bastion Press take on Faeries as allowing me to reconcile the presence of elastin as faerie lords in 4e.....so now I just replace...

Thanks for that last link...I hadn't seen the stats for the Queen of Air and Darkness in the dicefreaks project. Having her as an elder evil is a good idea. That's in general what I was thinking......though I went with a high-fey unseelie Feorin wizard 25/loremaster 5. I've also been toying...

Actually, I'm using Bastion Press' Faeries as a baseline right now. I'm also mining Tad Williams' "shadowline" series of novels for some of my inspirations. The Queen of Air and Darkness, Titania, and Oberon aren't deities per se......they are very old, very powerful Feorin...

How are a familiar's skill points calculated? Do you start with the points due the base animal, then raise his INT score to the level appropriate for the level of the wizard he's bound to, then recalculate total numbers? I've also seen references to using the higher score in a particular skill...

Have there ever been stats given for the Black Diamond, the artifact that supposedly corrupted the Queen of Air and Darkness, leader of the Unseelie Fey? I've been looking, but can't find any references. At the very least, have there been descriptions of what it does, in a general sense? I'm...

I just saw this movie tonight, after reading the first of the books by Jan Gouillou, and was pretty impressed. Seemed like a fairly strong foreign film, and I happen to love the period of the Crusades with respect to imagery etc. I'm a little confused though. I've read that there are actually...

I forgot about Oronis.......but I didn't forget that the lizardmen weren't wiped out. There are survivors... It's a good question. Does saying "I'm sorry" make up for committing 98% of a genocide? In the Dark Sun verse, it must, at least to a degree, given that he's becoming something much...

It's unfortunate, but the Comic Book Shoppe's website isn't a good representation of what they carry for gaming. The store's worth visiting in person, but not many of their RPG products appear on the website itself. There's also Wizard's Tower, which has locations in Nepean and Kanata...

Well, there you go...the information will be back online. They did excellent work with the 3E conversion, so it's nice to see they apparently plan to keep the files around. Banshee

I had a suspicion the site might disappear once the 4E Darksun books were released in order to ensure that there wasn't an alternative ruleset for the setting......so about two weeks ago I downloaded all the files available on the website. What, specifically, are you looking for? There's no...

Thank you. This is one thing I was missing. That iron vulnerability is nasty. I guess that's one reason the CR isn't adjusted more for the template. As to Fireinthedust's question, I don't have the guidelines for changes from 3.0 to 3.5, so I wasn't really sure what to do with the DR. I...

I'm statting up members of the Seelie and Unseelie courts, and came across the old template for Seelie and Unseelie fey in Dragon #304. I know that the template ended up being republished (and I think updated for 3.5) in the Dragon Compendium....but I only have the original Dragon article...

I have similar feelings. I haven't been a big fan of dungeon crawls for years. While I don't abstract them with die rolls, I do tend to just avoid them.....my games have lots of encounters in the wilderness, strongholds, outdoor mazes, small cave complexes, castles, cities, etc. etc. But the...

Interesting comments. I wouldn't say my group was *that* organized....but they *did* tend to spread the buffing out. The druid and wizard didn't simply buff themselves....a lot of the buffs went onto the warriors and rogue. For instance, it wasn't necessarily the mage flying around...

This is a valid point. If you want to start considering non-physical violence, then you can probably add to the list of animals and species that participate in it. Even to a similar level that humans do. This is why I don't bluff violence :) But yes, you're correct. However......I...

I think that violence in the game can be restricted if other options are presented, or simply by talking to the players, if that's what you want to do. It's not even like it has to happen all the time. You could have an NPC who is, say, related to the king.....brother, cousin, whatever.....and...

I'm not convinced. A core D&D desert monster supplement could have *some* creatures usable with all of those settings. But some of those settings (particularly Al-Qadim and Dark Sun) had very specific feels to them, and the monsters couldn't easily be made to fit between the two. Could you...