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Technically, a halberd isn't a Reach weapon. It surprised me the first time I noticed it, too. On topic, I discourage people from taking spiked chains in my campaigns, or at least I would if anyone showed interest. --Seule

Try watching Mystery Men for more inspiration from The Sphinx. That's what I thought of, he'd make a great cryptic Warlord. Plus, he can make guns fall in half with his mind! --Penn

I started with Basic in '81, and I quickly moved to AD&D (overlapping a lot with D&D). I'be played every edition extensively, been gaming ever since to one degree or another. Every edition has been a step up from the previous. I see no signs that this is going to change now, in fact I expect...

I'll be there, running the LG Special. Should be fun. --Penn/Seule

Currently, in two games, I'm playing a Warblade specializing in White Raven maneuvers (buffing others) and a Dragon Shaman. Effectively, I'm already playing a Warlord, just split over two classes. I find that, as the person in our gaming group with the most rules-awareness, I like making...

Take a level of Barbarian for 10' increase to speed (+4 to jump) and Reckless Rage to bump Strength by another 6, or another +3. --Seule

Hero Builder's Guidebook, just for the lists of names by race at the back. I suck at names, so this is always good. --Seule

If course it'sa a strawfighter, particularly for some edge case fighters (like spiked chain wielders). On the other hand, against large monsters rather than other humanoids, the options of the fighter drop drastically to a very few good options. As others say, basically you can attack for...

Cut Swordsages and the Swordsage-only maneuvers from the book, and you have a wonderful melee fighter and paladin replacement, that scale well against spellcasters and are fun to play at all levels. You also don't have melee spellcasting, other than some Crusader powers that allow healing and...

I find that Bo9S is a hard sell to people who play 3.5, simply because it changes so much about the basic class balance assumptions. It is indeed not a perfect fit for 3.5 games (or 3.0) although it's not bad, it works best if all martial types use it, as do all NPC martial types. It really is...

I have a theory, probably completely unfounded, that they are doing away with the denying of specific bonuses against specific attacks. For example, instead of touch attacks denying armor, shield and natural armor bonuses, you just attack the Reflex number rather than the AC. Instead of...

Wait! I found the difference! OWoD had flavour differences, as well as discipline and flaw differences. NWoD has flavour differences, as well as discipline and flaw differences. And, they get a free point in a stat that varies by Clan. NWoD clans are more differentiated than oWoD clans, by the...

The old Clans were essentially stereotypes that most players I know tried to break out of at least to some degree, the new Clans are broader stereotypes that more easily stretch to incorporate various concepts. Before, Tremere were all essentially the same. It was difficult to make a Tremere...

In my opinion it's AD&D as long as the people playing it believe that it is still AD&D. Only they know what informed any changes they made to the system/setting, and how drastic they actually are. Yes, this means that you can have tables with slight changes that aren't playing AD&D any more...

I play a Warblade (up to 3rd level now) and I played a Swordsage (at 4th level) briefly. One of the key things that I like is that while you have lots of potential maneuvers you could select, you only actually know a small number. It's like a sorcerer, where the list of Sorcerer spells is very...

Isn't that the same thing, really? I stopped playing RM when 3.0 came out, and it fixed most of the things that I didn't like about 2nd ed, that Rolemaster handled well. I've never actually picked up HARP, although I have most of the RMSS and RMFRP books stashed away.

So, you'd be playing Rolemaster! :) --Penn

Mardal Al'Assam, human, male Helt Ironfist, dwarf, male Plandybast Widebottom, halfling, male Skizzix, centaur, male Vrasti Al'Istus, human, male Melvin Limner, human, male Dorn Ironfist, dwarf, male Gelthabulon Featherfellow, elf, male Ostrik, human, male Xanthagon, centaur, male Bn'thar, orc...

The Reincarnate spell brings you back as a creature of the same type, so you'd have to be a Construct to be Reincarnated as a Warforged. Can that even happen? My last campaign: PHB races, plus Eberron (Shifters, Warforged, Changelings and Kalashtar). There are no subraces in Eberron, which...

Power Word Pain Wraithstrike Floaty Shield (that's not the real name, it's in the SpC, it animates a shield. That enhancement is also banned). Polymorph will get a very close looking at next time I run a game, and will probably be replaced with the various specific spells. I'm sure that there...