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Huzzah! History has vindicated me. And in 35 minutes. Not a bad turnaround time for history.

Wasn't there a Power Critical that gives you like a +4 on the confirmation roll? I know there are class abs in AE that let you call crits, but since my group plays both I can't remember if there are similar abilities buried in 3.5.

My group has always treated Sunder as a melee attack ("Who cares?" you'd ask and well, you'd be right); I mean, instead of swinging to hit meat (or stone, or bone, or wtf-ever you're fighting), you're swinging to hit their sword, axe, shield or wand. Its not exactly out of your way. Their...

Unless you threaten with unarmed attacks, like a monk or a guy with Imp Unarmed Strike. My understanding is Touch Spells count as armed regardless, but its been awhile since I looked it up. Scoop me, will ya! AoOs are provoked if you threaten. Unarmed characters don't generally threaten...

I hit the discount stores. Plastic dinosaurs, fossil dinosaurs, giant spiders, snakes, frogs, lizards-- for stuff like that you can get an army for a few bucks. Last game my group fought a mass of Mage Knight and Heroclix monsters, a bunch of large tarantulas from a Halloween party favor...

May not be exactly what you're looking for, but the Theban Mapping Project is a great source of real-world Egyptian tomb maps. My favorite is KV 5, as it is one of the larger ones. The site includes both printable pdfs as well as flash versions. Most of the tombs are simple and linear, but...

I distinctly remember the Foe Hunter for 3.0, but I haven't be able to find any sort of update to 3.5. Did this PrC go the way of the dodo, or did it just get a name change that I now cannot find?

Give the players more control at the table. Something like Fate Points or the Swashcards from Scratch Factory, that can change the course of the adventure. You have five or six brains at the table, might as well use them. Most of the time, players are already suggesting things, usually by...

I think being free with one's affection is Good, and repression is Evil. (Well, I don't get into the whole GvE that much, but it seems like sexual repression is more common in serial killers than promiscuity.) It seems like putting Alignment restrictions on morality that would differ from...

I think players will always hate things that they can't affect.

About the best thing he can do as the group's primary healer is use Spectral Hand to cast his Cure spells at range. Not unbalancing, but useful.

A favor... ... that ends up creating a half-celestial.

I know that module. Harlequin. That was the adventure that destroyed my first Shadowrun group. Our group did basically the same thing, sidled up all smooth-like, and security just started pouring out of the woodwork. Except whatever the GM threw at us, we dispatched immediately. A platoon...

For me, the AE Mage Blade was a great fighter/mage style class, although I think the duskblade is pretty similar. I remember never really being happy with any of the Bladesinger classes (or kits, going back to previous editions as well), but when I read the Mage Blade thinking, "Yeah, that's it."

This is pretty similar to the Shadowrun set up, where dwarves, orcs, trolls and elves are all different expressions of humanity. Homo Sapiens Sapiens, Homo Sapiens Robustus, Homo Sapiens Nobilis, and so on. There's also no half-breeds to speak of, they can all interbreed but the offspring...

That's funny, I'd be more inclined to play an orc character like Mani from BotW. (In fact, my first 3.0 character was a half-orc ranger/fighter, and Mani was the inspiration.) Neither here nor there, just an interesting coincidence. Me, I've always liked orcs. I guess I've just always...

I've been thinking of letting a character with the Shield Proficiency using the Full Defense action be able to take Total Cover behind a heavy shield. Although I could just as easily make it a feat. Yes, the scene in 300 was the spark behind this idea.

I can't think of any for 3e. I think my group just moved away from module-based campaigns. In OD&D, it was Keep on the Borderlands, the first module I ever owned (or maybe that was Castle Caldwell, but I never played in that one. I got it because the lizardman on the cover looked like Slithe...

Bug Spray (like OFF) works pretty good (which makes sense, since its alcohol-based, but its what we used to use). If all else fails, try a cleaning solution called Simple Green. It comes in a windex-like squirt bottle, its dark green, and it smells like a really chemical sasparilla. (If you...

I've thought of physical beauty as a component of CHA (and even started a topic on that subject about six months to a year ago), but likewise I've never seen the need for a Comeliness stat or a "beauty mechanic". I've always felt that character's can look however the player wants them to. If...