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Careful with the quotes there - I think these are both dcollins, not me.

Sold. Well, I was before anyway, but "adventure Legos" is just a cool phrase. Now I need to figure out where the heck I'm going to fit it in to my schedule. J

I'd definitely give the halfling more cover from the table than the elf - the elf's legs are right there where he can see and attack them, after all. In 3.0, I'd give the elf 1/4 cover from the halfling, and the halfling 3/4 from the elf (he'd have to emerge slightly to make an attack). In...

If I remember right, UK's CR rules don't produce a CR that you use in the same way as the WOTC CR. (It really ought to have been called something different to avoid confusion.) I never muddled through the rules well enough to get a sense for the relationship, though. J

Monte Cook's Book of Eldritch Might III - also in the Complete Book of Eldtritch Might - has the subtle spellcasting feat. Takes 10x as long to cast a spell, but it's almost undetectable. J

Airships? They wouldn't seem out of place in Eberron. How come you don't seem to have this problem with, say, the apparatus of Kwalish? The ring of force shield, which seems like it ought to be in a space opera of some kind? How about the little anachronisms in the spell components? (penny...

The section of the DMG on 'Experience Awards' (36-37 in the 3.5 version) talks about this - there's an example about sneaking past a sleeping minotaur. Since most of the section focuses around defeating the monsters in combat, though, it's easy to miss. Edit: That said, even in combat the...

One of the reasons the MM system tends to 'lowball' creatures advanced by HD is because frequently, they have fewer and less effective special abilities than other monsters. For example, poison is pretty ineffective against most high-level parties thanks to high Fort saves and various spells...

Complete Book of Eldritch Might (Malhavoc) Arcana Unearthed (Malhavoc) These two are probably my most used - because I run an AU game, and I allow CBoEM spells in both that and my D&D game(s). After that it gets murky, because even though I've got a fair amount of hardbacks, I don't use any of...

Usually in such cases you'll find alternate fighter-types - AU has the Warmain (for the heavy-armor 'tanks') and unfettered (for the light-armor Dex monkies). J

Which ones, specifically, are on the Druid list? J

I startle my wife with fair frequency at a distance of five feet. Haven't you ever accidentally ran into or almost ran into someone? And if you can miss a Spot/Listen check at a distance of 5 feet or less... J

I'm currently firing up a "testbed" campaign which I plan to use to try out all the alternate rules I don't know if I want to introduce into my regular game. Anyway, I disallowed all the PHB core classes, and made a list of all the other classes I had that I wanted to see played, which came out...

Actually, I'm saying that there's two ways to talk about how something is proscribed - there's the game-world proscriptions and the game-rules proscriptions. The former is like laws against murder, the latter is like the law of gravity. A lot of GMs used to treat alignment as proscriptive in...

I was going to pimp that, but I see you got here first. Book of Iron Might: Dr. Approved! J

In Monte Cook's Complete Book of Eldritch Might, there are some feats and magic items that will help. The Conjure Mastery feat boosts the physical stats of the creature by +2 each, while the ring of blue conjures and ring of red conjures provide auras that give bonuses to AC, strength, and...

There's a lot of Riposte versions out there. Often they share these qualities: 1) they cost an Attack of Opportunity to use 2) they depend on the attacker missing by a certain margin - usually this is based on the function of some other feat such as Dodge and/or Expertise. J

I think we're talking on two different levels - the world level and the rules level. A paladin committing evil acts is proscribed in the game world by his church or whatever, but not by the game rules. The game rules allow him to do whatever he wants and detail the consequences - proscription...

Simplest solution: ditch the element/energy correspondences entirely (except for fire) and have elemental damage, as in Arcana Unearthed. You'll have to do some work figuring out which creatures should have Elemental Resistance instead of (or as well as) Energy Resistance, but it gets rid of...

The problem is that (from what I've read on Monte's site) it doesn't meet the design requirements that they were trying to meet in the ELH - that is to say, removing the arbitrary 20th level cap. From the column he posted (http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?mc_diary_36), it looks like he...