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Ever been to Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe in Seattle? There's tons of useless gakk to wade through and gawk at --- human (and other) mummies on display, badly stitched 'mermaids', tools and iron traps and skulls and stuffed animals from the world over literally hanging from the rafters. Old...

"Give yourself a chip." Countless years of playing Deadlands has caused us to reward roleplaying in other games with poker chips (worth a certain set XP value), flinging them around like deadly missiles. Someone has a bright idea, they get a chip. Usually we players say this to the DM when...

What is this 'superbowl' of which you speak? :p

"Frank" -- a unit of slaves equal to 14 adults or 28 children. While the term supposedly derives from the practice of franking (or marking) slaves, those of us in the know maintain it is due to the influence of our good ol' gaming buddy, Frank. He's a rotten little blighter, but at least he's...

Sure --- our pirate crew always keeps a spare ninja in the bilge. Um, that is to say: no.

Case in point: the athach? Still haven't figured out a use for those buggers yet. But nothing beats a farting, barfing LG gasbag for sheer wackiness. It's the Edsel of gaming, if the Edsel was also a minivan.

Our party (a bunch of Philistines) once sold a captured spellbook to a fellow mercenary for use as toilet paper. Something in the range of a couple of gold. Guess it depends on the local market conditions, right? :lol:

From the SRD: Selling a Spellbook Captured spellbooks can be sold for a gp amount equal to one-half the cost of purchasing and inscribing the spells within (that is, one-half of 100 gp per page of spells). A spellbook entirely filled with spells (that is, with one hundred pages of spells...

Don't forget the base value of the spellbook and any customizations.

I'm playing a gnome paladin of Garl Glittergold, despite the NG/LG difference. I think of the trickster aspect of Garl as being instructive --- this is what not to do. He rights wrongs through example, uses satire to good effect, and deflates blowhards. He sometimes lets people screw up and...

Sigh.

Prepare to be underwhelmed. :( Canada (6 provinces, and Nunavut later this year) USA (2 states, and not the fun ones) Pretty sad. Every time I have a trip lined up to travel abroad (Egypt, UK, Thailand) something gets bollocksed on the work end. On the plus side, my travels within Canada...

Mostly eat rat-on-a-stick. I'd get outta the Hive if it weren't for the berks keeping me down.

I've always been partial to Herbert West: Reanimator and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Both tales concern themselves with science gone mad, more or less. Of the short stories, The Shadow over Innsmouth is a personal favourite. You'll never look at a fish market the same way again. One...

That's what I've done in my campaign set in the 1400s. Divine casters of a Christian bent receive one domain from the Lord and get additional ones by invoking a patron saint. Using a saintly relic or calling upon a saint for aid adds additional domains. (Incidentally, I've changed the divine...

How fast can you fall? :lol:

Not necessarily. Structures can exist within parties of evil PCs, but depend upon active roleplaying. A PC's motivation may involve a desire to take orders, even at the risk of gritting teeth. I'm playing an aloof plotter in one campaign, but another PC is a fawning sycophant. He's evil but oh...

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Yes, and no. The description in the SRD is vague. My enquiries to Sage Advice were ignored --- snf! :( NPCs with the skill listed in Dragon and on the WotC website specify locations. For example, from a Realms Personalities article on the website, they list Knowledge (Thay local). However...

I'd say the metamagic overhaul --- then again, it's already underway with the addition of Sudden Metamagic. Phil makes a good point regarding minis. Aside from their utility in combat, from a corporate standpoint they mean more stuff to buy. Either they promote that aspect of the game, or they...