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In September: Fantastic Locations: Fane of the Drow Magic of Incarnum And a Forgotten Realms adventure Sons of Gruumsh, though it seems to be marked as an anthology in their product catalogue and its own product page doesn't work. In October: Magic of Eberron Heroes of Horror In November...

Well, it's a cliché, but they could always find an overturned carriage that was attacked and robbed. Human and orc corpses are strewn about everywhere, and there's only one survivor, a young kid, grievously wounded and traumatised by the ordeal, who can give the PCs one or two ambiguous...

One of my presently active characters is an asherati from Sandstorm. The race has an ability called body lamp which both solves the problem of illuminating the dungeon and makes him a prime target for every attacker that's fond of darkness. Since he is a bard and has neither high AC nor HP, this...

Resurrections are all good and well, but you still need to get your body to a priest for them to be any useful. If you and your friends are all killed in the wilderness or in a dungeon, the chances of some helpful priest just stumbling across their remains and raising them out of the goodness of...

I recall two instances that dealt with the issue... King Azoun IV's death in Death of the Dragon. High priests attempted to bring him back, but failed, saying Azoun didn't want to return. King Zalathorm in The Wizardwar. He croaked, but was immediately resurrected by the power of...

I think there was something along these lines in the computer games Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale II. A ruined elven fortress from ancient times, I think. I also recall there is a very old floating tower in a marshland somewhere in the North or the Western Heartlands, but the powers keeping it...

Agreed, though for different reasons. Both the Oriental Adventures rules expansion and Kara-Tur are fairly massive in size, and to stick both in the same book would do neither justice.

It looks interesting, and I will buy it. It sort of kindled an idea about a "destined for great deeds" type campaign, where one PC gets a weapon of legacy, one has a funky bloodline, the third one's god has a personal interest him and the fourth one is the last of the ninja, or something. Would...

Trollslayer is more or less a standalone, but after that the Slayer series seems to have developed a continuing plot. Gilead's Blood is a standalone collection of short stories. There are no others in the series that I am aware of. The last story rocks, by the way.

Well, for horrible puns, there are always the two Tusmit regional adventures for Living Greyhawk, Daoud, Where's My Cart? and My Big Fat Tusman Wedding, not to mention the encounter headings in Beneath the Twisted Tower, the adventure module in the old 2E FR box... "The Cube and Missile Crisis"...

We just have the DM write our initiatives on the battlemap in the pattern where we are sitting around the table. The NPCs' initiatives go by their initial or number next to that. It's fast, and it works.

1. The Empire Strikes Back 2. A New Hope 3. The Return of the Jedi 4. Attack of the Clones 5. Phantom Menace 6. Revenge of the Sith

In honour of Finland's Eurovision Song Contest entry, I give this movie zero points. And really, Geir Rönning's performance is the better of the two. At least it only wastes a few minutes of the watcher's time. The movie was like a bad D&D game, with tired players who can't immerse themselves...

I haven't got a single recurring character, but a recurring family. I keep making insane gnomes named Feuermacher. Thus far, there's been Zogen Gwildor Feuermacher (Rog1/Wiz2) in an alternate Forgotten Realms campaign by enrious, Genzo Feuermacher (Sor) in Vaxalon's IRC campaign, Nozge...

The hexblade is not a tank class like the paladin is, but for the guy on the other flank of the enemy, he's a fairly solid choice. I've played a hexblade, Zengo Feuermacher. He was a gnome, and he died when he was 1st-level. However, he did this in single combat with a harpy, and got over half...

Mind War. First appearance of Bester. Ironheart. Psychics. I was not so hot on the eventual "resolution" of that plotline, but that was a different episode and a different season, but of the first season, this one stands out the most to me.

"Farewell", by Summoning, from the Damnatus soundtrack. And no, I've no idea what the lyrics say, or even what language they are in.

It is a skill of ours. A friend of mine once commented that I'm very hard to read in person, and that the only thing he can read off me is that I try very hard to be hard to read. :] (I'm INTJ, by the way.)

Well, there's always Neil Gaiman's blog. And then there's my LiveJournal, probably best characterised by the fact even I don't know what that stream-of-consciousness bit of social theory I just posted really means.

Dragon 230 had a fairly good article on the Orbs of Dragonkind. They were indeed created by the Suel, circa -2300 CY. The article also details where the orbs are in the year 585 CY - ten years ago, by current reckoning. Orb of the Hatchling was kept in Rauxes for two centuries until it was...