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I personally am very fond of it and think that it is one of the best pClasses around from both a design and a playability standpoint. It is a powerful pClass, but it has stiff entry preReqs. If you want a Mage-Thief type character there is no better option. It is on the high-end of pClass...

Unfortunately I leant my copy of MoW to a friend a couple of weeks ago so he could make a character for the campaign we are starting after spring break is over, but according to him he used the DWS and multiclassed with OotBI to make what sounds like a very very deadly character. I havent had a...

I wondered the very same thing myself. I think it is simply a tack-on to make the class 'fit' more solidly in the book; otherwise it is a great class for a fighter, who will pick up gobs'o'feat-equivalent EWPs from the class. Personally I plan to drop that preReq in my campaign. Also, as you...

I just wanted to add weight to this interpretation. This is how I adjudicate the matter as well; basically light fog or dim light would stop the Rogue from throwing weapons at 10-30 feet and getting sneak attack, but not stop them from sticking a weapon in them from melee at 5 feet to get sneak...

I noticed this same combo WAAAAAAAY back when S&F was released. As a primarily DM I had some concerns, but the S&F errata solved the cheesy-loop issue. Recently I played in a campaign and one of my PCs, a heavily multiclassed 'Brawler of Kord', used this tactic to good advantage. The key thing...

If you need it and want 2e stats for a base, just use the stats for Hruggrek from Monster Mythology; Erythnul and Hruggrek are practically the same. All that aside, why in the world would your PCs be fighting a god? Just give the possessed vessel of the entities soul some appropriate abilities...

I think you are referring to the 30 odd "Fighting Style" prestige classes I did and the 25 odd feats I developed to go along with them many months ago on the House Rules board. I believe (but havent checked) that they all went the way of the dodo when the boards were reset. However, I still have...

Yes yes, all granted. However, in 3e terms, a Dwarf is less Intimidating than an elf, which is just back-asswards IMO. Sacred cow, 'artifact of legacy system', or intentional Dwarves are given a penalty to Cha instead of, say, Dex. Based on this, I merely raised the point to foil the running...

Not at all. The half-orc would need to be confident in his abilities to even attempt to bend the iron bar. If the half-orc wasnt 'confident' in the first place, he would never be secure enough in his own capability to bend the bar in a pressure situation. All that aside, the idea of Charisma...

I dont mind the STR based Intimidate at all. The key thing to remember is that ability scores are an arbitrary breakdown of the defining characteristics of a person. They are not absolute nor are they definitive. While it is true that a charismatic person can use thier 'presence' to awe...

For pure unadulterated kick-ass fantasy that makes you wanna game, read David Gemmel. All of his books are fantastic, but I would recommend the new Rigante series starting with Sword in the Storm. For brilliant multi-layered fantasy read Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar saga or Serpent War Saga; or...

The Common Philosophy Schema (we are all but memory and dust..): Posit a common philisophical belief of the villain; something very common sensical but abstruse enough to be unusual and preferrably fatalistic. Have seedlings utter this belief before fighting, dying or doing something counter to...

Here I am OK, Ill play your little game. This is the most recent pic I have of me; Im in the middle; my gf is on the left and my mom is on the right, visiting back in December (Dad got drafted to take the pic of course). This is us in Balboa Park, for any of you who have been to San Diego, btw.

The troubled series of 3e class books come to a close with Masters of the Wild. As most readers probably already know, each of the previous installments of the series has been marred by some significant flaw. Sword and Fist was inventive and creative, but laced with broken mechanix and...

And more than that even; in Greyhawk there are multiple human pantheons. The 'default' gods grepped out for 3e are from scattered pantheons, thus adding to the confusion. I know what you mean and in my Greyhawk Campaigns St Cuthbert has always been simply Cuthbert. However, to shed some light...

I have--once. I made a cyborg that was tough enough to survive the most powerful grenade explosion in the game, got a supply of the grenades, and would simply pull the pin on the grenade while holding it in my hand whenever someone annoyed me. Id survive, they typically didnt. I also had an...

Ive played all 3 versions of Marvel, old DC once, GURPS, Brave New World, and Champions. Champions is the biz-zomb. It captures the comic feel perfectly in its mechanix, and allows almost endless variety in character designs. Its like being given the source code for a game system instead of...

By and large I have been very happy with the book and would recommend the spells portion. The magic items section however gets a 'proceed at your own risk' warning however. Many are pretty over the top. Another thing to look out for is obsoletism. R & R was written fairly early on in the d20...

Hmm...seems like they've 'dummied down' the writing style quite a bit, but the underlying rules look much the same. Apparantly its going to be a fairly thick book. I dont know how crazy I am about that; one of the things I like about 4th Edition Hero's is the conciseness. Not much fluff, lots of...

Thanx for the heads up. Been waiting for 5th edition for a loooooong time.