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This is a great choice. Taking Archivist, so that you can pick up Cleric and Druid 'buffs' as well as various buffing and debuffing Domain spells (and Paladin / Ranger spells, etc), could also be a route to take.

A decent idea there. Several beasties can advance to fairly buff HD, but their SLAs languish, and you end up with an advanced 36 HD astral deva that casts spells as a 12th level Sorcerer.

In my experience, newlyweds end up being unable to leave the house for about two years. We've lost a lot of gaming friends that way, and, usually about two years later, they come back, often with their formerly draconian and / or insecure wives encouraging them to 'go play with your friends.'...

I've always imagined dwarven music including a lot of banging things, usually drums, and shouted or chanted lyrics. The sort of stuff they play at the Highland Games in Scotland, with lots of drums and yelling to get the crowds fired up, echoing through the stony caverns and rebounding until it...

You could totally go with it, and have the attacker(s) be complete scum-bags, with the character's vendetta actually resulting in the rescue of their latest victim(s). They might even have a personal dungeon beneath the mages shop / manor / quarters, holding people they've captured and are...

Being a god who uses law to impose tyranny, Bane would likely have nicknames involving security and defense from lawlessness, such as 'the Iron Protector' or 'Guardian of Virtue*' or 'Honor's Shield' or 'Great Martyr#. As for his actual name, 'Bane,' there are quite a few LE tyrant-gods, such...

I had house rules back in 1st edition, and, frankly, I don't know a lot of people who *didn't* have house rules back then. Gary Gygax was a nice guy and all, from the time I met him, but I disagree strongly with many of his ideas, and I always have. Other ideas I like. It has nothing to do...

Oh definitely, I also am capable of swapping out those powers and didn't every critter detailed three times, only with a different power here or a different power there. Perfectly good space that could have gone to a description, but some DMs I guess need their hand held and this sort of stuff...

Risking getting sued for not doing so would be crazier, IMO. Since I missed Aasimar & Tieflings and the Assassin's Handbook the first time around, I'm looking forward to a chance to snag them now.

In 4E, I wonder what a house rule that caused any target to take double damage once bloodied would do to speed up the 'boring half' of combat, after everyone has figured out that they just need to whittle away at the mob for 4 more rounds or whatever. It might increase tension as well, as a PC...

Tangental question; Is there an arcane (non-psionic) Soulknife option? Perhaps one that, instead of Wild Talent, has to have at least some magical talent left unused to manifest their 'mage blades.' (A Gnome would auto-qualify, since they have SLAs. Other core races would need to pick up...

I'm not familiar with SAS (I have the d20 conversion, but have no idea what the Tri-Stat rules looked like). But M&M2E I'd heartily recommend. The Atomic Think Tank forums have a Roll Call section that has, literally *thousands* of characters statted up, by fans who really get the system...

Medusa was indeed one of the three Gorgons, along with her sisters Stheno and TheOtherOne (ahem). The closest mythical critter I can think of that fits the D&D metal-covered bull with a breath weapon notion is this; BRONZE BULLS : Bulls of Aeetes of Colchis, labor Jason ; Greek mythology ...

Digester hide or Mimic hide might be easier to get without being eaten. :) But yeah, great idea.

If there are going to be a lot of ability damagers/drainers, a Wand of Lesser Restoration might be a decent investment. Pity there isn't a way to shower a battlefield with missile weapons. +1 undead bane holy arrows would probably leave quite the mark on the average undead horde. Nightsticks...

My current character pronounces 'tiefling' as 'Hellblood.' When a 'tiefling' asked about my character calling him a hellblood, he told him that since he was neither a thief or a halfling, he wasn't going to call him a 'thiefling.' He refused to listen to any explanations about the words...

The only group that I've played in that had a group name was in Al-Qadim; the Lions of the Desert. But in online games, we use guild names all the time. I've been in guilds with names like; Ebonlore Domination Nomadic Brotherhood Einherjar Gnomish Marine Corps Royal Order of the Drunken...

I agree with a bunch above, but I'll try to add something new; Green Ronin The Freeport Trilogy Arcana: Societies of Magic Hamunaptra boxed set Ultimate Power (for M&M) Blackwyrm Games The Algernon Files Sword & Sorcery/White Wolf Ghelspad Campaign Setting

In designing the 'Rage Mage' Monte Cook flat-out says that he read a line in the PHB that someone couldn't cast spells while Raging and took that as a challenge. "What if I *want* to do that?" And so he made a Rage Mage PrC. Tons of PrCs are hole-patchers. Like you said, Blackguard and Holy...

I 'railroad' in the sense that I have a few encouters pre-arranged that I can drop in almost anywhere the party ends up deciding to go. That way, even if they 'go off track,' the track magically moves to where they decided to go. (Unless they *deliberately* walk away from a particular hook...