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And sadly, that tends to be exactly what the Expanded Universe stuff does. Boba Fett? Not dead. The Emperor? Didn't die during Return of the Jedi. Suffice to say, I don't much like some of the Expanded Universe stuff. Rubbish, I say. However, while I am aware of Shaak-Ti's cut death scene, I...

Vader had plenty of time between A New Hope and Return of the Jedi to get at least some idea that he could become a force ghost. When Obi-Wan disappears, Vader roots through his empty robes in a kind of "WTF? Where the heck did he go?" manner. Then there's the fact that Palpatine and Vader...

Option one blending into two. Palpatine could have used the Dark Side 'til the cows came home and he'd have been dandy, much like Dooku was after however many years he'd been using the Dark Side. Similarly, just striking somebody with force lightning won't generally deform them. However, the...

Grievous doesn't wheeze normally; he was wheezing because, while capturing Palpatine, Mace Windu force crushed Grievous' torso like it was a soda can. Presumably he had the damage repaired somewhere between the fight over Coruscant and his final duel with Obi-Wan. Or did the wheeze stop while...

Funny enough, I could live with Phantom Menace being ranked first if the sole criteria were lgihtsaber battle. It's the one thing that movie has going for it. Anyway, I'll rank them - and provide a little reasoning as to why. I do believe there's a bit of pointlessness to just ranking them...

You know, while the old movies make the new ones look rather bad, the new ones make the old movies lightsaber battles look kind of boring... Anyway, I still think that Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon versus Darth Maul is still the best lightsaber duel. It's the one redeeming quality to the Phantom Menace...

I think I'll hold off until I've had a second viewing to decide whether or not I want to give it a 6 or give it a 7. I think it's the best of the new trilogy and could possibly work as a weak addition to the original three movies. It was a lot of cool scenes interspersed with a number of bad...

Half-orc's have got to go. Where once they were relatively rare to nonexistent, *pow* Freakin' everywhere now, it seems. And as others have pointed out, they're not particularly great numbers-wise, either. I don't mind half-races so much. But half-orcs have become a bit too ubiquitous. For a...

Although I "steal" from just about any book I happen to have in some degree or another, I think the one I do so most often is Ravenloft. Whether in 2nd or 3rd edition, my undead and werecreatures having generally come with Ravenloft rules attached onto them. I've also considered using the...

I have a reputation for dashing my player's plans. Any time they start planning something, they make comments on how it's just going to fail, anyway, because that's the sort of thing I do. Which I suppose is somewhat true; about 2/3'rds of the plans they've made have gone wrong for them...

Oh, the Hierophant gets spellcasting levels. Just not the increased number of spells and higher spell levels that normally comes with the spellcasting level. It's arguably better than the Archmage - for games that intend to go past 20th level.

Gnomes've gotta go. They're not always bad - I really like their presentation in Midnight - but they're one of the races that's suffered from Dragonlancification, in my opinion. I liked tinker gnomes just fine on Krynn. I didn't like them so much anywhere else; I find the port of absent-minded...

Dislike them, mainly due to presentation. Crystals come across as too New Age-y, the terminology often looks like scientific and medical jargon, and the source of it generally has an implied ring of evolution, or occasionaly out-right said (like with gith). When the presentation at least meets...

The Ravenloft Dungeon Master's Guide has a psionic lich template.

Mostly real, I suppose. I don't get too hung up on things, but I try to minimize the blatant supernatural, to a degree. So there are dragons and magic and the like, but generally it isn't very populous nor is it visible in public. Where it is, it tends to be isolated. I don't like magic item...

See, the thing is, I enjoyed the original asaatthi. As for drow, I never particularly liked them. However, I do have my grumblings about the shifts other races went through, such as halflings, so my opinion with the asaatthi doesn't really set any new precedents. Nor the fact that I, as an...

You know, I remember reading the Vigil Watch for the Ratmen and thinking what a sloppy, poorly written book it was...I was rather surprised to find some of the glowing commentary when I later read the reviews. It might be that I was too hung up on the poorly done stat-blocks and my general...

Balance is important between the PC's. Each needs to be useful and able to contribute. For concepts that aren't necessarily similar, then the PC's should shine in their respective area's. If the cleric is wading into melee combat more effectively than the melee-focused fighter, there's a...

Level 8-13 over the period of about a year, I think. For the most part I run games, thus why the odd disparity. I came into that game about half-way in. As for the highest range of levels for a game I ran, level 2 to...12, I believe. The game's currently on hiatus and paused right around the...

My three biggest regrets are the Faithful and the Forsaken, the Book of Exalted Deeds and Champions of Darkness. The Faithful and the Forsaken took one of the more interesting aspects of the Scarred Lands and totally trashed it, transforming the not quite so hackneyed forsaken elves into...