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I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a rebuttal on your part, but, if it is, I will say that even in light of all of those reasons, I still find him one of the better examples of chaotic good that can be found. Part of the reason I brought him up was because, at times, a certain eloquence...

Dwarves: Organized, hierarchal. Large dwarven tribes with a relative duty to their superiors. Centralized. Elves: Organized, cell-based. Small elvish bands with relative autonomy. Decentralized (slightly a matter of opinion here; elven kings seem fairly common, but it seems to be a slightly...

To clarify, I certainly wouldn't allow anything that made me feel uncomfortable, either. For example, if the player I mentioned before was hell-bent on playing yet another pseudo-lesbian fresh from a late night Cinemax flick, I'd tell him to stuff it and either come up with a new character or...

No, that's an over-simplified black and white response on your part. Just because I say that wanton murder is evil it doesn't mean that a planned one isn't. Not to mention that most player characters don't randomly kill things every game, in my experience. Much of the time, it generally runs...

It seems like an odd comment on the behalf of the DM, but it's one that I'm not too unfamiliar with myself. I have one male player who, at least in the past, use to play quite a number of female characters. Furthermore, most of these characters were exceptionally attractive and homosexual to...

"Because I want to kill them" isn't good by any means. It's downright evil, if that's pretty much the crux of things. Sure, I'll grant it was probably chaotic; it seemed to come down to an emotional, impulsive response. But wanton murder is by no means good. How many sessions have you been...

To a degree, that's metagaming, anyway. In regards to the initial post: You know, at one point a player of mine was called out on thinking up something particularly clever to the point that it just stood out as something his character's own low-to-average Intelligence wouldn't, as the...

And I'm more or less in agreement with you. In general, I think the wrathful smiting of evil is less a good thing and more a neutral thing. Good purpose, generally aimed at the right sort of people, but any kind of first strike strategy is bound to kill some innocent or, at the least, someone...

It's about now that I almost wish I was a bit more familiar with City of the Spider Queen, as I find the random "Seek treasure in evil lands and kill anything evil that gets in the way" is pretty much evil in and of itself...oh well. Anyway, I'm with Geron in saying that both counts. However...

Ha ha! Thread hijacking! Anyway, Josh, yeah, Henry has it more or less. A lot of it really comes down to the stylistic way that psionics is presented. The ectoplasm, crystal capacitors and general naming convention for it generally turns me off to it. Which is, in part, why I'm fine with it in...

No, actually. I hate, hate, hate psionics. Comes off too sci-fi, too modern, etc, etc. However...while I wouldn't say I love psionics in Eberron, it's presented them in such a way that I find them acceptable. It's not overly intrusive, it's not so integrated that I absolutely have to use...

I'd actually say that the name was changed because Codex Anathema isn't indicative of what's in the book, whereas Lords of Madness immediately made me think of mind flayers and the daelkyr from Eberron. It took me a moment to remember just what the Codex Anathema was; Lords of Madness quickly...

You know, I saw the 2, immediately disagree with it and continued reading the rest of the review to find just why you gave it a 2. After reading through it, I'm not so inclined to disagree. I personally enjoyed the heck out of Burok Torn, but that's namely for the background and history. The...

Needle in a haystack? It only took me a Google search and the terms "Isaac Asimov" and "symbiote" to find it. But then again, the needle thing was meant to be clever, of course. Anyway, I cheated, but: Hal Clement coined it in "Needle." Course, it helps that I knew what the made-up word is.

Now, there we have an explanation rather then it just being random. Before it seemed as if Otossal's alignment change essentially existed in a vacuum, without explanation, beyond the comment about the Gray Man. Will it still hold up after I give it a read through? Maybe not. But for now, I'll...

Yes, but I commented specifically on the d meaning die (or dice), not the whole meaning of the phrase. The d in d6 means die or dice, the 6 means six and the sided...well, that's somewhere in between. All I did was comment on the d and die connection, though. Besides, it goes... "How now...

Dee twenty. Dee twelve. It reads that way and flows better that way, in my opinion. However, I can see why people would say "die six" or whatever. The d in d12 could reasonably be seen as the m in 3 m that would be spoken as "3 meters."

Oh, it could be just one problem out of an entire book; however, I think it's indicative of part of the problems that plagued the Scarred Lands up until and now including the end. And something that for me, having yet to browse through it at a book store, seems a bad sign. I'll just have to...

Keep in mind CE god for Nightfall equals "I'm probably just going to use Orcus, anyway, and his being Chaotic Evil makes that easier on me." And that Orcus ostensibly does exist in the Forgotten Realms; I'm not too savvy on the setting, but at the very least, Demogorgon's made an appearance...

Sounds like Keith Baker; I don't think the druids of Eberron are keeping off demons insomuch as otherwordly aberrations, but it's close enough. I'll say Ed Greenwood, based off of Loviator. It's been a while since I've peeked into Finnish mythology or the Forgotten Realms, though, so perhaps...