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If it's a choice between the Ghelspad hardcover, Termana hardcover and some of the player's guides, go with the Ghelspad hardcover. It has a degree of assumed knowledge, but not as much as Termana. It's also a decent book all around. Termana isn't bad, either. But it assumes the reader knows a...

I run a rotation of games on Sundays based on player availability, one a DC-based Mutants & Masterminds game, another a Scarred Lands game. Wednesday I play in a rotation of games with a current line-up of Advocate Percival, my Fraternity of Order diviner/lawyer in a Planescape game, Grigori...

Magic item reliance. I prefer the days when two or three magic items were usually enough for an adventurer to rely on. Also, two-handed weapons as the end-all, be-all of weaponry. I want sword-and-board to be the norm, not the two-handed weapon. I'd also like it if single-handing a weapon was...

I voted average level of the party, but that's only because everyone in my games is at the exact same level, sans level loss due to energy drain or resurrection. Miss a session? You're not behind the party experience level. Just entering into the game? You're not behind the party experience...

Bat-Santa. Oh, how I love you, Bat-Santa. He's the best.

I'd argue that the tadpoles shouldn't be evil, anyway. The same with any creature that's still effectively a baby - they'd have a neutral alignment, same as an animal, because they're incapable of making moral decisions and lack the sentience to tell the difference between right and wrong...

Does elven wine exist? If so, then they have vinyards. If they have vinyards, they have agriculture. If they have agriculture, they grow crops. At least in some capacity. Generally speaking, I figure elves have a mostly vegetarian diet mixed in with a healthy dose of hunting, but no livestock.

There is, actually. It's right in the rules. It's not lawful specifically, but it is part of being lawful good - the line "She tells the truth." Now, that might not mean "No lying" to you, but it certainly does to me. Of course, only paladin's have an alignment extreme. Most other characters...

I started making a chaotic outsider type for my Scarred Lands game, the Ineffable, which represented various aspects of the chaos god of the setting, Enkili. They all had some innate ability to polymorph or at least disguise self and I gave the basic type-template a chart for random deviations...

Something to keep in mind is to remind the characters that, if they start killing villains...they're going to have to deal with the police. Not to mention other supers. I think not killing, ever, is just silly, but if the PC's make a habit of murdering villains (particularly ones that can...

This kind of thing is why the typical human morality is listed as true neutral. The alignment system works fine so long as it's understood that the GM is the ultimate arbiter and folk at the table understand that there's a prevalence of neutrality for a reason. Alignment is nearly all about...

By the rules, a mere touch won't do anything. Otherwise ghouls and ghasts would mention in their stat blocks that unarmed attacks against them causes paralysis and their attack would likely just be a touch attack instead of a normal attack. I always figured the paralysis was caused by...

Language complexity of that sort is more the purview of a campaign setting than anything the core rules should address. Tying various groups and their languages to tribes, geographical regions, gods, social castes, etc, in addition to their race and the like relies heavily on the context of the...

Especially when you stop and consider that the language is bound to have some sort of equivalent and even if one form of language doesn't (common often being a trade language, after all), one or more other languages are bound to.

Magic was also a phenomenon because it actually had a solid rule-set and was generally a fun game. It also could stand on its own two legs because people played Magic to play Magic, rather then because the latest Star Wars movies were getting released or Pokemon was the current fad. This is...

I wouldn't necessarily be adverse to folk making alloys. Of course, it'd effectively render the metals worthless for their intended purpose. I'm not even particularly a fan of alchemical silver. The essence of the adamantine or silver, the magic of the substance (or lack thereof with iron) is...

Newsradio's been showing on...TNT or TBS recently, I think. I've started catching it irregularly, and nabbed the first and second season DVD for Christmas. Watching it is a bit depressing, due to Phil Hartman's death, but I have to say it's one of my favorite shows from the 90's. Never watched...

Eh...wot? You must have had one crappy GM at some point. One of the few ways she'll kill you is if you worship her. That, or if you cause mass destruction on a city-wide scale that lasts for weeks on end. And even then, she'll probably just maze you. What spurred that on?

In the PDF version? I don't know. However, while the gazetteer fold-out map might be nice, it's nowhere near as detailed as the map set into the cover of the hardcover book.

The Holy Quartet for the Scarred Lands is made up of The Divine and the Defeated, The Creature Collection Revised, Relics and Rituals I and The Scarred Lands Campaign Setting: Ghelspad. These are effectively the core books for the setting. The Ghelspad hardcover can potentially get swapped out...