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I second Eric's feelings- this would make the class much better to me, and before now I've pretty much had zero interest in playing them. An interesting variant might be to cut down on their spells per day (or something) in exchange for some sort of metamagic abilities- essentially make them...

I don't really drink and game any more, but back in college, hoo boy... It seemed like once a semester or so both I (and my character) would be waking up in the morning thinking something like, "Hang on, did I sell my soul to a pit fiend last night?" Now, when I was GMing, I never had more...

How about a celestial, or some other creature dedicated to order? Maybe the father and brother weren't great rulers, and were letting the kingdom fall apart, so the celestial encouraged the youngest brother to take the throne. Which he did through murder. Maybe the celestial encouraged that...

Sorry, it's actually in VB. I wasn't thinking when I posted. I've got pretty much the same thing up through the DataReader (see below), so it looks like I just need to dump the datagrid assignment for a file assignment. I'll have to start checking around on that, instead of the SQL part, since...

This sort of fits with the casual player theory- essentially, the DM had to come up with a tailored prestige class to get the character back up to snuff with the rest of the party. As for Belkar, a high-level ranger with TWF and a dip into barbarian says to me that the character was trying to...

For a website I'm working on, I need to make an ASP script that will read from the MS SQL database and then write certain results to a delimited text file. The text file will eventually be sent off to another server via FTP, but I'm not at that stage yet. I don't know much about ASP at all, but...

Are you talking about Spycraft 2.0? If so, there's not a lot out for it right now. Your best bet would be to track down the old 1.0 Shadowforce Archer supplements. The supernatural in them was fairly low-key, mostly just sorcerers and spirits and psychic abilities. Magic can be accessed...

Let's see, I've got all the Gaz series, but I'm going from memory here... Ylarum had a desert druid variant, I think it was called the dervish Alfheim had the magical progression for elves, to replace the Companion attack rank system Glantri had the Secret Crafts for wizards, but these...

Forgotten Heroes: Sorcerers had some pretty cool stuff in it. I seem to remember there being a lot of flashy, comic-book type powers, so it might suit what you're looking for. I think there was a POD option at one point, not sure if there still is though.

MST did a Call of Cthulhu joke? I can now die a happy man! Which is a fortunate coincidence, given my love for all things Cthulhu.

When I ran my Glantri game, the Secret Crafts played a large part, since just about every PC had one. But both the Gaz and the box set have always been a little lax on implementation details, other than "they're secret, and here's the abilities they give". The player of the illusionist/dream...

One of Lovecraft's main themes was insanity caused by interaction with the supernatural. In the CoC rules, this is represented by SAN points, which are basically another form of HP, only with a death spiral attached. San is ranked on a percentile scale from 0-99. When encountering a situation...

This is sort of what I was getting at, but I kind of got lost in my own post. In NWN, the community package worked because everyone was playing the exact same game, and had more or less decided through common experience what needed to be changed. It was like a large group of individuals coming...

I remember, also, that the Devil's Canyon adventure in "Shadows of Yog Sothoth" featured invisible creatures who caused minor SAN loss simply from being near you- the sense of being watched by unseen alien forces was enough. Some of this even got recorded on movie reels, which naturally caused...

I think the main divide here is the difference between published OGL and the fan-created mods for NWN. I don't have any direct experience with NWN or what rycanada is talking about, but I'm guessing that the Community Expansion Pack arose when the game publisher identified several fan-made mods...

Sounds like I'll have to check it out then. Thanks for the info! I've always been a big fan of Hastur and the Yellow Sign. I personally like the period history and travel info, too, but it definately gets to be a bit much at some times (ie Horror on the Orient Express, Mountains of Madness)...

It's been a while since I ran a Cthulhu game, but this is the first time I've heard of this being used. It sounds like it's something that's been introduced in Tatters of the King, is that correct? The example with the medusa makes sense, because it's a constant effect. Mechanically, at least...

I think the combat stuff has been covered, so here's a note about sneaking. I constantly see parties disable their rogue's sneaking abilities by insisting on staying together. No group of people is going to be that stealthy, even if all of them have high sneak skills. Someone is bound to give...

Awesome strip. I like the fact that it was the Chinese zodiac which rendered the final judgement on Miko.

Their land could always contain a portal to Ptolus... It would certainly be an interesting answer to the question, "Where are all these evil underground humanoids coming from?" As for links, I got nothin'.