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Eeeeenteresting. I've only picked up Races of Eberron, so I guess I'll be waiting to see exactly what this is before buying any of the others! Nice catch, Mercule. :)

I guess I must be in the minority: I can only think of one WotC artist whose work I strongly dislike, and a small handful that I'm not overly fond of. From the start, I've enjoyed the majority of the art in WotC's books, and the things you highlighted are no exception -- they're pretty sweet. :)

Since I assume you can't cut back on work -- or you already would have! -- I'd say one of the following three things: 1) Drop one of the games you're involved in, and use that time for writing. 2) Like Storminator said: take a break! You've got a crapload on your plate already! 3) Find a job...

With the monk, you're right that I'm thinking of fast movement and slow fall, but also all 6 of the abilities with "body" in the name, plus abundant step and tongue of the sun and moon. The monks gets several good combat abilities, but also quite a few non-combat ones as well. Soulknives...

How old are you? For me, my mid-twenties was the big tipping point for being able to stay up late, coinciding with getting a demanding day job. I'm 28 now, and I look back at how little sleep I needed a few years ago and get all wistful. ;)

I'm not at all a "big player" in terms of RPG freelancing -- I try to always have a project or two on the go, but my list of published credits is fairly small (for now!). But I do juggle that with my day job, spending time with my girlfriend, running a website, playing (and soon running) a...

That may be true for you on the meta side of things, but there's plenty in the way of interesting -- although likely not essential -- items on the rules side, as well. Things like the magic item templates, magical locations and complex NPCs, for example. I've been GMing for a long time as well...

I polished off a collection of non-fiction by Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction -- which was great, up there with Haunted as my favorite work he's done -- and moved on to Fortune's Bastard, by Robert Chalmers (also excellent). I've been in some sort of magical good book zone lately, which...

This is well worth a look -- it's a neat idea, with a slick presentation. The Goldleaf table was one of my first stops in the dealers' room at GenCon Indy '04, where they were cool enough to give away dozens of copies of the print version, and I'm still hunting for a frame that'll hold the map...

Wow -- so many good things have been mentioned already, including a few of my faves: Grimooth's Traps, Toon, Paranoia and GURPS Discworld and Goblins. It's not technically a gaming supplement, but the Murphy's Rules collection deserves a mention (and it does have a couple of "games" in the back...

No disagreement, just mentioning that their class abilities (distinct from skills, saves etc. -- I'm talking about the stuff on the right side of the level chart) -- unlike all of the other secondary combatants I can think of -- are all combat-focused. The more I look at it, the more I think...

10 or more, no question. Heck, I saw Fellowship 5 times just in the theater. ;) As for most viewings ever, it's a toss-up between The Princess Bride and The Arrival, both in the 15-20 times neighborhood. The Princess Bride is one of my all-time favorite movies, and there's something about The...

Given that the SK doesn't have any non-combat class abilities, would you say they'd be slightly better than rangers in combat (and even overall)?

I just don't even know where to start with this one. Have you played in one of my campaigns? ;)

Agreed -- but unlike all of those classes, the soulknife gets zero non-combat abilities (apart from the 4 skill points, I suppose). So it kind of looks like a class that's built solely to fight, but the mechanics don't support that appearance. As you say, some of the skills and combat abilities...

They do have two good saves, and that one crossed my mind. The only problem I see with dropping the HD is that with full BAB and only a d8, the class still wouldn't scream "primary combatant," at least to me. With the shift to d6 that Nifft suggested, even more so. Human Target, what about the...

A player in my upcoming Eberron campaign has proposed giving the soulknife (from the XPH) full BAB progression to shore up the class. His argument is that the soulknife looks like a primary combatant (like the fighter), but doesn't have the abilities to back it up. And if it's supposed to be a...

I'll second that -- though my favorites remain the Taladas tinker gnomes, living in their spires on Hitehkel, the lake of lava, and building things that actually worked. They also had an intense quality to them, and sense of pathos -- like many of the Taladas races, come to think of it. In any...

I think of it as Lloth, because that's how I first encountered it -- but Lolth is just so much easier to say, so that's what I stick with! ;)

Or run a side-game for a few sessions, with everyone playing NPCs or background characters -- perhaps even years ago, before their existing mighty heroes actually were mighty heroes. There are lots of ways around this situation apart from ending the campaign!