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My friend Dan Davinport felt the system as advertised was far too left-leaning, so I lent him my copy of the first edition for him to review. He posted it at rpg.net... ah... let me see where it is. Ah! http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_3291.html

I don't think a new race is really needed in the PHB - you've got close to too many as it is. Getting rid of the half-elf isn't a bad idea - if there's one problem with the race it's that it doesn't have anything to *do*. The gnomes like to be bards, the hobbits like to steal things, the elves...

Yes, cool! Congratulations!

What's my next preference? Depends who I'd be running for. Buffy comes to mind - I haven't run it, but I've played it, there's a sample adventure in the book, and character creation could be sped up by handing out the sample characters. Another option would be BESM - but that requires a lot...

I enjoy multiclassing too much not to take humans most of the time. I think I played an elf once, and I've got two halfling characters. (One a wizard, the other a favored soul.)

Hello, one and all! This is John Fiala, RPG coordinator for Tacticon 2005. I haven't tried posting to message boards to find games before, but I thought I'd give it a try this year. Tacticon is a regional convention happening here in Denver, taking place from September 1 to September 4th. If...

Interesting question. (Note: My Illusionist is currently working under 3.0 rules, but most of it's the same.) Keep in mind the joys of Invisibility. Also, the joys of Blur and Displacement - your character may not enjoy battle as much as my Monk/Wizard does, but it never hurts to get an extra...

Well, that's almost completely wrong, but it's an understandable mistake, really. The RPGA player reward cards are collectable - except it's pretty easy to get complete sets without even trying, by playing lots of the Living games. And, they're only legal *in* the living games, so you don't...

My brother works at Fox, and has done post-production on the first movie, IIRC. It's at trilogy of movies that are being made in Russia - I think they're already finishing the second one. He said he liked the first one, so I'm really looking forward to it.

I'm becoming fond of the Shadow spells - Shadow Conjuration, Shadow Evocation... that sort. 1) Wide variety of effects. 2) Whichever effect you do choose has been heightened. 3) So, with appropriate feats to raise your save DCs, they can allow you to provide some extra oomph to the spells...

Just this week I realized how useful Mordenkaiden's Tiny Hut is. You're warm, you're comfortable, you've got light if you need it, the lookout can see 360 degrees around from the inside, but anyone outside can't see in. (And if you pick the color of the hut right, you blend in with the...

Evard's Black Tentacles This spell is proof that the great wizard Evard really was a complete pervert. Tired of using fireball to burn his opponents and not able to use sleep effectively on anything more dangerous than an orc with a hangover, the great wizard Evard used his great knowledge of...

I'd go with #2. Bonus to AC, consistant frost bonus damage, and all. Seems to be a better sword, all around.

Light Light is a funny thing in a dungeon. Some dungeons contain no light at all, stocked to the brim with varieties of creatures who can see in the dark (Orcs, Trolls, certain Politicians), traps, and the occasional room painted with a unique kind of fungus that provides light, but can't be...

Ebay can work well for getting rid of things. (I had a bidder on my Sim City cards, even!) Some tips: 1) Write everything you want to say in the description of the item ahead of time, before you do the posting. Check similar items to see what sort of details you can include. 2) Take a picture...

Teller of Tales - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle. Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit - For work. Mastering Perl - For fun! Also going to read through Holy Blood, Holy Grail with my wife.

On the one hand, you'ld think that it should cost about a third, since you're providing a third of the benefit. But on the other hand, most characters really only have one bad save - letting someone get a significant cost discount to just boost their bad save might not have great effects. So...

Huh. Well, that'll save me some money. :)

So, I've got a Wizard-Monk. He's taken the Arcane Fist PrC, and has hit second level, where he gets +1 level advancement to his spells. My question is - does he get the Wizard's two free spells each level, or is that an advantage only to the Wizard class? Because it gets expensive to stop and...

'Man-Thing' has got to be one of the most unfortunately named monsters ever... especially considering all of the mobile tree-branches.