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In my DM's previous campaign, there was an interesting power struggle following the death of a country's first emperor. He was a priest of Luminous, the Sun god of the campaign. As a young lad, he was gifted with the god's own mace and eventually became a great mercenary leader, working for...

Eddings' world doesn't seem to have a name (Continents seem to be "Mallorea" and "The West"...though that doesn't include the south part of the continent). Same with the Jordan books. Sometimes they name a big place, like Shara, but never the world. ...much the opposite of dragonlance that...

My local gamestore owner mentioned that they were on the Wizards list of things that can be ordered, but no one had asked him to bring any in. I've been thinking about a set as a Christmas present

I would think that Netherese would be the language of a number of tomes related to magical research you might stumble upon. The language of the Imaskari, another magical empire where the Old Empires region is now, might prove useful if one could could find a teacher. In general, the languages...

Here are some of the locations from "Faiths and Avatars" and "Powers and Pantheons". As someone pointed out, Oghma would would be a good place to start, so I figured I'd check there. Obviously, the great temples to various deities even aside from the gods of knowledge would hold libraries of...

Covington Cross, which I believe aired on ABC...and that rather depletes my memories of it beyond what you said. I think it lasted a season.

I'm still around, and I see several of the other posters to this thread around the boards. I also feel like mentioning that this very thread helped me find a group to play with. Dave, Ken and Craig are some stand up guys.

This doesn't actually sound to me to be all _that_ far from the way I've seen games played in the past. When I join a game, I make sure to ask the DM about any house rules, particularly those that see frequent use, as well as what resources the players are allowed to use for character creation...

No, there were orders of "Knights" that used magical items to become jaguars or eagles.

For some reason, it greatly amuses me that he referenced a Castlevania site.

I'll toss my thoughts in for playing an NPC as well. While having a DM take over a PC when the player in question is gone can lead to hurt feelings if something bad happens, playing a normally NPC character can be kind of cool. If it goes well, he can either look forward to playing a single...

I'd thought of mentioning the current high priest's levels, but figured that it is easier to come up with a cleric, than with a major holy site. That said, if Olorin wants to still use the "official" version of the high priest, there surely isn't anything wrong with having a major temple count...

Not sure about the cleric specifically, but there is a temple of Tempus is Battledale...I believe it is called the Abbey of Swords. During the Time of Troubles, and an attempted invasion of the Dale by Zhent forces, an aging follower of Tempus called upon his god for aid...and it worked. I...

Thanks for the heads up Sep. We'll be here when things calm down. I hope the busy nature of RL is of the good kind.

I'd say Star Trek 2 should be up there, both because it was much improved over the previous is so many ways, and due to the high number of great quotes.

You'll note that his whip is very effective, but only against demons/undead/ect. Perhaps a paladin, but give the whip the holy or disruption powers? Vampire Killer is supposed to be a magical whip I think...though, if my memory serves, it only shows that power when Dracula revives...thereby...

Don't feel bad about posting this here, man. We all have those kinds of friends I think, and I certainly know I'd have a tough time keeping together or even coherent if one of them suddenly died. If this helps you deal with your grief and shock even a little, it'll be worth it. You have my...

My new DM awards extra skill points on level up for frequent journal entries, rather than an xp award. I have no idea what kind of journal to skill point ratio it is though, as I have not yet leveled up.

Hmmm, I recall playing in a campaign with an empire that had limited slavery, gladitorial games and such. THe slaves were mostly comprised of criminals and captured enemy soldiers (those likely to provide good entertainment for the games), so my DM at the time defined the empire as neutral as...

I recall that in the Cormyr books, many of the noble houses of the land seem to be divided equally among those of staunch loyalty to the crown, and those simply twitching to get out from under such central authority. One of Azoun's bastards hoping to gain loyalty of noble houses might let it be...