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I basically follow them long enough to note that my opinions usually get ignored, even when I make the same points that someone else makes but I actually make them first, about two pages before. :( I guess I just don't have that magic touch or something. :D

I got laid off from my old ad job but am now currently freelancing at another ad agency on Wilshire right next to the Los Angeles County Art Museum. [corporate schill]Buy Nestlé products! You know you want some tasty, delicious... something. What am I working on again? [/corporate schill]...

Not to derail this, but I was just thinking the other day that about a year ago or so I think you were looking for a new job here in L.A. Where did you end up?

Interesting. I doubt you'd find my goblins and orcs too cliché, though. The goblins in my world are "the wise ones", the descendants of the ancient scribes of a master race. They have all the knowledge - but they don't know it, and neither does anyone else (yet). They live in cities...

This is the point I was going to make. Certain people run "low magic" worlds, for example. In this instances, it's entirely possible that the core wizard and sorcerer are "imbalanced". It's also conceivable that someone may run a world where 75% or greater of the adversaries faced by his...

I just played a 16th level Githyanki Psion in a one-shot evil game this past weekend. It was really fun, although I didn't get to "build" the character (all the characters were pre-generated by the DM so I didn't know what I was getting until the day before). As someone said, there are lots of...

Just curious about these two. How about a gold dragon paladin? I could see that, I think. For the rogue, I can imagine a small/young black dragon (or other evil dragon) with a few levels, maybe. Not for the trap sense or disable device or whatever, but for the sneak attack. That could make...

I did this all the time in college (not on purpose) but before the squiggly lines started, there would be a few random nonsense words that were actually related to whatever I started thinking as I dozed off. So, you'd see my chemistry notes with a line about how to create the scientific...

Fantasy Flight Games' Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation is a fun game - a friend recommended it and my wife and I have played it a few times. There's a fun game called "Set" that's playable with any number of players. It's cool because you can play it solo, too. I believe that there is...

There are Quintessential Dwarf and Quintessential Dwarf II and a sourcebook for the Sovereign Stone system called Marauders of the Wolf: The Dwarves (dwarves in Sovereign Stone are mainly horse-riding, nomad types so if you want traditional dwarves, this might not work for you). Races of Stone...

This won't help you, but I don't have halflings in my world. I don't like 'em. And, I don't use gnomes, either. I'm not really into the "small races". To replace them, players can be goblins (altered, size medium) or orcs (altered - basically the half-orc stats), or half-elves, half-goblins...

Oh, yeah - people talked about bards. They changed the whole "fighter-thief-druid" progression of bards and maybe them a base "core" class that started at 1st level.

I don't have the specifics memorized like most of the other people on the boards, but the basic things I remember are: 1) No half-orcs as a race in the PH. PC half-orcs weren't introduced really utnil the Complete Book of Humanoids 2) No base assassin, barbarian, or monk class in the PH...

100% agreed. This is pretty much how I built my current campaign world. Many trips to the library (much easier while I was still in college) and then tweaking things and mixing them together to see how it would turn out. For me, that's much more fun.

I'm looking forward to the book, too. I was just curious about this statement, though - what's the downside of having a PDF being perpetually on sale?

I see what you're saying. But, from a financial perspective, books with feats, new skills, and PrCs are usually (always?) going to sell better because they're designed for the players and there are more players than DMs. A book about Dwarven (or any racial culture) is aimed mostly at DMs which...

I think part of the "problem" here is that, for the most part, if a DM isn't running in a published world setting (like FR or the Iron Kingdoms or whatever), he is going to want to make up most of that type of stuff by himself. A book of "generic" (meaning, non-world specific) fluff about...

Gotcha. For a one-shot, however, you might be able to drum up a few players that you don't normally game with. I'm sure you must know a few people who "used to play" D&D and might be interested in a one-day thing but just aren't committed enough to try out a full campaign. Three of the six...

You'd be surprised. With enough advanced planning, it can work. We're all in our early or mid-30s and most of us are married or are long-term significant others. The whole thing started because the out-of-town friend was coming into town to visit and mentioned off-hand that he'd really like...

Right - I'm pretty horrible at math and at computers, but a huge geek when it comes to Star Trek, Star Wars, Tolkien, RPGs, Python, etc. But, usually with these geek/nerd tests, the vast majority of the questions revolved around math and computer knowledge.