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Don't have my AU here, but from memory I think the only "overpowered" AU race by this hierarchy is the Litorians. A couple are "underpowered", though.

Nope, at least not in the D&D spell-school sense. Monte has said (on his boards) he noted the schools mostly for d20 compatibility.

Yeah, I don't really understand the initial post. On a rules level, AU is as compatible with D&D as any other supplement that calls itself a "variant", and far more compatible than most. It's got background material that may well be hard to integrate, but that doesn't make it any different from...

NPC clerics who can cast Raise Dead or Remove Curse for hire are also in the DMG, and yet definitively not part of AU, so that's no explanation at all. Point is, we know Monte left out parts of the 3.0 PH for various reasons, but we can't say the same for 3.5 - so anything that's new in 3.5 is...

True, but if you're good at poker it's far better to find a private game. The rake in a casino on a public game is usually insane, particularly with Texas Hold 'Em being so popular these days. Best, ahem, bet is to treat a night at casino like any other night of entertainment - play the games...

Remember AU is based off of 3.0 and was in playtest for quite a while before release; I don't know if Monte had access to the 3.5 stuff in time to incorporate it, but from his 3.5 comments thus far I'd assume not. There are some 3.0 omissions that puzzle me - Leadership, for example - but 3.5...

Little advice: be a lot more thorough in your looting and selling. The treasure levels are a bit tight in RttToEE, but not THAT tight - unless you've had to pay full price to raise everyone a couple of times or you've been leaving most loot to rot, you should have a lot more than what you...

A mistake? Not really. Wizards don't get a lot of skill points, but they don't really need a lot, either. In 3.0, you need Concentration and Spellcraft, and Scry is nice - everything else is discretionary spending. In 3.5, Scry is gone. So you've got a lot of points to work with, and if you want...

Or alternately, he could become one of the homeless and destitute. That's not exactly without precedent for soldiers making the transition from a life of war to a period of peace and inactivity. There's a fair amount of roleplay meat there too, if you want to take it that way - Paladins try to...

Shadowrun's basic background is that it's a near-future cyberpunkish setting, but between now and then a big supernatural event occurs that brings magic back to the world. Lots of people "awaken" as traditional fantasy races - orcs, elves, dwarves, and others - and cultures that have retained a...

I remember Rapidstrike - both played it and ran it with different groups. Fun shoot 'em up, not really a spy adventure though - more of a counter-terrorism schtick, I guess. I think the best espionage-type adventure published for Top Secret was Orient Express, which gave details on train travel...

Scanned through the thread for the other big haste change, but if it's been mentioned I missed it: Haste affects 1 creature/level instead of just 1 creature. So you lose the rapid fire fireballer of 3.0, but it's now a pretty nice group combat buff.

I don't think any deity would have much trouble with answering all those auguries and divinations - probably has some snot-nosed young half-celestial intern to do most of the grunt work. The problem the Cleric will run into is he only gets so many spells/day, so he does need to prioritize. If he...

If it's an easy question, what's the point in presenting it as a moral dilemma? The answer could just as easily be "Yes. Killing any innocent is evil, you moron, how'd you get to be a full blown cleric without knowing that?" - which answer you get isn't as important as the fact that there is in...

I dunno, it doesn't seem to me that there's much reason for that kind of debate in a standard D&D game. At some point, a cleric must have Communed with Pelor (or whatever goody-goody deity) during such a dilemma and asked "Is this goblin/kobold/orc/whatever baby inherently evil?" and/or "Is it...

Good in the alignment sense or in the protagonist sense? In the alignment sense... Ned Stark, the Kingsguard who actually kept their vows (all dead before the start of the first book, of course), and probably Bran, Meera, and... her brother, whatsisname. Hmm, possibly Sansa, she seems to be...

From a Cleric/Paladin point of view, I would Detect Evil on the infants. If they come up as evil - i.e., if Kobolds are inherently evil, not uncommon in D&D campaigns - then it's OK to kill them. If not, I'd try and take care of them (whether that means trying to get them to a foster home or...

Well, goblins don't traditionally need a lot of incentive to attack isolated communities, but if you want to link to something bigger one option I personally like is from the Book of Vile Darkness. One of the Malign Sites listed is the Goblin Pits of Io-Rach, where goblins and other creatures...

Were I the player, I'd be wondering if there's any other clerical restrictions you planned to impose on my sorcerer, or if next week the restrictions of some other class would apply. I'd also be wondering why the god of the seas doesn't punish pirates, why the god of travel doesn't personally...

Then why are you asking the Paladin about it before she dies? She can only answer with the knowledge she has while still alive. If you know better and are doing the right thing, steal the body and chow down. You seem to be assuming a religious ambiguity that simply doesn't exist in a relatively...