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I like Tim Holt's description of Wotan as the kind of guy who gets a cat off of a roof by burning the building down. And Odin ... flat-out scary. In poetry around the world, including Scandanavia, there are poetic references to "the eight legged horse", and it's the one you ride when four...

I would love to see more use of "work together" options in the group I play with. Unfortunately, most of 'em are grandstanding over-competitive glory hounds. (And do they ever give my marshal any credit for the bonuses he gives them? Heck no!) :p

Keep on the Borderlands is one I'd like to see done, just 'cause it's so iconic of the origins of the game. In terms of history, I pick this one. My DM is currently running us through a converted ToEE, and is talking about the Giant Series next. Since I've been playing for over 25 years but...

I mainly notice in the quotations that we have a creature with a minimum of three heads and up to fifty ... but when ears are mentioned, it says "both" as in only two. No ears on the extra heads?

Specialist Wizards feel 2e to me; in the 2e games I played in, they were jumped on immediately and generalists were never seen again. Likewise, all the NPC wizards where specialist. Now in 3rd, I've yet to see any specialists at all. I'm not even sure some people have read that part of the rules.

Speaking of "real" Greek giants, Legends & Lore (2e) listed the Gigantes, that I thought were kinda cool. Not as cool as finding out that Mouseferatu, an actual real world game-designer, is impressed by a game design idea I had -- especially right after I suggest an article for Dragon...

Saints be praised! Okay, I asked for it, Erik likes it, and lots of people agree. Saints in the next one, you have to do it now!

You know, banning the core stuff for a while might be a way to get jaded players to rediscover it when it's allowed back in again.

I'm looking forward to getting this book. For future volumes, I hope to see the article on Saints from issue 79 (near as I can tell, it was the original template, years before the idea/term became a basic concept in the game) and the Burgess Shale monsters, just 'cause they were weird.

Paragraph 18 was a generalization, of which all succeeding paragraphs are specifics. Perfect knowledge has nothing to do with that. When I say paladins are military men, I pull that from the fact that they belong to an organization that encourages them to gather together with their allies in...

There's that word! Umbran used it. "Elitist". And, though I proudly consider myself to be an elitist bastard, I have to go with his and many other criticisms of Dremman's POV here. Not only is "maturity" conflated with "narrative description", but "good" is over identified with what I would...

Not as such. But I have liked to emphasize differences in what's expected in a particular priest or paladin depending on the particulars of a deity. My all-time fave example of this is in the 1e Deities & Demi-gods, we're exposed to Tyr and Forseti, both LG, both Norse deities, both with...

Oh, okay then ... yeah, the thing to do is a little jujitsu on him. The problem is that he's wasting everyone's game time. So underline that it's a waste of his time, too. 1e had a chart for rolling random alignment ... it used a d10, and every alignment was assigned a pip, with "True...

Rent or buy the DVDs, ForceUser. You can't stop the signal.

I don't know of a "Spider-sense" for evil in the Core RAW, but Fantasy Flight's Dungeon Craft has a Sense Evil spell (Cleric 2, Ranger 3). If someone shows as evil to any detect, it just tells you that they can't be trusted. Some other person may have committed the evil deed you're...

I know it's been said, and I know you said you've got the message, but gimme maps! If you hand me a map and nothing else, I can populate it myself. On the other hand, the primary reason (of admittedly, more than one) you'll never see me incorporate "Ghostwalk" into any campaign of mine is that...

Since the thread has come around to it again, I will again say and expand upon it: Paladins are military men. And as military men, they use strategic and tactical advantages. Otherwise, they die, wasting the investment their deity has made in them so far, wasting the potential their deity saw...

Don't be so sure it's hard to get a good save built up. Example character I play: Cleric 3 / Wizard 3 / Mystic Theurge 1 : Will Save +3 for Cleric levels +3 for Wizard levels +2 for MT level +4 for Wisdom (19) bonus; goes to +5 for a 20 next level +2 Iron Will Feat...

Firelance, using the system in your sig would warrant xp in my view ... but what I described doesn't. My taking a 10 is almost cheating; either I've ducked the challenge completely, or I've made an excuse for my failure. But that was my "evil DM" scenario. Under a good DM, I'd be more likely...

My earlier remark about a Knowledge (religion) check was some what off the cuff at the time; but FranktheDM's enthusiatic agreement got me thinking more ... having then seen ajanders similar statements affirms it even more. Scenario: the DM is out to screw me over for playing a paladin. The...