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3ed nonsense I have never understood how monster summoning made it into cleric spell list. It just seems totally wrong.

Koshchei I am pretty sure that concept of lich was influenced by Koshchei Bessmertnii, althought it is probably not the actual origin of the concept. The name quite litterally means "Skeleton the Immortal" and he is a very powerful sorcerer, who hides his life in a well hidden and guarded...

I couldn't agree more. Most of those defensive spells are not very effective, even mage armor. If your party works well you don't need them, and if it doesn't nothing will help you. Blur and displacement are better cast on someone who fights a lot. Area control spells are another good choice.

Mechanically I would treat these alloys as new special materials. As I already said often you can easily work only with some ratio of components. You can say that to make mithraladamantium you need 1/3 mithral and 2/3 adamantium and it has such and such properties or something like that. If on...

Of course i realize we are dealing with magic substances not real world metals (metals?). But my points are: 1. it is more difficult to make alloys 2. even if you can do that, the result might have completely different properties, it is not just "something between", like electrum.

As someone who has some background in physical chemistry, I must say that making alloys is nowhere near as easy as you make it out to be. You cannot simply mix two metals as liquid and cool them, because one will crystallize earlier and the metals separate. Only in certain ratio you can do this...

Equal. But with so many of them published it is probably unavoidable that some of them are more powerful than base classes or that characters will go prestige, thus reducing importance of base classes. Due to this reasons they should perhaps be abolished or something should be done with them...

I like diviners, mostly because of flavor. You would have to be crazy to give up transmutation or conjuration as a specialist, which says something about these schools. Transmuter is another specialist I like a lot. When multiclassing I usualy give up evocation, because it is strongly based on...

As far as I can tell Persephone is a goddess of vegetation, althought she is married to Hades. Wee Jas sounds like a name for a fairy. I don't quite get what is so cool about Ereshkigal.

Morana She is cool. She is the coolest. After all she is also the goddess of winter.

I am back I guess I still owe you a description of Yezinka, I almost forgot. Yezi They are also known as wild women, Yudi and other names depending on the place. There is essentially nothing in the description of Yezinka that would lead me to believe they are not humans with sorcerous powers...

I would definitely prefer conventional calendar, new calendars really bother me. I think they tried this in Kingdoms of Kalamar and they ended with some pretty goofy names. Based on this experience and common sense I think it is not worth the trouble. It is not important, but it doesn't take a...

You are my kind of person! It is not only perfect medieval campaign but also perfect D&D campaign. It is a natural choice as it is a time of most European legends. The only problem is, that there is so little information about this period. Don't know much about them, but it sounds like...

Lets not complicate it:middle ages ended somewhere between invention of printing press and discovery of America. However you are right in your assesment, that burning of witches was a renaissance thing, not in fact medieval. Most witches were probably burned in 17th century! The "Hammer of...

This is all really excellent ideas. If I could I would really like to see your setting in some detail. ad 2 Yes, almost all European royal families had, according to legends, strange roots like that (mostly fey, etc..). They were simply not normal humans. ad 3 I like the idea that Law vs Chaos...

My words exactly. But the most cheesy is invariably also the most mechanically broken.

I agree with that. In fact every time I read this part I am reminded that wizards in D&D are not wizards of mythology. In mythology, divination is considered an indispensable and the most powerful part of any wizard. It is pretty obvious why: they know all of your weakneses and are not there...

Definitely I will answer some of your questions, because you will probably not find an answer on the internet. Baba Yaga, also known as Jezibaba or Yezibaba is a Yezinka, a race of antisocial witches which live in covens of three. The word baba simply means hag. She is apparently an older and...

So, anybody actually used them to any effect or I am the only one who has them as a filler on his sheet?

I try not to kill them. It is simple. If you kill a character than you have a huge problem on your hands as a DM to solve, because the player is out. There is really no other reason than this one. It is a lot easier to fudge a result and punish the character (player) in other way, than to call...