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The Wandering Fire, the second book in Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry.

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To blow on ale and whores!

Good! Gnomes are where they belong, as terrifying inhuman monsters which manipulate the PCs from behind the scenes. Yes, I have been playing in an Eberron game. Why do you ask?

It says "Poison 5", and I wouldn't be surprised if the 5 is the "attack bonus" against the target's fortitude defense. That's how it works in Star Wars Saga.

WotC has a "story team" and a "mechanics team". They need a "names team" too. I love virtually all the mechanics changes and the story changes, but all the names have left me cold.

LOL. That's exactly the problem I have with Bo9S. D&D spells almost all have intuitive names, which makes learning and playing the game easier. Must the game be filled with [melodramatic adjective] [fantasy beast/object]'s [ambiguous verb]?

Definitely dorky. Worse yet, it's a mouthful, and completely meaningless. One problem I had with the Bo9S names, and things like "Dragon's Tail Cut", is that they don't actually describe what they do. They're meaningless, so players and DMs are forced to memorize dozens or hundreds of...

It's very different from having 95 extra bonus hit points, because you don't have those hit points automatically in the middle of an encounter. With 95 hit points you're the energizer bunny, able to go go go and blow through any encounter. With a virtual wand of CLW, you can heal up between...

First of all, almost all of the math is identical in 3.0 and 3.5. Second, by all accounts Johnathan Tweet was the math guy in the 3rd edition design team. I do find it interesting that Monte's ideas for improving 3e look a lot like what the 4e designers have done. There seems to be a broad...

Not enough options in your poll. I wanted to vote 'Boysenberry' Mmm, boysenberry.

I've heard French and German RPGers use "malus" for penalty, as well as a translation of "disadvanage" in the advantage/disadvantage systems that various RPGs have.

I love the ideas, but the names leave me cold. Feywild? Bleagh. I'll take Faerie please. Shadowfell? Bleagh. The Shadow World, or even the Shadow are a thousand times better. The Astral Sea is decent though, though the traditional (and mythological) Astral Plane would be just as good.

I know this is mostly just a confirmation, but I'm incredibly happy to hear that. Being able to improvise monsters in D&D, and not having to go through calculations when doing prep, imagine that! Based on this, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we see a gish in the 4e books. . . where it...

That's my guess list too. This gives us two defenders (fighter & paladin), two leaders (cleric & warlord), and probably two strikers (ranger & rogue) and two controllers (warlock & wizard). Warlocks in 3.5 are more like strikers, but people try to play them as wizard substitutes, so my guess...

I think you're right, in concept if not in mechanics. I'm glad that Noonan clarified that. I suspect that many of us came to the conclusion that they were groupings of spells/spell schools because that's how the implements were described in the first version if the article: the 4 items each...

I really hope you're right. If they insist on using the cheesy names in the article, I hope they're as easy to remove from the game as the default gods in the 3e PHB. If they're more like Bo9S school names, thoroughly integrated into the entire system, then I'm going to be miffed. They're too...

I don't know which I like better, mechanically. I liked the original's idea of using different tools for different types of magic. However, books being a casting tool didn't quite sit well with me, becuase I find the image of a wizard waving his book at an enemy a bit silly. Though I suppose...

This bit makes "+6 wands" make sense, and also jives with the flipping of saving throws over to static defenses: When casting a fireball, the wizard makes a caster check and compares it to his targets' reflex defenses. When casting dominate person, he makes a caster check against his target's...