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Well, I like a lot of animal-races, but culture is an important point. I like the nezumi ratmen from the Rokugan setting because of the extensively-developed culture presented for them (only tiny bits of which showed up in oriental Adventures, but I went out and bought Way of the Ratling for...

The bows with pulleys are comPOUND bows (though technically, they are often "composite" as well, with limbs made from layers of fiberglass instead of wood, horn, and sinew). Realism-wise, "upgrading" a composite bow would be extremely difficult and probably not worth the effort unless it was an...

The Scent ability alone is worth +1 LA according to Savage Species. Having lots of good ability score pluses is worth at least another +1. On that note, I should point out that the "+2 Cha" for Awaken is NOT a normal ability adjustment in that it applies, not to a random roll, but to the...

Some guidelines: Marriage ceremonies are almost always public, very much so. One of the purposes of having a ceremony is to let it be known far and wide (or at least within the local community) that "These two are now married - hands off, all you other would-be suitors." It's also a good...

The Battledancer class from the Dragon Compendium gives CHA to AC - basically a chaotic monk with some minor bard-like inspirational powers. Ascetic Mage feat gives Cha to AC instead of Wis, and lets your sorceror levels stack with monk for unarmed damage and AC bonus. Magic of Faerun had a PrC...

Forgive the newbie question, but - what's a "color shaper"? From context, apparently you have several, some of which are "softer" than others. I'm guessing different colors = different softness?

Yes, the minis with Descent are very nice, and in fact are a major reason I'm considering buying it. They're plastic, but fairly well detailed. Unpainted, in two colors of plastic (white and red, the red ones represent tougher "boss" versions of the standard monsters), but as I like to paint...

Then why, over and over, do they say "does not stack with haste", "does not stack with speed", etc.? If stacking multiple Speed weapons is A-OK, then why try so hard to avoid stacking Speed weapons with Haste? Or Haste with Haste? It's the exact same effect, after all... "They banned all the...

Um, no. Spring attack doesn't let you do two Moves plus one attack. It let's you "split" the one Move you get. If I Spring Attack by moving 20 ft, attacking, then moving 10 ft, I have used up both my Standard action (by attacking) and my Move action (by moving 30 ft). I don't get to do all...

Some thoughts on speeding/simplifying play: Round Display: an old, non-functional wall clock works well. Remove the clear cover and simply turn the minute hand from number to number as the rounds progress. Everyone can see what round it is. You can turn the second hand to point to an...

Off the top of my head: Have the cult leader (or a trusted lieutenant who has more ranks in the skill) make a Gather Info check of his own, with a DC equal to what the PCs rolled for their Gather Info check (or the lowest roll, if they made more than one). DC -10 or better: "Some folks were...

Or worse yet, they ARE coming back ... "Looook me in the eeeeyyyes, huuumaaaannn..."

As usual, the problem is munchkinism. One sword of Speed is not game-breaking. Even two stacking swords probably would be OK. It's when you start getting the "I polymorph into a marilith, cast Girallon's Blessing, activate Raging Mongoose, and attack 32 times with my eight swords of speed"...

Complete Arcane, page 7: A warlock's invocations are spell-like abilities; using an invocation is therefore a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity. Steal Summoning is a Dark invocation, so it's not available until high level anyway (16th for a straight Warlock), and compared to...

The plural of moose is moose, just like the plural of sheep is sheep.

Some more ideas: Killloren are fey. Martial-arts movies often have a moral lesson about self-control or the evils of vengeance. What if... ...the leader of the murdering mercenaries was his father? And he only finds this out after killing the man? Suppose there was a love affair between a...

What happened to the other monks at the monastery? Were they all killed, and Our Hero forced to flee? (Cue the theme from the Kung Fu TV show - great resource, BTW, for playing a monk character. Not the later, cheesy "The Legend Continues" one, but the original show.) Dragonslayers probably...

Play up the size differences. Open Locks, for example, is quite a different skill for a 6" pixie than for a 6' human. For the human, it involves sensitive manipulation of small tools while being unable to see exactly what you're doing. The pixie, OTOH, can easily see into the mechanism and...

Less manly? I dunno, he looks pretty buff to me. More handsome seducer and less chainsaw killer, that's OK.

Invisibility is reeeealy nice for a bard, because playing your bardic music is not an attack so it doesn't break the invisibility. The enemy has a hard time even finding you, much less hitting you, and meanwhile you can stroll around the battlefield boosting your friends and positioning...