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As a linguist, I have been somewhat bothered by the question of how to pronounce all the names in the KoK campaign setting. If it were Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk, I wouldn't care to much and pick whatever pronunciation suited me. However, with the pseudo-historical realism in Kalamar, I am...

The Hecatoncheires (Epic Level Handbook) are from Greek Legend. According to Greek legend, they were the offspring of Uranus and Gaia. They disgusted Uranus so much that they were locked in Tartarus.

Okay, 3.5e has been out for about a year more or less. After a year of playing with the new rules, what is everyone's opinion? Have the revised rules vastly improved the game? Are you disapointed by them? One year later, what do you think?

Why do some people hate anime style art work so much? Sure some people see anime as being Pókemon or Yu-Gi-Oh, but I envision Lodoss War and Berserk-two very D&D inspired shows-when I think of anime. Besides, IMHO, anime art would be far better than the current fetish&bondage-esque dungeon...

You know, I wouldn't really mind seeing anime D&D art. I know that a lot of people on the boards hate anime (or don't want to see it in D&D), but I kind of like anime style art. Think a minute about Record of Lodoss War and Berserk. Those anime series really capture the feeling of D&D for me...

I really agree with you Merlion. My biggest complaint about D&D fantasy is the cleric class. I haven't seen much in the way of D&D style clerics (that is adventuring, spell-casting priests) in most mythology. What bothers me the most about the cleric class is that it shoehorns a specific...

The Dark and Moody Dramatist-Closely related to the Storyteller. Is more concerned with "realism" and "art" than fun. Campaigns consist of PCs vastly underpowered. Woe to the PC who wants to slay orcs, or find treasure! Characters are likely to die of disease before they have a chance to...

In D&D I'm a suave, smooth talking rogue who's a lady's man. In real life I'm a shy, nerdy guy who has never had a girlfriend. :heh:

Thanks for the input! :) I have a few more questions: 1. Would a lake or ocean create a lot of rain? I'm thinking that the water would evaporate and eventually condense into rain. Perhaps some mountains seperating the water from the rest of the world. 2. I've heard in a lot of deserts it...

I've been working on a sci-fi campaign for some time. The campaign is set on a desert planet after a total planetary war. Temperatures often get up to 110 degrees or higher during the day. Because of the war much of civilization was destroyed. Society has slowly rebuilt itself, technology...

One of my friends who I game with was once told by a lady in his church that D&D was evil. She told him that her nephew got possessed by a demon by playing D&D and was "foaming at the mouth"! :eek:

Looks awesome. One question, will it be compatible with 3.0e rules? Not all of us have switched to 3.5e.

"Fatal Magic: the Gathering" Source: Word of Mouth Premise: I heard this one back in the day when M:tG was relatively new. It seemed that some people started linking M:tG to the occult. Anyway, the story went that some group of Magic players were really into the occult and used the game as...

I'm developing a fairly comprehensive list of languages and dialects for my homebrew. A lot of players don't care about language, but I can't help it; I'm a linguist, so I am natually inclined to include detailed languages.

I haven't done any dungeon crawls with d20 Modern yet, but back in the day I did a dungeon crawl with GURPS: Cyberpunk. The PCs were hired to blow up a research facility. First they had to get into the heart of the facility-a complex multi-level structure. There were guards and booby traps...

No! No swearing for my characters. I have a time maintaining a medieval verisimilitude when charaters are using 20th century American swear words. Sure, there is evidence that "f-word" goes back some time in one form or another (as do other swear words). However, most harsh language seems...

No! No swearing for my characters. I have a time maintaining a medieval verisimilitude when charaters are using 20th century American swear words. Sure, there is evidence that "f-word" goes back some time (as do other swear words). However, most harsh language seems just to "modern" for my...

It seems that Wizards has been very sucessful with 3.5e. From what I've seen the old 3e is all but dead, superseded by 3.5e. I know people who have sold their entire 3e collection (worth hundreds of dollars) after 3.5e was released. Of course there are a few enbittered players who refuse to...

I guess I'm in the minority here. I really hate 3.5e! I have trouble thinking of a single change that I like. Even the much lauded 3.5 ranger, doesn't seem like that much of an improvement to me. What I hate the most is the fact that it seems to have fractured my local gaming community. I...

No alcohol at my games! I don't drink and I've had some bad experiences with people getting drunk at games, so I've decided that drinking and gaming usually don't mix.