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If you removed the flavor references to gladiators in the article, you'd have 3 specialized fighters that mechanically work just the same without an audience. I'm not sure you'd want to play someone who skills mostly related to grappling outside an arena, but the Occult Slayer works as well...

Each of the skills does have a "When to use..." section. The Diplomacy skill doesn't really require that you say you're using it, since the character would be using any time they talked to someone, it's just that for game purposes it's only checked when the outcome is in doubt. Bluff is used...

In my wife's world, there's just one pervasive divine force, and the individual gods are just ways people interact with it. While we haven't dealt specifically with godless clerics as presented in the PHB (though they're available), one of the characters is a gnome cleric, and it's been made...

Double Team: If two characters have this they can basically flank a target without necessarily flanking. Improved Dirty Fighting: Advanced version of feat from Sword & Fist. Staggering Blow: Potentially stuns opponent on critical hit dealing bludgeoning or subdual damage. They all seem to...

A nice-looking issue with nice content. Thanks to everyone at the magazine for continuing with the "Campaign Components" features. Campaign Components: Gladiators, by Dean Poisso. A few pages looking at gladiatorial games in Roman history is followed by the usual tips on working the contests...

The free Umbragia setting (hosted by ENWorld) has both cat and dog people. Mythic Races by FFG also has cat people. I was very grateful that Races of Evernor Vol. I from Silverthorne Games patterned their cat race after domesticated varieties rather than doing another race of proud warriors...

While the outline of the races in his earlier announcements left me cold (closer to repelled, actually), seeing what he's doing with them and how they fit together has me interested. I don't think the points about them being similar in broad concept to stuff that's already out there are really...

The first two, certainly, even though we've made relatively small use of the ones we have. The new ones will be easier to use for a casual gaming group that doesn't make a career of keeping up with erratta, faq's, and intense online rules discussion. I'd guess that two or three of us will be...

Based on customer response, they decided to do their guide to the whole of the Iron Kingdoms first. I think they still plan to do the Corvis book, but no longer really want to put dates on things to far in advance with all the delays they've had.

Got it, thank you. :D Haven't had a chance to read it yet but it looks good. The aavali illustration by Lance Card is amazing, I like Chris Pepper's flitterling as well.

At this level of detail, when I get it to closely approximate me, the features also eerily resemble my wife... For those of you keeping score: Biological determinism 1/Free will 0.

For a comparison of various face and character making sites: http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/identikit/

Thanks, Danzilla. It's very nice to have.

Stupid brain, I should have remembered... Jason Todd (Robin II) Ray Terrill (The Ray) Hugh Grant (The Tasmanian Devil)

Kent Nelson (Golden Age Doctor Fate) John Stewart (a Green Lantern) Guy Gardner (a Green Lantern/Warrior) Jay Garrick (Golden Age Flash) Bart Allen (Impulse) (There was aother Flash from the future who also fit the pattern) If we're including females with male surnames: Diana Lance (Golden...

They referred to this in an issue of Chase, where the title character was an agent for an intelligence agency that monitored metahumans and superheroes. She was at a party with Bruce Wayne and Alan Scott (the golden age Green Lantern) and mentioned they had a saying at the agency about people...

Bombshell Studios has a shaman core class by Chris Jones, author of The Book of Taverns from Necromancer, co-author of The Slayer's Guide to Yuan-Ti, and contributor to several other books. It's a free download, and there's a lot of other nice free stuff (monsters, places of interest, etc.)...

Although it would be fascinating to see that film as done by Ken Burns, I believe you meant to type Ken Russell (Altered States, Lair of the White Worm, Tommy).

Don't feel too bad, Smith named several characters after his cats. Of course, those characters were themselves cats (or cat derived)...so I suppose, really, you'd have to use the name of someone having an unrequited relationship with your cat to be doing something all that similar. (Hopefully...

I wanted to use something from Cordwainer Smith's "Instrumentality" future history stories, but names like "Manshonyagger [Menschenjager]," "Manikin MEEE," and "Old Hot and Simple" all just seemed like they'd be a bit much when paired with casual posts. I thought Aitch Eye sounded low-key but...