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Here's the basic sheet for Bariel: Name: Bariel Qua-min Race: Human Religion: Astres Height: 5'11" Hair: Brown, with a short beard Eyes: Hazel STR 15 (+2); DEX 14 (+2); CON 10 (+0); INT 12 (+1); WIS 16 (+3); CHA 10 (+0) Fort: +2 Ref: +1 Will: +5 Init: +2 HP: 12 Skills: Balance 6...

You could very easily do a game set in "Rome." There are a couple of ways: 1) Straight play. The characters could be legionnaires in the same group as Pullo and Vorenus, but doing parallel things. Or they could be legionnaires in Pompey's army, having parallel adventures (maybe they're the...

Curses! Foiled again ;). Oh well, I guess I'll take EWP and something else. I still get the Weapon Focus feat for free, so I'll take what I can get. As for stats, Str 15 Dex 14 Con 10 Int 12 Wis 16 Cha 10

HA HA! You fool! Now you've played into my hands. I get bastard sword proficiency without spending a base feet, as well as weapon focus! :) Here's a little more backstory. Bariel was from Embria, the home of Master Carthis' school. However, the school never held any appeal for him. In...

I don't have a full idea yet, but here's what I'm thinking: Cleric/Warblade. The domains would be Protection and War. The main Warblade schools would be Iron Heart and Stone Dragon. Stat focuses would be on Strength, Dexterity, and Wisdom, with Intelligence and Constitution being back up...

That's partly why I wanted to play an asimaar (Yay +2 bonus to Charisma). I can live without the high Intelligence since I'm going to focus on only a few schools (Iron Heart, White Raven, maybe Stone Dragon). Also I want to do Iron Heart, which crusaders don't get.

OK. I can be persuaded- human cleric/warblade it is. I'm thinking that he's semi-fanatical, but that it's a front for doubts about the separation of pureblood humans from mixed-blood. What domains would be appropriate for a cleric of Astres?

This seems like a really neat game. If you are still accepting players, would you consider an asimaar paladin/warblade? He would likely focus on White Raven and Iron Heart maneuvers (which is why I want to go warblade and not crusader). I'd like to try to figure out a way that he would be...

I don't know about that, but it sounds like the introduction of Abeir will be more drastic than just someone discovering a whole other half of a globe. Most references mention a "merging of worlds," maybe via the Weave's collapse, maybe via some other reason. If done well, this will be an...

I never said "ignoring NPC's" equals "good DM'ing." Many DM's can use these NPC's just fine and run great games that their players enjoy. Others run games where names like Elminster are heard, but it's the equivalent of hearing about King Arthur or Hercules in world history. Everyone can run...

If the threat is that big, neither one NPC nor a whole party can pull that off solo. This would be a team effort and would allow the DM to show the NPC's while still letting the PC's shine. And makes for a great story- "We stood back-to-back with Drizz't and Bruenor and fought off an army of...

Again, you assume that every village has a 20th level former character. If the DM doesn't want it that way, then it is not. Or, who's to say he went up against the threat and died or disappeared? Then where are your poor villagers. If it's the little ubiquitous NPC's that supposedly fill...

For some, it's easy. Elminster and any other Chosen, as I said before, are godslaves. First and foremost, they must do what their deity tells them to do. There are things around Faerun which are threats to people that the Chosen of Mystra aren't allowed to stop, because these threats in their...

1) But, in part, it is the existence of high level NPC's. Look at the ruling cabal of Greyhawk. They have a lot of magical power, allies of any number of magnitudes, and other mundane resources. Why, then, do they not fix every problem in Greyhawk? Likewise, this is a central gathering...

If they're rude, yes. That's a whole different issue. If you set out from the beginning what the parameters of your game are and say that you may not be running "by the book(s)," then you've set your expectations and the players should abide by it. If they don't, then this isn't the game for...

So by this argument, no campaign should ever have high level NPC's, since they make the PC's irrelevant. Therefore we should remove Mordenkainen and the other high mages from Greyhawk, all Heroes of the Lance and their descendants from Dragonlance, any film character from Star Wars, etc., etc...

"As DM, I'm ignoring/rewriting the NPC info for Marsember." Not so hard to have a level 2 game now is it? "The high-level NPC's are still in the game. They're just busy right now. You want to know what they're doing? If you find out, things have gone really badly for them." Can't always...

FR fans can be very reasonable, but like fans of all settings and worlds, there are those who aren't. The minute the DM deviates from what they see as "their" FR, they complain or "correct" the DM. I have seen it happen, and I can understand why there are DM's who see it as more of a headache...

Even though this is an argument that no one's going to win, despite the fact that one could argue the same fact about Mordenkainen et al. in Greyhawk or certain novel-invented heroes in Dragonlance, here's two more cents: 1) Big time NPC's can always be elsewhere when the dung hits the ground...

This would be great. The cleric's spells primarily buff/aid party members or bring the (un)holy wrath of their god down, the wizard's spells do direct damage and control the battlefield, and the warlock's powers weaken opponents and make them vulnerable. This is better than the way it's been...