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3rd ed Manual of the Planes says that travel between different Material Planes can be possible through the Plane of Shadow. The idea is that 3.x Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Dragonlance, and others have their own cosmologies (the Wheel for Greyhawk, the Great Tree in FR, etc.), but the...

I believe the books are: Monster Manual 3 Monster Vault Monster Vault: Threats to Nentir Vale Dark Sun Creature Catalog Neverwinter Campaign Setting The Book of Vile Darkness The Shadowfell Madness at Gardmore Abbey HS1 and HS2 Halls of Undermountain Marauders of the Dune Sea Tomb of Horrors...

D&D has given higher-than-average Charisma to creatures like mind flayers, beholders, and gibbering mouthers. Charisma can mean different things, but personally I think of it as "presence". If a gibbering mouther is more charismatic than the average human, I honestly don't see why a Pathfinder...

There's a good amount of daily resource management in 4e too. Healing surges are a daily resource, and so are daily magic item powers. And obviously most classes get powerful daily abilities. It's definitely not all encounter-based.

Because that's how 4e does it.

Nah, Halruaans look more or less European, maybe more Mediterranean than Scandinavian. The people of Turmish are supposed to look sub-Saharan African (mahogany skin, flatter features, kinky hair texture). The cover of the 3.5 Complete Arcane book depicts a Turami wizard.

Ok, let’s consider a couple of examples. You have a 3rd-level party with the typical warrior, skill-user, arcane caster, and divine caster. They’re facing a social type skill challenge where the most relevant skills would be things like Bluff, Diplomacy, Perform, Sense Motive, and maybe some...

Isn't this only exacerbated in 3.5? If you don't put ranks in a skill, you're not getting any better. In 4e, you at least get half your level to the check, even if you lack a good ability modifier. In 3.5, if you lack the ranks, you're incompetent compared to someone with the ranks (especially...

There is, but it's pretty bare-bones. Incantations from Unearthed Arcana (and the SRD). They were a fairly obvious precursor to the 4e rituals, which evolved into the ritual spells of 5e.

Any spell that's an emanation is simple: If the point of origin is the caster, then the emanation continues to emanate from the caster's position for the duration of the spell. Ie., emanations centered on the caster move with the caster. Control Weather is not an emanation, thus the simplest...

I think you start running into problems the moment you try extrapolating a world out of D&D game rules. D&D has so many rules that are there just because it's a game, but also because it's sort of haphazardly trying to evoke a fantasy world. "Haphazardly" because once you look behind the...

As far as established rules are concerned, one additional instance of limiting attacks based on weapon size is grappling. You can use a light weapon to attack while grappling, but with a -4 penalty. Can't attack with other, larger weapons at all. Same thing when you're swallowed whole -- light...

The 3.5 DMG has area templates on its final pages, which resolve the question of Large and bigger creatures and how their weapon reaches are represented on a combat grid. A 10-ft. reach is always two squares from the creature's space.

What about borrowing the 4e paradigm? For example, first failed save against the gaze attack could result in the immobilized condition (introduced in Tome of Magic I think, and used in later books too; essentially prevents the use of the 'move' function of the move action), representing your...

I gotta say I prefer the 4e version. I like that the mechanics of monsters don't require specific abilities to counter (most often specific spells naturally) because it allows for a wider variety of party compositions and even campaign styles. For example, it's easier to reduce the availability...

But you're telling homosexual people that your comfort is more important than them having the same right to public displays of affection that you enjoy. Isn't that incredibly unfair?

But are you equally opposed to public displays of heterosexual affection? Do you oppose opposite sex couples holding hands in public? Giving a peck on the cheek or lips? Hugging? Emerging out of the church doors into public space after getting married? The large majority of people are not...

But what's at stake here? A: some people's level of comfort. B: some people's ability to lead full lives. Which one is more important? You're asking for folks to be mindful of the "other side's" comfort, but who's got the most to lose by acquiescing? The people who are uncomfortable with seeing...

So, it's pretty much true that heterosexual people almost never make, say, Facebook posts specifically announcing that they're heterosexual or in a heterosexual relationship, or they don't go on public marches whose main purpose is to let everyone know, "I'm straight!" (Referencing Gay Pride...

How is this applicable to the issue at hand? Minorities have had to battle tooth and nail for equality and recognition as valid human beings -- their visibility has always been political. You can't simply "show data" if the other side doesn't recognize the data in the first place. You...