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Pre-painted mini's are a great idea for freeing time up for people building armies. Some of this, however, is a bit much. For what it's worth, FRP Games is allowing for pre-ordering of specific mini's as well as selling the leftover mini's. The cost for pre-ordering rare minis are a bit up...

I wouldn't quite say the AU witch lacks true witch flavor. It does have 'the Sight', which seems witchy enough. And there are a few other bits to it... Perhaps the best thing to do would be to use the MP witch as the 'core witch' but split the 'prestige witch' into six 15-level themed witch...

Hello there, been reorganizing the pile of stuff I'd call my campaign, right down to lists of acceptable prestige classes and core classes. While I'm still pondering whether to use some of the core classes as PrC's (such as the prestige bard and paladin in Unearthed Arcana ), my chief quandry...

Well, wasn't that fun. I was halfway through this review of Unearthed Arcana when a tiny multi-colored square appeared in the upper left part of the screen, then POOF--no more screen. Oh well, back to square one. *sigh* Unearthed Arcana (a 224-page hardcover by Wizards of teh Coast) is out and...

A number of mechanics are pulled from other WotC products, including the Wheel of Time, Call of Cthullu(sp?), as well as some OGL bits (The 3-level racial paragons are pretty much the OGL race levels posted by Monte Cook on his site, plus a few new ones for drow and half-orcs). Sources are...

Pretty good review. I wound up ordering UA because of the alternative way of handling XP advancement, but some of these other variants have me interested as well.

Perhaps you could expand your review? It would be helpful to hear more detail, more specifics.

Spellfire? The one by Ed Greenwood? I actually liked the book, despite a fair number of editing goofs/cuts ( go here http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2566/ed-novels.htm for a better explanation). Not that I liked the other two books, mind you (way too much lore-dropping, etc...

Yep. The only other thing I didn't quite like was how they altered ability score determination. The practical outcome is that eliminates the risk getting a sword that manages to get straight 18's (making Ego scores a tad high), then again the risk might've been lessened instead by counting a...

If one has the Arms & Equipment Guide, there's pricing for some feats in the revamped (yet still 3.0) Intelligent Item table section. From what I've seen, A 1st-tier feat (those that don't require another feat as a prerequisite) for an intelligent item generally costs 10,000 gp. In addition, the...

Here's my question: How do they stay in business? The law of survival ought to be coming into effect and yet...*ack*...

Methinks that if they went all-out to do a more exhaustive look at dragons it would easily be a two-book set. There wasn't room for the gem dragons (nor Sardior the Ruby Dragon, their deity, whose 3e stats can be found on the wotC site). Perhaps this other material--including the deific stats...

I understand the reasoning, but they could barely fit the material they already had on dragons within. To include Bahamut and Tiamat (found on pages 118 and 133 of the Manual of the Planes, and updated in the 3.5 MotP update PDF) would've forced cutting something else from the book. What parts...

Good review, John---what a surprise about the relative lack of misspellings. And to think I blamed my bad eyes for not catching many. :) Adrian Bott really does have a good mix in there. Some of the 'practical' bits in there beg to be adventure hooks. For example, take the crystal castle...

Once upon a time, there were splatbooks published by WotC with names like Sword & Fist, Song & Silence...and they sucked. Okay, okay, that's a little unfair. Feats and prestige classes were still a new concept then and these books (along with Tome & Blood, Defenders of the Faith, Masters of the...

Thanks, John. I was almost certain you'd beat me to this one by the time I got my copy. :) The stronghold-building section is what made want to get this book but I wound up enjoying the rest of it. Sirius Black, I'm not completely sure. I had the same problem when the first Relics & Rituals...

P.S. In case I gave anyone the wrong impression, it was the Relics & Rituals book that I could hear the crinkly-crackies when flipping through. Not the BSTD. (In some ways this is just like dealing with hard drives, if it's making a funky noise you know it's not long for this world.)

The Book of Strongholds & Dynasties, by Mongoose Publishing, is the first in the Classic Play series and, incidentally, also took the longest to for me to acquire. It's 256 pages, a hardcover with binding no better than that of Sheoloth: City of the Drow--which means it isn't as tight as...

Check out Telkoun's (sp?) tower, found in an adventure in the Silver Marches accessory. I've been going crazy trying to create a different (but affordable) tower/stronghold for my group the past few months and have been looking at that as a model (I only have 120,000 gp., and I'm still having...

Yep, yep, and yep. 100% agreed. I was happy it came out initially (despite being a FR gamer by then) but was sorely disappointed by the artwork and layout. The cover art was decent, at least. A single Greyhawk hardcover would be sweet, even at the usual $30-$40 price tag I've been seeing so...