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A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe has a bunch of useful information, assuming you're talking about western european nobility.

I generally prefer roll, then talk. From a roleplaying point of view I like it because players who aren't great at public speaking can see how things are going to turn out without worrying about their presentation. And for those who are good speakers, it gives them an idea as to how things are...

Monte Cook's published setting for AU, The Diamond Throne, has gods. I may not be understanding you correctly - you can put just about any gods you like in an AU setting, so any source for gods you like should work OK. If you're asking how to put a cleric-type class into AU, there's at least one...

Well, there's only so many monsters you can group up and still get an EL of 1 or lower. Sunless Citadel makes use of dire rats, kobolds, goblins, skeletons, and a new critter called a "twig blight" in that role, which doesn't strike me as overly repetitive. There's also some capable individual...

As dungeon crawls go, it's pretty decent. You need to do a little work to give the PCs an incentive to do the crawling and ad lib the inhabitants' response to repeated incursions, but that's more of a feature than a bug. There's only two aspects about it that bug me: 1) The railroading in...

Nope, Asimov's robot stories are mostly about ideas and sometimes characters, rather than non-stop action. I'd imagine this movie will have about the same relationship to Asimov's work as "Total Recall" did to Philip K. Dick's. It might turn out to be quite a good movie, but it's unlikely to be...

I'd love to see somebody get a license for S.M. Stirling's "The Peshawar Lancers", which is sort of a pseudo-Victorian setting. It's got a little steampunk, stiff-upper-lipped good guys and cannibalistic bad guys, spies and soldiers, powers that humans were not meant to meddle with, and large...

Yeah, they're all found in D&D psionics. Probably got cut from d20 Modern at a later stage of editing, and nobody caught the error in the sample character. You can find D&D descriptions of all three powers in the d20 SRD: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35 ... and...

None of those posts addressed religion or politics, both forbidden topics here. Your post does. If you're interested in such a discussion, I again recommend you seek out other boards.

If you honestly think that statement has any meaningful content, I suggest you spend some time reading FAQs over at talkorigins.org and talkdesign.org, and then picking up some of the books recommended there and at linked sites. If you want to discuss the topic, a good place to do so is the...

Hmm. I play with a group of friends, always have - role playing games are something we enjoy, but not the sole basis of our friendships. So the idea of shopping around for different gaming groups seems weird to me; so does the idea of a DM running something players might not enjoy. When I run a...

Dunno if they made any splash in the US, but I was pretty impressed with Robert J. Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax. It's a trilogy - Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids are the three books.

Any time you tell players that a given class or race is rare, that pretty much guarantees some will want to play them. The rare stuff is seen as cool, or powerful, or a role-play hook, or whatever. Saying "so-and-so is rare" without changing any game mechanics is IMHO not a good way of...

Hmm, don't think so. I have neither elemental planes nor many strongly aligned planes in one of my homebrew cosmologies, and I didn't need to change any of the game rules for spells as a result. The arcanobabble for various magical effects is different to give the flavour I want, but the actual...

You mean tougher, more aggressive humans who operate on basic instincts? "Player characters" :cool: . Some classifiers prefer to consider humans as special, primarily for theological reasons. Linnaeus (father of modern taxonomy) did so and then later wrote: Whether it's appropriate to...

From the cover illustration provided, I immediately thought "d20 Rifts". So far as the thread topic goes, I think the cover is most important for impulse buyers. If I've got some money burning a hole in my pocket and there are no products on my must-buy list, the book/adventure/whatever I pick...

"Dire Gorilla" doesn't have the same ring to it as "Dire Ape", IMHO. ;) Also, various monkey species have "ape" in their name due to old misclassifications, so that might also be part of the confusion. Yup. We're pretty similar to chimpanzees and gorillas anatomically.

I believe the description is taken from the D&D ape, so it's a WOTC error rather than a d20 Modern-specific error. As for why D&D did that, the Monster Manual is not exactly a paragon of zoological research - I imagine they figured "Dire Ape" sounded cool, so they had to put in a normal ape to...

There's a website with info for each location: http://www.medievaltimes.com/ Looks like most US locations are a little under $50 per person.

Are the Liberators epic level yet, or a bit below that? I'd imagine that as a legacy of being fiend haven on Greyhawk for so long, the place would be crawling with half-fiends and planetouched - probably lots of unique vileness.