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Other Saskatchewan place names: - Yellow Grass - Swift Current - Flin Flon - North Battleford (and Battleford) - Carrot River - Rabbit Lake - Cut Knife - Star City - Spirit Wood Plenty more here

Favorite character names Here are a few of my favorites from past games: Dag Nabbit - feral halfling rogue Lud (from Luddite) - human fighter specialized in breaking inanimate objects in an anti-technology fantasy campaign "Three Bears" Mulligan - human fighter who grew up in the wilds...

Another fun bard tactic to play with: High Bluff + Ventriloquism (Bard 1 spell) + Goad (feat from Complete Adventurer)

I'm currently running an Aasimar Bard (Level 7) in a very combat heavy campaign. What I wanted was a character who could contribute to the overall party and still stay out of harm's way (his 10 Strength makes him pretty useless in melee). In my case, I built the character to maximize the...

I working on my homebrew still, but the current plan has the gnomes as a race of traders, smugglers, and con artists. Sort of a mix of mafia and yakuza, they are the facilators of commerce -- but they always have a finger in everyone else's pie. Although they lack physical strength, they are...

Can the Kiai Shout feat (from the Complete Warrior) be used to qualify for the Siren prestige class (Savage Species book)? The Siren prestige class requires the PC/NPC to have an "innate, mind affecting sonic effect" Kiai Shout enables the character to give a ferocious shout which forces...

Our party once travelled across an ocean and a continent using Feathers, Fly, and Rope Trick. Not as convenient as Teleport, but still effective. The BBEG never suspected his remote island fortress would be infiltrated by a band of migrating birds.

If she has no tongue, she could have fashioned a prosthetic tongue or as suggested some other type of mouth piece. Which might even lend itself to some interesting names -- if she had high CHA she could call herself "<insert name here> the Silver-Tongued" Other means of communication -- sign...

- Players who never bring their own pencils to gaming sessions -- occasionally forgetting is fine, but consistently forgetting every week for 3 months straight is ridiculous - Players who can't die quietly (ie. when their character dies, they spend the rest of the night questioning every other...

Perhaps you are thinking of Frank Herbert's Dune where Paul Muadib becomes the "Kwitsach haderach" ?

Another fabricated name: Shamadiel = "God will destroy and annihilate" This seems like a very good candidate as well (again borrowing from Strong's) Strong's Number: 08045 Browse Lexicon Original Word Word Origin dmX a primitive root Transliterated Word TDNT Entry Shamad TWOT - 2406...

Hmm... I was thumbing through the MM and noticed that the Lycanthrope template can be applied to Giant type as well. Suddenly I was picturing your War Hulks riding Hill Giant Were-Dire Boars with a few fighter levels. Boy would that be a surprise for the PCs :D Especially if the "mounts"...

Sounds intriguing. You might want to look at the Heroic Paths in Fantasy Flight's Midnight setting. Every PC has a Heroic Path which gives them bonuses and/or abilities as they level up. Very similiar actually to taking the paragon and dividing it out over the 20 levels. Midnight features...

No that's the expanded rules for the Egyptian god of death series :D

Try Terry Pratchett's "Interesting Times" as well -- very funny stuff :D

More recommendations I almost forgot one of the best places to turn to for ideas for building a Chinese centered game: anime. Try the following (you can get them from Netflix): Twelve Kingdoms -- this one is set in mythic version of China which is broken up into twelve kingdoms. Lots of...

Grammar and Idiom What Mandarin has is a set order: STPVO Subject-Time-Place-Verb-Object But while the order is set, there are still thousands of variations as to which elements you include or leave out, which clauses you create, how nested you want to make a statement, and what you can...

Oops -- I knew something looked odd about Huang Fei Hong (as opposed to Wong Fei Hong) but since I didn't have the DVD in front of me, I didn't check which character it was. Thanks for catching my mistake. Glad it was useful :)

I'll second the vote for "The Emperor and the Assassin" with Gong Li -- this movie actually captures a lot of the complexities of the Chinese court intrigue as well as being a great action movie. Any of Jet Li's "Once Upon a Time in China" series as well as his "Huang Fei-Hong" series (sorry I...

Ok, here's a few more possibilities: Complete Idiot - with prestige classes like Blooming Idiot - for druid/ranger types Complete Fool - for jester-style bards and rogues :) Complete Thug Complete Charlatan Complete Chicanery Wow, I got to use charlatan and chicanery in the same post :)