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For some time now I have been writing a novel to support a d20 sci fi rpg called "Dead Stars". The .pdf of the game is now available here and is free. With the rules comes the first chapter of my novel, Manticore's Run. The full novel will be available as a pdf by the end of the week. Check it...

There's been an announcement. The winner is Kameron Franklin from Vancouver, Washington. The announcement was made on the Wizards FR Boards here: http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?threadid=127639 For myself, I can say that I made the cut and am on the "potentials" list. :D

Note: in the following post Ceramic DM is used to denote both the Ceramic DM (which I have entered often and won once) and the Iron DM (which I have never entered but probably has the same principles at its heart. I'll start by answering the initial question: The only reason someone would...

My monk is Kage Oncepriest - a Monk 8/Fighter 1. He's been expelled from his order for falling in love with Azure Pendragon, a fighter 4/Paladin 5 - who is now his fiance (and is my wife's player character). Paladins of Azure's order are able to marry under certain conditions. In order for them...

A castle that could be taken by 5000 troops is small - tiny in fact - or else very poorly designed. Factor an historical castle giving the defenders between a 50:1 to 100:1 advantage. Well set up, with equal resources in terms of magic, sorcerors etc, this fort will not fall except to starvation...

Never trust a man who says "Trust me!" "It's a tough universe out there; there's all sorts of people and things trying to do you, kill you, rip you off! If you want to survive, you've really got to know where your towel is!" It is better to make love well than to make love often. (Actually...

I've just been contemplating a gun mage character and have a question - does anyone else think that they've mixed up the spells known and the spells per day table, or have I just got the wrong end of the stick?:( Ignore that question - I just realised that they've used the bard spell list...

Congrats to Daniel - you beat me dude!:)

Mucho congratulations - blessings to you and yours:)

Congratulations *Insert received wisdom or clever witticism here*

I picked other - Shadow of the Spider Moon. It's the spelljammer 3.0 that was published in Polyhedron about a year ago.

Why thank you. I thought I was going to be too late, now it looks like there may not be too many entrants overall. I hope we manage this - I enjoyed my first tilt at modern Ceramic DM.

Time to give it a go Modern/Spycraft Ceramic DM. “I don’t get it!” mumbles Johnson, looking at the burning ring of fire. “It’s a test of nerve,” I reply quietly, my voice almost drowned out by the sound of Goldsmith’s heavy fireproof boots as his feet thud over the bitumen. He reaches the...

I'm glad I'm not the only one. With all of this discussion of bards, I was afraid that I had misread the point of the thread.;)

How about the Royal Herald from Dragon Annual #5. Offers all the things you're looking for, I would think. Very "social spy like".

I have a story I consider just as bad: Tournament play - my character is the party fighter and I borrow the thief's ring of Feather Falling to drop to the bottom of a ten foot wide pit. The DM rules that as the spell description (1e) says the that the character becomes "falls like a feather"...

My favourites have always been: Transmute Rock to Stone (Reversible) and Protection from Elvis

Are you saying that there is no gap between a person who performs a task and a professional for whom that task is a core activity? Is it a "semantic quibble" to say that just because I can drive a car, that doesn't make me a rally driver? This is the distinction I am trying to draw - it may be a...

I would contend that it's not the killing that these examples show pride in, but the success. In the two instances above, you show individuals taking pride in victory, a part of which involved killing. You don't show someone taking pride in "killing", which was your inital assertion...

I take it you don't believe in the sanctity of human life? [B] Exactly my point - a soldier gives the enemy the "chance to die for his country". An assassin kills outright, no chance, no motivation required on the part of the target. [B] You state this as though it were fact - explain how...