The most amazing thing about this thread is not that it was ad-bot-necroed after twelve years of hibernation, but that it is a Kalamar thread from 2004 that I don't seem to have participated in!
I still have a soft spot for Kalamar. It has my favoritist of game-world pantheons, I love the campaign book style and depth, and I'm still a little bitter that Dangerous Denizens and the Villain Design Handbook were not OGL.
When I was working on the Kaidan Campaign Book (now rumored to be in final layout) the Kalamar Campaign book was a definite influence.