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I don't know who Jim Lee is and what's more I'm not sure why my comparison of JMS to Mike Mearls doesn't hold when the name is brought up. Because JMS is literally retroactively harmful, whereas Mearls is only harmful going forward; because putting D&D temporarily under the weather, in a way th...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:http://www.escapistmagazine.com/article ... enaissance

So what you are saying is that Mearls is actually more like Jim Lee, and not J. Michael Stracsynski?

Lago PARANOIA wrote:J. Michael Straczynski-level hack?

I guess I must have missed the 3e sourcebook Mearls wrote, where he poisoned the whole edition and retroactively turned everyone's old D&D campaigns to ashes.

Cyberzombie wrote:Nah, he's not doing mechanics, just story.

You're forgetting, this is Minister James "Book of Exalted Deeds" Wyatt we're talking about here; putting him on fluff might be better than putting him on crunch, but it's still a disaster waiting to happen.

James Wyatt wrote:I have moved from the Dungeons & Dragons team to work on Magic: The Gathering as part of the creative/story team. [...] I think you'll start to see the fruits of those labors as soon as this summer—I'll keep you posted.

It's over, Magic is finished.

Well, either a bot or shadzars cousin.

...sauce? 4chan last Sunday, so it likely will require some digging around on foolz.us to find the original thread. EDIT: Found the thread again , the links in it appear to be dead, so I guess it's safe to post? Also, spoiler warning! Where can i watch them. I saw them on animeflavor.com -but not s...

So hey, did anyone else here watch those 4 season 3 episodes that got leaked?

OgreBattle wrote:If the USA was losing to the point they got atom bombed, would American citizens accept surrender?

If Jesus and George Washington told them to do it, they probably would.

Lokathor wrote:In the Scholomance section, "the dread blood knights" should probably be "the deaded blood knights".

Dread is a perfectly legitimate adjective.[/nitpick]

TiaC wrote:Anyone want to touch this?

Surely, this was carefully thought through.

I want to crush the will of the populace, extract every useful ounce from my populace and send them to the glue factory, make the dead weep for the living, basically create a hell on earth. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Heroes of Might and Magic. Just make a custom map with lots of Peasant Hov...

PC (Krusk): wrote:I tell you, I think this dungeon's out to get me. . . .

Well I have to hand it to Krusk, he's pretty perceptive for a DMF. Most of them never seem to realize the deck is stacked against them.

How about now? I still doubt it. Historically, no one in western-europe has managed to give a single fuck about dead eastern-europeans; look at the whole gas-line debacle. Plus, they still have the get-out-of-jail-free-card of just blaming everything on the russians and having everyone believe it, ...

James Jacobs is still around too, isn't he?

I'll throw in the Hullathoin (fiend folio) for level 20 rebuking and free vampires and energy draining swarms. Not that I imagine it'll be useful on the positive material plane, but it never hurts to be prepared.

Well, I don't know what other forms you already have, or what you're really looking for in a form, but there are a few that immediately spring to mind. Symbiont (FF). -Lets you share personal-range buffs with another character. Aspect of Sertrous (elder evils): -Immunity to divine spells -Elder evil...

I'm going to assume that in any given case, they do the worse of the two options That's usually a safe bet. So, how long will it take until another EU member decides that they're altering the deal and that people should pray that they do not alter it any further? A while, most likely never. You see...

Jedi.

The thing about the Dragon Shaman, is that it has a huge disconnect between fluff and crunch. "Dragon Shaman" doesn't particularly convey any information about what the fuck it could actually be or do, and it certainly doesn imply anything about giving people shitty auras and junk. So don'...

Hrm. So with that book and maybe one or two others, how would I build my cleric in terms of restrictions if I wanted to be like the 3E Cleric Archer? That is, by level 9-12 of 2E D&D, my cleric should have: 1.) A selection of good utility powers that will get you through a lot of generic advent...

deaddmwalking wrote:I'm really tempted to stat up a 'Shadzar' for my game, now.

An admirable sentiment but someone beat you to it.

It's certainly not the most pitiful let alone worst D&D book; even just in 3rd Edition. I mean, that would have to be the Dragonlance Campaign Setting or Monsters of Faerun. But for 3.5E? I think that it takes the cake. Whoah, whoah, that's not how you spell Dragons of Eberron and the Psionics ...

FWIW, I think the 3e Dark Sun humans (from Dragon #sometingsomething) were +2 Con, +2 Int.

Well, that, and the feat; which I guess did kind of make them the Master Race (but, y'know, Dragon Magazine).