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You might find the Vampire Translation Guide useful. You can update Old to New and add New to Old. It's cheap and it has a lot of good reviews.

I'm gonna watch this thread with interest! My plan for the end of my STAP was to have a PC take over as Princess of Demons and to have Demogorgon be some sort of phantom menace. I don't know much about vestiges so I don't have much to add there, but can I ask if one of your PC's became Prince of Demons or did another demon like Orcus or Graz'zt?

In my homebrew world I used a couple of races from Star Wars and adapted them to a Renaissance-era level of technology. The Twi'leks of my world are sort of an Italian-like culture and are very innovative in the arts and sciences. The harems of the Turkish-based empire are full of Twi'lek females, and the reds are particularly valuable.

Twi'lek
Standard Race: 10 Points

Twi'leks are a humanoid species from the planet Ryloth. They have distinctive features including colorful skin, which vary in pigment from individual to individual, and a pair of shapely prehensile tentacles that grow from the base of their skulls. The tentacles, called "brain-tails", "lekku", or "head-tails" are used for communication and cognitive functions.

Type: Humanoid (0)
Size: Small (0)
Speed: Normal (0)
Abilities: +2 Dex, +2 Cha, -2 Wis (0)
Languages: Standard (1)
Racial Abilities:
Fortunate (4)
Gift of Tongues (2)
Low-Light Vision (1)
Skill Bonus (Appraise +2) (2)

Total RP: 10

Wow. It's cool that people are still interested in my Maztica stuff.

I haven't yet had a chance to use it in play but I've loved reading what you've released!

Just wanted to say thanks to all the people who have said nice things about my map! Thanks!!

I think they're saying that Amazing Stories is a trademark of WotC, and that the others are registered trademarks (a legal difference) of WotC.

Thank you so much!

I seem to remember the Chrononauts expansion saying it might take longer to leave the warehouse than the others. Is there a way to send that separately so that the others might be sent sooner? Thanks!

+1 for gish. I hates it.

It's my understanding that a cleric can only be True Neutral if his/her deity is also True Neutral. Page 39 says that they can only be one step away on the Law/Chaos axis or the Good/Evil axis. So Trelmarixian's allowable alignments would be correct.

Rule #4: Double-tap. You think it's dead? One more makes a 100% sure.

I would make it a short PrC with three or five levels, not a full PrC.

My thoughts exactly. I agree with a lot of what you have written. I would like to see a PrC for the player and the character, but I think it could also be done differently. A 5 level class would do nicely, I think - nothing too fancy.

I don't believe they need to be F/MU either, but I remember the LGG saying "many of them wizards as well as fighters."

A PrC for rangers would work best, because the reason I bring it up at all is for a character who is a Ranger (with a level or two of Druid, I think) and I would like to see a potential PrC be more ranger than chivalric knight.

They also have members actively fighting the humanoids of the Pomarj and I think Ranger abilities would suit their style of guerilla warfare best.

I checked out Canonfire but didn't see anything. I actually have the dead trees of all of the LG Journals (before they went to Dungeon / Polyhedron) so I'll have to find those and check them out. Thanks for the help!

I don't know much about the orders so you could be right. My Greyhawk-fu is weak these days.
Eldritch Knight seems a good fit (it even has Knight right in the title!) as does the Abj Champion. I was hoping, ultimately, that someone had actually made a PrC for the group, but really it doesn't seem all that necessary. Maybe that's why it hasn't been done.

Not sure about the triple order part, I think that might be a different order. It seems a lot of Knights of Luna would be Ftr/Wiz types.

I've thought of both of those PrCs, but you're right; they are pretty cheesy. I'll check out the Eternal Blade, as I'm not familiar with that one. I've also considered just making them an affiliation a la PH2.

**bump**

Has anyone ever made a Prestige Class for these guys, or adapted one from a published source?
I'd be very thankful for any help or suggestions!

Word.

Has anyone posted the ECL races? I noticed this on page 406, but didn't happen to see whether anyone has already posted about this. They very much imply that certain races lose their +1 ECL and that some have been lowered to +1. I don't know if I'm allowed to post which ones changed or not.

There was 3.5 Spelljammer?

There was an article in one of the Polyhedron magazines attached to Dungeon. It might have been 3.0, but at least it wasn't 2nd edition.

That's the beauty of playing and not actually writing and selling books. We can incorporate whatever we want into our games and still be happy. I will miss a lot of the WotC settings, though. Greyhawk is really growing on me, and I would have liked to see more 3.5 Spelljammer.

I think the OP might be referring to names like Mordenkainen, Bigby, and Tenser. That's really what I'm going to miss. The Pathfinder iconics are cool and so were the AP iconics, but those guys were the original D&D iconics.

Thanks for all the help guys. My Greyhawk-fu isn't as good as I would like for it to be, but I was looking for a place for my new Shackled City character to be from.

Some work was also done towards this end here.

That's a pretty good plan, I think. I like that it simplifies something which I don't really know much about.

I suppose my basis for comparison is the Realms, where tieflings tend to come from certain places and so do other plane-touched like aasimar and genasi.

I'm at work and don't have any of my reference materials in front of me and I was wondering: what areas of Greyhawk are most tieflings from?

I would think the remains of the Great Kingdom and the Empire of Iuz would be the most prominent, with possibly the city of Greyhawk having a few as well. Are there any others or am I totally wrong on my guesses?

Also, how would most Rhennee feel about tieflings?

Thanks!

the Dizz

I'll be there today, as soon as I leave work. shakes fist at work

I was an art major back in college, but I haven't done anything artistically in years. I would definitely want to get back in to that.

OOOHH! And what Daigle said. I live in San Diego and I've been surfing once and had a blast. I gotta do that again.

All monsters from the Bonus Bestiary are now online here.

Bookmarked.

Chuck Norris doesn't need midichlorians to bring balance to the Force.

That thing that you mentioned which begins with an 'm' does not exist. :)

He once went to the Virgin Islands. Now they're just known as the Islands.

Did you hear his last request?

DiTerlizzi would be my first choice. In my opinion, his work on Planescape helped to start changing what I hated so much about the 2nd edition artwork: girl (or sometimes guy) posing with dragon and looking at the camera. Everything was so STATIC. I have a strong dislike of Elmore and Caldwell for this reason.

I think the art department at White Wolf really helped to revitalize the genre. When I started playing Vampire in the mid to late 90's I was amazed at how DYNAMIC the art was. I really think it helped (along with DiTerlizzi) pave the way for the awesome artwork that we now have and come to expect with our RPG books. Wayne Reynolds is the current master of this style, but Josh Timbrook, Christopher Shy, Guy Davis, Vince Locke, Tim Bradstreet, and Leif Jones would all be welcome additions in my opinion.

I would invite you to our weekly game, but we already have a pretty full table. I'm jonesin' to play (instead of run) so I would be willing to join a game if we could get one together.

I'm in IB and drive out to Lakeside to DM our weekly game. We play on weekdays so my weekends are mostly free. I'd be interested in playing in a game if I could so I'll also try to watch this thread.

I should be running the encounter with Vanthus tomorrow night, which will hopefully wrap up ToD (we've spent the last 3 game sessions running the Battle of Farshore). I definitely enjoy being able to see other peoples thoughts and opinions of adventures before I run them for my players.

Makazu - thanks for that link, that was a great help!

We don't try to be massively obscure, but sometimes it just works out that way. :)

Lol, I think it's just the layout of LiveJournal and my own discouragement/laziness with trying to figure it out.

Thanks! I'll do that. I thought that I would enjoy what was going on and participating in the polls and stuff but I just couldn't figure it out.

The 3E/OGL edition of Halls will ship in June.

Sweet! I've been looking forward to this one, but I can't quite figure out the messageboards on LiveJournal. Has this shipped already?

Stuff

Thanks! I'll go check them out.

Thanks to Free RPG day, we discovered another gaming store within a pretty reasonable distance to us. Pair-A-Dice in Vista, California was my closest store doing the Free goodies (the store I normally go to once a quarter or so is Game Empire, and the clerks didn't even know what I was talking about the two times I called to see if they were doing it.)

Where is that store? I'm in Imperial Beach and I absolutely hate Game Empire, even though they carry a good amount of miniatures. I missed out on the free goodies because I didn't see either GE or Game Towne on the Free RPG Day website. If you recommend it I'd definitely be willing to travel there.

Love the leather jacket! Was that a dire bear?

the DZA wrote:

One of my great friends was in the Anthropology school, she graduated in 2001. Do you remember a Ryan Tubbs?

Yes, indeed! I absolutely adore Ryan! Devistatingly smart and very funny, she worked for me in the university curation lab.

Funny, I probably even saw you at one of her then boyfriend's gigs...

Are you talking about Dan? I lived with those two for a semester with Jodi (forgot last name), so odds are I probably did see you! I think Ryan just had a baby, and she blogs quite often on her Myspace, but we're not quite the friends we used to be. I'm sure she would like to hear from you, if you don't already keep in touch.

I got my M.A. in Archaeology and Applied Anthropology from ENMU in 2003, but I actually attended the school in the late 90s (yeah, shouldn't leave and try to finish up the thesis remotely... adds WAAAAAAAYYYYYY to much time to both sides; yours and the committee's).

One of my great friends was in the Anthropology school, she graduated in 2001. Do you remember a Ryan Tubbs?

the DZA wrote:

I lived in New Mexico at the time in a town without a tattoo shop so I booked an appointment in Lubbock, TX (about 2 hours away).

Portales or Clovis?

Portales! I was at ENMU at the time. You from the area?

the DZA wrote:

Okay, interesting story about my second tattoo.

... the artist who did my tattoo was drastically underpaid. He took it out on me in my tattoo...

GAHH!! Not Cool!! I'm glad to hear that the tattoo parlor rectified the situation for you, though.

Yeah, they were pretty cool about it. Lesson learned: Research your tattoo parlor before you get the tattoo!

Okay, interesting story about my second tattoo.

I lived in New Mexico at the time in a town without a tattoo shop so I booked an appointment in Lubbock, TX (about 2 hours away). I had the artwork I wanted and my friend and I drove over to the shop and I was all set to get my tattoo. Well, I had forgotten about the difference in time zones when you cross over the TX border and I ended up an hour late to my appointment. The shop understood my predicament but the artist who had booked the appointment had left for the day thinking I was a no show. They scheduled me an appointment with another artist, but I had to wait a little. No problem.

Now the piece I wanted was from the Book of Nod. If any of you guys are familiar with White Wolf canon, you might recognize the illustration I ended up getting tattooed on my left arm. The piece is an illustration of Caine pulling his beard thinking of how he can make Zillah love him. He pulls his beard so hard that it bleeds, and the blood runs down and in the illustration it turns in to a forest with a figure running through the trees.

I was originally told the piece would cost about $120. They went ahead and kept that price, but the piece took 3 hours-ish to complete. This was about 10 years ago, but 120 bucks was still cheap. Nowadays tattoos are often charged by the hour and usually run over $100 an hour. Needless to say the artist who did my tattoo was drastically underpaid. He took it out on me in my tattoo. That figure running through the trees? Yeah, he turned it in to a very erect penis (the legs were the dangly bits) that was made (luckily) from negative space. It had the hands and legs and feet from the illustration and because it was on my arm it was pretty hard for me to see, even with a mirror. It was pointed out to me and became incredibly obvious, so I scheduled an appointment at the shop, but the guy who had given me my tattoo didn't work there anymore. They filled it in for free, though.

Oh man, where do I start? I have about 15 now, I think. My right arm has a full sleeve that I finished up in Japan. It has a skull up top surrounded by flowers and then an Oni on my forearm. My other forearm has a playing card style Vlad Tepes stabbing the queen opposite him. I have a sparrow on my left arm that I got in Hawaii after sailing 5000 miles (traditional Navy thing).

My two best pieces (I think) are on my legs. My left leg has an Art Nouveau style Grim Reaper with a dead woman draped over his arm. My right leg has a Jack Skellington holding a pair of scissors in one hand and the decapitated head (via the scissors) of Sally in his other.

All together I've probably been under the needle for around 60 hours (at least).

The option's been showing up at the top of my home page as a banner.

Wow! Yup, there it is. Staring me right in the face. Thanks!

EDIT: Someone took my name so I had to go grammatically incorrect, but check me out here here.