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I prefer Forgotten Realms (pre-spellplague) over Dragonlance, though I've never read any of the Dragonlance novels. The scope and variety of Forgotten Realms is what keeps me interested in it as a game setting.

Andion Isurand wrote:

What about investing in grafts, namely internal ones like Silthilar grafts from LoM?

I would also look at the Eidetic Spellcaster ACF in Dragon 357, so you can store spells in your mind as opposed to storing them in a book.

That sounds so coool. How does that work? Where can I find the info regarding that?

LoM = Lords of Madness

As far as the Eidetic Spellcaster ACF goes, you must trade your familiar and scribe scroll feat in exchange for the ability to scribe new spells directly into your mind as if it were a spellbook using special incense, which costs the same amount of gold and time as scribing spells normally would.

You can then prepare spells from within your your own mind, as if there were a limitless spellbook in it.

What about investing in grafts, namely internal ones like Silthilar grafts from LoM?

I would also look at the Eidetic Spellcaster ACF in Dragon 357, so you can store spells in your mind as opposed to storing them in a book.

Nerveskitter or other Initative effect as needed (immeadiate/swift)
Time Stop (standard)
* Arcane Spellsurge (standard)
* Reverse Gravity (swift)
* move
* move if needed
* move if needed
* Prismatic Sphere (swift) just above enemy's head
move if needed

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place a Scattering Trap at the bottom of a greased hole 5 ft across and well over 35 ft deep

Yes, one of my favorite progressions used it as a prerequisite metamagic feat.

They should include a special clause at the end of the feat that allows it to count as a metamagic feat for the purpose of bonus feat selection and meeting prerequsites.

And now? It's time for an update. The 3rd edition system is pretty much complete. What were they suppsoed to do? Print another ten books like Nine swords and Incarnum? Introduce endless new classes and crazy power systems to the game until there are so many crazy, unbalanced systems that no one can remeber them all? Do you want them to just keep churning out the splat books until the Complete series actually has to make "The Complete Riding Dog"?

Personally, I would have liked to see a few 3.5 regional hardcovers for the the other continental regions of Toril such as Kara-tur, Zakhara and Maztica... with a light smattering of unique classes, feats, spells, items and NPCs... with rich, juicy, fleshy timelines and cultural, location and NPC descriptions to match.

But alas, while I agree some aspects of FR did need adjusting and could have aquired that adjustment gradually over time (to phase out the dominance of the chosen for example)... I didn't appreciate watching the setting get data mined, stripped down and overwritten.

If 4E were not an overwrite of things that came before, and presented as a new alternative for the Delve playstyle (offered with its own settings) -- then sure, the more the merrier.

I agree there should be a greater margin for creatures with a high consitution or high base fortitude save, but not enough for them to survive the next volley or barrage directed at them.

I agree that a few aspects of the FR setting (such as the chosen and mystra) needed to be slapped around and down a bit, but I think their passing could have been better handled over time.

The mass slaughter of deities, the cosmological revision, the revamp of magic, the effective extinction of duregar, tyr and helm dueling to helm's death, half the drow pantheon slain by mortal hands, etc etc... (I mean, one fallen deity here and there is fine and has happened before, but when it coincides with the entire above list... ) ...the word coincidence doesn't even begin to describe it.

I would have also liked them to put out a manual or two (along with more novels) for Kara-Tur, Zakhara and Maztica... before they decided to distort and rehash the realms to make it the ideal fit for their new version of the game, instead of just creating a new setting for it. But alas, that would have taken resources away from the MMORPG conversion, and making a new setting is more difficult than mining a previous one.

I would have enjoyed the opportunity to purchase new regional books as 3.5 fleshed out all of Toril... instead of buying the "same but different now" regional books all over again. (Before I am again denied the oportunity to see Kara-tur, Zakhara and Maztica vamped up in 4th edition clothing.)

...Although they could still put out more timeline history books with maps for the rest of Toril and the wider spaces in time left open.

I'd like to see artwork done true to form for that bloody demented maelstrom as well. Even if it means having to seperate the pages along a perforated edge.

As far as ideas and content go, the material from any setting can be picked out piece by piece and then adapted into any generic home played campaign. I myself would love to have setting specific Kara-tur articles showing up, simply because I'd like to learn more about it and have it quantified up to date. I'm all for regional books too, Maztica and Zakhara included.