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In an effort to educate myself about the literary roots of the game, and improve my monster-fu in designing critters, I've started a new project over at my blog: Ménage à Monster called monsters of the Hyborian age. I'm reading through R.E.H's Complete Chronicles of Conan and each week (or so) I'll tackle another story with a stat-block and illustration (because strings of statistics without a picture suck). First up is the slave of the ring from the story the Phoenix on the Sword .

In general the blog gives me an outlet to deal with my obsession: monsters. So expect a lot of talk about D&D monsters across the editions.

Stop by and let me know what you think.

Quick question, sorry if it seems silly but the more I look at prismatic spray the more I am unsure of myself... The violet ray "Sent to another plane (Will negates)". How do you determine what plane the victim goes to? Is it randomly determined or is it chosen by the caster? How have other people handled this?
Thanks in advance and I apologize if this is a stupid question... I'm really tired and I think I'm probably totally over-thinking this thing.
Cheers

I'm going to be in New York this weekend and I thought that if I had a few minutes to spare I'd pop into one of the local game stores to stock up on some D&D books. The Canadian dollar is doing pretty well right now and with the exchange its much cheaper to buy most books in american dollars (in the states) than pay the jacked-up prices up here (that for some reason are way above the exchange rate, even when the Canadian dollar was doing poorly).
So my complaining done, I don't have a lot of free time while I'm there to look for a good store so I thought I'd call on the power of the boards to direct me to the best spot.
Thanks for the help!

Just thought I'd do a little self promotion, since I have a feeling my fellow paizonians are operating at the same frequency that I am. Anyone on these boards from southern Ontario, or anyone visiting Toronto in early July might want (what do I mean might? Your life will not be complete unless you attend this) to check out a play that I wrote called Geek-Gasm that's premiering at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

Geek-Gasm is the play for Geeks, by Geeks, about Geeks. Its a comedy set at a convention that pokes fun at the divisions that drive Geeks apart (Marvel vs. D.C., Paizo vs. WOTC, etc.), and the social ostracism that brings them together. The humor is on the Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino (well back when he was good anyway) tip - conversational and situational.

If this sounds like your thing (and I think it is), check out the play's website: http://www.myspace.com/critical_fumble. Heck, check it out even if you aren't near Toronto :)

...Oh and if Ed Greenwood is anywhere I have some free tickets with your name on them... How cool would that be to have the illustrious Elminister show up to your play! (Hey I already warned you it was written by a Geek)

-Dave

A player of mine is making a Half-Ogre character for our game this weekend using Races of Destiny (which I don't have a copy of). I'm making a timeline to incorperate campaign events and everyone's histories. Can anyone tell me what the starting age is for Half-Ogres? Thanks, it will make the timeline much easier.

Just wanted to share some turkey and stuffing with all my fellow hosers out there in the great white north!

Hi guys,
I'm going to be running the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil and thought I'd pick up the Dungeon issue with the Greyhawk map detailing that area... I just don't want to pick up the wrong map (there's little possibility the players will find themselves in the Lendore Isles for instance).
So, my question is: Which issue has the map for the Veluna/Verbobonc/Celene/Lortmils area?
(crossing my fingers that its all on the same map :)