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which states that

spake of a

for extreme sexual

Why he needed...

he had lost

halfling who had

I know that I may be drawn and quartered for suggesting digging up the past, but if you look back at some of the OLD backissues of Dragon, you can find many of these items and such. Look specifically at "the ecology of..." articles.
If you don't wnat to shuck out the money to try and get all of these back issues, then do as I did and try to find a copy of the Dragon Magazine Archive on CD-ROM. It is a wonderful resource. And even if you don't want to try to convert stuff from the old editions, then you can still use plenty of the info for storylines and background legends. There was even an article at one point that had rules for sowing dragon's teeth like Jason and the Argonauts... Cool no?

As far as superior items such as dragon bones go, ("ultra-masterwork items" etc...) there are many various mentionings of such things if you have the time and patience to scan a LOT of material. The Monster Manual makes reference to dragon materials and such, but the Draconomicon is a wonderful book if your PC's slay these mythical beasts on a regular basis. For example, although I am not usually a power gamer, I do have a character in an Epic campaign who has Dragoncraft scale mail (which counts as light armor, great for my ranger) as well as a mighty composite dragoncraft longbow of the mighty dragon hunter. Dragoncraft materials are clearly superior to many other things. And yet I ramble...
The best advice that I can give is to check out as much stuff as you can....

got them nowhere

pitching their tents

at the forlorn

zombie of darkness

far beyond all

was a masterpiece

together for all

Oh, so I suppose that you believe that Frodo and Gimli and Legolas, and Gandalf were all just supporting characters in the lord of the rings 'with them being demihumans and all...

And as far as number crunching goes, the only real crunching that went on in the old additions was that of my skull aS I tried to calculate THAC0.

That's all I have to say...

Save everyone's Arses

Ahh, I found it! Took me a little while but I did find it. Don't know if you have it, but there is an article in Dragon issue #309. The Article is titled: "Shut Up And Roll! 15 Ways to Speed Up Combat" It offers quite a lot of good advice on general speeding up combat.
I applaude all of your efforts and I mean no offense when I say that I think that rolling all attacks in a round as one is a mistake. It increases the randomness and chance of combat. And as the DMG says for almost all such Variant Rules, anything that increases randomness generally favors the underdog. And that is not the PC's. So, think carefully before doing so. Tip #13 from the article suggests that you roll attack and damage dice at the same time for each attack., Even if it misses, you still cut down on the number of rolls, and it is easier to keep track of what weapon you are attacking with (at least for the DM anyway).
I do hope that this has helped somewhat.
--OneWingAngel--

As a DM myself I am often faced with this very same quandry.
Over time I have come to realize that it is truly all in the pre-game preparation. I always know the scenario that I am running inside out to the point where I could recite in in my sleep if asked. I have stat cards written up ahead of time for all of the monster as well as the PC's so that I don't have to say "Hey Rob, what's your AC again?" or "Yo Sarah, did your reflex save get lowered by that spider poison?"

I don't know how far back you guys go with Dragon magazine, but there was an article on this very topic within the past two years. I don't have my stuff right next to me right this second, but I'll check my archives and I'll post the issue and such. I hope it'll help...

--OneWingAngel--