There is also the Wild Cohort feat.
It advances differently than the animal companion.
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Instead of some races like minotaurs automatically getting racial HD and the feats to go with them, they instead have the option of pick up a class instead and then add the Level Adjustment. Thus, a beginning minotaur fighter would be third level, like a drow.
2: My first character ever was a half-orc Assassin, way back in 1st edition AD&D; he was Lawful Neutral, if I remember correctly. I'd prefer the Assassin class to be a base, not a prestige, class open to non-good... not just evil. Depends upon the circumstances. He didn't kill women usually, and he never killed children... most of his "marks" were scum, so removing them was actually a good thing.
I can think of two things I'd have totally different.
I'm 32, been playing AD&D since I was seven. I was also studying kenjutsu-do from a slightly earlier age, and learning other things from my marine father. It always irked me when I could do things at a young age that a supposedly late-teen character couldn't. These characters are supposed to be from societies comperable in many respects to our own past. Training started young, and you learned alot before you went to your first battle {generally in your early teen years}.
The problem with some groups is if you have the player type: The Creep. This is the {generally un-hygenic} buffoon who stares at whatever girls there are in the group and makes them uncomfortable. if he stays, the girls leave... and generally don't come back.
I just wanted to ask, am I the only one that finds mention of evolution (or any kind of modern reference, for example in the recent Far Realm articles the elves had an R&D centre? R&D?!) kind of distracting?Okay, stuff like "R&D center" would be annoying to me. But evolution doesn't. After all, evolution was happening all along, we just named it in the 1860s. :-) There are only so many Mad-Wizard-Creating-Abomination-That-Gets-Out-Of-Control that I can take before I get annoyed... Having the evolution of the creature explained helps me put it into a specific niche, helps me understand exactly where it might be encountered and why, and helps make the world more natural. Even the escaped experiments have to fit in with the world somehow, or they'd go extinct again. Simply mentioning that the creatures came about through evolution doesn't jar me out of the fantasy setting, whereas "R&D center" implies a particular type of societal structure that doesn't quite fit with a fantasy world, and is thus a little jarring. I tend to agree.
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We always have the animal companions stay top-side when we go dungeon-delving, to guard mounts and whatever gear we leave up there. That way, there is a plausable reason for our stuff to still be there, the animals don't bog down combat... and why would a grizzly bear be in the Underdark anyway?
I have been in this situation. It usually is only fun for the one or two people who do it.
Well, I think alot of the problem is D&D has always been a stickler for hard-cover, which for some reason is more expensive. I am 32, been playing since I was like six or seven, so I know about what the books have always cost for their quality. Seems like the older books were put together better.
I think Forgotten realms will keep a ceretain core audience {like me}, and attract a few more every now and then... however, most people like the "new and exotic" as it were, so they flock like sheep to settings like Eberron or whatever else is new. After a time, they'll figure out what setting they really like, and everything will stabilize.
Dragon also had alot more pages, and was devoted to games other than those owned by TSR. Now, it seems to cater to D&D alone, and I haven't seen anything for other games. But, that's the way it is going to be, I suppose... |