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Cool. I was f-t-f with some of his group at University. Not a long time, but I playtested some of his earlier works. Neat guy. Cheers!

Huh, me too. Did you know him in the North or the South?

I just listened to a podcast about the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia. In short, the Haitian Rebellion had started and many refugees as well as expected trade vessels had landed in Philadelphia. It was also an unusually hot summer. The ships brought with them the mosquitoes that...

Well, mice have been known to roar on rare occasion. Mouse-cholered? On second thought, he is following the plotline. Just ineptly. Nevermind! :)

Delightful! Any advice on coaxing out images you want? Or is it largely trial and error?

Brownies and goblins are fae that are created from the dreams and nightmares of children, respectively. When they are killed they disappear in a puff of smoke and wake up in faerieland. It's a long walk back to the waking world, and this makes them cranky. At around 3rd level, the party...

Ah, excellent! Forgive me, I am sometimes humor impaired when not face to face. :)

Which is why I enjoy tacos? Not sure your point. I like prestige classes. Some aren't written well.

I've come to dislike subclasses, but find them doable. I greatly prefer prestige classes as a way to specialize if the generalist aspects of the base class do not satisfy. I also like feat trees, but that seems to lead to 100s of feats that say either "+1 to this" or "perform this one thing from...

It was a while ago :)

I don't remember 2e, but I recall that in 1e only fighters can benefit from STR > 16. But, I may be misremembering.

I'd split the fighter into Armiger (Hvy Armored slugger), Skirmisher (Lt Armored mover), Longbowyer (Missile specialist). Some sort of fighter/mage in the image of the B/X elf, although not specifically that.

Not really. It's not that great unless a) you need to carry a lot of stuff, or b) you're a fighter. If you are a fighter, it just brings your damage more in line with what is expected at a given level. I believe, but can't really prove, that is was one of the "Essential Two" of 1E fighter...

Wow. As in $2.1 billion? That's a lot of debt, investment, whatever to handle. And the game company received all of the debt when that deal fell through? It amazes me that it's legal to move debt around like that, but I'm not in that field. I'll have to check the LFGS to see if there are...

Wizards receive 1 free spell per level, not two. (I have found this solves much of the problem, almost regardless of edition. The strength of wizards is their versatility. This manages their versatility without eliminating it.) Only select atmospheric cantrips are at will (eg prestidigitation...

If they're not, they should be. No one should be better in stealth than the rogue. If there is another class that is, that is a flaw in the game. It doesn't. This is assuming higher tier characters. At 6th level, the druid. At 12th+, the rogue. Everything is situational. No, I have made many...

Thank you for the clarification. I guess I would argue that having the things I mentioned are things specifically are not available to the magic using classes you mentioned. I picked those for that reason. This is the part of the conversation where things become difficult for me because I have...

Or, the martial group knows to enter the Wyrwood at twilight, and that is a liminal path to the fae court. Or, no, they don't have access to that since you need a spellcaster. Nothing wrong with that, not every class has access to every option. Nor should they. But, maybe there exist other...

I've done something like that, a bit ham-handedly. I've split things up into 1-6 (mundane or uncanny), 7-11 (preternatural), 12+ (supernatural). Fighters can't do frankly magical things, but if a weird stone obelisk absolutely, positively, must be destroyed now, a 12th level fighter can do it...

I like Queen Bee. I don't really play it, my wife does. I'm horrible at anything even remotely Scrabble related. But, every once in a while I'll look at the puzzle and go "your panagram is 'elephant'" or "the hint is what? Try 'emend'". Then I get to say I helped. :)