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Vaults of Pandius has an article on useless and obnoxious magic items marketed by Bargle the Infamous. I think it might have been a Dragon article at one point: Bazaar of the Bizarre (Limited collector's editions of the works of Bargle the infamous)

I hadn't heard of this before. Thanks for posting. It's on my to-buy list now.

The Cult of the Frog from DA2. The god made no sense, and was fake, but their priests had freakin' laser beams!

I'm halfway through "Child of Fire" by Harry Connolly. So far it's excellent. I really like the main character, Ray.

I've got numerous PDFs downloaded from different sites, and it seems like each one wants to store it some place differently. I'm starting to lose track of the stuff I've bought, and it's hard to search for file titles like "AdvX-3.5.pdf" I'm looking for something along the lines of what a media...

I have the core book and wizard's cabal and I like them both. I'm a fan of the setting, though. I think the core book did a great job of capturing the feel of the original DA supplements. Wizard's cabal has some alternate magic rules, and also some good background on the cabal themselves, who...

I know the PDF is out, but I prefer hard copy so I'll be waiting for that. Has anyone bought and/or played this game yet?

I remember an old Dungeon adventure I always liked called "The Wounded Worm". Basically a crippled dragon, having survived a group of adventurers, starts using charms and other subtle tactics to control the lands around him and prevent anyone else from threatening his life. The adventure is...

New England's a bit out of my way for a game. If anyone knows anything good in the Midwest, though, I'd love to hear about it.

I've been running LARP with a small group (named "Beyond Reality") for about twelve years now. In fact, we have a game coming up at Visioncon (Springfield MO) next weekend. We run theater-style using a homebrew system with simple character cards and a D20 die mechanic. As someone described...

I've been thinking of running a game myself lately. One possible opening was a nWoD module called "Chicago Workings" that's available on rpgnow.com. Basically all the characters are mortals in the same neighborhood, and a strange fire gets them into a plot involving a pair of dueling geomancers...

Tell him that if he's MPD, you as GM get to control his other personality, as well as switchovers and blackouts. Then just make the other personality his avatar.

My 2e illusionist had cooking proficiency. He considered himself an aesthetic gentleman type, so he had all sorts of odd skills like that. We also had a professional French chef that travelled with us for a while, at least until the drow captured him. Alas, poor Pierre... I @#$% hate the drow.

Funny you should mention Feist, since the only book of his I've bothered to read was called Faerie Tale. It's about a contemporary family that moves onto an estate with a tie to faerieland. These fae are definately not nice. They draw on darker celtic and germanic legends- think Erl King, Wild...

Giant In the Playground Games Finally, a good discussion of D&D alignments!

Later in the books (I think it's the end of Book 1) there's a reference to people called Devona, who are basically gifted humans who serve the Others (think oWoD apprentices or kinfolk). They don't have supernatural powers, but are aware of the supernatural and tend to be healthier and luckier...

I've read all the books, but I'm not familiar with McWoD. What are the Chosen? It seems like it would be a good fit. For that matter, you could probably cobble something together with regular D20 as well. It already has rules for vampires, wizards, lycanthropes, etc. It would just be a question...

My group just went to 2nd level last weekend and was confused by this as well. Stat mod + 1/2 level is what is used for untrained skill checks (or attribute checks, which are pretty much the same thing). I can see the use of having that precalculated, but the decision to place it next to the...

I was going to just assume that a hit with holy water would kill a minion, fudging the "any damage kills" to "any hit kills" for this purpose. I had noticed that none of the Keep minion undead had Radiant vulnerability, and this seemed easiest. If there's an aura, like a power radiating out...

That's funny about the "fight don't talk" encounters. My group has a dragonborn paladin, and he kept trying to negotiate with the kobolds. Since the module offers no support for that, I didn't have much to past saying "Umm, they attack." So each negotiation ended with the kobolds attacking, and...