Recent content by Faelan Niall

Actually there is a lot of evidence people used them anyway, regardless of what the church said. Also the world is a hell of a lot bigger than just Europe. Lastly the Albigensian Crusade was waged due to the refusal to accept the authority of the King of France, and the authority of the Pope...

Honestly women have had many herbal concoctions throughout history that were very effective at either preventing pregnancy, inducing menses, or causing a spontaneous abortion, none of them changed the way things worked in society. Women were still in many places treated as valued property. I...

My point was that with the infliction of it upon an unwilling recipient it simply becomes a tool for pimps, and rapists. Making it a universal contraceptive removes that aspect or at least levels it out. If it was not usable against the unwilling I would agree with you, however as written it...

That last spell really comes across as in poor taste. Is there a reason it only works on females. It just strikes me as open to juvenile and misogynistic use, not to be too PC, but it just turned my stomach reading it.

Definitely hitting what I had in mind with it. The items are story aids not just a bigger, better stick. Let me know how they work out in play.

Looks good to me. It essentially provides the extra oomph against important opponents, you know like the ones the bards will sing about.

You might find this interesting. Somethiing I posted a while back. http://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=46167 Hope it helps.

I can only see this being a problem when the non human races become simply tall skinny humans with pointy ears, or short stocky humans who are really tough, or green skinned really strong ugly humans, etc. It is the D&D disease that keeps on giving. One way to avoid this syndrome is to truly...

While I have not been keeping track of your setting simply due to personal time constraints, this did catch my eye, and deserved some commentary. I found it interesting as I always do when a writer attempts to differentiate their product from others by including interesting little tid bits of...

Personally I lean towards point buy systems, but when I do break open a random character generation game, I almost always simply let the characters have one characteristic for which they rolled the maximum. The reason for the game is the players, and I refuse to consign them to the Old School...

Neutralise Magic, Countermagic, I have a feeling your Sorcerer is dumping nothing into his Magnitude which makes his spells a house of cards begging to be blown away by the first hint of magic.

Of course there is no reason you cannot limit terms, even with a longer lived race. With a long lived race you run into the problem of "when do the youngsters get their shot at fame and fortune". Its called forced obsolescence. Sorry Admiral we realize you are in your prime but we can't make...

Likewise. If anything limit terms, once in play advancement is pretty slow and controlled anyway, really don't see the need for a total limit. A limit on how high individual skills can go sure, but that is purely for mechanical reasons. I could care less if a character winds up with a whole...

1. When I did shift work, I had similar problems, except I realized that I was the problem. I was the one with a screwed up schedule, and had no right expecting everyone else to behave in a logical fashion when the time and day was a moving target, because of me. People are creatures of...

Beyond a doubt the episode that warped my young mind the most. I remember having nightmares about the tentacular microwave oven of doom, waking up and smiling to myself. It still is one of my favorite criters ever.