Most of the founding fathers of the US were all certifiable pieces of work - in part because they were young revolutionaries to begin with (except Ben Franklin he was older, but still a piece of work… (View Post)

Zhores Medvedev covers this somewhat in his book on Soviet Agriculture - but it's still going on today in some forms in more rural settings and sometimes on an industrial scale: http://www.dbmaligaon… (View Post)

As long as you aren't playing on insane you *should* be able to tank the arrows with judicious use of healing potions. The set of 3 traps near the end of level 3 is the big scary, but the spell shiel… (View Post)

Depending on what you want to play. If you don't like thief at all, it's entirely possible to start as a human, pick up 3-4 levels of thief, and then dual class into fighter or cleric. Since you like… (View Post)

Also wild mages are *super* powerful. Neera literally gave me the best ToB moment ever when she cast wish using a level 1 spell slot (to renew her spells), and ended up causing an area of effect surg… (View Post)