Recent content by AlecAustin

While the second sentence is true on its face, I think that it's important to consider several points when discussing whether the CR/EL system is "broken". 1) Not all monsters at a given CR are created equal. This is obvious to anyone with a moderate amount of experience using the core books...

While I don't play with rigidly defined alignments very often, I have several players who consistently play characters that verge on evil. They're out for their own interests, generally apathetic about the greater good unless it affects them personally, and tend to be quite ruthless with...

Based on his statements, I strongly suspect he ran the original ToEE and the 3.5 version of Maure Castle that was published in Dungeon. As I'm not the original poster, though, I can't provide a definitive answer.

Based on Erik Mona's public statements and his editorial in, um, Dragon #327, I believe, he's remaking Dragon as the magazine for *all* D&D enthusiasts, which I believe means DMs and campaign material. As to PrCs in Dungeon... unless an adventure includes a new one, I wouldn't bet on it.

As I recall, submissions were due at the end of August. So they've had a fair amount of time to dig through them and cull out the genuinely awful stuff. I expect that the lack of a result comes from either A) the search committee people having other things they need to do (production crunches...

As many people have noted, Dragon lacks sufficient flavor and interesting writing/ideas in most of its articles for me to want to pick it up. Instead, it has eight tons of crunch, some of which is useful, but most of which I'll never use. Let me pick apart issue 324 (one which I actually...

SE Portland, about 10 blocks up from Reed College. Email me at alec_chane_austin { at } yahoo.com if you're interested.

I know you caveated your comments by not aiming them at anyone in particular, but I just wanted to say a few things with regards to your comments about campaigns not ending in mass PC death. I know that *my* last campaign, while it didn't end in a TPK, ended with... let's see... at least 6 out...

Noticed you hadn't closed the thread, so if you're still looking for a game, I'm running a 3.5 Eberron campaign every saturday afternoon from 6-10 PM (and sometimes longer).

Hey, Bill. I'm running an Eberron game in Portland, too, and I'm also looking for players. Maybe we could talk and trade players or something? We've been playing every week on Saturday afternoons, from 6:00 to 10 or 11 PM, and though the party is up to 3rd level, it would be really easy to...