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Babies, etc. I shot who in the what now?

BTW, I've posted a little FAQ about this job on the D&D Miniatures General forum over at the Wizards boards. (That seemed to be the most active thread on the topic.)

We need this person to work here in the office with us...no full-time telecommuting, sorry (though occasional work-at-home days are fine, of course). If you're asking whether Wizards can help get you work permission, that's another issue entirely (and one I'd have to investigate). Send me an...

Wizards of the Coast has an opening on our RPG/Minis Design team. We're looking for someone who has both RPG & Minis expertise, with a slight preference for Minis skills. Experience in the DDM tournament environment is a big plus. To be blunt, we need someone to take on significant design...

Weird. I could have sworn I typed "before it got a second book of core rules support in the same edition" [emphasis added] because I was thinking of exactly those books (both of which are sitting on my shelf at home, next to my many well-used Dark Sun books) and wanted to differentiate CP from...

It's the elf problem, but in reverse. The game tells you "elves are wizards, rah rah rah" and the world assumes that to be true. Unfortunately, nothing in the game mechanics of the PH supports that. (Heck, many players consider halflings to be a better choice as a wizard than elves because of...

Sean's comments have been pretty much on the nose. I thought I'd add a couple more insights; I hope they're useful. It's easy to forget that the game is an evolving entity, and that what seems obvious in 2005 wasn't so in 1998, 2000, or even 2002. When PH, DMG, and MM were designed in...

Bastion & Incarnum I have only this to say: :D

5-Level Prestige Classes I'm a big proponent of matching a prestige class's "duration" (the number of levels it has) to its flavor and role in the game. It's good to read that so many people are seeing 3- and 5-level prestige classes in the way they're intended: as temporary diversions from a...

Being as I've only married one of the choices on the list, I think I'll have to pick Ms. Kestrel. :cool:

If I actually described Planescape as a "failed" setting, then mark that down as a colossal example of misspeaking, and accept my apologies. Just because a setting doesn't exist any more doesn't make it "failed," any more than the fact that we don't call the current year "2003" makes last year...

I haven't rolled a monster or NPC's hit points in probably four years. I'll *rarely* vary the hp total from the mean average, but usually not by more than 10% or so unless I intend to change the critter's CR. A frost giant with maximum hp is just flat-out more challenging than one with average...

Note also that the monk already gets a pretty significant boost in Jump distance due to her speed increase, since every additional 10 ft. of speed adds +4 to Jump checks (see the second paragraph under "Check" in the Jump skill description). That translates to a +4 bonus on Jump checks at 3rd...

Although it appears that this thread has devolved into something akin to namecalling, I'll try to clarify some of my earlier thoughts on the matter just in case anyone's still paying attention. Note that these opinions (like any that I share here or elsewhere) are MINE, not those of my employer...

Speaking as one of the authors of Unearthed Arcana, it seems to me a little petty to simply scan/retype the entire product and make it available for free to anyone who wants it. That, I would say, is hardly in the spirit of the d20 license or the Open Gaming movement. We made UA open content to...

I find it a bit ironic that in an "article" that purports to reveal the "non-journalistic" nature of Dragon, the author apparently hasn't done any "research" on the topic. Is that "enough" "finger-quotes" for one "sentence"? ;)

d20 Modern dungeon crawls The Descent, by Jeff Long, is a pretty interesting depiction of what a long-term modern "dungeon crawl" might look like. The characters investigate a newly discovered network of tunnels far, far underground that link entire continents. Basically, it's D&D's...

Dark Matter Agreed. Even as a lowly editor on said tome, I was thrilled to be involved on such a gorgeous project. From the words to the pictures to the graphic design, this book is well worth picking up for *any* gamer, and particularly for those interested in modern-day gaming. It was an...

Unearthed Arcana As others have pointed out, the original UA is the grand-daddy of the modern d20 product. In a sense, most products look like the 1E UA. In leading the design on Unearthed Arcana, I noted specifically that revisiting the original UA's topics wouldn't be groundbreaking--the...

d20 Menace Manual and Dark Matter And the new Dark Matter d20 Modern setting--coming out in Dungeon #108/Polyhedron #167--takes great advantage of that.