1. What will happen to the Dragon and Dungeon brand names?
2. Will Dragon and Dungeon licensing return to Paizo before or after people at Wizards are fired? ;)
What a sad day. This blows AND sucks at the same time. I can't believe WotC would be stupid, or malicious, enough to do this. Both Dungeon and Dragon are institutions within the greater D&D community. They nurtured countless writers and artists, some of whom now work for WotC.
I am really...
I didn't like the Greyhawk Wars and FtA because they polarized a world that had heretofore been a greyscale, finely-balanced and very interesting equilibrium. Suddenly it became black-and-white with Iuz's Empire overrunning everything interesting in the North, the Great Kingdom disintegrating...
They all have great flavour and writing but I wasn't impressed with the artwork in The Inner Planes. I think diTerlizzi was gone by that point. Great info sources though.
I'm not sure it's fair to judge the popularity of a setting by an adventure, but I will definitely buy this book to support the setting. It's great that Greyhawk is at least being given consideration after years of being ignored. That said, it's true that Greyhawk is defined more by its...
Wow, that's really a shame. I still enjoy reading their titanic Wilderlands of High Fantasy set. Does that mean the Judges' Guild will be gone as well?
Yes, Moil appears in the Planescape adventure Dead Gods as a transit demiplane on the way to Tenebrous' (aka Orcus) hideout in the Negative Energy Plane. I believe it was spelled Ranais, the Funereal World, but I could be mistaken.
Mud/clay from the area around the tomb.
A specific type of stone or stone dust (feldspar, pink granite) left at the scene of the crime.
A bit of fur from a pet or animal that wanders a regular path between the tomb and where the PCs are.