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From the OP: Gave rise to this proposal in another thread: Basically, the idea is to revert to a 1E-3E style of Player's Handbook where we have one consolidated list of spells/powers 'to rule them all'. I hope people have not forgotten how much time it took to roll up an 8th level Favoured...

I take it you didn't get my analogy to TSR's 2nd edition proliferation of campaign sets? Look, all I am saying is this. Modules have already multiple factors that splinter the general customer base interested in buying them. Factors like, is it written for Eberron ('nope, I don't play in...

This is brilliant! Apart from levels already serving as a differentiating factor (PC power level) Monte Cook hits upon the idea to use them to introduce another hurdle to disperse the module buying populace. Brilliant! What's coming next? 'Given that there are around 12 different play styles in...

Indeed. Look to the 2004 and 2006 D&D starter boxes WotC put out at Paizo's current price tag and you can see the different 'strategies' in action. WotC goes for 'D&D Miniatures - and, oh, you can roll to detect traps!', whereas Paizo gives newbs way more of a rounded D&D experience. The DM...

One man's garbage... It's the part that reminds me of all sort of awesome generals who're looming large these days in historical wargames. Not to mention the stand-up tokens used in Fantasy Flight games, like Arkham Horror or Warhammer Roleplay. It seems someone is missing out on the...

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Has 4E hit its stride? Depends how you judge that. If you go by reviews which declare the latest product the Bestest Evar WotC Has Yet Released, you may want to re-think your standards, because you'll find people on Enworld and elsewhere who say that about whatever is currently the latest. I've...

Can you cut it with the tedious price comparisons?

If memory serves... Quest for Fun!: Inflection Point Dark Sun Campaign Guide was discontinued under less than a year, which bodes ill for the remaining stock of the Dark Sun Creature Catalogue and the accompanying adventure. Adventurer's Vault 1 is out of print, and I regard that as a corner...

You could be forgiven for thinking so, but no it ain't. Of course people can build whatever characters they want at home. But bringing a godamn slayer to MY GAMETABLE! Now that... shudder... splutter... fhtgan.... Hm, let's run with an analogy. (In fact, it's not analogy at all, it's the real...

The origins of "Jim DarkMagic": a 1983 film version of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. Here: Something Wicked This Way Comes (Part F) - YouTube Hit minute 11:48.

What's this? A tiefling raised in the feywild with a gnome personality? Like the idea. Just not sure I need to throw money at a designer who runs out of ideas and so rolls on his random table for new race write ups. What's next? The Dragernus - a dragonborn with a githzerai psycho profile born...

Apart from MME, which is hard to get with ordinary online retailers, you should check out thebookdepository.com - they are owned by Amazon, give you free shipping worldwide, and their prices are consistently lower than Amazon UK or Germany. I buy a lot of D&D and Pathfinder over there, and while...

OMG! They aren't even pretending that we're in edition makeover phase any longer. Let's keep our thumbs crossed it doesn't hit rock bottom as hard as its predecessor 'We at WotC can't be bothered at this point' aka DSG 3.5 did: Amazon.com: Dungeon Survival Guide (Dungeon & Dragons d20 3.5...

Yes, and once we discount that 24% of the items are reprints and that other stuff like "the Henchmen and Hirelings article from DDI is reprinted in its entirety" (amazon.com) then 100% of the stuff in MME is new. Absolutely. Thank you again for the effort of providing these data. We may draw...

The line in your review I thought mispresentative of AV 2 was this one: I got AV 2 on my lap now, and the fluff entries for items - when they are there (pp. 56-81 especially) - are often more substantial than those in MME. Now it could be the case that MME features a higher number of such...

This is the sort of revisionism I've come to tire of when it comes to Enworld (postings and reviews). A new product will come up and be proclaimed a great departure from previous designs, and to finally cater to the type of designs fans have been clamouring for. Case in point: Gardmore Abbey is...

I'd have been more interested to see it applied to things other than Perception (and Insight) for which these things already exist. E.g. why not talk about automating more die rolls in combat? Players love to roll dice, so let's talk about the DM's end of things. 4E introduced auto-damage for...

It's a bit hard to muster enthusiasm for 5E when all we got is two designers at its helm who are both past their prime and peak. And if memory serves, no single designer in the whole history of D&D has ever delivered two convincing takes on it. I'm more optimistic for 6E. :D Where I can sign...

Well, this answers one of my nagging concerns over the past months... IF they are actively working on 5E, who's at all competent enough to do it? Certainly none of the few remaining staffers, who also mostly lack street cred or - in the case of Cordell - spectacularly gambled it away. But...