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Please, not the Realms. The feel of the Realms is very different from that of the new D&D, and the setting has suffered more than enough changes already to accommodate it to the roolz. And while Eberron has a much stronger 3E synergy, it's too much of an acquired taste to provide baseline D&D...

As in almost all these things, the solution is to sit down and talk to the players. You have to agree what kind of game you want to play. By looking for rules exploits, at least one player is simply failing to cooperate with you as a DM and moreoever as a person. You can put up with that and try...

The new FRCS has more words and broader coverage, but the 1987 set is a better introduction to what the Realms is like and what it's about, as well as having content not found elsewhere. They complement each other quite usefully.

That's great news, then. Jim Butler's hands are good ones for Castlemorn to be in.

It was never 'dead'; as of March, Studio 2 was due to publish it, and if not, I'm sure we see it eventually.

Bastion Press acquired Castlemorn? Where can I read about that?

Because they're quiet. I don't believe for a second that any significant number of people 'hate' the Realms.

Ed doesn't use Earth analogues in his world design; in the late 80s and 90s TSR wanted (to quote him) 'to make the Realms a welcome setting for all sorts of play (Wanna be a gladiator? A samurai? A pirate? A jungle explorer?) because the Realms was then intended to be THE host world for 2nd...

There's only one full-length adventure set in the Moonshaes, Ed Greenwood's FA1 Halls of the High King, which I recommend highly.

The first part is symbolic, and probably not literal.

Pushing living beings with the Force being inherently dark-side was always a shaky speculation, and the new film has nixed it. The method of hiding oneself in the Force has been named in Labyrinth of Evil: it's the Quey'tek technique. We know the Emperor's visage is Palpatine's true face. The...

City of Splendors: Waterdeep The Best of the Realms, Book II: The Stories of Ed Greenwood Hall of Many Panes Castle Zagyg: Yggsburgh

Thieves' Cant is covered thoroughly in Gary Gygax's The Canting Crew.

See here for this great news from a more reliable source. The cultural and ratings success of the new Doctor Who is a very significant event in the UK culture, showing that imaginative television is a mass and not a 'cult' concern, and opening the doors for other UK series not set in houses...

Rick McCallum has said that the six-movie release won't be this year: the subject of this thread is an erroneous rumour. I'm entirely with Ankh-Morpork Guard above. Not personally liking some of these changes is one thing; projecting that into George committing some sin, or not knowing what...

I agree the story of Obi-Wan in early Jedi Apprentice can be reconciled with the normal age of becoming a Padawan (though I wouldn't use it in my campaign). The Jedi don't reject older candidates for arbitrary reasons, but because older children develop attachments which could risk one of them...

Star Wars doesn't go into superhuman cyborgs. Cybernetic limbs are simple replacements; cybernetic replacement on the order of Darth Vader is experimental (General Grievous was a test run) because the Republic wouldn't countenance creating such unnatural man-machine hybrids (any more than it...

The '13' figure was postulated before George Lucas established that Jedi initiates become the Padawan learner to a Jedi when they're aged seven or eight -- on the Episode I DVD commentary, also mentioned in Inside the Worlds of Attack of the Clones. (PotJS's suggestion that 13 is young, which...

Speaking for the Realms, there are many magical, ethical, social, religious, political, and ecological considerations that apply to the casting of spells. Just because the Player's Handbook doesn't go into them doesn't mean that resurrection in the Realms is just a financially draining...

Worth noting that the City of Hawks map is a sketch map of Gary Gygax's layout of the city, which has never been published in detail, and which is quite different from the TSR version that appeared in the City of Greyhawk box.