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D&D in The Daily Fail does feel wrong. That place would be more likely to feature articles about how the Evil Satanic Influence of D&D caused a poor innocent teenager to do something dreadful. I guess their lowbrow celebrity obsession just surpasses their urge for gory moralizing sensationalism.

Yeah, has a very 'Realmsian feel to me.

Doesn't matter :) Writeups.org - In-depth character profiles from comics, games, movies has full MEGS stats, bios, and histories for just about any character you can imagine, from DC to Marvel to Cthulhu(!) to pro wrestling(!?) (The stats for Thanos and Adam Warlock are my favorites.) And the...

The old DC Heroes RPG handled this sort of thing perfectly with its system.

I'll give this a look to see if it's any good, but I still like the old '80s TSR FASERIP Marvel Superheroes RPG, with its adjectival ability score rankings (your PC could have an Amazing rank Fighting score and a Monstrous rank Endurance, for example.) But I still consider the old Mayfair...

That's probably why they were listed last, then.

The scuttlebutt in our gaming circle has always been that the original order had something to do with listing the Prime Requisite ability scores first since they could be modified; your Prime could have 1 point added to it for every 2 points subtracted from certain other scores depending on your...

That's a very cool idea, and it is something they should have included. :)

Man, I've been desperately wanting to play Call of Cthulhu - Delta Green since I first got the book in '98 but no one else would ever run it, so instead I've had to run it since then... and they all like my games so much that now none of them ever will run their own game because they all want to...

Isolated locations floating in Ethereal Mist is more "realistic?" :/ I don't think "realism" is ever going to be something that matters much in Ravenloft. There were plenty of ways that the classic setting created isolation between Domains, but the new forcing of all of the Domains to be...

But you see, that's my problem and why it makes me upset. "Like it or lump it" is hardly a great choice. If I want to play a Ravenloft campaign (which I very much do) but the DM will only use this new retconned setting, then the changes made by the new designers have basically taken Ravenloft...

Now don't get me wrong, I do very much like the book, overall. :) I just have a few big problems with it, in that it seems they intentionally decided to change Ravenloft into a bunch of isolated pockets only good for running individual adventures rather than the actual total setting it used to...

The Domains are prisons crafted by the Dark Powers for the Darklords, yes, but the common people are just pawns to enact their torment. And the Darklords knowing that those "meaningless pawns" were freely able to travel between the Domains while the Darklords themselves were not was just one...

Except if I actually want to play and the DM insists on using the newly retconned isolated Domains instead of the classic interconnected setting.

Nope; the Darklords couldn't leave their Domains, but the Land of the Mists was mostly one big landmass, with roads and trade and everything, and the common people could freely move from one Domain to another. There were a few "Islands of Terror" that were small isolated Domains buried deep in...

20th level Battlemaster sounds exactly right for Leonidas to me. The only difference is that I would have actually made him Lawful Evil. The Spartans were pretty vile. If you're OK with using Unearthed Arcana stuff I would give him the Spear Mastery Feat; it gives +1 to hit with the spear...

I very much like the book, with a few big caveats. For one thing, I greatly dislike how the Domains are now floating islands in the Mists with no physical connections nor roads between them for common people to travel from Domain to Domain. This eliminates far more story possibilities and play...

Body Horror? That's pretty cool if they're going to go over the different sub-genres of Horror... maybe have the Body Horror chapter titled Cronenberg, a Cosmic Horror chapter titled Lovecraft, and a Comedy Horror chapter titled Raimi. We had a Ravenloft game in the early '90s with a lich's...

Oh, I defintely see the vast majority of HP as being wound avoidance, but if you take a hit, you take a hit, even if it's a glancing blow that would have run you through the heart if it hadn't been for your years of training. And enough glancing blows to finally take you down and knock you out...

PCs in D&D were meant to represent Heroes in the Classical Greek sense of the term, which meant something more like Übermensch than does the modern meaning of the term "hero." (Go read the entry for Greek Hero Cult on Wikipedia for some fascinating possibilities to include in your games, and...