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..... Why must there be {ART} in Dragon magazine? I'm not argueing about the quality of any of the {ART} that has been published. Just the reason it is included in a "Dungeons & Dragons" magazine. There are many, many, many outlets for {ART} and {PICTURES}. Anyone looking for fantasy...

I dunno. I was trying to specifically bring this point up; I know that my players get sort of wound up if there are too many sessions of "talking and thinking" in a row. Finding a den of evil bad-guys and putting them all to the sword is a welcome change of pace. For some groups it might not...

Oh my. I wish I could remember which set of writers showed up at the con for their talk; I assume it was the same guys since they mention the 3-of-7 critical points thing and were rather sarcastic about how everyone "loved the property" but apparently no one at the studio had ever read it...

Tangent: Even within my Guild I divided the territory up into quarters, each managed by a different street-boss. Theoretically, they're all on the same team, but it added a bit of spice when the proverbial poo-hit-the-fan. Something to think of if you are still developing your campaign world...

Running a City has been very different for me than running a dungeon. As the poster above mentions, the party is much more prone to split up into mini-parties and go out on their own. This is almost impossible to stop, and certainly makes matching the EL of any planned encounters a bit...

Good choice. I'm constantly amazed by his ability to generate ...um.... vivid ...um... images. The Scar is on my shelf waiting to be read. I just gulped down a bunch of short stories for the Hugo nominations. Usually I do a pretty good job of covering the material, but this year I really...

Oh, everything in Type I has been errataed by now. (And then errattaed once more!) I know you can Fork a Demonic Tutor, and by the same logic you can Fork a Time Walk. Apparently theres even a special rule for how to resolve multiple Time Walk turns by different players. Hope this clears...

Although the 3rd Edition ruleset is more complete than 2E or 1E, its still the DMs job to keep things rolling by making up rules for situations that havent been covered. In my experience, this means that the DM is making a good handful of judgement calls and new rules on the fly every session...

Ooops, my bad. I was thinking Puppet Masters and wrote Body Snatchers for some reason.

The screenwriters from the most recent version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" gave a talk at a con about their experiences with the Hollywood development guys. One of the recurring things that happened to them is that they'd go into meetings and the execs would talk about how they "loved...

This was Meepos fate in our world too. Poor little guy.

The Dragon & Dungeon people seem to be having a lot of problems with their fulfillment house. If you have the Search Function, you might scan the boards for questions about Dragon subscriptions - I remember someone recently detailing their experiences and giving the contact info of people they...

Mage Knight has been extremely successful with this formula. I'll be curious how Wizards does once again trying to shoehorn the Chainmail brand into a market established and dominated by another company.

At this point the Top 20 list is overgrown and increasingly useless. Since it never gets culled, products with small and fanatically loyal followings tend to rise to the top over time. I've complained about this before - is Call of Cthulhu the "best" game d20 game system, or is it just that...

Well, what puzzled me about the PHB description is that it specifically mentions that Take 20 takes generally 2 minutes instead of 6 seconds (6sec x 20 = 2min), but doesnt say anything about Take 10 except "you cant do this when rushed..." So if Take 10 takes additional time, then how much...

I chose LoFan to be the name of my Monk. I'm not sure exactly how insulting that term is now, feel free to chip in on the issue if you speak Cantonese.

SPOILERS--- SPOILERS--- SPOILERS--- SPOILERS--- SPOILERS--- SPOILERS--- SPOILERS--- But the Dragon can still fly, so Buffing for water is only half the job. I mentioned "mobility enhancers" in my analysis, but I still think that if the DM plays the Dragon very tactically a 5th level party is...

He didn't say it was illegal, he simply said they were being sued. ;-) Myself, I cant imagine how you could get such a suit into the courtroom. On a tangent, doesnt ReplayTV have its hands into the MP3 hardware business? They were really on the ropes a couple of years ago financially (which...

Ask around before you order from NewWave. Some people have had good experiences with them, but others have had very bad experiences. Caveat Emptor.

Our DM gave it max hit-points but played it without a lot of tactics and it was a good challenge for a party of six 5th levels. Another DM I know bumped it up an age catagory to face a party with some powerful +ECL characters. That party is five generally 5th levels also, before counting...