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I think it's better to encourage people to learn new words than to assume most people have a smaller vocabulary and "write down" to them.

"Year of the Slaadi." Slaadinomicon, Chayos Magikkck, Anarchic Codex, Races of Anarchy, The Anti-DMG, and The Influence of the Dada Movement on the Work of John Cage. The last one is actually a 125 page adventure written using random parts of over 20 previous adventures. It doesn't play as well...

I vote for "Year of the Celestials." Celestial Codex volumes I and II, Celestial Magic, Celestials of Faerun, and Races of Heaven. "Year of the goblins" would also be nice. Gobbonomicon, Goblin Magic, Goblins of Faerun, and Races of Violence.

I wouldn't sweat the flavor too much - make it fun. Watch things like House of Flying Daggers, Iron Monkey, The Drunken Master (the latter two share a character, by the way), Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Samurai Champloo and call it good. (Yes, I just mentioned Seven Samurai and Samurai...

By that reasoning, since Krynnish gods were given realms in the Great Wheel cosmology in Fiendish Codex I, and WotC approved of it, that's where that stands. You must therefore consider any Dragonlance books that had previously suggested that Krynn has a seperate cosmology to be nothing more...

The Planar Trade Consortium would be a good choice, then. There's a crime family in Sigil detailed in Faction War, and the arcanaloth Shemeshka the Marauder runs a criminal syndicate in the City of Doors, too. There are a number of planar organizations detailed in the Epic Level Handbook - not...

The Revolutionary League (the Anarchists) are certainly underground, dark, and roguish. They make great bad guys, but they can be good guys too, if they're primarily fighting evil or corrupt authority. Each cell is different, and each member of a cell can have a different agenda (and even belong...

I haven't read the book (the Blood War trilogy got bad reviews among Planescape fans, so I skipped it), but flying sting rays in D&D include: - Cloakers - Mantari - Lurkers Above - Sinisters - Chososions (vaguely) - Fundamentals (even more vaguely) Ixitxachitl and ixchen (their underdark...

The Suel were by far the oldest civilization in the world, ruled by sorcerers and - as the ages wore on - decadent to the extreme. The Suel are described as having pale skin, blonde or red (kinky or curly) hair, and blue or gray eyes. Frequently, they are albino. They lived far to the southwest...

There's always squirrel ninjas. Or you could have fun with dopplegangers and mimics.

The thing I didn't/don't like about the cambion is the idea that the vast variety of demonic forms can be encompassed by a single set of stats (or two sets, if we count the alu-demon/alu-fiend). Of course, the half-fiendish template isn't much better in that regard, but at least they aren't all...

Planewalker's article on the dragon pantheon.

There's the zorbo, which was presented in 2e as an "evil koala bear."

Yes. Tymora, Lendys, Hlal, Astilabor, and Garyx were all from the 2e Draconomicon. Some of the info there is slightly different (for example, Hlal was portrayed as a faerie dragon instead of a copper dragon), but there isn't really more detail there - the 2e descriptions were extremely brief...

As you can see from the table of contents, there's a chapter on the lands (not just the village) of Barovia on pages 48-88. So the product isn't just about the castle, not by a long shot. The sidebar on page 5, "Adventures in Ravenloft" is probably about the demiplane as well, since otherwise...

Its alignment wasn't mentioned, but seeing as Thrommel gives it to one of the PCs as a gift (as a reward for finding Fragarach for him), it seems unlikely to be evil. Unless Thrommel was very confused, that is. Which is possible: he was rather groggy. The "original" Fragarach, Thrommel's own...

See my take in this thread.

The Final Word Swords were created by the hero-deity Kelanen, the Sword Lord (except for the Answerer, which Kelanen wrested from an alien god). The name Fragarach means "final word" in Ancient Oeridian.

Moorcock subsequently mellowed about Tolkien quite a bit, including him in his list of 100 best fantasy books (though not near the top). His "Epic Pooh" was more a personal manifesto than anything else; his own writing and particularly his work as an editor tends to be very political, and he...

Did you miss Monte Cook's take on that very subject?