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Because Lolth herself was a failure. She failed in her attempt to usurp the throne of Corellon, and was transformed into her present drider shape as a punishment. Thus, the dark elven form hearkens back to the form Lolth herself had before she had been tested and found wanting. If Lolth had to...

Could it be the same as Aebir, the world where the dragonborn came from in the new Forgotten Realms? If not, maybe some variant of the word "Star," to refer to the "Points of Light" concept. Not Mystara, though. The official name for it seems to be simply World.

First of all, 4th edition's three core books contain a much more specific assumed world than the three main 3rd edition core books did. In earlier editions tieflings were beings who vaguely had fiendish blood, while in 4e they're descendants of the noble caste of the fallen empire of Bael...

I think what we can draw from this is that the audience for D&D has grown from 2000 to now. Possibly this is because of the LotR movies, Eragon, Harry Potter, Narnia and so on in popular culture. Possibly it's because third edition was just that awesome that every 3e and 3.5 product whetted...

I think that's unusual. People have many criteria in making a decision about what game to play. What they're comfortable with and used to is a big factor. Another big factor is what the people around you are playing. I think the interaction of those two elements is stronger than the details of...

To ruin the joke: in 2nd edition the chief rivals for the githyanki domination of the Astral Plane were the psurlons. In 3e, psurlons aren't presented as extraplanar beings at all, but they're still cool. I voted for the githredsox, though.

Anything that would fit in the Elemental Planes of Earth, Air, and Water, or the Beastlands, would fit in Lammania.

They've been separated for tens of thousands of years for those of us who've done the math (there've been over 150 githyanki queens reigning in the timeless Astral, including one whose reigned for 1000 years and her predecessor, who ruled for over 500). The illithid city of Oryndoll in Toril is...

I wrote this: http://geocities.com/ripvanwormer/gnolls.html

You can get a free viewer, last I checked. Like the Adobe Acrobat reader, you can view and print files with it, but not make your own.

I don't know either. All we've seen are the early playtest rules. It doesn't look nearly as difficult to convert 3.5 to 3p as 3.5 to 4e, anyway. And 3e vs. 3.5 wasn't a big deal either, in my mind - a 3.5 party can still fight all the monsters in the MMII right out of the book, and a 3.5...

It seems to me that there are two completely different problems this addresses: 1. The desire to still have new adventures you could use with Relics & Rituals or Tome of Magic or Goodman Games Guide to Rakshasa or whatever with. 2. The desire to continue the Open Gaming movement, the idea that...

It's the range of d20 products as a whole - with all the innovation and diversity that all the various companies have built, and all that can yet be made, the sort of thing that ENWorld has always been built around - that's useful to keep and support and develop. It's good to know that someone's...

They're not "forcing" you to buy their new rules - they're going to be available as free PDFs (at least, they are presently), and it sounds like you can continue to play Pathfinder modules using your 3e Player's Handbook. But the new rules will exist if you want them, and they'll be the form in...

I loved the fencing rules in it, which were something I adopted outside that setting.

I was actually most amused by Celia's "Yeah, uh, most people don't kill, Haley. That's why there are laws against murder." Some useful perspective.

So is Roy right? Was he always touching his sword when his father's ghost visited him?

That would make sense, considering Quasqueton was built in part by Zelligar the Unknown.

Both demons and devils, traditionally, recruit from mortal souls. Since they both (in 1e-3e) dwell in the Outer Planes, which is where mortal souls go, this shouldn't be surprising, nor can this fact reasonably be taken to mean they are therefore particularly similar. Devils don't, by and...

I apologize. I thought it would be obvious to everyone, but I forget sometimes that not everyone is equally familiar with the history of the game. Daemons, in Vault of the Drow, were introduced as natives of the three lowest planes, Tartarus, Hades, and Gehenna. They were not linked any closer...