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Unearthed Arcana open content Good question. Here's our thinking on the matter. There are a lot of companies out there publishing d20 products. While many (maybe even most) are intended to be used by D&D players in their D&D games, and thus tend to hew pretty closely to the existing D&D rules...

Enny Goals Jeff (Colonel Hardisson) Black asked me to share my thoughts about this year's awards, so here I am. Clearly, there was a lot of confusion out there as to what was eligible for this year's awards. Heck, even we at WotC missed the change when we first started putting together our...

MM II While Colonel Hardisson's tact is appreciated, it might be more complete to say that "WotC didn't wish to take advantage of its not-entirely-correct use of the OGL to make a product eligible." (It's been argued that MM2, while it included the license, didn't really include enough open...

There are many spells on the bard list that I don't imagine many bards choosing to learn. However, that doesn't eliminate the utility of the spell appearing on the spell list, since it opens up scroll and wand use of those spells. (I've found in my campaign that the bard tends to become a...

epic feats I'll try to shed some light on this issue. 1) At every third character level, a character gains a feat. The only change to this rule in ELH is that a character of character level 21+ can select an epic feat, regardless of his mix of class levels. Ftr21, Rog6/Wiz15...

Dungeon + Polyhedron = Delicious! I love Dungeon. * The adventures meet or exceed the highest quality you can find in the industry. The editors' rules expertise is extraordinary, ensuring that I'll rarely if ever be forced to rewrite a stat block or encounter because the author didn't know how...

Hey, I never leave the toilet seat up!

Nope. Manyshot requires a standard action. Shot on the Run lets you make *an attack* (not a standard action) between your two movements.

Thanks for all the great replies, folks. I really appreciate the time & trouble taken to share your opinions. And keep 'em coming!

Of all the open content rules system or subsystem you've seen, what's your favorite? I'll be starting a new D&D campaign soon, and I'd like to include some twists on the traditional game rules to keep the players on their toes. I'm particularly interested in things like alternative...

The original poster shared only half the significance of the change. The change from a strict hierarchy to a single specific quality, damage type, or material of the weapon (or in very rare cases, a combination of two) is indeed an attempt to recapture the "flavor" of damage reduction...

Winter Fantasy I'll be there, talkin' revisions and playin' D&D. Just need to decide if I want to play in Assault on the Vault or run it...

I, too, have experienced the problem that Charles is describing. I have yet to determine a pattern to it--some weeks I won't get anything new at all, then the very next day everything will be fine (as it's been all this week). Mac OS 9.1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, Macintosh version...

Dark Matter D20 It strikes me that porting the Dark Matter setting and mood over to a D20 Modern game would be pretty easy, particularly if the group is willing to play a little fast-and-loose with the translation. Technically, there isn't even all that much unique mechanical information in...

Yes, you can win your very own autographed copy of the Epic Level Handbook, signed by designers Andy Collins, Bruce Cordell, and Thomas Reid. Just head over to http://www.andycollins.net/bloodlines_files/bloodlines_contest.htm for all the details. Note that entries must be received by Friday...

DM Support I'm curious: what's your definition of "support"? 'Cause it seems to me like there are an awful lot of "DM support" products on the shelves. Just for the sake of argument, let's completely ignore any "support" afforded to the DM by the Player's Handbook, the five classbooks, and...

Kalamar and WotC As far as the Kalamar/D&D situation goes, it's probably easiest to think of it much like a company licensing an intellectual property from its owner (such as Wizards and the Star Wars IP, or WizKids and the Marvel Super Heroes IP). WotC, as the owner of the property in...

Most ridiculous Epic thing I vote for "the fact that people are complaining before they read the rules." But maybe that's just the curmudgeon in me. :) (Frankly, I'd be a bit disappointed if people didn't find *something* ridiculous in there--it'd mean that we didn't push the boundaries far...

Iron Fortress stories Wow, it's great to read all these stories about people's experiences in Lord of the Iron Fortress. It sounds like most of you have hit Valmur's problem on the nail--inexperience at high levels. I wrote the adventure fully expecting that characters of this level should be...

A Response Here's the text of the email I just sent to Malik in response to his message to me, in which he identified himself and the source of his information: ********************** Thanks for having the courage to step up and admit where you got the information. I've forwarded the...