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The lightning rail, of course, doesn't have any kind of wheel, and works rather like a super-sized Tenser's floating disk effect - it's force holding the carriages up, and bound elementals providing movement. Likewise, airships aren't powered by engines and kept aloft by wings; they're buoyed...

I shall skim through the book to get a feel for the system, and the art, and the implied setting.

I hope they never develop it as a published setting. I like it better as a framework for generic adventures and supplements.

It's Skarka's Law, actually, usually invoked when people defend monstrous ideas that touch on topics we're not allowed to discuss here.

You see, though, how Hit Dice affect more than just hit point totals, in the Third Edition setup. It also affects feats, skill points, attack bonuses, save bonuses . . . and the results of those knock-on calculations can often impede what you're trying to do, as well as introducing unnecessary...

Wow, it's almost like your own personal choices as a DM don't really have much bearing on the direction of the game as a whole! Madness! Sparta! Et cetera!

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So hey: is Chris Sims also confirming that there will be a Forgotten Realm Campaign Guide for DMs and a Forgotten Realms Player's Guide as a separate product?

Of course, the female warrior is a human.

In my campaign, all the deities will be referred to by titles like the Raven Queen. :)

If you mean my thread, that has nothing to do with the Fourth Edition time-jump, since Alicia Kendrick (FFS!) is dead now. I imagine. It was sparked by the publication of the Grand History of the Realms article covering the Moonshae Isles.

1) You clearly don't know what "emo" means, so I'd stop using it, were I you. 2) Paladins aren't all lawful good anymore, so there's no "type" to turn against.

I'm about a week away from starting up my Pathfinder Rise of the Runelords campaign, so that will be a Third Edition game. It will also be my last Third Edition game unless I turn out to hate Fourth Edition, since if I have the time and energy to start another game before June it certainly...

I agree, and it's a good reference. The Far Realms has more often struck me as a place which simply does not play by our universe's rules more than a place which harbours malevolence towards our universe. What some people forget is that Lovecraft wrote about lots of different things. His ghouls...

I would kill a man to play a game with the interface of Temple of Elemental Evil (perfected, of course) and a decent storyline. ToEE was fun, but I'm not sure that classic nothing-but-dungeon modules are the best basis for a CRPG. I'd prefer a game where you travel from place to place -...

Rituals, the same way wizards create magic items. Much more flavourful to do a ritual to create a barrier than to simply cast wall of force.

I remember Dave Noonan making the point, while discussing the social encounter rules, that there will be room in the system for "roll, then roleplay", "roleplay, then roll", "just roll", and "just roleplay" as each group prefers.

The inclusion of the Far Realm as a separate element of the cosmology is a pleasant surprise, since I don't recall its having been mentioned before now. Can we have some more detail on what's been said about it? :)

Nah, I like the completely non-Tolkienesque orcs in Eberron way too much. :) It's the only setting which uses all the "core" material yet abandons Tolkienesque tropes for something genuinely interesting.

Nonsense. That's ridiculous unless you believe that the people who wrote Merlin's story were familiar with and bought into Greek metaphysics rather than Christian demonology. Unlikely, to say the least. Eberron's half-elves are essentially a true-breeding race now - they call themselves the...