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Ravenloft, however, like Planescape and Spelljammer, has been killed and had its stuff taken for the core assumptions of the game. Domains of dread exist in the Shadowfell; they don't need a whole setting of their own, it seems. Also, I strongly doubt that the "So you think you can Dragonlance"...

Yep. Eminently reasonable. I know that guys from White Wolf have played or do play Fourth Edition but a) many of the people I'm thinking of may be freelancers and/or b) they're probably a little less personally burdened than are the people at Paizo, who seem to have been working very punishing...

I don't know there's much reason to believe that the Paizo guys "know 4E" on a player or DM level. They're pretty open about a) their disinterest and b) their lack of time, what with working on all of the various Pathfinder products. I doubt any of them have been playing Fourth Edition in the...

My subscription ran over a little, if I recall correctly, but after reading through the first adventure path (Rise of the Runelords), I cancelled my subscription shortly after the first volume of the next adventure path (Curse of the Crimson Throne) shipped. I had grown disenchanted with the...

I have literally no idea what you're talking about.

My point, Flatus, is not that "getting maths right doesn't matter", but that "getting this figure exactly right doesn't matter". It's what they used to call "puff" in the advertising business - a claim which looks good but does not actually represent anything substantive. It's harmless -...

I chose these: IMC, the setting is primarily matriarchial or gender neutral The players are mostly female Female players have played female characters IMC, there are gay NPCs In my group there are gay players IMC, romance is G rated (appropriate for all ages) My campaign is more wahoo (kewl...

I'm not sure why it matters. Obviously they're thinking 17 x 16 = 272; even though that's not accurate, why on earth should anyone care? Is 272 possible combinations somehow exciting where 136 is not?

Forked from a thread about sexism in D&D and on EN World. Exhibit A . . .

True. I have, however, seen quite a bit of sloppy argumentation from people that relies on the idea that "D&D is like medieval Europe" to defend sexism and other silliness - and criticising "D&D is like medieval Europe" in that context is not meant to be an attack on people who like games set in...

Whether or not there are, or could be, roleplaying games that cater to people who are uninterested in the currently-typical roleplaying games about adventure and thrilling heroics is one question. I think the more immediate, and thus more important, question is what roleplaying game companies...

Sure. I am not in the least bit motivated by the desire for authenticity or verisimilitude in worldbuilding for its own sake; what I care about is whether or not a world or a story is interesting, not whether it is what would have most likely happened (a question impossible to answer in any...

Well, I do, actually. In my games, there's absolutely no assumption that the world resembles medieval Europe in anything more than a superficial and localised fashion. In my current game, using the Scales of War adventure path, the PCs may carry crossbows and longswords, but the feel of the...

Curse of Ham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anyway, I just wanted to add to my post: I don't think the evil drow being black or matriarchal is the result of any kind of agenda on the part of Gary or other creators. I think it's far more likely to have been an unconscious product of their...

There's a reason for it. You don't have to argue that the drow having black skin, female rulers, and oppressed men means that Gary (or anyone else who contributed to the drow) intended to say that women being in charge or having black skin is evil. However, why do the drow have black skin...

Fourth Edition seems to be more popular on RPG.Net, though of course we're not without edition wars over there.

I am the sort of guy who either plays a human PC or an "exotic" race (though I note with approval the Fourth Edition trend to give "exotic" races more-or-less equal time with "traditional" races). Partly, this is because I either want to play something familiar, or something foreign. If I'm...

Psionics and the primal vs. Far Realm conflict both fit extremely well with Eberron, but one thing that hasn't been mentioned is that minotaurs do too. The nation of Droaam - seemingly a personal favourite of creator Keith Baker, given that his latest novel Queen of Stone is set there - is a...

I'm a "develop in play" kind of person. I've not seen the game yet where whatever the players imagined their characters would be like by themselves before the game began "survived contact with the enemy" - no matter how much information you have about the world your GM has set the game in...

I have, sort of, done something similar in the past when trying to diversify a set of roleplaying game-based trivia questions for SUTEKH. My writing partner and I didn't want to have all our questions be drawn from D&D and the World of Darkness! We also had to balance "challenging" against...