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A few comments from someone else who's worked on the Primer, here... To my mind, there are three main varieties of d20 rules material: 1) New material using existing templates. e.g., new races, classes, feats, spells, magic items, and so on. The Primer covers this territory, focusing on Violet...

In response to earlier posts, I've seen a gnome paladin (whom the party met when trying to return Shatterspike to its rightful inheritor), and I'm including an aasimar assassin in a PDF I'm writing. It seems to me that you rarely see bards outside humans, half-elves, and (perversely) half-orcs...

Oh, sure...make me the villain! To defend myself here, my point was that Denizens--as pleased as I am with it, overall--doesn't cover much new mechanical ground. No new subsystems or variations on existing systems, etc.; mechanically, you could jumble up the monsters with those from the MM and...

Status I can't say much (I'm just a lowly freelancer) other than to say that the Primer has not been forgotten, and will see the light of day sooner or later. It's just a matter of finding a publishing plan that suits the company's needs and waiting for the time to be right. In the meantime...

Thanks, folks! Templates are a good thought, but I'm already using them extensively elsewhere. I may have to look into Dragonstar and Magic of Rokugan. Anyone else?

I'm hoping the collective knowledge of EN World can help me find some OGC for a PDF I'm working on. I need rules covering ways for characters to gain inherent powers / abilities / bonuses without gaining levels. Examples would be: Permanency and wish spells. Oathbound prestige races. Manuals...

All very, very cool, Hong. Makes me wish I had a group I could play d20 Ultima with. I'll also highlight: "This being mythic fantasy set in a demon-haunted world, the path to self-perfection and transcendence involved racking up a kill count reaching into 4 digits." This, to my mind, is the...

I'm not Jeff, but I'm familiar with the module (I did copyediting and the 3.5 conversion), so I'll offer a few thoughts: You could involve the PCs in a plot involving the Niarvan gangs. There's some information about them in the intro to chapter 1. This could be basic gang rivalry stuff, the...

Edits Sniff. That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said.... Seriously, Denizens was my first major editing job, and while I can look back at it now and pick out various grammatical mistakes, I'm still pretty happy with it overall. Certainly gave me a lot of experience. (And as for rules...

Thanks, Ari! (And Nightfall, for looking.)

Monsters Hm. I haven't received any comp copies...I wonder if my critters got cut, or if I'm just being impatient? Anyone who has the book want to tell me if either the boneweed or the storm harvester is in there? Looking forward to seeing the product, regardless of whether I made it in!

With all due respect to Monte's work, he was really a latecomer to Planescape--while he wrote a bunch of adventures, he didn't do much of the core setting material; only the Astral and Inner Planes books, Planewalker's Handbook, and the MC3. (Unless I'm forgetting something.) Compare this to...

Shadow I'm surprised no one's mentioned the shadow encounter as problematic. Our party (cleric / druid / rogue / fighter) couldn't find any way to damage it; I can't remember if we tried turning or not, but that's hardly an optimal solution. Ended up fleeing. In a party not willing to flee, the...

Ah, Nethack. Truly one of (if not the) greatest games ever. I haven't played much for a few years--after placing in the yearly tournament a few times, I sort of took it as my cue to "retire." (I still have my tournament T-shirt!) I still play every now and then, but no longer feel the...

Shameless Plug Not a free product, but Legends of Avadnu is a 30-some page PDF book of epic-level monsters. Disclaimer: I worked on it.

What sort of content are you looking for? I've seen the style guides for several major d20 companies (though not WotC), and there's nothing special in them--just points on in-house formatting, policies on word usage and grammar, advice on voice, and so on. It's very useful to have a style guide...

This is a vastly biased viewpoint, but I'll chime in anyway. I worked on the Tribe 8 2nd Ed. core book, and I was the one to handle the OGL conversions in the back of the book. They're based on Modern, and I'm pretty happy with them; I think they carry the essential parts of T8 into d20 Modern...

Only one website update this week, as the Inner Circle heads to Origins, but it's a doozy: the devout, a new base class that will appear in The Avadnu Primer this August. Also, a chance to win a free copy of the Primer! Get a cheap head start on your Violet Dawn collection.

I was going to cite God Stalk, but someone already did! I don't know what the nature of the essay is, but you might want to consider looking at Robert Irwin's The Arabian Nights: A Companion, which has a chapter discussing real medieval thieves and how thieves are represented in the Nights. (And...

Violet Dawn I'll field this--I'm one of the Inner Circle's freelancers. Violet Dawn is the fantasy d20 product line designed for the world of Avadnu. All the sourcebooks are compatible with standard d20 rules, but there's a world book scheduled to come out at GenCon. The main Violet Dawn...