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Is there a scheduled date for part 2? I'm a little surprised it's been more than a week. Or is the plan to stretch these out until the 5e SJ release? That hadn't occurred to me.

The xenomorph itself was likely inspired by a combination of the monsters from “Black Destroyer” and “Discord in Scarlet” by A. E. Van Vogt, later combined with two other stories to form the “fix-up” novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle. And those two monsters were already in D&D before...

To be fair, he did play in the campaign (Rob Kuntz was the other DM). Bigby of the hand obsession (and Digby and Riggby and probably other rhyming names) was one of his characters. And I believe Otto (of irresistible dance fame) started out as a lower-level henchman of Mordenkainen, according to...

The planets of Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace in 2e Speljammer are also material, existing in a vacuum. But other things, like ships and dragons, also carry an Earth-normal gravity plane and an atmosphere envelope. That‘s the Spelljammer “fantasy physics.” That can still be the case in...

Is the game likely to hit DriveThru soon in PDF? There’s a category all ready for it on Helmgast’s page, but nothing to buy.

Banishment to Nebraska, that’s a rough one. That would also work on Dorothy and any of the other visitors from the “civilized world.”

I am presently reading The Elusive Shift by gaming historian Jon Peterson, author of Playing at the World, which explores exactly this question: what did the early players of D&D and related games, according to their own writings in fanzines and such, consider ”role-playing” to mean, and when...

The DM in question seems to be combining ”You can’t hide/remain hidden from someone who can trivially see you” and “creatures in combat are generally aware of their surroundings and the locations of enemies” to get “you’re never in a position to be able to hide in combat.”

There is not a redcap society. The redcap doesn’t go home to its spouse and kids after a long day of murdering and ask what the kids are learning in murder school. There’s no culture to redcaps at all. They are murder spirits. Elves and orcs differ because they’ve always been given the Tolkien...

Ashkelon, quick question: Will you be working up subclass entries for Tiger Claw and White Raven, or do you intend those simply to be "extra" maneuvers for everyone? Related: I notice that Tiger Claw Legendary Strikes require level 15 rather than level 9. Is that deliberate? Thanks!

The actual United Nations requested that the show stop using its name, so the change to "Unified" was made. You would think the U.N. would have reacted the way the U.S. Air Force did to the Stargate franchise -- "You want to portray us as the brave defenders of the planet against threats from...

I'd say that choosing a skill power (or a theme power, likewise) takes up both "slots" for that level, since it's not a wizard power. So he shouldn't get a spell and a skill power in the first place. I'm not sure if that's RAW, though. I know a lot of the hybrid options are very clear about...

That's my thinking as well. I was just checking to see if someone else had already done it.

Has anyone (fan or official) done a set of character themes for WotBS, like the ones for Zeitgeist? I know WotBS got started before themes became a thing, but some of the character options seem as though they would fit perfectly with the theme structure. I'm working on a set myself, but if...

The older editions (0e, 1e, B/X, BECMI, and 2e) are immortal as well, thanks to the discovery that they can be "retro-cloned" legally using the d20 SRD as a base. People who didn't start with those editions have begun to use them, thanks to the online "old school" community and the retro-clones...

I would really like to be in the beta for Heroes of Nev--damn.

Actually, Eberron is designed to be teetering on the brink of any number of major changes (a new eruption of active world war being prominent among them), but the developers are intent on never pushing the setting past that point in published product, leaving the future up to individual gaming...

Remember, the complete DDI suite (including VTT with pretty 3D minis) was supposed to be out concurrent with the 4e launch, and there was quite a bit of grumbling when that did not come to pass (though people kinda got used to it over time, and the original CB helped soothe bad feelings a lot)...

Here's a Rich Baker blog entry that I dug up with some information on the Dark Sun "character themes" element. He even mentions 2e kits as a comparison. Some of the old AQ kits that could theoretically be members of most any class (such as the corsair) might benefit from being treated as...

Even a one-off book or series of Dragon articles would indeed be cool. If they haven't done it by the time you're done with your doctorate, Quickleaf, I'd suggest you polish up and send in some of your ideas as Dragon articles (the AQ equivalent of the Spellplague and the class builds in...