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Completely agreed. Conversion from 3.x -> PF will not be easier than from 3.x -> 4e, and will in fact involve more niggling little decisions about which to use when, where, and how. Any adventure with a lot of NPCs will either (1) be left as-is with 3.x classes' stats, at which point the NPCs...

+20, actually. +6 synergy, from Bluff/Sense Motive/Knowledge (nobility & royalty) One more level, and it becomes +23 (1 more rank, Negotiator feat), completely core, with no magic items, and it just goes up from there. There's a post on r.g.f.d. from a few years ago that details how to get a...

I might note that that Tokyopop poll is open, and of the five "not anime influenced" votes, one might have joined particularly to vote "no", but the other four are members of that board (a 10K post mod, a 36-post newbie (from August, so not from ENWorld), a just-sub-1K poster, and a 12K poster)...

Slightly off-topic, but: all I ask is that they never again give D&D art assignments involving non-humans to one of the artists incapable of drawing non-humans. Elves aren't just humans with pointy ears. Halflings aren't just humans with other stuff around them drawn to a larger scale. Easley...

The point I was trying to make is this: If the books are smaller scale, it is completely irrelevant whether they are canon or not. A smaller scale makes them interchangeable into and out of games, regardless of canon. The only place canon actually matters, and what I generally assume when...

The point, though, is that if the books aren't canon by default, that lets you use what you like from novels, and skip what you don't. I run Eberron. I have read all the Eberron novels that aren't hardcover (much, much harder to do with Forgotten Realms, unless you've been at it for decades)...

Much less of one to say "There's no phoenix in the MM" to frost giant, though. All that said, I can't be the only person who finds the absence of frost giants to be a good thing? They're boring. Most of the "iconic" giants are. A hill giant is just a beefed-up ogre with rocks to throw. A...

Unequivocally hostile, condescending and insulting OP. Definite troll thread. No "pouncing". Disagreement, but no hostility towards the OP in the first few responses. In fact, the very first response had an eminently reasonable explanation that the OP had clearly not considered. Exaggerated...

And even more importantly as a result of this, and this is something I think a lot of people aren't seeing... A continuous revenue stream allows them to spend a much longer time supporting 4e. If they'd had a continuous revenue stream through 3.x's lifespan, they probably wouldn't have gone...

Honestly, I think a lot of the WotC-bashing going on by FR fans is misplaced. Has anyone actually thought that this might be intended to be the last RSE, a broad swath job that actually keeps the Realms from needing frequent RSEs just to keep people's attentions? To remove deitycruft and major...

Sure, it's possible (note that I'm not one of those who said it wasn't)... But this statement: remains a bit inaccurate. This feat isn't necessarily available to everyone (there are people who don't use the PH2). In any case, this has probably been driven into the ground. AC 20+ is possible...

Why not have a location that can be both? So far, other than the Ethereal and Positive/Negative planes, I cannot conceive of something that could be done in GW cosmology that can't also be done in what we've had described so far, and this cosmology has more flavor, more variety, far fuzzier...

You know, I've never seen someone choose to use a non-magical tower shield, given that is just too unpleasant.

You assume it's sexual because of the audience it's catering to. You assume the audience it's catering to because it's sexual. Tautology, and unproven. There. Mine's no longer unproven (I had thought the proof was self-evident, when I referred to your comment as a tautology). Because, of...

This is, however, nothing like explaining the base memorization concept in D&D to someone. It's more like explaining several different spells to someone, explaining how stacking works or doesn't work for various spells, including untyped bonuses from different spells and from different castings...

That's a tautology, not to mention an unproven assertion. Other than, perhaps, what I said in the very next paragraph after what you quoted:

Why, then, the assumption that the female version is? I find that assumption easily as sexist as a theoretical (and not demonstrated) inclusion of tons of cheesecake and no beefcake would be. The races pictures are wearing the minimal clothing for modesty specifically to demonstrate physical...

They eventually got an organization-specific product printed with assassins and monks specifically re-created in 2nd edition rules for them. http://www.amazon.com/Scarlet-Brotherhood-Fantasy-Roleplaying-Greyhawk/dp/0786913746/

Now... I wasn't particularly impressed by that book, and I dislike Ed's writing style and the Forgotten Realms in general, so this isn't a fanboy rant/response... But the first of the Silverfall passages was taken out of context. The character in question, Qilue (one of the Seven Sisters, a...

I'll keep playing both. In fact, the DDI will make it easier for me to mesh the two, since several of the wonderful people I enjoy RPing with in WoW will find it easier to play a regular D&D campaign with better tools. If I didn't have an incredibly interesting, fun group of people on the best...