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Nahhh... it's a variation on the 3.xE tradition of never getting a stat block right. ;)

Why not as a bulwark between the Elemental Chaos and the Astral Sea? Their fundamental Law-based function is to restrain the primordials and prevent their escape and perhaps Primus exists to restrain Tharizdun in particular. They're immortal animates but otherwise the astral counterpart of...

Um... yeah... that's my point. Scales of War and the H1-E3 abomination both suffered because they DIDN'T have a "long and large story" apparent from the beginning... or the middle... or, presumably, the end. Paizo, however, did publish their summaries first, at least from Age of Worms onwards...

I would strongly suggest heading to the Character Optimisation board over at Wizards of the Coast and then find the old 3.5E version of that board. The guys there are amazing when it comes to building characters and there are -stacks- of "guidebooks" to building specific characters. If you...

Yeah, I like what WotC did with Dungeon Delve and would like to see more, as well as longer versions (five encounters seems about right). Interestingly, a lot of the LFR adventures are like this (but the maps suck... if I am going to pay for a product I want good maps).

I definitely want to run campaigns and not just adventures. My goal in running games is something akin to verisimilitude. With a campaign you have already worked out what individuals and groups are doing "behind the scenes" so it's much easier to bring the world alive particularly in response...

I've started to use obsidianportal.com for my latest 4E Forgotten Realms campaign. It's basically a wiki and, IMO, it's just perfect for what you're talking about. My players really like it as do I. I wouldn't recommend my site but if you go to the front page of the site there are several sites...

I've been here since the very first boards but am not exactly an active member of the community... but it's high time I became a community supporter so I've bought a three-year membership.

I've been using an Asus 10 inch netbook for the past year or so with Windows XP as the operating system (thank God!) and it handles the two builder programmes quite well. Sure, they're a little slow but they're also slow on my two desktops as well.

I really liked the covers of D3 Vault of the Drow and S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. I think they're both Erol Otus covers. I also like the cover of Temple of Elemental Evil but I still consider that one of the greatest disappointments of all time (yes, I know I am in the minority there) so I am...

I really like what I've read so far. It's definitely something that could be 'ported into other settings as well. I like how it showcases Realmslore as something other than a straitjacket.

I'm one of those who doesn't buy PC-related stuff in large part because of the character builder. Then again, I haven't seen much 3pp product for PCs. I still buy 3pp adventures simply because that's something WotC has yet to master (Rich Baker excepted, of course- he really is good), IMO, and...

Two of the ancient empires in FR canon are Narfell and Raumathar. Raumathar is noted as having used a lot of constructs in their battles against the summoned fiends of Narfell. Raumathar is also noted as having laboratories or storage areas full of dormant constructs from these times. I would...

This sounds like one of those threads where the question becomes something like, "Has your DM broken the social contract?" It also sounds like he's not fully across the rules. So, is he your friend? Are you having fun? The answers to those questions really determine what you do next.

Great find! I've been looking for a suitable avenger pic as well as one of my players is about to start playing one. I love collecting pictures of characters and scenes because you never know when they're going to inspire an encounter, adventure or even a campaign.

3.5E: 6th-level is perfect, and I would play a druid who wild shapes into a dire ape and has the natural spell and augment summoning feats. 6th-level for me is the absolute sweet spot for both DMs and players.

Hmmm, food for thought. I really like what I have read so far about the implied point-of-light setting. What I would really love to see next is an enormous map with a level of detail akin to that provided by Mike Schley in his outstanding map of Cormyr. I just don't have the mapping talent to...

Seriously... I would love to hear some more of the history of the game. I really enjoyed Gary's columns in the first WotC issues of Dragon where he talked about the early days of his Greyhawk campaign. A poster called Old Geezer on rpg.net seems to have been there, too, and will drop in nuggets...

I've never read a positive review of his writing. Actually, on the gaming front he also needs to get his mojo back. It's been a long time since the brilliance of The Gates of Firestorm Peak. Too often now it's weird for weird's sake. Yes, Paul Kemp. I do believe he was a real "find" for WotC...

Forgotten Realms - The FRCS 3E was brilliant. - My favourite RPG product of all time: 2E's Faiths & Avatars. You could build 100s of campaigns simply with the adventure hooks in this book (and you should grab Powers & Pantheons and Demihuman Deities for completeness). - The Forgotten Realms...