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I can understand that, I hated the texture of onions for many years, until my early-mid twenties. Whereas nowadays I love 'em. Onions are not a particularly major component of Thai cuisine AFAIK. Well, green onions are a popular garnish, but their texture is very different from the kind you're...

Just to be pedantic, it doesn't end, it ticks over. It's analogous to our calendar going from 1999 to 2000, the biggest digit is changing (from 12 to 13, in the Mayan case).

Just so's you know, there's a Player's Guide to Ptolus available as a freebie download, for exactly that reason. So if your players can be trusted to do a little homework, you can point them at the guide and save yourself 30ish pages of printing.

I was thinking I'd wait until it's released, then see if it's worth switching. I really don't understand the line-in-the-sand mentality so many seem to have, the burning need to declare abject worship or eternal hatred of 4e six months before we find out what it actually is.

AFAIK, all of the reality shows include clauses in the contract saying that if you reveal anything before it airs, you not only forfeit any prize but have to pay a penalty.

He's 43. I dunno if I'd call that "pushing 50", but I'm sure a decent percentage of internet users would, so fair enough. And yeah, I agree that the role doesn't exactly call for a master thespian, the casting doesn't worry me very much. If this remake is screwed up, it'll be because of the...

This kind of merging was pretty common way back when, too. In particular, take the Greyhawk folio or first box set, and you've got the eastern portion of a big continent with little to no info on the rest of the landmass. Take the first FR box set, and you've got the western portion of a big...

OTOH, if Klaatu says "be excellent to each other!" and gives an air guitar riff before he leaves, I could get behind that. More seriously, I'm more worried about the script (and the political metaphors that will no doubt be drawn) than the casting. Keanu Reeves doesn't have the kind of...

It's reasonably popular as small-market/indie games go. I don't think it was ever intended as a line with an open-ended lifespan, they've put out more than enough material for most campaigns. I think a fair amount of the playerbase have moved on to Wild Talents, which takes the same system and...

Unless you're part of WOTC's marketing machine, then I made no claims about what you're saying. So your criticism is delicious in its irony. Of course, if by some chance you are a member of WOTC's marketing department, then I stand behind what I said 100%: stop demonizing old editions, it...

It seems to me it'd be more accurate to call it an "accident of design". It ain't the math's fault that a lot of people feel the design only works well over a subset of the level range, after all. That said, claiming that 3E is broken strikes me as pure marketing bulls- er, I mean hyperbole...

Before 4E was announced, I had just started to come up with a new setting, placed in the very early history of my first 3E campaign world. Now I'm thinking I'll hold off on it until 4E comes out, and just use it for a new campaign. Essentially, this setting is placed just after the world was...

In the 1e DMG, it's a map. The sample of play covers about three rooms, the idea was a DM would fill out the rest. I don't really understand the obsession with it nowadays, but then again I never used it - I already had the In Search of the Unknown module by the time I picked up the DMG, and...

If the AE ones are the same as in Arcana Unearthed (I think that's the case, but I only have the latter so don't know for sure), then they're pretty much the 3E D&D version - the ones the 3.5 rules replaced.

Hmm, I don't really see that in 3.X, and that may be why I found Mike Mearls' column kind of strange. I've always set up encounters in a non-static fashion, the difference in 3.X vs. past editions is I had (in theory) a better set of mechanics for figuring out how much trouble the group could...

Sure, but they also said they're going to expand the scope of encounters to include hazards, social interaction, etc. So they'll still have stuff to fill the space. Plus it seems to me the main purpose of the delve format is to give a quick set-up reference for the battlemat, and I'm guessing...

They're going to hear those cries anyway, by virtue of only having eight classes in the PHB - somebody's gotta get bumped, either to a dead tree supplement or D&DI. I'm guessing WOTC are aware of that, and are willing to live with the outcry.

Or online. IIRC, there's a quote floating around that the stuff released through D&DI will be official, in the sense of having equal weight with published supplements. So if the Barbarian or Warlord or whatever doesn't make the elite eight in the PHB, it could still be released two days later in...

Fair enough, but chances are most places an intrepid band of adventurers goes will exhibit some kind of unique circumstances, that being what draws them there in the first place. That makes the demographics outlined in the OP of only academic interest, as the PCs will generally see many more...

I usually use (and read) IMHO as "in my honest opinion." Which still commits the sin of being repetitive, but IMHO IMHO scans better than IMO so I prefer to use IMHO for aesthetics. YMMV.