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Obviously, it's none of my business, and I was a fan of the mini-game concept as much or more than many, but... why would you want to pattern a magazine after a failed magazine? From a purely business point of view, that seems a bad idea. Particularly since it's so hard to make a go of a...

They could call it "&" !

I was watching Jon Favreau's show, Dinner for Five, on IFC and someone asked him what his high school experience was. He replied "Lots of Dungeons & Dragons, not a lot of sex." You can add him to the list of celebrities that play D&D. If you don't know who Jon is, you can click here...

Core books, AU, Creature Collection Revised, Monster Manual II, Complete Book of Eldritch Might, and I ripped a couple of classed goblin stat blocks out of Vault of Larin Karr rather than make them up myself.

For what it's worth, I saw the program in action in March and was totally wowed. I agreed to let them use my stuff with it almost immediately. Incredibly easy to use (far, far simpler than similar programs I've seen) and yet still possessing the ability to create maps that look like they came...

Of course you can. If miniatures game-influenced design encouraged designers to put lots of pedantic diagrams in lieu of interesting characters, or useful rules for role playing situations, that would be bad for the game. On the other hand, if all it did was encourage clearer, more concise...

From what I understand, the miniatures are doing well enough that they pretty much are driving the rpg car over at wizards (i.e., new rules/options that would not work well in conjunction with the miniatures game or with miniatures in general get the boot). I'm not suggesting that's a good thing...

There was an interesting recent study that talked about Neanderthal development and how they matured faster than humans, whom they would have potentially lived right next to. It talked about how 3 year old neanderthals might have played with 5 and 6 year old human children, because in size and...

Waldens should have it. If they don't, they can order it. Thanks to our partner, Sword&Sorcery/White Wolf, we have decent placement in bookstores (that carry a decent selection of rpgs, that is).

That's a really interesting point. Of course, with so many monster books out now, I wonder if that isn't the niche of practically the entirety of say, MM 2, or CC 3, or whatever. It's also clearly the origin of a lot of monsters throughout the game's history. Someone somewhere said, my players...

Well, I hear where you're coming from, but this is true of lots of monsters. Dire monsters were created so that there were higher power animals for druids and rangers. The stirge is interesting because its only dangerous in large numbers (and is a low-power ability score damaging monster). The...

Other than in the initial playtests, I can't remember ever seeing a phantom fungus in play. I can't remember ever seeing it in a product. I know as a designer and as a DM, I have never used it. It's not that it's a bad monster. The illustration doesn't thrill me, but that's just personal...

Are you referring to this "rant": Alignments may be unrealistic ways of looking at people, but they are extremely useful for categorizing groups of creatures when you need to. For example, one new class in the book is the champion. The champion isn't really just one class, though, it's many --...

Legacy of the Dragons, a 160 page bestiary by Monte Cook and Mike Mearls goes on sale today at your local game or book store. This bestiary supports Arcana Unearthed, but it contains all the material you need to use it with a standard d20 game as well. For more information, click here. At the...

At the risk of sounding "me too," I agree with everything RFisher just said.

PH, DMG, MM Arcana Unearthed (current PHs include giant champion of freedom, a sibeccai cleric/rogue, a litorian unfettered and a sort of variant magister/eldritch might bard kind of character) Dungeoncraft (one PC has the dungeoneer's outfit) Unearthed Arcana (PC Urban Ranger) Complete Book...

For towns, if you're willing to spend the money, you should check out the Miniatures Building Authority. They're expensive, but really, really cool. You can see how I used them in my own Ptolus city-based campaign here. You should check out Tact-Tiles. They'll give your battlemat a run for...

How strange. Dragon has never (under TSR, WoTC or Paizo) been an independant magazine, at least in the sense that the powers that be that oversee the game Dungeons & Dragons don't also oversee/have approval over all content in the magazine. Is this not common knowledge? (That's not rhetorical...

Well, keep in mind that Jim is giving you worst case scenario for a startup, not the sales of a well-established, successful (at least in the relative context) company. Sales between game companies can differ by more than an order of magnitude, or even two orders. I've talked to distributors as...

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