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Boy, you're not kidding on this one. As an aside, I deliberately go out of my way to insert political incorrectness into my version of Greyhawk-slavery is sanctioned even in some good societies, women and demihumans are denied certain rights afforded human or dwarven males, etc.-as a way both...

I can only speak for myself, and this is just pure personal opinion, but when it comes to D&D, I have a profound loathing of Earth parallels. To me, that's just not D&D. In my personal vision, it's not D&D unless you have Tolkien elves, orcs and dragons, Vancian spellcasting, a complete and...

I'll address many of the respondents who've replied to various aspects of my thesis: -To White Whale, fusangite and others who have commented on how my thesis as to my assuming that the campaign setting would have the same kinds of scientific laws as our real world. This is in part a response...

In real life, man's knowledge of science, and much of his philosophy, has changed and evolved over the centuries, to the point where our real-world society is unimaginable to someone from the Middle Ages or even the Renaissance. And yet, your standard D&D fantasy setting continues for...

When is the next one going to be held? I never even knew there were short story competitions on ENWorld. I'd absolutely love to enter the next one...and hopefully prove that gaming fiction can be just as good as any other kind of writing.

Here are my two copper pieces, based on my own personal views. Feel free to take them with a grain of salt, as I don't game, and use D&D more as an inspiriation for my own personal fantasy writings and imagination than anything else. But anyway... Over and over again, opponents to the...

I found this thread too late to post, but it sounds like you handled things really well. I would have said that gnolls are chaotic evil, and therefore not known for playing fair. They wouldn't have any compunctions about letting a wild monster soften the PCs up before coming in to finish...

This pretty much sums up most of the daily behavior of my drow, too, save for the priestesses of Lolth. They only differ on the faithlessness part, but indulge in everything else, something Lolth entirely approves of.

The drow in my version of Greyhawk are inherently evil. They know it, and they LIKE it. Some very few drow could tend towards neutrality, but not good. A good drow is literally a freak, an abomination. That means no Drizzt Do'Urdens, no Eilistraees. The drow have their origins with the...

You're running a situation you're sure will have the PCs at the ends of their collective rope, your BBEG seems to have the battle won, all seems lost for the heroes of the story... ...and then they come up with a strategy that leaves you wanting to bang your head on the gaming table in...

Anyone can blow up their opponents with a fireball, or vaporize them with a lightning bolt. But what about spells like Dancing Lights, Darkness 15' Radius, or Wizard Eye, spells that only have indirect results? Someone once posted a link to a webcomic where the PC mocked the guard for only...

See, and you're both picking and choosing what you feel best fits your Greyhawk campaign, which is exactly what you should be doing as DMs. The greater "looseness" you can get from this cherry-picking of both fluff and crunchy bits gives Greyhawk its greatest strength-its flexibility...

The best piece of advice I can give you is this: Something is canon only if you say it is canon. Like jdrakeh, I lament the fact that Greyhawk has become laden with so much canon over the years, and even more so that many of my fellow Greyhawk fans seem to want to closely adhere to official...

My version of Iuz found, both as he was growing up, and now as an adult, that people all but expected him to be evil, being the spawn of a demon. He figures that, if everyone thinks he's going to be evil based on his heritage, he might as well fulfill their expectations. Here we have a...

Concerning two of the fantasy tropes I'm most interested in that were cited by Afrodyte, Racial Determinism and Eurocentrism, I modify one and subvert the other. -Racial Determinism, to me, stems at least in part from the fact that the different races were created by different gods with...

One way I make cliches seem less, well, cliched is to dig deeper and offer greater details and depth to a given trope. For instance: -Portraying kobolds as wretches who are perpetually whining to themselves about the supposed wrongs inflicted on them by others, while simultaneously planning...

Sounds like you might like Greyhawk, believe it or not. Gary Gygax and others have openly noted the Lovecraftian influences, especially with Tharizdun and the Elder Elemental God, and tentacles abound when the latter is considered. Conan, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, and Jack Vance influences...

My major dislike stems from the fact that, as previous posters have stated, the CR system assumes a certain amount of magic items to buff the party's stats, and also that IMO magic items are too easy to manufacture. IMO, characters shouldn't be able to manufacture permanent magical items...

Well, it depends by profession. Speaking as someone who's passionately interested in politics, when it comes to the political blogosphere and message boards, it's definitely Charisma. I'm very interested in politics and political history, but I'm not at all involved in the blogosphere and...

So, let me get this straight, based on Egres's replies and elaborations: -The guy who was killed was just an average Joe NPC, who probably had a family, and wasn't posing any sort of threat to the cleric at all. -The cleric is ready and willing to do an act like this again. He won't...