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Sorry, I was housesitting for Ian Sturrock while he ran around dressed as a pirate, and I couldn't get the net connection to work. Thanks for fielding that one. :)

Let's see... we're talking about creatures that are ambitious, have an agenda, are intelligent enough to form plans and are varied enough in their abilities to make fighting them an interesting experience. I'm surprised hobgoblins aren't used more often. Here's a thing about the Drow, the...

Because publishing gives a situation a sort of canonic objectivity. The fact that multiple different unrelated groups can experience something, and react to it in different ways, makes it more 'real'. It's no longer 'a basilisk in a town square', it's 'the basilisk in the town square'. Also...

See 'knockout strike' suggestion added above. :) It's a silly deficiency in the RAW that there's not already a standard non-lethal equivalent of the coup de grace. You can batter an opponent into unconsciousness with repeated non-lethal blows; you can kill him with a single dagger thrust if...

It's not evil, it's just not especially good. A good character might have wanted to give the guy a chance to mend his ways. He didn't actually kill anyone, he just tried to, and there was a chance to take him out of the fight without killing him, so death is excessive from a good PoV. Batman...

CN is often problematic because it's unclear whether the person is supposed to have a Chaos-based ideology or an idiosyncratic value system. That is, do they value Chaos as an abstract principle (in the same way that a lawful character might honour Law in the abstract) or do they use chaos as a...

What exactly do you mean by gave them 30k?

It's automatic at a node, exactly as per raise dead, including losses, and including the restrictions regarding the condition of the body. Starborn and Host can gain raise dead and resurrection spells, but only they can gain them, and they only work on Starborn and Host. Basically, think of the...

Drow War presents a certain kind of story, the Eternal Champion/Hakkenden/Water Margin kind, where the characters are heroes with a capital H, and have a Destiny, though whether they achieve it or not (and what form it ultimately takes) depends on them. It seemed to me to be a good approach to...

The Amazon one has the wrong cover shown and the wrong author listed, but appears to be the same book. They are probably going off old preorder data. The DriveThruRPG one is definitely the right product.

That's very much what the Crescent City campaign I ran was - a large wodge of it made its way into Drow War I. I was heavily into Thief (Dark Project and Metal Age) at the time, so created multiple rogues' guilds who were feuding over the same city rather than a single monolithic one, which...

That would work - he also posts here, I think. It's all done and in playtest even now. You're right, it wasn't easy. Not so much conceptually as mechanically - Epic levels are clunky as hell.

Absolutely. That's why playtesters are the largely unsung heroes of the gaming industry. Mark Gedak and his team did the majority of the Drow War playtesting, and they were VERY thorough. Your last comment... Saragost should be manageable for your crew if they are careful. One thing I wanted...

Thanks. :) As for your question... I've not had a full playtest report about what people did where - the playtesting isn't done by me, but by groups of dedicated testers. (I spend my time writing the books, so I don't get to test them too.) However, the Saragost section is deliberately...

Not for me to say, I'm afraid - I'm only involved in the writing, not the production. I can't think of anything that would delay it, though. Again, I'm just a writer, not an art director. :) The Drow War was a freelance project. If you get in touch with Mongoose Publishing at their homepage...

Well, thank you very much!

To paraphrase Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap: the Drow War series goes all the way up to 30!

Do not criticise that work of genius! It had the best special ability description of all time: God: 'Three persons. Can operate independently.'

Book II is written and with Mongoose. Book III is still being written. Epic d20 isn't easy to write. :) The delays are entirely down to my state of health, which hasn't been great.

Taken in the abstract, it certainly looks like hairsplitting. However, the intent is a laudable one. Designers and proofreaders want to get things right, because however minor an error may be, it's something a consumer has a right to complain about. Look at the recent review of a Mongoose...