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How Stepford wife of you. "If you don't look like everybody else, you deserve mockery" is not an admirable philosophy.

On the scale of lazy design, animal people don't even register as a blip. Start a rant about "My orcs are different! They're honorable warriors!", or "My kobolds are awesome! They're clever enough to take down a 10th level party!", and then we'll be in business. Patrick Y.

Hmmmm.... not exactly keeping with the 3.5 "roll with their abilities, don't ban them" philosophy. Not a huge deal for me, but still.

A dungeon built into a butte would be interesting. The sequel could extend north into twin mountains. Hey! A world spanning crossover with the Barrier Peaks! The TA series... I like the sound of that. On a more serious note: that's a big, sprawling map. I'm curious to see how it plays out...

A new way to gain skills, and a ramping up of skills for all classes (yeah, still classes, cos' the peoples like dem). Essentially, skill points would come in two stages during initial character creation - in a way that combines Blue Rose's skill system with the current system. Stage 1)...

Every player I've shown it to laughs at the Hulking Hurler, and wouldn't even think of playing one - the Hurler does his thing well, but really, who the hell wants to adventure as a big, stupid dope whose only schtick is trundling around with a bagfull of rocks? "Man, that's cool" is the order...

A looonnnnng time before. The thread's often exceeded in length now... but not in temperature. Patrick Y.

Pretty much. The "Our Sisters of Harley Davidson" supplement is priceless for the title alone.

I had plans to enter several setting ideas, but some serious freelance commitments cut into my time enormously, and I submitted only one. The one I ended up submitting was a reworked version of the Summerlands, a game I've been developing off and on for a while now. When I sent it, I was a bit...

An interesting assertion, given the number of times people have insisted "They're only tolerant of people who believe like they do", or "they claim to be tolerant, but oppress anyone who doesn't submit to their beliefs". It's somewhat amusung to see one poster insist Aldis is a totalitarian...

This is the PDF Crothian was talking about: The Gunslinger If you want a fast shootin' gunman, the Gunslinger is your man. I designed the guns, the feats, and the class to go for cinematic gunfighting - the damage is in line with bows, so the gunslinger can reload and tear it up every round...

This is exactly right. It isn't disinterest that bothers me - it's the passionate rejection, and outright derision of a setting and style that goes against the established norm. Romantic fantasy isn't new, it's been around the fantasy literary scene for ages. So I think the level of vehement...

I love illusionists, and prefer to play them (well, illusionists or elementalists). Mostly I go for sorcerers with scads of illusion spells - because I also like sorcerers very much. So no, they aren't dead. Just wheezing along with the packmule, behind the sexier adventurers.

How big an article would this be? The elemental princes are capital N neato, so it would be good to do an article of decent size - since it isn't likely they'll be cropping up in any official books anytime soon. I'll send a pitch your way for them (I've got 3 articles in Dragon, and a...

Between this and the ooze thing... I'm frightened. If you start talking about half ooze/fairy templating, I'm outta here!

Tsk. Tsk. No using your powers for evil, Crothian.

Well, when they asked me to expand Chaos Mage into a Quintessential book, your writing made me feel soiled - also I drank heavily, and questioned my sexuality, but that might have just been a phase. Patrick Y.

I got it as a gift. To be honest, I have no earthly idea what to do with it - it's too expensive to use and batter about, so I guess it's just an expensive (well, not for me) decoration. But yes, it does have a ribbon!

Here's the one I've been playing with to blow off steam: Gaslight - Bloody Mary lives in your mirror, there are angels made of snow knocking on the 23rd story windows, top-hatted lizard men twirling their watch fobs in the parlor, and psychosorcerous drow can-can dancers from the Moulin Rogue...

Yeah, you and Crothian have hit the heart of it. Romantic Fantasy is a subgenre with many different authors, each of whom brings their own viewpoints to their writing. Calling all of it "laughably politically correct" is completely false, because it's entirely wrong, in the same way that...