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Urban Fantasy is a popular RPG genre - I'd say the World of Darkness games are much more urban Fantasy than Horror (in the way they're actually played and run by most), and they were the #2 games in popularity back when I first started RPing in the 90s. Why none have managed to capture market...

Interesting how Baum is rarely read any more, despite his influence on American pop culture via The Wizard of Oz. My spouse - not an American - was recently asking me about that movie, and I told her it was one we all watched as a child and in many ways it is the American equivalent to "Journey...

What do you think he needs all those "tentacles" for, anyway?

Hmm... the basic art doesn't do it for me at all, but that alt cover... wow. I'll be needing that. It's wonderful, except for one little problem: A DISTINCT LACK OF GREEN EYE SHADOW! Of course, I'm the guy who's always hacking and fixing the rules... but this might be the first time I've...

::swoon::.... Iggwilv, my beautiful and horrible Iggwilv... pretty, brunette, and completely evil, just the way I like my women... this so made my day... ::ahem:: WOTC, stop taking my money!

I just went and pulled that one up... it actually doesn't look too bad, it just looks like he was purposefully trying to make the adventure look "OSR", like a D&D module from 40 years ago. The font, the formatting, everything screams that, and from what I saw flipping through the preview it's...

Michael Morris made a pretty good take on the colors for 3e 20 years ago, but it had to be taken down for copyright reasons... I wonder if he still has it somewhere?

Yeah... full on Planeswalker rules would probably be outside their wheelhouse, which has a pretty specific vision for D&D; and, of course, a third party wouldn't be allowed to do it (except maybe for DMs Guild... maybe)

Maybe, but given the value of the property, we have no guarantees it would have been someone who loved the game as much as Peter Adkinson.

Given that it was the funds from M:TG that enabled WotC to buy TSR out of bankrupcy, likely saving D&D and our hobby (and making more FLGS viable than ever before through CCG and DCI revenues), you should be thankful for M:TG. :)

Hmm. I can't decide if I'm disappointed or happy that WotC hasn't done more to build the M:TG "colors" into the M:TG spinoff settings. Disappointed because there are potentially a lot of interesting mechanics and themes that we're missing out on; I've wanted to see rules for playing...

I was going to echo what the last two said - watch movies set there. I'd also throw in some dramatic films set in the far north - Norway, Alaska, Northern Canada, Northern Russia... wherever, really. It will give you something to go on.

Huh, never knew that her, Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein*Hagen all met at St. Olaf. My sister and brother-in-law's alma mater. Roleplaying really does have it's roots in the Upper Midwest - always surprises me to learn how many game designers came from around here (of course, RPGs were born...

This is some brutal stuff, but not terribly surprising. I was a professional writer and editor for seven years - I didn't work in game design, I worked in the much larger and more lucrative field of financial publishing - but a lot of this still applies, especially because I was working abroad...

Stop making me want more books, ENWorld!

Something like this, only for 5E...