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The "other conversions" I was thinking of were conversions from other games and genres -- namely the Wheel of Time d20, the first Star Wars d20, and even Call of Cthulu d20. All were ok d20 games and each one showed progressive improvement, but were all somewhat flawed*. By contrast, the coming...

Maybe I don't understand the extraplanar subtype, but on looking through EttDP I wondered, shouldn't the demons in the Abyss have the native subtype, since they are effectively on their home plane? It looks like they all have the extraplanar subtype.

Interesting. I just started playing around with T20 this spring, and I have to say it's a pretty remarkable translation of Traveller into d20 term, particularly given when it came out. At that point in time the road was strewn with failed d20 conversions, including several from WotC. I do think...

Thanks for the offer, but I actually think I have that issue now that you've been kind enough to jog my memory.

Bizarre. I was just thinking last week that an index just like this would be useful. Nice work! For those who don't know, Imagine was sort of a sister publication to Dragon, edited by Don Turnbull. Many of the early writers from White Dwarf moved over to Imagine for its run. I don't have issue...

Very nice research! I find quite interesting the casual reference to deodands as inhabitants of Gehenna. "Deodand" is a direct Jack Vance Dying Earth reference; the "demodands" from the 1e Monster Manual are clearly related. At the time of Dragon 26, I don't believe Gyagax had ever written...

I start from either the fluff or crunch end of the equation in roughly equal proportions. Once I had a very creepy dream about these tall, gaunt alien creatures -- pale white and silent, with large black eyes. When they opened their mouths, an inky cloud issued forth. So starting with this...

I know someone within the last 6 months or so posted a link to a great off-site page with an LA+0 catfolk. I thought for sure it was Psion, but my Google and EnWorld searches aren't helping.

Hopefully this will be my first. A few guys from my weekly group are thinking of coming as well.

The strongest argument I've seen against using the new statblock is the lack of "show your work" information (and that's really only the AC and HD breakdown). But I think that's also easily addressed: it doesn't hurt anything to use a hybrid format that is essentially the new statblock plus...

Yup, I agree fully -- that was why I added the proviso "without f/x." Running d20M with all the F/X, you certainly are high magic and high powered.

I sometimes think of d20 games in terms of three dimensions: 1. magic, 2. power, and 3. complexity. Here are where some low-magic games fall on the other axes: Iron Heroes is a system that is fairly complex and high powered (superheroic characters). Black Company is fairly complex and...

I bought the first volume of this series and, as a monster junkie, I thought it was pretty good. While these suggestions are probably much too late, I had several thoughts that I think would dramatically improve the utility of these products: Use the new statblock format. This one change would...

To me, this is a crucial point. I'm not congenitally opposed to taking Dungeon or Dragon online. I can apprehend the huge advantages to both the producer AND consumer by going electronic. Personally, I love to have my adventure material in electronic format so I can tweak things to my heart's...

Oddly enough, I'm running this very game right now. The PCs just trashed the Fane of Lolth in the Vault of the Drow, stole the ship Lolth Commands, and have been sailing upon the sunless sea. Crews of half-drow and drow pirates, outcast from Erelhei-Cinlu, and plying their trade upon the...

Actually, they're pretty close -- definitely related. At some point I'd like to set the texts side by side to see what was changed.

Some good stuff, for sure -- those elemental demons are from a Mearls 3e article, right? Anything notable that Mike did with the casurua to distinguish it from a poltergeist?

I hadn't planned to pick this up, even though I really like Baur's work. My PCs are 12th level right now, just kicked ass in the Vault of the Drow, are about to take on the Kingdom of the Ghouls, and will probably be 13th or 14th level by the time they're done that, and ready for the Harrowing...

In honor of Tom, I've posted my 3.5 conversion of one of his most horrific creations: Hacumli, the demon-lord messenger of Orcus: http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/hacamuli.htm I had a lot of fun with this guy in a long-running campaign.

No kidding! Glad I didn't get very far, then. How are the monsters in the Compendium? That's a book I keep getting on and off the bus about. When I first heard about the concept, I was so on the bus, it was something I was really looking forward to. When I saw the table of contents, I was off...