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I have Trail and I have d20 CoC. How hard would it be to do a mashup of them? I'm thinking of a fundamentally d20 engine, but with Trail's madness and maybe drive systems.

Again, your basic premise is critically flawed, and people have given you plenty of examples why. There was no dramatic shift; designers have always been subject to criticism and skepticism from fans. There was no perfect Edenic state that we poor wretched gamers have fallen from. Cripes, schism...

I never liked the 2e matriarchal spin on trolls, nor was I a big fan of the 3e take -- just green regenerating giants -- I like my trolls asexual and fairly alien; bestial creatures with no culture or society. In fact, if I were to rewrite them for 3.x I'd make them Large aberrations that...

The premise of the OP isn't simply flawed, it's ridiculous. Poor little Mike Mearls isn't given any more flack than any other designer from the hoary past. As many others have already pointed out, there was just no forum for readers to express their disagreement. Tons of players and DMs I...

I agree that this was an annoying decision, but it's not like WotC invented the practice. In an interesting bit of serendipity, over at DragonsFoot Frank Mentzer was recently asked why no giants or other cool high level monsters were included in the D&D Basic set. His answer might surprise you:

I'm in the same boat. My theory is that the pricing on 3.5 books will follow a valley-like curve -- falling and then rising as OOP material starts becoming harder and harder to find. I'm trying to buy in the trough as much as possible, and GR's various blowout sales have been a big help in that...

No offense, but actually I think it matters quite a lot. How do you know that? Because of one single post made by Scott Rouse on a messageboard? Made at a point when a lot of things were posted that never actually came to pass? That seems like a pretty loosey-goosey way to terminate an...

Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy?

Has WotC ever made a definitive statement about the status of the d20 license? Is there a formal press release? An industry mailing list announcement? The only thing I can recollect was a single EN World post from Scott Rouse stating (if I remember correctly) that the d20 license had ended and...

Any notable/interesting/iconic monsters unique to DSA?

I think more accurately, WotC was using "core" to refer to any non-campaign specific book, crunchy or fluffy.

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I've never been a huge fan of C&C. Executive summary: it takes out too many of the things I liked about 3e and adds in too many things I didn't like about earlier editions, as well as a couple of new things that don't float my boat. But that said, after reading through Castle Zagyg: Upper...

Green Ronin's stated problems have been more with the sucktastic GSL than 4e itself. You'll note that there are lots of other companies in the same boat. Please don't confuse anyone's aversion to a crappy license with lack of interest in a new system. Yeah, you could be.

Yes. See Malhavoc's Anger of Angels.

I've added a 3.5e conversion of The Lichway, a classic White Dwarf scenario, to my website. Enjoy!

As always, thanks for the suggestions. I ended up going with DR 1/cold iron, to keep the svart distinctive from kobolds and goblins but not too much so. And besides, I don't think I've seen many monsters with DR 1/anything. Why should barbarians have all the fun?

That sounds like a deal. Lobster is going for ridiculously low prices right now, so we'll probably end up with the better end of this trade. I must have bought 12 pounds worth last weekend for less than $60.

Thanks, guys -- this is interesting. I've looked at MM I-IV plus the FF and couldn't find an exception. Where am I going with this? I'm working on a 3.5e conversion of another WD monster: the svart. The svart was ripped straight from the fantasy novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen; it was...

Are there any corporeal fey in 3.5 that do not have Damage Reduction? I haven't seen the MMV, but all the other ones I've seen have DR, almost always bypassed by cold iron.