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This I agree with. It reminds me of Babylon 5, and the walkers at sigma 957. To them, we are just ants. It is fine to have places that the Old Hill, Goatswood and Sigma 957 in your cosmology, but it's better not to have a discrete place on the map where the old ones hang out whenever they're...

I'm not sure that giving a monster the ability to do rituals would increase its CR. Challenge Rating is a measure of how tough a creature is in combat, not what it can do outside of combat. My point is that these kinds of rules are necessary for PCs, because the GM has to make sure that they...

Far Realms is something I will definitely be using in my next 4e campaign, even though my cosmology will likely be very different from the official D&D cosmology. IMC demons are a more mundane sort of evil, the sort that wants to destroy creation because it exists. Creatures from the Far Realms...

I am hoping that this works as well. I believe that it could if they made a few a few changes from 3e: 1) All characters have more trained skills available to them (or more ranks in 3e terms). This would allow for more varied characters. In Bo9S, no class had fewer than 4 skill points per...

I usually spend between $50 and $100 per month on gaming stuff. The cost doesn't look too bad to me.

I was hoping that they would leave half-orcs out of the games and just provide rules for full orc pcs. I don't use half races in my homebrews. I am hoping the MM allows for pure blood orc pcs in 4e.

This could fix quite a few issues. One of the problems I've had in the past with some of the 'alternate' races players have wanted to play is that they are immune to so many spells. Aasimar spring to mind. I wouldn't allow anyone to play one unless they agreed that they were affected all the...

I wasn't trying to put words in your mouth. Although it may have seemed like it - my bad. I'm not arguing that TSR didn't collapse and nearly go under, nor that their company wasn't in much worse shape than they had represented it to WotC before the sale. I am just arguing that D&D itself...

Everyone has their own preferences. As for me - BOOH! HEXES! BOOH! After years of games that use hexes (HERO and GURPS), I was so glad to get away from them. With squares, lateral movement is easy, maps drawn to the grid don't have a distorted appearance and distances are more easily read on...

I'm just hoping they do away with the ridiculous exponential increase in cost based on the plus of the weapon. A +2 sword is better than a +1 sword, but four times as much? nine times as much for a +3? I believe the pricing of magic items is the major cause of unrealistic wealth levels in 3e D&D.

Thanks for looking up the info. This is one of the posts I remember. I'm pretty sure that there was also one denying that there would be a 4e in 2007, but I can't find any reference to it.

Even if TSR did collapse, it was my experience that D&D was still the most popular tabletop rpg actually being played. Wharehouses full of unsold stuff only means that they produced more than the market would bear, not that D&D didn't exist as a game, nor that any other game had supplanted them...

You can have a Spelljammer campaign that simulates the universe of B5, Star Trek, Serenity, etc.... My preference would be to do it with traditional fantasy tropes. You don't need to make it a hybrid sci-fi/fantasy game in order to reimagine any of those universes. That said, it is a little...

I wasn't sure if I should even answer this poll, since my campaign (described on my gaming blog - see url below) may not be a true PoL setting. Humans (and other civilized humanoids) have very stable places they can call their own. Major population centers exist along the coasts and waterways...

When exactly did the concept of killing things for xp and taking their stuff for wealth ever go out of D&D? Other games may not use it, but D&D is (and always has been) the most popular tabletop rpg out there. If D&D was doing it (and they were), it never left the table. OTOH, I wouldn't be sad...

I was reluctant to buy Bo9S. I heard a lot of positive buzz about it at conventions, but I wasn't looking for an alternate system to graft onto the rules. Furthermore, I kept hearing about how it gave fighters spells. I think even WotC may have made this statement at one time or another. Is it...

I vaguely remember them denying that a 4e would come out in 2007. It won't, so no lie. I personally have no recollection of them denying that they were working on a 4e.

Talk about a strawman argument! No one is arguing for making the rogue a better fighter than the fighter. We are talking about the disparity in the amount of time individual characters get the spotlight in 3e. I suppose it is possible that all of the playtest reports telling us how much...

I was planning an old west flavored Silver Marches campaign for 3e before the 4e announcement. It would have had a very PoL feel to it. The new edition has caused enough excitement to get me working on world design again, something I haven't done in a few years. That old west game is still...