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Re: Shadow of the Spider Moon No, thank *you* Andy, for coming to visit here! :) I understand space is limited in a magazine that is tack-on to another magazine, so I understand the need for some of the cuts. Personally, I think 3d *movement* was at least covered without problem. The only...

I saw that part and, ironically, that's what got me thinking about the rest. How do you know where to point your ship? Can you see everything with the naked eye? Given the likely distances involved (and the travel times back this up), you can't see a damn thing with the naked eye. Therefore...

The problem is so big for me as a DM (I like to write believable stories), that I pass the buck. I set aside at least an hour or two for the players to come up with a believable back-story for why their PCs know each other. This usually involves a few slight rewrites (or initail writes in some...

Ok, so I've managed to read Spelljammer d20 in Dungeon #92, and so far, I like the rules set out. Other than the missing ones (navigation, spelljammer helm use -- see the Spelljamer d20 thread). So, I was wondering if all you Dragonstar fans who may happen to have also read Spelljammer would...

Re: Avast! ruleslawyer, jaults -- thanks for the help! I won't bother the author with an email yet, but I may in a week or two if I don't hear back from you. I rather like the "realistic" take. We're none of us children of midieval (or ancient greek) philosophy, there's no reason to build a...

My point is that I shouldn't have to.... but thanks. :)

Ok, so I'm a little late getting Dungeon 92, but I just finished reading Spelljammer d20, and, while I'm interested in some of the concepts, I'm also wondering where the rest is. Is this supposed to be a two-parter? Seriously, I can't find a thing on how to, say, *use* a spelljammer helm, or...

Re: Heh... Indeed they are.:D Personally, I hope they elect for the 3rd-edition D&D mindeset; I want the game to be as close to core D&D as possible. However, I know Weiss/Hickman like to set trends rather than follow them, so if they come up with something different, I won't mind too much...

Re: Hmmm...you know, Randolpho... No, but the translation of the setting into the rules was the reason they were "core" classes. If Tracy Hickman were to have created Dragonlance *today*, rather than in the 80s, those classes would be prestige classes. The Test was setting flavor. Putting it...

Obviously we disagree. I want DL to be as close to D&D core rules as possible. I'm not an OGL nazi, that's just the way I want it, because that's what DL was in the first place -- a D&D campaign setting.

Time for me to chime in again. :) On the subject of WoHS/Knights as a core vs prestige class: My big problem with having them as core classes is the fact that they're campaign-specific modifications of a core class. I do not like this. It's against the flavor of 3e, IMO. In 3e, the core...

This is a valid, but IMO wrong, point. There are plenty of wizards who are *not* wizards of High Sorcery in Dragonlance. Thorn Knights are an example. Rogue wizards are another. Various other spell-casters that should be classes in 3e but were monsters in 1e are another (I distinctly remember a...

F&F magic is the biggie there. Everything else ('specially the stuff you mentioned) about D&D was a sidestep away from normal D&D setting. Stuff like the moon power fluxuations, a unified spellcaster guild, this was all to be different from standard D&D setting fare. However, it was all...

Well, even if it isn't an april fools joke, I'll wait until somebody makes a .mp3 of it. Quicktime *SUCKS*.

With a whole bunch more to cover. :)

Hmm... I think this is more of an artistic convention on the part of the authors than something that should be part of the rules. They should start out as wizards *or* sorcerers (or even bards for that matter :p), and then take the test if they don't want to be considered Renegade. Although...

Prepare for some constructive criticism. :) This seems to be a direct port of 1e DL. And, while that may seem to be a good thing, there are other things about it that I disagree with, things that were unique to 1e and no longer apply to D&D in general. Things like the Master level -- only one...

I don't see why you're complaining. You get gobs of material with the first DVD release -- two friggin DVDs!!! Yes, you get *more* with the second release, but so what? So buy the second instead of the first. After all, you get everything from the first on the second, right? Plus two extra DVDs...

This is any different from the Forgotten Realms how? The Realms are *teeming* with stuff that's been done by the book heroes, or by the game creator's pet NPCs (*coughEl*cough*minster*cough*), the whole world is shaken up every few decades, and yet it's a fantastically sucessful campaign setting.

What do I *hate* about Dragonlance? I hate the fact that so many people have trouble separating an *ENTIRE RACE* from *ONE CHARACTER*. Other than that, Dragonlance is damn cool, and will continue to be so, in my eyes.