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IMO this is a good point and one that is all too often ignored. Any setting needs to decide what and who belongs where. Fantasy and laziness aren't synonymous therefore a DM has to decide what races are the power players in the setting. If too many races have powerful presences then the world...

As a DM I only tend to ban those things that do not, for whatever reason, thematically fit the setting. However, there are times when I simply have not liked a race concept. In fact, in most instances the races found in books like Frostburn and the Book of Vile Darkness never saw the light of...

3e's attitude can effectively called "Pimp my PC." PrC's were supposed to be setting specific and rather rare but became a regular fixture in most 3e campaigns because they were more powerful than the core classes. Again, of course DMs could veto them, but when 1/2 of even setting books were...

The easy answer to the birth of this meme is: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Plain and simple. WoTC long ago discovered that TSR's practice of creating setting books primarily geared to DMs didn't pull in the phat loot the way creating an endless supply of splatbooks containing an equally endless supply...

If there is anything that really bugs me about the FRCS4e, it is that so much has been excised that it feels less like an established, well trod setting with a lot of history and more like a D&D everysetting that though largely free of baggage doesn't really feel like the old FR. And I have to...

Definately a 3e meme and one that hopefully dies a terribly painful though blessedly rapid death soon. I have been seeing less and less of this attitude probably because it was yanked from WoTC's Meme Life Support System. Wyrmshadows

In 23yrs of DMing I have only had to ask one person to leave my table because of outright, in your face, "I'm not playing by your rules", insubordination (for lack of a better word) though I recall not asking a few to return because my style and their styles were not compatible. For the most...

Forked from: What do you think about the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting Book I admit that my opinion of the FRCS4e setting (on the previous thread) isn't exactly a ringing endorsement and I know that many feel the same way. However, I wanted to start a conversation comparing FRCS4e to the...

Big, big disappointment if you were a fan of the 2e/3.5e Realms. This book is mostly fluff, but IMO there is nothing stand out about the fluff. Oooohh earthmotes, flying squid, Asmodeus kills Azuth, eladrin elf retcon, Imaskar and Netheril come back, etc. I have seen as good and better backstory...

Perfectly stated....couldn't have said it better myself. :) Wyrmshadows

Even though I am an authoritarian DM, I also utilize my players strongly when it comes to the evolving story of the campaign. I take queues from how they play their characters, their character's interests and goals and weave them seamlessly into the campaign if at all possible thereby giving...

Too true. IME, it is the DMs who buy the setting books and setting specific supplements. In fact, I always felt it was my responsibility to buy the materials I needed/wanted to run the game I wanted to run. I never thought of it as a burden and never thought to ask my players to pitch in...

There is something to the idea that humans assume automatically that if its written/published by some official source the DM has to use it. For example, if in my homebrew setting I have certain races and classes with rich histories, background and themetically appropriate elements and then...

This.

The DM has a unique role as world-builder and campaign anchor. The DM, unless allowing everything from every splatbook, has to restrict some things. I have never and will never run a generic "world of Dungeons and Dragons" game where most everything is a random pop-fantasy mish-mash and internal...

I think that discussion, though valuable, cannot compare to actual in-game playtesting. If someone has issues with the direction of Pathfinder then playtest it and give Pazi feedback. The only way the Beta can change direction is if some useful criticism is directed towards it. This is an...

I totally agree that folks who have a problem with the direction of the current game should be heard. I hope however that there is as much playtesting as there is criticizing because that is the real way to get at the issues that need to be resolved in the final release of the Pathfinder RPG...

QFT For god's sake this is an excellent Beta edition of the game. Personally, I dumped 3.5e awhile back in favor of True20 (still my favorite) and Conan D20 but Pathfinder is bringing me back to the 3.5e fold. I'm testing it out, noting the good, the bad and the indifferent. Then I will...

If Paizo had gone 4E ... Wyrmshadows

Any chance that 3pps can create a single product line for both the OGL and the GSL? If so, then I would be more interested. Wyrmshadows