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I think with Eberron there was a misunderstanding of what the fundamental aspect of the setting ("If it's in D&D, it's in Eberron") meant. Reading through the book I can tell that a strong effort was made to keep things as basic as possible while still leaving room for everything to have a...

And then, on a different note, you have places like Mystara where the focus is more on Law versus Chaos than Good versus Evil. Nothing exemplifies this more than the Thyatis/Glantri rivalry (a strong empire versus a politically challenging magocracy). Printed settings, however, I'd promote...

It sounds to me like once this book and the other IK setting book coming are released, the floodgates will open. They've been working on a lot of IK products concurrently and have been held up waiting for these two to drop first. I kind of like the wait. It makes it easy to manage the setting...

I was wondering this same thing just this weekend. I'm in the process of cooking up a new homebrew that is a Sci-Fantasy world in which the various PC races can come from a nearly infinite number of homeworlds. However, for the purpose of the setting, the PCs are all stranded on a single world...

I'm actually working on a new homebrew right now. I'm not very far, but it all started with a concept. In this case I wanted to create a setting where the world is high tech with psionics as the dominant form of "magic" and true magic being a dead art. After I have the concept, I usually...

I voted "Other" for Known World/Mystara/Blackmoor. It's a classic, no matter what incarnation. Of course, with it being a largely stagnant setting these days (and one I've games in consistantly for 10 years), I'm kind of burnt out on playing and DMing in it. Iron Kingdoms looks really...

There are some universal truths in life. One is that nobody gets out of this life alive. The other is there are no goodbyes... just see you laters. Ryan will never truly die, because he will live on in the hearts and minds of the people he touched in his life. He may no longer be...

I have mixed feelings about 2E. I was into OD&D exclusively through the '80s and didn't jump on the AD&D bandwagon until my friend (and closest gaming buddy) picked them up in 1994. That meant I had missed the "3 ring binder" experiment and the PHBR series was in full swing. I really liked 2E...

We're dealing with two decidedly different issues here; one is a good thing, the other is a potentially bad thing. I'm no fan of DRM. I understand the philosophy behind it and cannot say a desire to protect oneself from piracy isn't within the expected rights of the publishing company...

If you like low fantasy in a gritty setting where magic is less common and the story can be compared to LotR if Sauron won... it's an excellent setting. The main setting book is very well written and the feat-based magic system seems to work well. Characters and races are slightly more...

Distribution has always been the constant thorn in the D20 movement's side. A standard bookstore rarely stocks anything unless it comes from a publisher with a previously established relationship or one with a strong enough arm to muscle in. If you go to places like Borders or Barnes & Noble...

I'm not a Jew or a scholar of Judiasm, which means my comments are not meant to reflect the actual truth of the Jewish faith, but a perception of it as it was portrayed in the gospels. If I step on the toes of anyone who is a Jew, forgive me, it's not intentional and my D&D "Jewish" faith is...

Question: Is it okay for Wizards to recycle artwork from other books when referring to the same class/monster/item? For example, using the same Githyanki artwork in the MM and the XPH or using the Stormlord in F&P and CD. Question 2: Is it wrong for Wizards to recycle art that is...

I think that copyright infringement in the RPG industry is a somewhat different creature than it is in the music and movie industries. Part of what drives modern copyright infringement is the perception of an imbalance between cost and worth. When a commodity (such as a CD or tickets to a...

Personally, I don't think the core elements of what makes something fantasy are changing at all. What's happening, however, is as the popular eye of the media is fixed on fantasy more often, people involved in the business of fantasy (writers, game designers, etc) are being freed up to branch...

I don't think I could bring myself to saddle a child with a fantasy name. I'm more into common, normal, plain names for kids. Now, I have used old PC names in stories I write, and if my fiancee and I ever have a boy he'll probably end up named the same as the main character of one of my...

The setting I'm constructing right now has a period of war between the elves (the primary arcane magic users) and the humans (the primary divine magic users) after the human-controlled Unitarian Church declared alchemy (arcane magic) an act of heresy and mysticism (divine magic) the one true...

I've never tried to represent all of my NPCs/PCs with minis. I would think that if you wanted to do that, you would need hundreds if not thousands of minis, considering that common critters like orcs, goblins, and kobolds like to attack in large groups. The way I approach WotC's D&D minis is...

I may just be a hobbyist with a business degree and no entrepreneurial experience, Eosin, but here's some small tidbits of advice I can pass on: 1. Consider the customer. And by that, of course, I mean keep in mind the kind of customer base you want to cultivate with your products. Are you...

Well, with ME, if you upgraded an existing Windows 98 OS to Windows ME, the core of the OS was still the more stable Win98. That kind of a PC would crash less often (whereas ME would blue screen of death every time you went to shut down Windows). Um, I suppose you could continue the anaology...