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Planewalker has some light fluff that may help to flesh out these areas for you: http://www.planewalker.com/portals/info.php

oops, double-post.

Sure, your particular stewardesses may be creative geniuses with IQs of 200+, but in the real world most of them are not considered (fairly or not) to be working in a profession requiring creativity or education. Exception proves the rule. You'll note that the point was about the perception of...

No offense, Barsoomcore, but since when are stewardesses part of the "creative, educated" elite set? :p Stewardesses may be hot, but if they had an ounce of education they wouldn't be serving cheap wine to drunk businessmen on airplanes. That said, I'll rather have a stewardess in my game...

I think the industry is doing well for most of the big players, but some small-fry are hurting a lot. This is normal in any industry. What the RPG industry has not yet discovered is consolidation. There used to be 40 car manufacturers in the USA a century ago. Few were consistently profitable...

Very cool. Were you inspired by the Planescape factions or something else?

bOING! bOING! :eek: [eyeballs bouncing on floor] This is going into my Planescape game when we hit Limbo.

They'd definitely meet a grue. :) Maybe this short article on the plane of shadow could help: http://www.planewalker.com/portals/entry.php?intEntryID=3454 .

Players were exploring a tower from the top down. In one of the upper chambers they came across a plugged hole in the floor. After a lot of frustration they finally managed to open it, but couldn't see inside because it was pitch black. Expecting a great deal of treasure, they lowered the most...

Faction War is a good adventure but it should be run as the culmination of a long Planescape campaign, not the start. It requires the players and characters to be familiar with the kriegstanz, the factions and their machinations. It ties together a lot of foreshadowed threads from other...

I always liked Icewind Dale and the North, mostly because of the excellent treatment they received in the Bioware games, but the new book about the Underdark was just too cool for words, so that's my choice.

Icewind Dale, Waterdeep, Phlan, Menzoberranzan, Temple of Elemental Evil, Castle Greyhawk, Sigil, City of Brass, Neverwinter, The Underdark. Depends on whether you're a casual or hardcore hobbyist. Most casual players are familiar with the computer games the most, and those are skewed towards...

I've never seen the attraction of playing in the RPGA, even if I played a standard D&D game (which I don't). Why should someone else be judging me and my players for some measly pat on the head? Also, I haven't heard of any truly great adventures coming out of the RPGA. Are there any?

Yeah, dead, you've hit the nail on the head. People like Greyhawk because it's just fleshed out enough that you can run any generic adventure anywhere you want, without having to conform to the endless detailed canon material of other settings. Yet it's original enough that it doesn't seem like...

Well, I (briefly) studied a kung-fu style called Black Dragon, and man, was it hard to get that black dragon to sit still for 3 hours during our class! :D OK, the last part isn't true, but I can definitely see someone developing a style based on dragons. My instructor actually developed...

Very cool. Nothing associated with Planescape could be bad. Try to get them to reveal the inspiration for the Lady of Pain. I want to know if it's Dolores or the ratatosk, and WHY? :D

I'd just like to chime in that Erik's inclusion of Greyhawk elements is why I subscribed to Dungeon. Greyhawk is old-school fantasy without all the weird shiny bells-and-whistles of newer settings. I still like FR, Planescape, and Eberron, but sometimes you just want vanilla ice cream, period...

I don't see how censoring a topic will make this topic any less 'touchy'. If Morrus didn't want people discussing it then he shouldn't have posted a rant. Now we're expected to just sit quietly and say nothing? I was hoping a poll would show the feelings of the majority so that the party who...

I'm hoping that a quick poll will settle this crisis faster than a long protracted debate. I'm not sure what to make of it myself. :confused:

Thanks for the great website, Russ. Also, thanks to Eric Noah, the Admins and the community contributors who keep this place alive. I generally agree with the rant, but I'm woefully not up-to-date on gossip in the rpg publishing industry, so I have no clue who is right or wrong here. Perhaps...