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I've generally had a good experience with Dungeon since I subscribed a few months ago. The first two issues were late by a month, the third by two weeks, but the most recent one arrived *early*. The customer service staff kept me informed so that I at least knew what was going on. So I guess the...

I agree with SWBaxter and others that Mage presents a romantic-savage anti-modern anti-scientific ethos predicated on standard po-mo moral relativism. Over a dozen people that have played the game with me and others are also of like mind in this, and yes, they often sympathize with the...

Planewalker has a whole lot of adventure hooks available here. Some are more detailed than others. Or you could just browse the planar portals there and see if any interesting entries spark your imagination. The PS boxed sets for Chaos/Law/Conflict also had a series of short adventures, but I...

Mage is a great freeform game if you're an experienced GM. It has a lot of flavour, great background, interesting occult tidbits and a great world-spanning conflict of monumental proportions. It's also pompous, overwrought and imcomprehensibly metaphysical. :) I ran a long game of Mage several...

I'm not sure the review was entirely fair to this book. BCD is original and presents a series of unique planes that are very different from regular planar fare found in the Manual of the Planes and the Planescape setting. It deviates from the planes-as-mythology paradigm and presents a multitude...

Although it took me a while, I really warmed to Beyond Countless Doorways. It is a more open-ended multiverse, with very few gods (but a lot of angels and demons) running around, and this gives it a more Moorcockian feel. There are countless dimensions and no structure to them, unlike the Great...

Saying something can't be done is not being rude. You, on the other hand, are being patronizing and condescending in the extreme, with hardly a thought to actually refuting my points. Once again, I repeat this: Is anyone replicating the Planescape setting in whole? No. City of Doors is only...

No need to be rude, Patryn. I already know about that project. Notice that it isn't finished yet, and that it only deals with Sigil, not the entirety of the planes? Nothing about Pandemonium or Mechanus there. It still doesn't address my problem of how would you present the wonders of the planes...

That is a cool setup, but I'm a miniatures-hater and I'm still not convinced. NWN may be good for generic dungeon-hacks, but it can't imitate the fantastic glory of a setting like Planescape, where my players last month visited a burg perched on a huge stalagmite column which had titanic blades...

Really? I'd love to play a Narnia game with talking animals. Do the AE rules really support that, or did you mean just better than plain-old D&D?

Well I was looking for both new rules and setting material, so AE should be perfect. With the changes to the magic system it sounds better than vanilla D&D while still being compatible. Just my cup o' tea. Too bad it doesn't change the combat system. If anyone could improve/streamline the D&D...

Thanks for the info, guys. Does AU have any alternative combat rules to replace AC with Base Defense Bonus, for example? I like the description of combat rites.

Monte Cook has garnered a lot of respect in the industry for his rule variants (and setting books like Beyond Countless Doorways), so I was wondering if it's worth buying his new Arcana Unearthed v2 compilation Arcana Evolved. Apart from the cool-looking cover art, is this simply a rehash...

The Dragon/Dungeon crossover adventure was called Incursion. The Shackled City adventure path in Dungeon also contains one adventure called, IIRC, Test of the Smoking Eye, and this is almost entirely a planar excursion. Looked really good, though I haven't read it completely.

Absolutely brill. That's it right there. For most people 1E feel is just a simpler time when everything fantastical was new, you had no idea how many hit-dice the dragon had, you had never heard of drow, and you were afraid of skeletons. SKELETONS! And if they had a bony tube in them, you had...

Great news, and I was surprised as heck to see the Tal d20 ad in Dungeon magazine. Last I checked the Talislanta Publisher Curse was still in effect and despite Tal4's excellent debut it had almost vanished from the face of the Earth. I'm glad (yet another) publisher is willing to tackle this...

Great news. All the best to him. OOTS is the best damn rpg comic I've ever read.

Well, I've been a dedicated roleplayer for many years now, and as I get older I find that I'm not buying rpg books to play them but just to *read* them. I already have enough rpg material for several dozen lifetimes of playing, especially at the glacial pace we do it nowadays. If rpg publishers...

My players would be surprised if I did not have a new rules revision every month. It's gotten so that I have to name the revisions with animals just to keep it all straight. Version 1.squirrel Version 1.turtle Version 1.gazelle ... (please help)

I've found that a gradual introduction of the Cant can create a great atmosphere once people get used to it. Words like berk, dark, bone-box and peel may sound stupid in the beginning, but once you're used to them the flavour is great. Consult the mimir about the Cant. Also, Planescape is...