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Dashell Hammett weaves a good solid story, but yeah. They lack a certain something, IMO. Honestly, I'm putting these quotes here because I haven't read Raymond Chandler for a bit and I went looking for a quote or two and now I'm drunk on them. “I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life...

I like Dashell Hammett OK, but Raymond Chandler is where it's at for me. His plots are...occasional, at best, but the phrasing and imagery is just...stunning.

OK, I used the word "tomcat" because it was 20lbs of angry male cat, but it was neutered. The owner is a veterinarian; he takes in unadoptable strays as barn cats. I'm not sure where you live, but foxes around here absolutely prey on cats. It's not Disneyworld. They went on a binge last year...

Having witnessed a 25 lb fox have a knock-down, drag-out screaming fight with a 20 lb fightin' mad tomcat, I'll tell you this is true until it isn't. The fox didn't get its dinner (because I came out hollering), but the cat got severe internal injuries and died 12 hours later. That was the last...

http://morganfoundation.org.nz/cats/damage/

Also, outdoor cats slaughter huge numbers of birds. Immense numbers. It's insane. And I've lost a cat to HPV, and another to a car, and most of the neighborhood cats are gone now because of the local foxes. One got nailed in our driveway last fall. I interrupted but the cat (a really BIG mean...

I've only got a moment, but basically, everything Umbran has said. Cats are HIGHLY variable. My gf has 4. My best friend (a vet) currently has 4 (she's had up to 6 at a time). I have 2 at the moment. They are ALL different. Mine are SUPER-social & friendly with me, and slightly social and...

Yep. I don't understand the point of this format, which is apparently called "premium". That said, I just did some googling and apparently several publishers are switching to a "max" format that's 4.75 x 7 for improved legibility & readability.

Just because the DM creates the campaign world (homebrews it) doesn't mean that anything and everything is included (and the kitchen sink). I've always had a homebrew campaign world, and there are many things that don't fit/aren't included. Talk to me, and we'll come to a compromise, but if you...

I've never even heard of Cawood Publishing. I'll look it up. Kobold Press I have. I have issues with Monte Cook that go back a while, so I don't support him any more. I didn't realize he was doing 5e material, but it doesn't really surprise me...oh, wait. He was redoing Ptolus? Is Sandy...

Ayup, and Tome of Beasts I & II. EXACTLY. Given how MANY monster books have come out over the years, I think it's safe to say they sell reasonably well. Probably a good sight better than adventure paths. And while I love Creature Codex and the Tomes, there is an undeniable cachet to WotC...

I'll wager that most of the creatures in the 5e Monster Manual appeared in the 1e Monster Manual. Not MM2 or the FF, just the MM. You can certainly claim that MM had almost all the good monsters, and nothing need ever change again, but...it's a bold claim. Gah. What about asian monsters? Other...

OK, well, thanks for explaining what I want to me.

Seriously? OK, Chapters 1-2 of Volo's, and Chapters 1-5 of Mordenkainen's. Ecology. Lore. Exposition. Whatever vocabulary you want to use, if we're nitpicking about that. Obviously you know Volo's is less than half "bestiary". And before you get pedantic about how it's "all bestiary", that's...

I've found the DMs Guild stuff to be hit or miss, and the drivethru stuff is sometimes fine but uniformly of lesser quality. The Kobold books are fantastic. Scarred Lands I haven't seen yet. IK I wasn't fond of the first time around. I recently wrote a Greyhawk Underdark article, and there just...

I don't understand your thinking here. There are a bazillion un-updated monsters from older editions, but you think a MM2 will only be reprints of monsters already in 5e? That would be really disappointing.

Yeah, this is why I specified "straight-up" monster manual. Not a hybrid monster book/ecology book. And I know other people like them; they can speak for themselves. I'm speaking for myself. (I like them fine, btw. I just would like a bulk of more monsters brought into 5e, not just sprinkled...

Can we just get another straight-up Monster Manual? (Probably not; it'll probably be dragon-themed; but...I really just want MM2)

I had this exact conversation yesterday. Psionics has pretty much always been an all-or-nothing buy-in. You can't have just ONE psionic character; nothing is set up for it and it's a whole different system of doing [weird unnatural stuff]. Plus, I run a pretty cliché medieval fantasy campaign...

I had some excellent conversations with Roger Moore on the AOL boards. The whole reason I got my first modem was to connect with the TSR people on AOL (spoiler: it worked, briefly. I got one article accepted into Dragon and two (three?) rejections. (One went through three different commentators...