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If I had to pick one right now it would be Golarion, the world of Paizo's Pathfinder, which has more plot ideas per square inch than any campaign setting I've ever encountered. Every town, hamlet and privy in Golarian seems to have a unique twist and backstory and a potentially cool adventure...

That's my view exactly. The fluff descriptions aren't about being directly useful -- they're about inspiration. It's why Paizo's Classic Monsters Revisited is such a great book -- it helps you find creative ways to use the monsters to enhance your storytelling. I'm really not a fan of boiling...

With respect to the PHB and DMG, I think they should be as thick as they need to be. With 4e's simplified rules system, I actually think they're OK -- they cover what they need to. The MM could have used more monsters, though, and a lot more space could have been devoted to providing more fluff...

I'd be very interested to check it out if it does happen (though I can't forsee WoTC opening up the GSL to let Necromancer do anything of the sort). I'd love to see a system that keeps most of the core of 4e, but chucks out the power system and replaces it with separate subsystems for each...

I'm with those who just aren't into it. I wanted to like it, because at its core I think it does a good job of simplifying and rationalising many of 3.5e's flawed rules. But the powers system is a complete turn off for me, and the group I play with just isn't finding the game very evocative. As...

I'm not really sure if it's a question of whether the designers "get" the setting (I give the enough credit to think that they do), it's more, I think, whether the Powers That Be at WoTC feel strategically comfortable putting out a setting that deviates in any way from core assumptions or...

My read is exactly the opposite. I've seen a number of posters who have compared this to the 1e Realms, but to me it seems diametrically opposed. From what I remember, the grey box went into a fair bit of detail about a small part of the realms (the Dalelands, Cormyr and the North), while...

When I first read about them, I was a fan of minions. I got their relativistic nature, and it seemed to make sense. But they haven't worked out so well in practice. Thanks to minions, my players always lead combat with (enlarged) dragonborn breath and burning hands, which pretty much clears out...

I don’t think the poll is meaningless or worthless. It tells us, out of all ENworld readers who cared to respond to the poll, this is the proportion who have and who haven’t moved to 4e. Judgements on how much ENworld represents the RPG community as a whole may make the poll more or less useful...

I'll have to add my voice to the chorus of "Rolemaster". My experience with that game lasted literally about five minutes. It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall the exchange going something like this: DM (kicking off the first session): You’re standing outside a great pyramid. A...

It was funny, when I saw the winners of the ENnies, I was reminded what a fantastic system SWSE is. In my view, it's pretty much 3e perfected. They resolved pretty much all the criticisms of 3e without abandoning the elegance and flexibility of the system. I (and I'm sure many others) would have...

<puts his hand up> I can't speak for the majority of players of course, but not only did I use them, but they added flavor to the realms even when the characters weren't there. For example, I created one adventure around a visit to Suzail by the pharoah of Mulhorand (who entered like Cleopatra...

I have to agree. The spellplague seemingly selectively decimated nations that didn’t conform to the default D&D culture. And I think the realms are poorer (and blander) for it. For those that argue against using real-world cultures, I have to beg to differ. RW cultures are a wonderful...

I suspect a fair number of people will agree with you. I actually like the details, since I figure as a DM I can choose whether or not to use them (so it's better to have them than not). In fact, it's the all the detail that attracted me to FR in the first place. On the other hand, I can...

I’m just going through the book now, but my initial impressions are not good. Compared to the tour-de-force that was the 3E FRCS (probably the best DM product of the 3E era, IMO), I finding the 4e FRCG a disappointment. While I appreciate the notion of giving DMs the room to insert their own...

I actually find it hard to judge the 1e adventures. On the one hand, they’re often burdened with illogical dungeon structures and ecologies (you have manticores happily living one room over from oozes and orcs). But the era also produced some of the most daring and innovative adventures, the...

I went with a 2. It’s not so much the quality of 4e, or even of the paper stock, but it's WoTC’s cynical attempts to monetize it (ie. milk us for all we’re worth) that’s turning me off the company. Things like deliberately leaving out iconic races, classes and monsters from the core books in...

... or it might have more bearing. It's definitely true that ENWorld forum readers probably don't represent the D&D player community at large. However, I would suggest that they are rather important, since D&D is a game that's expanded almost entirely by word of mouth. I suspect that very few...

I found the whole ban odd, since it was clearly what people wanted to talk about. A community's leading forum banning people from talking about the topic of the day actually seemed like a good way to drive people to other boards. That said, I do like Mouseferatu's suggestion, which might cut...

I'd concur with many of those. Most of all, I like settings that have a mythic feel. Fey feel, well, fey; dragons are legends, not just monsters; elves, dwarves and humans don't all co-exist in a happy melting pot; corrupt priests rule millions and so on. In terms of D20 published settings, I'd...