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Jeff - I haven't been to WF since WotC sent JD Wiker and I in 2001 for the launch of the Living Force RPGA campaign, but when we were there WF did have a small dealer's area (maybe about 12? booths, most of which were retailers of some sort), and there was open gaming going on, too.

Hmm, funny, I remember saying something very similar to that.... :) (I'm saddened by these errors in the book, especially as WotC has an in-house spreadsheet that generates stat blocks, and should do them accurately. Maybe some aren't using it, I don't know.)

In many European myths/legends, the "vampire" and "werewolf" were the same creature (notice how the D&D vampire can change into a wolf). It's only in the modern era (starting with Dracula) that the vampire is distinguished as a separate creature.

See also my variant rule for staking vampires here (it's near the bottom, just above the sample character).

That's interesting. It might be easier to just say they have 75% or 90% crit immunity (like the fortification ability), and assume that the crits that get through are head or heart strikes.

Is that what a rogue studies, how to attack wood and rocks? Are those vital spots in wood and rock enough to merit a high-level rogue doing an extra +9d6 damage on top of the normal 1d6 for a short sword? Or is the variable damage in the normal 1d6 of a short sword enough to represent the...

True, but some DMs don't have a spine as stiff as yours, and cave in when players wave their new $20 book at them. Some DMs also see it as, "If it's in print, it's fine for my game," not thinking about the campaign-specific environment that created that rules material. Easy: There aren't any...

JM, that's perfect reasoning, and I'm smacking myself on the forehead for not thinking of it. (I argued against a similar chain of feats on my boards once ... someone suggested a fighter feat that let you take an AOO against unarmed strikes even if the opponent was a monk or had Improved...

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I'll cut & paste a response to a similar question from my boards: {Sean - does/will TNA discuss how a DM should handle a low-magic setting as contrasted against the "default" setting and reams of magic items?} It's difficult for me to give a short...

Thanks, August Moderator. :) Yes. And finally, what quarter can we expect the first product, and does it have a name and theme yet? (Past New Argonauts, that is?) The New Argonauts is due Oct 31, and addresses issues relevant to a low-magic game. Blood and Moon (and FYI I'll probably end up...

Let me point out that in the recent "Morrus rant" thread, I'm the guy who said that ENworld visitors are among the best-informed gamers out there. Unfortunately, ENworlders aren't the entire gaming population, or even a simple majority. There are people out there who assume that if it's in a...

Well one, I have a degree in chemistry, so I've read about this and specifically asked my professors about it. Two, here's a quote from Ask Science Theatre: "Temperature is a physical quantity which gives us an idea of how hot or cold an object is. The temperature of an object depends on how...

Well, zombies aren't immune to cold in 3E but I assume you mean skeletons (which are immune to cold). But anyway, that's a problem with how the "immunity to cold" SQ is applied to many creatures, not a problem with cold damage in itself (energy immunities are still handed out like candy to many...

In D&D, cold is cold ... the variable effects are all in the hp damage dealt, not in the temperature. You don't have creatures with "immunity to cold that's not colder than 9 degrees Centigrade" or "immunity to cold attacks that remove less than 1,000 joules of energy from the target" ...

The closest you're going to get to a review from me are these two articles: 10 Reasons for a Player to get LM 10 Reasons for a DM to get LM As balance goes, it's not bad. In a "makes sense/breaks an important game-physics rule and thus makes no sense" way it's very bad. The rogue's SA...

I'm hoping they errata the boldfaced part, as it makes no sense (are you creating vital organs in the incorporeal creature so you can crit it? if so, can your buddies sneak attack and crit the undead, too? or are they only there the instant you make your attack? if so, can your buddies ready an...

TRIPLE POST, yeah!!!

Nice double post there, Sean.

I don't have that article handy ... you sure he wasn't talking about adjusting a campaign to fit the core cosmology? Also understand that the original FR had Moorcock entities that had to be changed for copyright reasons when it was actually published (the elemental lord Straasha, a creation of...

I dunno, it went on sale after I left WotC. Clearly WotC is still supporting FR, so.... I agree that it's a radical change, disagree that the planes are integral to the setting. Plane-hopping may be the norm for higher-level campaigns, but just as most of the campaigns we heard about were...