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I'm currently running the Pathfinder Rise of the Runelords adventure path more-or-less as written - i.e., for revised Third Edition D&D. We have a few houserules, including the Pathfinder RPG's grappling rules, but otherwise I ain't changing much. (As an aside, it's mildly annoying that I can't...

The star pact, for me. I love the Far Realms, howling-void-of-space vibe.

I work in the veterinary pharmaceutical company owned and managed by my parents. Much of what I personally do is export - we sell our products and a few other lines all over the world. The only continent I don't have customers on is Antarctica! Now, while I make about US$33,500 per year doing...

Actually, I'll be largely away from the internet for two weeks anyway, because my wife and I are flying to California on the 4th of June to visit her friends and family there and in Texas. Amazon's shipping my books to her parents' house, and while I could use their computers, our trip is short...

I'm going to think about this for any game I run. My original plans for Fourth Edition, for a setting called Exile, involved only three playable races: humans, dragonborn, and tieflings. Only human characters would be available at the beginning of the game, which involved a colony of exiled...

The soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings is terrible for D&D. Ponderous, unthrilling nonsense. It goes okay with the film, if you like that sort of "look how epic we are" feel, but it's yawn-inducing at the game table.

If I don't enjoy Fourth Edition - a slim possibility, from what I can tell - then I'll probably take my time deciding what game to use for heroic, swords-and-sorcery fantasy. I'd be prepared to continue running my Rise of the Runelords game using the revised Third Edition rules, at least until...

I expect it's because the troll is regenerating that arm.

Man, forget Tolkien. (I know it's folkloric, but I'll bet Tolkien is the reason why 95% of people who want trolls to turn to stone want it.)

In the future, can I make a pair of suggestions? Try drawing some non-white PCs, and either mix up the genders more evenly (one woman and four men kind of bothers me) or, better yet, draw a full set of male and female contenders for each class. I'm planning to use these counters for my own...

What does that have to do with The Lord of the Rings?

If you read his blog, it's easy to see why blaming one of several writers on a summer blockbuster for the movie's flaws is completely ridiculous. Writers in the film industry are not, shall we say, exactly high on the totem pole. In fact, these days, there are dozens and dozens of films every...

I'm getting the gift set from Amazon - we're visiting my in-laws in California in June, so that's cool. Even if we weren't going to be in the U.S., that's what I would be doing - it's a lot cheaper, even with international shipping, and I have no investment in personally supporting any of the...

Yeah. Vecna will misquote Wash from Firefly and say, "Mine is an evil light."

For a while I was working on a setting called Exile, where the PCs came from a large group of humans banished from their homeland (a new empire called the Patria) to a "New World" analogous to North America, where they would eventually come into contact with the first truly intelligent races...

The orc entry has two minion types and four non-minions. Out of the four "encounter groups", only two use a minion type (and it's the same level 9 orc warrior both times, as it happens). Not using the two minion types doesn't really fit my personal definition of "serious modification"...

So don't use them. Give every creature that's written to appear with 6 minions a trio of normal monsters instead. Use orc raiders instead of orc warriors. Who gives a crap? Last night in my Rise of the Runelords game, the four 2nd-level PCs went up against 10 goblin warriors straight out of...

We'll be seeing "humans as monsters" in one of the upcoming previews, so I imagine we'll know the score then.

Well, congratulations, Shroomy! Yes, it looks like early June (maybe not June 6 - wouldn't they have said so?) is the "launch date" for D&D Insider.

Personally, I'm extremely displeased that they're still using Wayne England for this sort of thing. I sincerely hope he's not illustrating anything in the Monster Manual - I'm sick of his full-face reptilian creatures advancing towards the viewer, which is about all he seems capable of drawing...