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Nope - it's in World of Warcraft, though. ;) The Nagrand and Netherstorm zones in Outland have several floating rock islands.

I disagree. Players who can learn to firewall character knowledge from player knowledge can contribute a lot more to the game than players who are left in the dark about anything their PCs haven't directly experienced.

Can I vote against Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay? The career system is the stupidest idea I've seen in a popular game.

The longest campaign in which I have ever played lasted for about eighteen months - my first Third Edition game, a Planescape campaign. The average length of the campaigns in which I have played would be about three months, stretching to six months if you eliminate every instance of a game...

Damn it, Rouse, it's pronounced "bonza" but spelled "bonzer"!

Even if they bring down the price of the gift set, I'm not interested. I keep my books in a bookcase - a slip case around them will be invisible most of the time, and a slight annoyance whenever I want one or two books of the trio instead of all three.

That might be the stereotype, but of course like most stereotypes it's complete crap - considering that the average World of Warcraft subscriber is in their late twenties, for one thing.

D&D Online: Stormreach has pretty decent gameplay. It doesn't hugely excite me, but I enjoyed it. What killed that game for me was the atrocious mistreatment of the setting. There were a dozen stupid changes from what Eberron's actually like that I noticed in my first session with the game. I...

Or marking scene transitions with a percussion sting compiled from various sources including a bunch of Catholic monks jumping on a hard wooden floor!

Yeah. I would argue that Warhammer is a descendant or rip-off of D&D exactly as much as Warcraft is a descendant or rip-off of Warhammer. Even considering Tolkien, I doubt there would have ever been a fantasy wargame with elves and dwarves and orcs and demons and various historical analogues of...

You are very wrong, but if that's how you play, cool.

We knew this in August, you lunatic.

That has nothing to do with it, unless by that you mean that they shouldn't know anything that their characters don't know. I happen to think that's silly.

I think that's pretty silly. Why should the player have to jump through hoops? Why should the player have to pretend to ignorance of the wider scope? The player isn't the character, and playing the game as if you only know whatever your character explicitly knows (read: whatever the DM...

If your players can't keep what they know firewalled from what their characters know, you've got bigger problems than their owning a copy of the setting sourcebook. Though I note that the Forgotten Realms is getting a Player's Guide and a Campaign Guide this time around . . . Plus, many of the...

That's pretty ridiculous. Are you just assuming a worst-case scenario where players want to read the stats of the monster they're fighting, or would it really not be okay with you if maybe they looked up a magic item they might want to craft?

On the pit fiend issue: they might not be solo monsters, but that doesn't mean you have to use two of them at once. With four PCs you could have a pit fiend and two normal monsters of the same level, after all. A pit fiend flanked by a pair of servitor devils sounds like a cool fight to me, and...

Your country sucks. :\ Next weekend is Australia Day, which is for us most like the Fourth of July is for Americans, and because it falls on a Saturday we're having the following Monday off as a public holiday. Pretty much only general retail shops stay open - petrol stations, supermarkets -...

Thumbs up. I can't think of a piece of news that's genuinely made me unhappy.

Come on, Todd. You sung a very different tune in the years before the Fourth Edition announcement when you complained (perhaps not unjustly, but that's not relevant) about all of the "disregard and disrespect" shown to Planescape's established canon in the same Third Edition products you're...