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Forgotten Realms One reason because the suspension of disbelief needed to swallow that world is just too much in anything from climate to cultures to demographics, economics, politics. If you ask even the most benign "how could this ever work ?" question after the minute or two the DM will have...

1. Fey Magic (Mongoose) - It fits into a concept from my campaign so I am curious to see their take on it, aslo all the alternate magic systems are good for me... 2. Swashbuckling Adventures (AEG) - I have been movig ever more steadily away from Tolkienesque fantasy towards that more resembling...

I am fairly price-insensitive in general. That is I have a fairly nice scholarship/grant and little expenses (not driniking, smoking having a car or family) so most of my money goes to books (d20 and otherwise) and traveling. Therefore I am buying a lot of d20 product. Easily $100-150 canadian...

I do not like current DnD system for magic. Simply it leads to the kind of setting that I am not confortable with. (No castles, no armies in traditional sense, everybody who is anybody has to have magical resources etc...) I agree that magic should have much more dangerous/mysterious edge. I am...

Athlons are noisy I agree with what most people are saying about motherboards and memory but am not so sure about the processor. Sure it is true that AMD's beat the Pentiums in performance/price ratio but I have a 800mHz Athlon in my desktop and the thing produces so much heat that it needs two...

I too quite liked the Blood War, it was for me one of The most unique parts of DnD cosmology...

One thing in which the DnD cosmology is very distinct from the J-C one is the fact that Demons and Devils are very distinct beings. Whole Blood War was one of my favourite things in DnD cosmology. I do not mind J-C cosmology, cosmology of my present campaing is essentialy Gnostic, but it works...

This stuff is exactly why I was so harsh with the "Legions of Hell" by C.P. in my review thereof. He continues to push his dualistic Zoro-astrian / Judeo Christian cosmology in that book despite the fact that it is hardly usefull to the most DnD players who use more balanced Great-Wheel ideas...

Do post the links. Harn is unbelievable settign. I do not care much for their magic but in terms of the politics and realism it is unparaleled. Another great setting that never got the good rules to go with it was old Glorantha. Never was there so well developed fictional mythology...

Do post the links. Harn is unbelievable settign. I do not care much for their magic but in terms of the politics and realism it is unparaleled. Another great setting that never got the good rules to go with it was old Glorantha. Never was there so well developed fictionaly mythology...

Yeah, now if I could only learn to spell your name :( sorry.

I'd realy like that sort of stuff. I'd also very much like Erik to write it. In the meantime I am writing something simmilar (I gave a few small samples way back when we were talking about how to make low magic). It is a settign I am DMing right now based around this city in the delta of the...

I have to chime in. That was indeed a great time in terms of fan creativity. 'History of Great Kingdom" is still a piece of writing I am most proud of. Good Luck as a "bigwig" Eric. BTW: "Armies of the Abyss" are most excellent, and that is from someone who did not care at all for the Legions...

Caliban, have I mentioned you are a Genius.

There are many types of people, and I have noticed that people who fall into the "gamer" group frequently fall into various other groups. I will list them here: 1. Computer nerd/geek. -No was once (many years ago but ave not realy followed with it. Still consider myself a fairly proficcient...

Tangentialy, As far as I am concerned the greatest moral affront commited by a "good" character in the books was one by the Jon Snow and that is not in abandoning the Crows for a while for Mance and Ygritte but betraying Yggrite for the dubious honour of the Night Watch. That sort of thing is a...

Martin's books are by no means "feel-good fantasy" which many people have gotten acustomed to. They break the moulds of the genre and therefore cause consternation in those who buy the genre books in the expectation that those moulds will be obbeyed. As far as I am concerned, I have lost the...

Because on this boards there is unusualy large proportion of authors and potential authors and they are as a rule more sensitive about "intelectual property" then the usual joe.

A note on capitalism, system which I fully endorse: Captalism is based on individual greed. Getting as much as possible for as little as possible is at a core of capitalism. Paying "fairly" for other people's products, not getting something unless one is willing to pay the asked price and so on...

Ofcourse, it should read the other way, that should tech me not to type at 2:00 AM :D