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Total agreement here. It bugs me as well because, for all the meta-logic of 'well, mages are rare, and have better things to do,' that doesn't make any sense, since *anyone* with an average or better intelligence, wisdom or charisma can go on to become a Cleric, Druid, Bard, Wizard, Sorcerer or...

1) Settings that seem too 'hopeless.' I don't mind Scarred Lands, which can get pretty bleak (the LE gods worshippers own like 40% of the continent!), or Dark Sun or whatever, but Ravenloft bugged the hell out of me. "Okay, you're first level. There's this lake. This undead dragon thing pops...

If any dude thinks that someone can role-play an elf, vulcan or half-pixie/half-storm giant, but somehow considers the workings of the brains of the other 50% of our species too complicated to respectfully portray, then he's gonna have real problems getting laid. Eventually, you've kinda got to...

For settings, by genre, my favorites are; Fantasy; Scarred Lands Al-Qadim (particularly the 'Dark Arabia' / 'Scimitars against the Dark' variant from that Dragon article by Wolfgang Bauer) Kara-Tur I love much of Golarion, the (pre-Time of Troubles) Realms, (post Wars) Greyhawk and Eberron...

I don't care for 4E one little bit, but if they made a D&D version of the world of Magic: the Gathering, I'd buy it. It's a pretty fascinating sounding world. I have no idea why some feel that a reference to Magic: the Gathering or World of Warcraft, two phenomenally successful financial...

I wonder if the figures department would improve significantly in quality if Hasbro stepped up the merchandizing for the D&D brand? T-shirts? Posters? A board game, sort of like Warhammer Quest for D&D (I'm not even kidding, Warhammer Quest freaking rocks)! Little plastic suits of...

That would be ideal. A shiftery Gormoth Druid who curses others with debilitating transformations, and alters his own form offensively and defensively could be one class of 'monster,' while a Druid of Chern might inflict various contagions and create controllery swarms of vermin in various...

Hm. A city where the crooks are in charge and make the rules? I guess it would look sort of like Washington, D.C. then.

Warlocks and Binders (with specific Pacts and Vestiges related to the Titans) would probably be better thematically than Sorcerers and Druids anyway. In some cases, the class abilities / spell-lists of a Druid or Sorcerer were a poor fit for a Titan affiliation. A Druid of Golthagga, the Titan...

While this may be true, it would make for an interesting critter design to break that assumption and have a world where the predators are mostly instinct-driven and sub-sentient, not rising above the level of tooth and claw, while a species of herd herbivores have developed ever more...

For games, it seems that 'men in funny suits' work better. Throw some Klingon style 'aliens' that are little more than humans with bumps on their foreheads and exemplarize one human trait taken to an extreme, and that seems easy to identify with. Ferengi - short people, obsessed with money...

Do the orcs take suggestions from non-orcs, or half-breeds? Given that they assign no status to each other, does this cross species, or do they draw the line at taking suggestions from 'others.' One the one hand, if they are as egalitarian as they sound, they seem like they would be very...

The irony being that almost all of the non-Craft/Profession skills are equally useless at killing goblins. Diplomacy to talk them to death? Climbing to, uh, carry them up to a high place and drop them from? Move Silently to sneak around and avoid combat entirely? But with a nice craft...

While the idea sounds very neat, I'm having problems wrapping my brain around orcs using it. Elves? Maybe (with less hurling of items and more hurling of catty insults during the debate). But I've always seen Orcs ruled by a strong chieftan (who may or may not be in thrall to more powerful...

And yet, doesn't this also fit the social aspect of the game? Instead of having some social-conflict-resolution mechanic or skills like bluff, diplomacy or intimidate, why not just have it part of player backstory (Ariadne grew up a noble's daughter, and has a good command of etiquette and...

Then they probably weren't put there for you. I see no need for psionics, but I don't begrudge their fans the existence of psionics rules, because I noticed at some point that I'm not the only person who plays D&D. Other people like stuff I don't. Good for them. I'm not going to petition for...

Neat stuff! One I used on my group awhile back; 28)One of the PCs (roll randomly, or let them all have it, but from different perspectives) awakens from a vivid dream that sticks with them; In the dream, you are in a classroom with a bunch of other students. Some are talking in accented...

This is a pretty spiffy idea. You might consider a pseudo-rationale for why such an item would increase in power as the day goes on. Some examples; Perhaps the item was consecrated by a temple of the god of battle, and his blessings increase as the person engages in more and more battles...

One thing I've noticed is that many DMs 'telegraph' what is important to the story. They'll never describe what you eat or drink, unless it's poisoned. Every other meal you'll have in your life will be described as 'you eat.' They'll never describe a door, unless it's trapped. The non-trapped...

One version of the Legion of Super-Heroes used a computer lottery system of government. The computer picked three people, and then the people of Earth voted on which of those three they wanted to be President. In the issue I recall, the three people were; A Chinese poli-sci student, just...