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In my games, dragons are pretty darn rare and thought to be unique. The 'Red Dragon' is a centuries old ruler of a mountain kingdom of kobolds and fire giants, with mameluke-style slave armies of hobgoblins, and a court filled with his consorts and many generations of his half-dragon or...

Get all up in their face, red-faced and screaming, waving hands wildly, spittle flying from the mouth, and then walk away without hitting them. It's terribly frustrating for a masochist, like getting to second base and getting shut down and having to go home and take a cold shower.

It's just a taste thing. Neither is wrong, really. Most of the people who GM for me have no interest in the two pages of backstory that comes with my character, and any character goals or role-playing tips I provide invariably get in the way of whatever the plot intends, since stepping outside...

Reading Proust and listening to opera have the same inherent limitations as Warcraft. They are passive experiences (far more so than Warcraft, actually!). Playing D&D requires a degree of active participation, and, particularly for the player who creates their own character, engages the...

The stuff I loved most about Al-Qadim really wasn't setting-specific. It was more of a stylistic thing, where the adventures encouraged storytelling and NPC interaction instead of 'gruff stranger hits you up in a bar to go clear the caves of ker-chunk.' In a setting, I like a certain amount of...

And from my side of the page, I'm pretty sick of seeing Mialee and Lidda in particular, especially since Naull and Kerwyn are much cooler looking. (I liked the elven druid, 'though, so I'm not a complete speciest...)

Light Armor goes up to +4 for a chain shirt. Medium Armor goes up to +5 for a Breastplate. It's really a case of a whopping potential +1 AC if you allow Medium over Light. (I'd even argue that there isn't enough gap and that Lt Armor should end at +3, but that's a different kettle of fish.)...

Sorcerer who generally tries to reshape the world into a medieval fantasy version of itself, with the various heroes re-imagined as supernatural champions, warriors and monsters, all working for him. He's been a Spider-man, X-Men and Avengers foe at various times. I'd love to play a Legion of...

I've read plenty of 'fantasy' that seemed more plausible than Star Trek and I've read some stuff touted as 'hard sci-fi' that made Harry Potter seem reasonable. I'm not sure that there is a valid place to draw the line, since every attempt to do so just calls up a ton of exceptions.

To a certain point, more information on fantasy gods tends to limit them more than expand them, IMO. Once they get big multi-page write-ups, with variant sects and the like, they get a little 'roomier' and become useful for more than a single limited role, but the Domains & Favored Weapons...

Opinions vary on that. We had corporal punishment in the public schools in Oklahoma, a very 'Bible Belt' sort of place, and the punishment I got for getting up to help someone get her window down when the bus was in motion was 50 'licks' with a wooden paddle, administered by the principal...

Nothing you can do about this. Option one; he's gonna bow to her demands, and you won't get to see him anymore, since she won't let him associate with people like you (we've had this happen a few times). Generally people like this (of either gender) aren't in love with the person, they see...

Our last group called themselves The Royal Order of the Drunken Ferret. They were forced to change their name to The Order of the Drunken Ferret when some individuals that actually were nobles expressed their displeasure at the adventurers calling themselves 'Royal' anything. (Although one did...

Given the nature of Hextor's faith and the waves of anguish, it's possible that whatever lies within has some connection to slavery or control, and that the Hextorites want it for their own use. Whatever it may be, it is powerful enough that it doesn't just enslaves beings, it enslaves them...

Oh, the wickedness. Remember that the Scarecrow needs a brain and the Tinman needs a heart. What do they need them for? Some spell, perhaps? To escape curses that have befallen them? And not any brain will do. The brain of a wizard or psion is required. Not any heart will do. The heart of a...

One issue I can see coming up here is that even if WotC does create a PC-able Necromancer, they are pretty tightly building the classes these days, and, like pretty much any spellcaster, the Necromancer is all over the freaking place with it's signature abilities. It's got enchantment-like...

Man, I remember when the D&D cartoon came out and half the party was bizarre 'newfangled' Unearthed Arcana classes like Cavalier, Barbarian and Acrobat... A new cartoon with an Eladrin Warlock (fey pact, so as not to upset the crazies), Dragonborn Paladin and / or Tiefling...

They don't have Phraints and Deodanths as core races yet, so I'm not terribly worried about D&D getting too far away from Tolkein. Even some of the 'out-there' races of Eberron come from mythic stock (changeling children, golems, beast-men) that's every bit as valid to explore as dwarves and...

Eh, this is 4E. People who are *part-demon* are now a core race (and people who make Pacts with Fiends are a core class!). I'm pretty sure that Necromancers rate somewhere lower on the 'OMG it's EVIL!' scale... The big 4E issue would be the extra actions available to your undead minions...

Guaranteed; Scarred Lands / Sharn Al-Qadim Kara-Tur Greyhawk Probably; Eberron Golarion Forgotten Realms would have been on that list (as my nearly complete collection of 2E Realms stuff weighing down multiple shelves would attest), but they lost me with the Time of Troubles.