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Batman is a guy with a lot of gadgets, with a seemingly superhuman fighting ability, as well as incredible endurance. Jame Bond, John McClane, the RED folks, and others certainly, in part or in total, fit the same bill. Both Conan and Red Sonja also are just warrior with great strength...

He is also in the Harry Potter movies and Fifth Element. Bruce Willis - RED, Unbreakable, Fifth Element, Die Hard (many of Willis movies, he is somewhat a super-hero, especially with super-human toughness) Nicholas Cage - Ghost Rider, Kick-Ass (his other fantasy-themed movies could also count)...

Christopher Lee - LotR, Star Wars, The Man with the Golden Gun, Last Unicorn, TV Movies of Captain America and Sherlock Holmes, and probably more Hugo Weaving - LotR, Matrix, V for Vendetta, Captain America Stan Lee - basically every Marvel movie (not really an actor and only cameos) Ian...

For Linguist, how about making learning languages take time to learn, and Linguist halves that time? At Paragon, allow someone who takes Linguist to understand basic concepts after talking with a native-speaker for a time. For Skill training, what about adding training to all the skill-based...

Well, I think each druid type would be handled kinda like Specialist Wizards (or like the Shugenja in 3.5 Ed from Complete Divine), or even separate classes (their domain expansion could be seen as "dabbling" in another class, like multiclassing in 4e). Druids of the Stone/Mountains/Earth -...

For the "put the campaign back in the hands of the DM" type campaign settings, how about these examples: Specific settings that can be put anywhere, like I hope Neverwinter is. Regional/environmental setting books, like the 3/3.5 ed books on deserts, tundras, and cities. Culture-based...

If you had a magic weapon that scaled with the PC's level, you wouldn't have it lying around a weapon shop, on sale for the same price as a +1 magic weapon, would you? Would you allow the PC to craft one just like he/she would craft a plain +1 magic weapon? While a consumable doesn't rise to...

Why do you have to work up to drop a massive fireball? It isn't because of some sort of realism. It is because RPGs require a feeling of advancement. It is a function of the game, not the setting. This is why in a game like Anarchy Online (a Sci-Fi MMO) the guns players have at the beginning...

Wasn't Mystara (more specifically, Blackmoor within the world of Mystara) Dave Arneson's default D&D campaign, while Greyhawk was Gygax's default D&D setting? With the mention of creating new settings from Dragon/Dungeon articles (and making popular ones into "official settings"), I think that...

If you want to make healing potions more potent/useful, I'd recommend making these strong potions rarer. Perhaps the secret to brewing them is not well-known, so they are of limited availability. (The PCs couldn't make it, and the chance of being able to buy any is slim . . . so, they are only...

There is a couple things I do to handle these issues: 1. The PCs start in an area where the biggest threats are things that Heroic Tier heroes can handle, but as the campaign progresses, they migrate to other locales. They could know and/or hear stories about the dangers elsewhere, but they...

The western one could be like a version of Shadowrun, or it could be a fantasy-version of Wild, Wild West (thinking the original, not the movie), Brisco County, Jr., Deadlands, or even something like Trigun. If you just have Planescape with various material planes, that would work with my...

A few possible settings: -A setting based on American Indian culture/mythos (more present-day US/Canada, rather than Meso-American like Maztica). This could go hand-in-hand with the spirits being more manifest suggestion earlier. Perhaps add some very early contact with other societies...

Well, I am not sure how clear eyelids help against being blinded . . . in fact, wouldn't they be a hindrance? If you think about defending against, say, a flash grenade, closing your eyes is part of that. With clear eyelids, that wouldn't be a defense. Only if the extent of the blindness is to...

An Unearthed Arcana series of books and/or Dungeon articles that would include many (and eventually all) those options from previous editions that they are unwilling to release for 4th Ed for whatever reason. These options would not be in "official" D&D games (unless the particular game calls...

Any official (or good non-official) conversions for non-PHB classes, like Psionics, for Pathfinder?

How about making the regular "Diet" potions into "Lesser" potions? Then, create "Greater" potions which more closely mimic leaders' healing (HSV+die roll), with the die roll being smaller than an equivalent leader (but increasing with each level of potion). Since you are playing Dark Sun, you...

I've always considered D&D to be a set of tools with which a DM creates a game. I don't consider D&D to be a game like Monopoly or Morrowwind. It is similar to the toolsets that came with games like Neverwinter Nights or Unreal Tournament. Users of these toolsets can create games with them...

What if your PCs are already insane? I mean, if they were sane to begin with, wouldn't they be blacksmiths, store owners, and innkeeps?

I'd say you can, just only once per encounter. There are encounter powers that can be used as basic attacks (like in a charge), so it isn't only for at-wills.