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The one thing D&D (and all tabletop and live-action RPGs) will always have over MMORPGs is in person social interaction. However much we want to pretend that interacting on-line is genuine social intercourse, it isn't. We don't know each other. All we know about each other is based on the...

Gary himself would be the best one to answer this. IMHO, however, it seems that the AD&D Magic User was pretty clearly modeled on Vance's wizards, and not just mechanically. The AD&D Magic User is a perfect fit for Vance's feuding, petty, pretentious wizards. Read the Dying Earth stories and...

I know it doesn't work with every group's playstyle. I happen to have players who don't consider playing NPCs something they have do for the DM, but rather something cool that they get to do on occasion. It's an example, however, of how D&D can replicate every style of play offered by WoW.

Depends on your DM. I would let you investigate the smuggling ring, and ask the other players to take the roles of the smugglers! In the same way, I would ask you play the part of one of the important NPCs in the Drow outpost. I frequently ask players to take the roles of inn patrons, people on...

My brother had bought "Custer's Revenge" when I was a kid. I played it once or twice, but that game actually managed to make sex look boring! I'm on the other side of that argument. Better for D&D to be "evil' than "geeky". I say, piss off the Mothers of America! Things often become cool...

The only Half Orc in any of my campaigns was specifically not the product of rape. The player's backstory was that his mom was a human "orc groupie", who loved the enormous size of Orcish, um... equipment. In that particular campaign there where not only quite a few Half Orcs born from human...

Try these: "Failure" by Swans "Fall Apart" by Death In June "Faith" The Cure The first two two might be obscure, but I can guarantee you they are two of the saddest songs ever written.

I personally think creating a magic item should involve a long, difficult and dangerous ritual. Each item should be created by its own unique ritual. There shouldn't be any magic item creation feats at all. If a PC wants to create a flaming sword, they must first track down the only known copy...

In my experience, the reason teenage girls don't generally play D&D has nothing to do with it not replicating their expected fantasy tropes. The reason teenage girls don't play D&D is that they generally think gamers are smelly, obnoxious, sexist geeks, and any girl that associates with them...

Then perhaps a glimmer of hope remains...

For me, C&C has turned out to be exactly what I had hoped 3rd edition would be. I wanted a game that simultaneously featured streamlined, sensible mechanics and was compatible with all previous versions of D&D. I always thought 1st Edition AD&D had mechanical problems that needed to be fixed. I...

What? There's no Bec de Corbin? Now I'm REALLY upset! I've been pussyfooting around about 4th edition so far. NOW the gloves come off! :lol:

Since the discussion is about Halflings, I would take the fact that WOTC has changed the definition of "Halfling", without changing the name, as evidence that they expect D&D players to simply accept their authority to define fantasy tropes in whatever way the corporation likes. Some people like...

Whatever they do with Malcanthet, hopefully they'll at least get an artist to at least make her look sexy. All the depictions I've seen make me wonder how the poor girl ever gets anyone to fall for her. Even in their natural form, ordinary Succubi should be the kind of creature that you...

I think thats' a false dichotomy. D&D can include both. I'd like it to include both. I never suggested that WOTC remove Gary Gygax's creation the Drow from the game. At this point, black-skinned elves are iconic fantasy. But of the two, Kull's the one that's got people who actually believe...

True, but that material is still nowhere near as well-known as LOTR. We know about it because we are gamers. If I say "Dragonlance" to the average person, however, they'll think I'm talking about a male enhancement product. The Serpent People are the primary villains of the Kull stories...

Of course, I didn't write "classic", I wrote "great"!. It isn't that WOTC is ripping off contemporary popular fantasy and that I object; it's that they're making stuff up and expecting us to treat their creations as if they were already iconic. If WOTC was taking things from, say, Neil Gaiman...

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I present my Halflings as a comic-relief take-off on Tolkien. Where Tolkien's Hobbits were an homage to English country dwellers, my Halflings are a parody of American Rednecks. They're pudgy, superstitious, maudlin, thieving and xenophobic. They wear mullets, make moonshine, have sex with their...

Far more people have read LOTR or watched the movies than have played D&D or read the D&D tie-in novels. The word-count of D&D related products has nothing to do with it. Hobbits are an undisputed part of our literary culture. 3rd edition halflings are... well, even WOTC is forgetting about...