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I can't think of any reason why someone getting frustrated and raging against their inability to succeed against the tide, or help their allies, should be any less effective than raging in combat. I would, in fact, allow "Must make an Athletics check or other action intended to work toward...

I might have had that exact post in mind when I commented. ;)

I mean, given that the scientific name of the brown bear--Ursus arctos--literally translates to "bear bear" (first from the Latin, then the Greek), that seems sufficiently like a "double bear" to me. And of course, the Eurasian Brown Bear--Ursus arctos arctos--becomes the dreaded "triple bear,"...

Add my vote to the "do not like" list. Please let us know if there's a way to configure it back to the way it was. :(

I personally prefer the idea that Athas is Toril in the far future. :D

As much as I'd love for them to move away from it entirely for at least a while, just to give the other settings some AP love, what I expect to happen is that they'll continue exactly as they have been. It'll remain the default, it'll remain the home of most APs, but there won't likely be a...

Huh. Not being particularly familiar with the "I" part of BECMI, I had no idea there was an official D&D version of "Magic Medieval Earth." Is WotI the only place it's mentioned? What's been said about it?

Dragon issue #372, to be exact, if you want to read up on it. I hear the author's kind of a hack, though. ;)

Right? This is why I'm so utterly bewildered at the complaints. If WotC had treated this as a "normal" book, we wouldn't know about it yet. It would come out next year (or whenever playtesting was done), people would pay $20 for the PDF, and that would be that. Now, people can still do that...

Except that whenever a PDF is updated on the DMs Guild, all those who have bought it get those updates free. So you're not paying any extra for playtest material or early access. You're paying the same thing whether you buy the book now, and get all the upgrades piecemeal, or whether you wait...

His bark is far worse than his bite.

You're right. It does sound crazy. :p

Not really. I mean, yes, there are some similarities. But not nearly as many as it might appear to people watching the hype without knowing the worlds. Eberron isn't an urban setting. It happens to have some major important cities, but then, so do Forgotten Realms and Oerth. Sharn, for...

I recommend giving it a whirl. :) Some of the most fun, and definitely the most character-focused and RP-intensive campaigns I've ever run have been urban. And that's partly because of the recurring cast of characters, the PCs' involvement in various institutions, etc. As long as you keep some...

Kite474 Well, that's... certainly a story that could have been told. :uhoh:

So... Khyberpunk? :cool:

I have no idea what's been done with Jace in recent years--I admit I stopped following the stories a while ago--but I certainly tried to make him flawed and fallible in Agents of Artifice. It's not even that I have a moral or professional objection to Mary Sue characters, I just don't find them...

Turns out there's more than one writer in this city. Who knew?

Or both wrong. :p

That's because you've taken secondhand information and fan speculation as being what WotC actually said. It's not. First, they said "hardcore" fans, not "long-term." Second, the "two surprises" that hardcore fans would love were not said to be the same thing as the two campaign settings that...