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There's something like that called the Last Sea. Of course, it's controlled by three powerful psions. And I mean controlled, typically through threat of psionic disintegration. Happiness is mandatory :) Any such oasis would be immediately attacked and conquered by a sorcerer-king. In fact, the...

Every city is an oasis of sorts. There's just too many people. PCs need motivations to leave the city and go questing or adventuring, in a horrible environment where at any time you're being stalked by something stealthy, vicious, psionic... and hungry. They did this in 4e. It looks like they...

I am going to have to partially disagree with the second point here. I don't think we should be changing traits of existing characters. The setting definitely has room for more sorcerer-queens (indeed, the older books mentioned that Athas is large and there could be more sorcerer-kings). Each...

There are lots of proposals to limit spellcasting, and IMO this is one of the better ones. I don't like the "make a roll every level to see if you get that good spell, and if you fail you suck" that I saw in 2e. A spell like fireball is very common, and not just because it's good. It's used by...

IMO they have to be aloof. I don't want a lawful good god of magic or anything like that. Making them aloof means that personalities and politics can play a role. If the god's rule is absolute, then how can you bribe a corrupt cleric? How is a crisis of faith possible? Unlike real medieval...

They're far less important than psionics or sorcerer-kings to the setting. Furthermore I didn't advocate eliminating them, just not making them playable.

1. Reset the timeline. IIRC there have been five ages, and I think human characters in the first book are still alive. 2. Keep Dragonlance as Dragonlance. There are no orcs, so that means no orcs. It doesn't mean "we found orcs on an island somewhere." 3. The first three or four books were...

Sasquatch Games created the second edition of Alternity pretty recently. It seems WotC sold the rights. Sasquatch cannot use terms such as "weren", "sesheyan", etc, because they did not buy the rights to the Star Drive setting. IME it's just harder to have a sci-fi game. A big problem are the...

I've seen lots of player act very "paranoid" about their characters dying. You're not playing when your PC is dead, and even if you can easily create a new PC, you might not want to. D&D is a broad game that can suit many playstyles. However, GMs and players need to be on the same side. I...

I have never been in a campaign that took place entirely in a dungeon. Even so, sometimes there are large rooms. As a melee fighter, I wanted to get in close, not throw javelins. The attack bonus and damage would be a lot lower.

IME Charger is a must. Class guides generally declare this feat to be subpar, but I used it at the start of more than 50% of my encounters (as a fighter) and probably more than 75%. I went from level 1-13. +5 damage isn't worth losing an attack, but I don't have the feat I could lose attacks. I...

I don't know how I managed to miss this thread. I am a big fan of forest maps and downloaded all of them.

I started with 2e. I didn't much like that ranger. It tried to be a cool class but couldn't pull it off. I didn't like the alignment restriction. As far as I'm concerned a ranger is about skill, not personality. An arrogant big game hunter who slaughters prize animals and only takes the head as...

I voted for the Manual of the Planes. I learned about that in 3e and loved it, although IMO there are too many Outer Planes. I would just squish those into nine or fewer planes. Mechanicus could simply be a part of the Lawful Neutral plane. I also don't like D&D's Astral Plane much. I liked...

The armor shouldn't go in the bag though.

This goes back quite a few years. I figure noone plays them because: 1. They're not in the core book. A player is only likely to see them if they read a guide on how to play... a fighter? 2. They smell of cheese in 3e. (There was a time when the 3e half-ogre was popular. It wasn't Large, so not...

I have not seen ostrich stats. I'm also not convinced they can be ridden in real life. Do you have a source for this? It would still be your ally. Some PCs argue a lot. Even married couples argue sometimes. I think WotC made an error by associating the figurine with Hades and simply never...

That would solve the problem. It's too bad this problem has persisted across at least two editions.

I think this is the wrong way to look at it. People have been asking for Bruce Lee for decades, not a fast controller.

You could copy and paste the consecrate/desecrate spell effects from 3e. I think that works. I would honestly expect every temple or druid grove heart to have that effect.