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Not trying to dispute your personal experience, but really? Your friends would only buy books for one setting, and refuse to buy any books from any other setting? That just seems truly bizarre to me. Among my friends each of us had a preferred setting that we would focus on (and use when that...

I still don't buy the idea that having different settings "fractured" the D&D player base: no one I ever knew refused to buy Forgotten Realms or Ravenloft books because they "only played Dark Sun." Yes, people may have had favorite settings that they focused on, but everyone always bought...

OK, so this is a major pet peeve of mine, and I just wanted to know if anyone else gets as annoyed as I do from people totally misunderstanding and misusing these terms... and maybe I can try to explain what the terms actually mean to anyone who doesn't know. I know this is pedantic, but I...

I regularly mic science fiction elements into my games. I much prefer a Weird Tales vibe in my games to that of Middle-earth. Right now I'm trying to think up rules for a Masters of the Universe campaign, a perfect swords & blasters science-fantasy setting; I want to come up with a system...

Shub-Niggurath, Challenge 30? I can dig it.

Point taken, but even in 1E the spells were grouped into Schools of Magic which were listed at the top of the spell description, and most of the names of the Schools made some kind of sense by either the traditional meaning of the terms, or at least some kind of symbolic connection... all except...

I guess that makes sense in some way! Summoning is for physical things, evocation is for non-physical. I guess it's as good an explanation as we'll come up with. I kind of pictured Evokers calling upon (evoking) extradimensional spirits/powers/deities to provide the energy, like Dr. Strange...

The Peterson article provides fun insights into the origins of the Schools of Magic in D&D. I've always liked these groupings, and most of them make sense, but the one School of Magic that has always baffled me is Evocation/Invocation (later called just Evocation.) In D&D...

I was going to comment on Color Bomb; I've never heard of it before and was wondering what it could do. It sounded awesome, and an upgraded Color Spray type spell sounds cool. At first thought it brought to mind an area effect Chromatic Orb. I've had a Gnomish Fighter/Illusionist character...

Any physical structure has mechanical weak points, whether it's a building or a body. Breaking the buttress that holds up a wall, or the pillar or load-bearing wall that holds up the ceiling, is "sneak attacking" a building. Iron golems and zombies still have knees, and if you break the knee...

Given how they transplanted Acererak and Elemental Evil to Fearun, ham-fistedly described ripping Castle Greyhawk from Oerth to float around from world to world, and later gave Evermeet the same shabby treatment being ripped it from Faerun and having it "cast adrift in the planes" as a mystic...

Doh! You can make a late pledge to get it! I'm so oblivious...

This is out?! I didn't realize it had been released yet! Where can you get it? I can't find it anywhere online yet. I need this book.

Short Answer: We allow everyone to nominate anyone else for Inspiration, the DM just has to say Yea or Nay on the spot. Quick and easy. We try to use it as often as possible, but have a hard time getting people to remember it's there. My little brother has become our new standard DM...

I like how it's Neutral Good. :)

I seriously need to give SIGMATA: This Signal Kills Fascists a look. That sounds amazing.

"Giving them psionic abilities distinguishes them from the Dragon #37 version, but psionics have had a fraught history in D&D." The Gem Dragons have been psionic since they were first introduced in The Dragon #37, and it's been a main theme for them since 2nd Edition. (That Dragon Magazine...

That's rad.

Awww yeah gimme BattleTech. That Marauder is rad. I'll have to get one of those boxed sets. I always reasoned that so many 'Mechs were reproductions of Macross et al. designs because there was a fad amongst BattleMech engineers during the Star League era to base them on ancient anime. Why...

I remember back in 2003 or so I designed a character sheet for 3E (just before 3.5 was released, I think) based on the official sheet in the PHB but with 4 columns of boxes beside the skills and 4 boxes for hit dice, so that there'd be room for up to 4 multiclass options. I also put several...