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I am really liking the trade dress/page layout and colors of this book! Very, very cool and beautiful. Something I really want to know is what is up with the Bladesinger in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything; I actually just started a new Bladesinger character not too long ago, and I would really...

Very cool and interesting essay. It made me think of my brother's new(ish) campaign setting, with which I give him some small advice, in which he purposefully included different regions in the world that are conducive to running different campaigns of various sub-forms of Fantasy. As just a...

"Oh the bunyip's very bad And the bunyip's very bold And they tell me that the bunyip's Now a thousand years old!" Ever since I saw Dot and the Kangaroo when I was very little, bunyips have always freaked me out.

Our current group consists of 6 players plus the Dungeon Master, giving us a six-member party in our current campaigns (a party size that was standard for us back during our years of playing 1st Edition, but which became a real nightmare to try to run during the days 3rd Edition! Thankfully, a...

Balance is a thing created by the Dungeon Master by giving each character a chance to shine. Trying to rely on the rules to create balance is always bound for failure.

ABSOLUTELY! When one player's turn comes up, every other player should sit up, pay attention, and appreciate the current player's actions and express some appreciation and wonder at the cool things they do with their turn in the spotlight. That is the way my group has always tried to do it...

"Balance" is the job of the Dungeon Master. It comes from the DM giving each PC their own turn in the spotlight to allow everyone an equal amount of "oh that's cool!" time.

That actually makes it sound fairly cool and something I could be interested in, which is good because otherwise I have basically zero interest in Icewind Dale. But even with The Thing influence, I would never spend 50 bucks on it.

And I understand that, and if they are happy playing with that I am happy that they are happy. I am not about to tell anyone that they are playing the game wrong somehow if they are having fun. I, however, find blatant Dragon People as PCs to be incredibly gaudy and tacky, the same way I find...

Bitchin' Chimaera! Bitchin' Chimaera! It chewed up my neighbors! Bitchin' Chimaera! Bitchin' Chimaera! It enjoyed their flavors!

My big question is this: Is Minnie Pearl going to be in the adventure??!!

HOLY SPIT! This has got to be just about the most RANDOMLY RAD thing I have ever heard!!! I have to buy this. There is just no alternative.

The thing is, 1st Edition AD&D wasn't designed to be just a generic Fantasy game; it was aiming to simulate a specific shade of Weird Fiction.... something which I think it did very well; it was set up to feel mostly like Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith, rather than Tolkien. And this is...

"Simple-minded?" Uh-huh.

Coolness! I would be very happy to see something like Iggwilv's Incunabulum of Esoteric Planes or suchlike.

I think a huge reason for this lack of running away by PCs anymore is because of 3rd Edition, which put the idea in players' heads that every "encounter" was supposed to be perfectly mathematically tailored to their character levels... with the corollary reason for this phenomenon, being that 3E...

Abso-FREAKING-lutely! My love of Fantasy and Sci-Fi and D&D are all tied in together with my early love of Masters of the Universe. It is a wonderful Weird Fiction seting, mixing magic and superscience, with laser blasters and dragons and space travel and an evil skull-faced wizard who has a...

Very cool!

I just adore that they made this.

Well, the "fantastic racism" of a D&D setting isn't at all the same thing as real life racism; the various races in D&D are fully separate species that actually do have definable differences in ability, and not just minor population differences of the single human species.