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You mean Spelljammer? :) I don't think having this as the core setting would work out, although you can always imply that they all exist in the same continuum and could in theory reach each other. Whether that's by spelljamming or planeswalking or the world tree doesn't matter too much. That...

I think it's interesting how much less skewed the poll results are on this one. There, in my opinion, wasn't as strong an agenda being pushed in the text or the poll answers and that showed through with more interesting results. I hope they keep that up. Cheers! Kinak

The biggest thing I need for an adventure to be good is for it to be something I wouldn't have made myself. They temper my natural inclinations and let me give my players something other than what I would have ad libbed on my own. In my case, this means adventures light on the conspiracies...

You might want to check out the Midgard campaign setting from Kobold Press. Specifically they have rune magic in their Northlands book. I don't have it myself, but it sounds like what you're looking for. That's probably Ultimate Magic, which SkidAce linked too. Paizo hasn't done much else with...

I feel like most games that regularly deal with large dice pools either count successes or count some subsection of the pool. Personally, I'd lean towards counting successes (just count the dice that come up 5 or 6, simple enough). This is probably the most common solution. But if you want to...

It depends a lot on what the dragon's "for" to me. In general, I prefer slender dragons with narrow heads and large wings (probably not realistic-scale, but pretty big compared to their bulk). Four legs, but they're never the focus unless they're on the ground. Sort of the Leer Jet of dragons...

One of my favorite settings up against a setting that does absolutely nothing for me. I guess that's not a difficult decision. I'm the flip side of folks upthread talking about how they never "got" Planescape. Greyhawk was never anything more to me than someone else's homebrew D&D world. I...

Updated versions of all the classes are available (under My Downloads on the Paizo site if you already downloaded the original playtest document). Lots of good tweaks and some that will take a while processing. Cheers! Kinak

I think it lets you modify the "natural" result of the roll. There are several abilities in 13th Age where it matters if you get natural evens or natural odds, which this would flip. Cheers! Kinak

I focus mostly on the why, actually. Knowing that someone's hiding something is... really not that useful most of the time. The important part is knowing their emotional state, giving hints at why they're hiding something. I do my best to mention any tells the person is giving off without the...

Oh, absolutely. I didn't mean to imply that silvery magical seas or cloud seas or flying ships or anything like that were new to 4th Edition. It's just the first time I'd seen the Astral Plane being imagined that way. I haven't seen the early WotC stuff you mentioned, though. Cheers! Kinak

Well, the idea of the astral spheres (as a place for disembodied concepts, as well as the place that spirits pass through on their way to being born and their way to death) dates back to at least Ancient Greece. Interestingly, 4e's Spelljammer/Astral Plane crossover can be firmly grounded in...

If Pathfinder went away... probably Iron Heroes, to the extent that's a version of D&D. Then a whole list of retroclones or houseruled Rules Cyclopedia. Then E6. Then heavily houseruled 3rd or 4th. If Paizo wasn't destroyed by the Beyonder in this retcon, I'd consider whatever they were working...

My homebrew tends strongly towards the OotS approach. Few magical items, but the ones that are around matter. Lately, I've been running Rise of the Runelords and basically just letting people have what shows up in the encounters there. They've been quite happy with it, although the stuff they...

You got pretty much everything. Almost all of the combat changes are in combat maneuvers, so I'd read over those. There is an important result to some of the changes when you add them together: multi-classing isn't that big a deal anymore. A lot of the best builds are single-classed and you...

Planescape vs. Dark Sun is pretty brutal. Two old favorites. And, actually, two of the only D&D settings I've actually run games in. Have to go with Planescape, though. Not because of the planes, but because of the factions and the City of Doors. And Ravenloft gets a bye for me because I never...

I tried to find you some actual rules (no dice), but here's how I ruled it when it came up in my game: 1) Supernatural abilities from classes use the appropriate class level in place of caster level. I honestly just assumed it's intended to partially block channel energy and lay on hands as...

Well, and Greyhawk is against Mystara while Forgotten Realms is against Planescape. That probably makes as much, if not more difference. That said, Elminster and Drizz't certainly can make that much of a difference, especially as a symbol for the setting's other traits: People object to...

Agreed. I'd go a bit of a different direction with it. A while back, they were really excited about dragons (consciously and unconsciously) warping the environment around them. But they still need to show that rather than just tell us. The dragonborn can be the result of that warping, born to...

I'd be surprised to see 2e or a 2e retroclone as a serious contender in the market. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see a company taking the 2e mantra of "Release All the Settings!" taking a substantial chunk of the market. They might just as promptly go out of business, but the candle that...