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LostSoul: Once again, this is tremendous. I am really happy to see the thread resurrected. I'm currently planning a sandbox/hexcrawl campaign set around Loudwater in the Forgotten Realms and this is perfect. So many ideas here! Thanks for posting.

I agree with you about liking Loudwater. It's amazing how much is packed into those pages at the beginning of the FRCG. I'm currently prepping Loudwater (using the map of Brindol, I might add) as a location akin to the keep in Keep on the Borderlands. The Caves of Chaos from the same module...

You could also build an unarmed fighter using a feat chain: Improved Unarmed Strike Improved Natural Attack Superior Unarmed Strike (Tome of Battle) A 1st-level human fighter could have all of those and do d8 damage plus Str bonus with an unarmed attack. (I may have got the feat names...

I can't give you XP again, Raunalyn, but I just wanted to say I am really enjoying reading about your campaign. I hope you continue to post.

My list is down to one item. 1. I want a working monster builder. That's all. Of course, I would love to see Dungeon and Dragon with content again but I doubt that will happen. For me it's simply about having the tool that saves me some time and I will just play the game that I have grown to...

[I hate WotC's e-turds] Aren't Dungeon and Dragon now simply short previews for what the magazines used to be? [/I hate WotC's e-turds] I really like what we're seeing in the new MV. It makes me wish WotC was producing more. And kudos to the designer and developer of the tower mimic. It just...

There is no 3.5E version. There might be one in 2E's Old Empires.

The Mere of Dead Men north of Waterdeep is probably where I would choose. It's the right sort of terrain, it's near a large city for when the players want their characters to go shopping or do other things and Waterdeep offers Undermountain for when you want a straightforward dungeon crawl...

Yes, I am aware of all of this and yet I stand behind my comments. Why? Because models don't always work. Why did we have a Global Financial Crisis? The short answer is due to faulty models. The only point here is that a model is simply a model; it may or may not be a solid representation of...

What if occasionally manifests as in his former shape but, instead of being composed of flesh and blood, his leaves that have fallen to the ground form a humanoid shape. As for what it is like for a tree that used to be a man, I can only imagine frustration. His lack of mobility means that he...

I think an economist would look at the actual sales being the targeted sales and say that piracy had not discernible effect on sales. An economist might also take into consideration the lost sales from not having an evergreen PDF line and/or because of the electronic distribution. I think an...

The PDF decision was clearly driven by Hasbro's lawyers. In a real business, the commercial heads would decide whether to accept or reject legal advice. I suspect that D&D is so small within both WotC and Hasbro that there was nobody with enough clout to say that pulling PDFs was a really...

Caverns of Thracia and Dark Tower were superb.

I would recommend: - Gates of Firestorm Peak (back when Bruce Cordell's name on an adventure meant it was going to be good... and also the first product dealing with the Far Realm, IIRC); - Shattered Circle (an often overlooked gem of an adventure, also written by Bruce Cordell); - Return to...

Yes, the 4.5 name wouldn't put me off. (I still see Essentials as 4.5E, particularly in terms of the revisions to monsters. Those changes plus the large amounts of errata make the current version 4.5E, IMO.)

What a surprise: it sucks. We're back to 2008 in terms of functionality, or lack thereof. Please, WotC, give me the offline builder again without the post-MMIII patch that stuffed everything up and we will part company as friends.

Well said, Merric. If I owned this company I would have Bill Slavicsek's head in a freezer box right now. The failures in communication and execution are ultimately a failure in leadership. WotC has made a habit of killing off the worker bees once or twice a year; this time they should aim for...

Well it's 23 March 2011 in Singapore and either I have missed the news that the Monster Builder is available or I have won my bet. I think I will double down on my bet. Any takers?

Horrid. It's not even large enough to be called a delve and it seems to be aimed at mid-paragon levels just to fill a slot in the schedule rather than because it's two-thirds of a paragon delve. I think I will just read the Demonomicon article again: I really enjoyed that.

For your goblin example, how I handle it would depend on what role the goblin played. Firstly, average damage for an 8th-level monster is 16 points (L+8). The lower average damage would be 12 points and higher average damage would be 20 points (-25%/+25%, respectively). How I would handle the...