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Personally, I wish WotC would start emphasizing races that have the personality traits of hardworking thirtysomething nerds with families and adult responsibilities. Maybe some kind of dwarf, but instead of drinking mead and killing orcs, they worry about their aging parents and mortgage...

The "point," of course, was to replace one idea with a better idea. Whether it worked or not remains to be seen, since we're probably only talking about a few lines in a book none of us have read yet. I'm not sure that the old-model aasimar really fit in the new cosmology, since angels have...

Maybe that's tied into the cycle of reincarnation, too --- you move up the hierarchy as you learn and evolve. So between the reincarnation and the name "deva" our aasimar suddenly seem rather Hindu in flavor. I like it. It brings a different cultural flavor to the game, and it's more...

From the Wizard's boards, re: the FR Player's Guide: "Official word: aasimars have been renamed as 'Devas.' In the Realms at least, they are perpetually reincarnated after they die." Yay! Player's Guide to the Realms has shipped.. Should have it monday or tuesday. - Page 3 - Wizards Community...

By the hammer of Thor, the first FR book has a street date of TODAY, and you've already concluded that it's "seemingly unpopular"? The Realms, as I understand it, will contain within it everything that's in your 4.0 PHB. Dragonborn, warlocks, slightly taller halflings, etc. Because the...

Hey, this RPG design stuff is easy! I remember there was a d20 pulp project (which never saw daylight) that was going to have as its classes the Man of Mystery, the Man of Action, and the Man of Science. I always liked that. Can't quite make it work for the SAGA classes, though --- I guess...

Glad to see you back at work, Gneech. Now what you need to do next is a Cliffhangers SAGA, for the Indiana Jones / Mummy type stuff. And the darn thing writes itself, you know. Tweak the skill list, use your Swords & Sorcery mechanics for the sorcery, drop the Jedi, and maybe rename a few...

I think the Star Wars SAGA rules are a pretty good engine for d20 Modernish stuff. I tooled around a little bit with an adaptation that used the four classes from Alternity --- Diplomat --- similar to the SAGA noble Free Agent --- similar to the SAGA scoundrel and scout Combat Spec ---...

Another point - - - I wouldn't pay JUST for access to playtest-ready crunch, but the other Dragon articles all have been quite to my liking. Also, these sort of previews are particularly handy now in the early days of 4th Edition, when there are still a lot of areas the rules haven't covered...

So young and yet so bitter, Reg. For what it's worth, this is exactly the sort of thing I'd like to see in Dragon. The community always treats every new release as something to be playtested and analyzed and discussed . . . why not do it BEFORE the new material makes it into print? I guess...

Play in their sandbox, play by their rules. Try to avoid elf porn, and you should be alright. Any game creator who is really hung up on artistic integrity can make up their own damn game, right?

Loved it. My favorite game when I was 15. I only played SI, particularly with the Commando sourcebook. Did a lot of late-80s ninja / vigilante / Vietnam vet on a mission kind of stuff, which twenty years later all sounds goofy yet intriguing. Char gen was on a point buy system that in...

Welcome to the boards. Nope, no rules for sleeping in your armor, failing to brush your teeth, repairing your shield after combat, or how to take out a loan. Also no rules about not sleeping outside in the rain. Personally, I think insisting your PC sleeps in armor might lose you a healing...

Oh, good point re: powers. I like primal = rites.

Shadow = mysteries Ki = techniques Psionic = disciplines Primal = powers Elemental = invocations

I think that anything that makes your warlock look like an idiot instead of a master of strange infernal/fey/cosmic powers is probably pretty dicey. But whatever you can pester your DM into, I guess. While the idea of sacrificing a "worthy" but helpless foe to trigger powers makes a certain...

Raised by his grandfather, a respected if minor scholar based in Candlekeep, Tobias was blessed with a keen intellect and a voracious appetite for knowledge. He took a special interest in the adventurers who frequently consulted his grandfather, and absorbed every detail of their tales of...

You buy five at a time.

I have no problem accepting the idea that a battle-tested hero has all sorts of inner reserves and intangible qualities and general mojo that let him pull off incredible feats when the pressure is on. I also like the idea that anyone who is roleplaying a "sickly wizard" is probably not going to...

"Lack of communication"? Not a day goes by without some new info. There are blogs, there are playtests, there are preview books. In this day and age, it's amazing that they are ABLE to keep such a tight lid on things, but I don't see this as a bad marketing strategy.