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I'm looking for recommendations for a Windows-compatible utility that will assist me with the following: Random NPC generation (selectable according to criteria) -- stats, classes, levels, skills, feats, equipment -- the more it does the better, although it's not essential that it do all of...

Um, nope, no it doesn't. A module could be bad for any number of reasons, but giving the DM relevant and useful information can never be one of them. Assuming that the backstory is competently done (i.e., makes sense, is consistent with the setting, and so forth), it cannot be "arbitrary"...

You can send an email to eBay pointing out that this is an illegal transaction. You should also send an email to WOTC customer service. This is what is known in the industry as "a bald-faced lie".

Bah. The old "Flying Trollkin" adventure for RuneQuest (originally published in the first edition of TrollPak for 2nd ed.; I forget which of the numerous 3rd ed. supplements it was reprinted in) requires that the adventurers pursue the trollkin into the rotting corpse of a brontosaur which the...

I'm still looking for a copy, if anyone sees one ....

Don't what them on a what? I think you mean "hoist them on a petard". And it's Ptolemy18 who has been hoist on his own petard.

There's your problem, right there. One character exiting the game giving all their possessions to another character entering the game is effectively saying "I am already dead; there is no further point to my existence. Forget that you ever knew me." IOW, you've given the player absolutely no...

Why did you feel the need to insert that second sentence? "Most DMs don't bother applying class levels and templates, because monsters ready to go straight from the book are easier to use." It doesn't imply anything about the DM's abilities. I'll often order fast food because I can't be...

It's all about being appropriate. If I'm drawing a humorous cartoon then a humorous cartoony style is perfectly acceptable. If I'm painting art designed to challenge popular perceptions of artistic style and to stretch artistic boundaries then being Picasso is perfectly acceptable. If I'm...

I expect someone drawing a human to have the end-result look like a human. I don't mind cartoony styles, but I expect some sort of passing familiarity with the shape of real-world creatures, and plausible fantastic anatomy. Our gaming group found Otus artwork to always, without fail, to be...

Oh, man. Now I have to seriously rethink my decision not to bother subscribing to Dragon. (Hey, it's expensive down here.) Now all we need to do is get "Downer" booted out of Dungeon and the line-up of comics in both mags would be just about perfect.

Um. I can only assume that those reviewers didn't have a lot of experience with high-quality gaming maps. The Midnight maps are serviceable and reasonably attractive in their own right, but they are certainly not detailed in any practical sense. Although, to be honest, the maps from Hârn have...

If you can find copies, Midkemia Press' Tulan and/or Carse (both were later published by Chaosium), and Blade's Citybook series (particularly Port o'Call, I think it was #2) could be useful to you, although none of them have a "New World" flavour. Columbia's Cities of Hârn and Son of Cities...

I'll admit that I didn't know Dragon was delivered in a carton. I always assumed it came in an envelope, but I've never been a subscriber. ;) Back on topic, this compendium looks quite decent to me. I expect I'll pick up a copy. Although I used to read Dragon regularly many years ago...

And if he doesn't want to buy it from you, I'd certainly like to make you an offer! Failing that, if anyone else has a spare copy, I'm keen to talk to you ....

I'll grant that this is more "realistic", but I don't play D&D for "realism". Life's too short for worrying about that sort of thing. As far as I'm concerned, a permitted core class is a permitted core class. If there's some problem with attaining the class without justification later, it...

The only map that 1st ed. came with was a double page spread in the colour section at the front of the book. There was no large size, fold out map, or anything like that, if that's what you were expecting. That map can be downloaded from the FFG website, incidentally. A large fold-out version...

I don't intend to buy because: (a) although I like miniatures (in general, painted or unpainted), I don't much like these miniatures; (b) I don't play DDM, and when resolving battles tend to use counters or tokens for simplicity (not to mention, some of my players think miniatures make good...

"but then how many non-Player's Handbook blackguard spells have you seen?" Since you ask: BoVD has several (unsurprisingly), but there's also a couple in the Miniatures Handbook and the Planar Handbook. (And there's lots of other books with spells in them that I don't yet own ....) :D

I warned my players in advance that if they find themselves in a life or death situation of my design (i.e., not something that they've brought down on their own heads through stupidity), they should expect to be able to defeat it. This is true of any game I run ... except Paranoia. :]...