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As I said elsewhere, I'd rather it wasn't a part of the actual DMG itself - but I'll qualify that and add if the town description is going to take up more than 5-10 pages. If it's going to be longer than that, I think it'd be cool to make it a separate module that comes bundled with the DMG...

Depends on how much space they devote to this town. Saltmarsh occupies a rather large chunk of the DMG2, way more than the sample dungeons in the 1e DMG. Again, I don't have a problem with a sample town being provided, I just would rather it be a separate module that comes with the DMG.

I really dug Saltmarsh in the DMG2. That said, I'm not all that interested in seeing the main DMG contain a detailed starter village. It'd be cool if they bundled a separate module of the village with the DMG, but I'd rather it was not an actual section of the main DMG.

Oh, and that "points of light" thing? Awesome. I'm glad that's the default assumption. Vastly more interesting from an adventuring point of view.

I'm not seeing how you've arrived at that conclusion. All I've seen is that there will be online tools so you can play online if you want to - like, say, if you have friends who used to play D&D in the late 70s and early 80s and have scattered to the four corners of the world and the internet is...

On what basis are you making the assumption that Canadians are being portrayed in a negative light? Besides, if, as an American, I boycotted every modern or futuristic (or Western) game in which the US and its citizens are portrayed in a negative way, the list of games I'd have available to me...

I haven't been able to keep up with the news as much as I would like, but I thought the barbarian was going to be included, and I also thought the ranger was a lock. Has anyone said anything that might indicate that the barbarian (or ranger) could be "built" using the fighter or warlord by way...

Well, rationalizing it that way, then just about every single critter that uses a real-world mythological name would be original to D&D.

How about Faerie, which is well-known and accessible to newbs? Regardless, it's a fairly minor thing. I don't particularly like these new names, but I cane easily call 'em what I like.

I don't know why you would, if you're objecting to Greyhawk-specific stuff. Demogorgon predates Greyhawk - and RPGs in general - by, oh, several centuries.

Three Hearts and Three Lions - good, solid fantasy adventure. The Broken Sword - Norse-based sword & sorcery that has scenes that still haunt me today. A Midsummer Tempest - Good Renaissance-era fantasy. The High Crusade - a fun romp. Aliens try to invade England during the Crusades, and an...

Give 'em stats. There are examples of gods in legend and myth being wounded, and if they bleed, they can be killed. I learned that from Conan.

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Yeah, no kidding. Marketing strategies aren't really the place to express insecurities and low self-esteem - "well, see, we're changing the game, hope you like it, we can't expect to make it better, so don't get your hopes up. But please buy it, huh? I mean, at least it'll be different." Reminds...

That's not that bad, actually. This is essentially what was done in the Lord of the Rings movies, which I felt portrayed them well in this regard. The pictures I've seen that Tolkien did of hobbits seem to indicate that he envisioned hobbits as, naturally enough, half-sized humans. The main...

Yeah, no kidding. And I like the delver. It fills a niche - where do all those caverns and tunnels come from, anyway?

The first one seems about right to me. Put her and the guy with the sword on a flat surface, and while she'd be shorter, she'd be about average for a human, which is what I assumed her to be. The second I assumed was a 4e version of Lidda. This case seems to be an issue with perspective - I...

I missed that. That's very interesting. I'm interested in seeing how this will work.

Sounds reasonable to me. They might provide several examples of how to build a character to be something that was once covered by a Prestige Class.

There's a lot of truth in this. Time changes a lot of things - it reveals things that were hidden, and gives new perspectives on just about anything as experience and insight grow and develop. Remaining static and never learning from the past are unnatural states for humans.