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I hate to say it, but Mongoose has nixed the use of Mal. The sponsoring patron has withdrawn the suggestion (the major patrons from the prior project often suggest ideas for the next one --- as in this case). My apologies to all the Gates supporters. OTOH, a narrower field isn't a bad thing...

Oh, Piratecat gets a copy for free if Ghouls gets commissioned! But first, I need to see whether the ghoul votes actually turn into donations to fund the writing.

You know, I haven't really thought about print publication that seriously (too busy writing!). Part of me just wants to keep them to the very small club that funds them (less than 100 people). It's just nice to have a project that ISN'T available to everyone. If Green Ronin or Goodman or...

Zobeck reprints and expands the best bits of S&B (the Arcane Collegium, the steam golem, and the necromancer). Nope. I have a patron who swears Mongoose is willing to grant permission for their use in this venue. If not, I'll have to do some fancy footwork.

Shadow Fey Adventure The "Castle Shadowcrag" adventure is based on the shadow fey and plays heavily into that theme. It's my current patron-based project, so it's definitely not something your players will already have seen...

Hell, why not just run the Treasure Island ur-plot? I mean, with fiends and undead and dinosaurs and savages? The mutineers are fiends, the fight at the blockhouse involves savages, the island is covered with dinosaurs, and, oh yeah, the dead men on the dead man's chest? Undead men, of course...

Yep, they were no slake moths. But it's hard to beat the price. :D

Hey, so not true! The Open Design projects all use material from a wide range of companies, both the major d20 houses and the smaller PDF publishers. We even have a monster wrangler who helps keep the creatures and their licenses sorted out. It's messy (especially as some publishers don't...

Must be something in the water; there's Cityscape, city adventures, Ptolus, and just a lot of city stuff lately. And I'm guilty as well; I wrote up a guide to designing city adventures for the patrons over at Open Design. I disagree with HowandWhy99: I think city's shouldn't be treated as...

MMIV seems one possibility, but it could also be the Oculus Demon from "Gathering of Winds" in Dungeon magazine.

It's very tough to choose, but there have been dozens of outstanding new monsters in 3E. Here's my Dirty Dozen. Death Giants (MM3): Lots of flavor, and well-designed high-level foe. Devil-Bound Template (Advanced Bestiary): The whole AB is an amazing set of work, but this one stands out for...

Forget is a 3rd level spell in the Book of Roguish Luck. More like minutes than days, though.

If you don't mind sharing your questions with the world, you might also try Sage Advice in Dragon magazine. Good answers to tough questions.

If they do want to make an electronic Dragon magazine, it makes me wonder what happens to the real Dragon magazine in that case...

Be a Magpie I dunno, the Tolkien wellspring has never bothered me that much, since old JRR also borrowed liberally from those who went before. In his case, of course, that meant the Norse and the Eddas and Sir Gawain and so forth, but there's a reason it's called "the fantasy tradition" in...

Planescape - Expedition to the Demonweb Pits

Definitely! I see this happening with the Paizo Adventure Paths. The fact that their message boards provide so much feedback on those adventures helps, too.

GAH! Must... have...! Very, very cool. It's so easy to screw up the time spells, but these sound pretty interesting. The "D&D currently deftly avoids the issues" bit sounds... diplomatic. Is it just a reference to the fact that D&D no longer does the wacky 1E-style cross-time stuff like...

I'd agree that this is poor mapmaking, because it doesn't reflect the likely conditions that lead to the growth of a walled city. I suspect the reason that so many fantasy maps display all this empty is space is because the designer and/or mapper is American, and has never seen a real medieval...

Allow me to recommend World of Sulerin's monster index . They've got everything catalogued, and I mean everything. Rot Reaver =MM3 Spirit Troll = 1E FF