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That list really runs the gamut for me; Sinking Sea, Threal, Mornstab Pass, and Sant are all fine, Muspel puts me a little in mind of Norse myth (again) and is so-so. I really like Ifdawn Marest (I'd spell it differently to player-proof it, but I like two-word fantasy place names). The rest have...

's groovy. There's a tendency to lump folks together on the internet...they're always doing that. :D Then how the hell did we get to arguing about what Tolkien named his dwarves? That's before D&D ever came out, let alone 4th edition. I stated my dislike for the names of Tolkien's dwarves from...

Well by all means, keep arguing for the crazier possibility. Alright, I'll bite, oh guardian of gaming morality. Riddle me up the answer to this dilemma. Fact #1: The 3e PHB contains identically styled drawings of a member of each PC race, one for males and one for females. Fact #2: In both...

Tee hee. Cute, but I thought Tolkien was dry and unreadable at the age where fantasy and D&D seem like the coolest things on earth, and each time I pick them up since. I also don't remember mentioning Leiber (whom I enjoy a great deal), Moorcock (whom I have sadly read little of), or Vance (whom...

That they continue to drag the mouldering corpse of uninformed* near-random* game design through the decades to placate an increasingly bitter and self-alienating group of grognards who really have no interest in the design ideals of 4e anyway, leaving us with an awful Frankenstein of new...

The prestige class equivalent theory bears water in my tiny ape-like mind; didn't they say the equivalent in 4e would be a path you take alongside (or within) an actual base class from day 1? 'Paragon path' seems as good a name as any for that.

Kalamar? Oh. You meant Dragonlance. Well, close enough.

Woe! Woe and anguish! I have been ignored by the mighty Korgoth! My world is bleak, and I despair of the sun ever rising again! How can I go on posting knowing that I'll never be able to reach him? He was my world!!!! :lol: I've been ignored by better men than you, sir, and for much better...

I stand corrected. Tolkien chose poorly in his choice of sources.

When we got started, yes, and by the time we could produce enough snacks for eight people plus mini substitutes we were used to pencil sketches and verbal descriptions and fast combats so we never got into it.

I think these will be the first modules I run, and if my players would even contemplate using minis I'd buy Dungeon Tiles and every other battlemat thing. I think they look really good, but my players don't want to play a minis game during an RPG session. We grew up gaming without minis 'cause...

I would think the point is more that Tolkien chose poorly from the assortment provided to him.

Let's accept for the moment that yes, you find it vivid. Also accepting that others find cramming a handful of historical cultural afterworlds together in a big wheel together with some places named after historical cultural afterworlds but looking nothing like them and some other completely...

This is a terrible argument in favor of the Great Wheel. "Well, sure it looks kind of silly and there's nothing really cool about it based on what it is. But if you've been following it for 25 years it's amazing! No-one is going to reprint this information, of course, so you'll really just get...

I can't imagine it mollifying anybody, since the complaints are about 4e itself rather than the Great Wheel, even if that's what they're talking about at the time. The hue and cry about the Great Wheel is either personal aesthetics or a smokescreen abuse of the "It's not D&D anymore!" rallying...

Lucky for you, that's been done.

There's a note in David Noonan's blog I notice there's been almost no discussion of: So apparently we can crit plants now, at least with fire-based spells. A minor change, but one that seemed to have gone unnoticed.

First off, LOVE IT, but you probably guessed that. Baaaaaaaaaaaaah! Secondly, I feel the two new coterminous planes, Feywild and Shadowfell (nothing but nouns in there, guys), are both solidly sword & sorcery type places as well as enhancing the points of light feel. Being mirrors of the world...

Crystalmist sounds like a no-carb drink powder. Acererak's not terrible. Ugrdu puts me in mind of Ogdru Jahad, which is never bad. God I hope I spelled that right. The rest are absolute pants, though.

I want 1, 2, and 3 to be picked, cut, dried, and pressed into blocks. A stone room is constructed with a pit of hot coals in the center; the design & dev teams are locked inside, and these blocks of inspiration are periodically added to the coals. The sweet incense is inhaled, and great things...