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For me, the issue is not whether they have weak spots, but whether the rogue has learned them. Flesh golems and most undead, fair enough, but tell me where you'd attack an animated oak table with a dagger to earn a sneak attack!

But thank you for doing so. Next time I'll include height, weight, and number of dependents. Frankly, I'd be interested to see the results!

I'm beginning to feel that these sorts of concerns (which are also mine) will turn out to be totally out of context. I think we're getting something with a D&D chassis, but a completely new engine beneath the hood. It will be like worrying over the decrease of magic items in Traveller, or...

I would say it's the opposite of a high-powered campaign, because the heroes aren't head and shoulders above their peers until later levels. As you say, it gets out of hand if the town guard is composed entirely of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level classes, but I think it's fine to have a guard captain...

A good suggestion. I loved the style of Shadows of the Spider moon, and I wish it had been expanded into a full book. I want to create a terrestrial setting which is more concerned with, for example, the underdark than outer space, but it's a good place to start.

When D&D players die, the secrets of the universe are revealed unto them. They see creation in its entirety and realise their fundamental role in the time and space, the purpose of their life and the future of all. When they have absorbed the grand complexity of being, and are ready to...

Well, their MM status is still a gnome unknown. I'm no echo gnomist*, but I hear the book will be expensive. In times like these, every centaur two counts. And apparently the pages will be numbered with gnoman rumerals. With 4E goblin up gnomes, D&D humour will be in poor elf...

Thanks for that, Pell-mell. Those are exactly the challenges I'm struggling with, evildmguy. I'm looking for a steampunk feeling and style, if anyone can recommend something in that vein. I had a look, but it's still got the cross-over-of-worlds thing I'm trying to avoid. That is, the...

Amen. I think also that the perceived danger of a PoL world is dependent on the psychology of the inhabitants. The consensus of the commoners may be that vile dangers lurk constantly outside the palisade wall, and the campaign can reflect that fear, but the world's reality may be far milder...

To me, at its most basic, PoL means that humans and their civilised ally races are dominant, but only barely. An average settlment can see off a raiding party of humanoids, while a full-fledged city may have to deal with an army massed against it every decade or so. In such a setting...

Or similar. For some time I've been searching in vain for a modern-fantasy campaign setting. I've looked at Dragonstar, Shadowrun, and Urban Arcana, but none of them float my boat. So, my question is: what would the Forgotten Realms look like with the tech level ramped up a bit? I’m thinking...

I don't quite know the story, but I understand there was some extreme nastiness in the past over a D20 conversion. Threats of litigation and such. Perhaps someone else can link to a thread or article.

It often seems that way, because their are many large cities and the sourcebooks tend to focus on them to the exclusion of wilderness ecologies. In fact, FR is very much a points-of-light setting. Take a look at the main map. On the trails represented by dotted lines, a day's travel by horse...

Ah, what a nice page number to finish on during a religious festival.

Cool. But only if I can play a ratling sniper!

I've really wanted to like gnomes, but can't find the right flavour. I actually think they're better suited to D20 Modern campaigns, where their technical aptitude and physical toughness would make them great special forces/sniper characters.

A merry Christmas to all on ENworld. Merry Christmas to the mods, who've done it tough under the onslaught of presumptive 4E opinion, but managed to keep the place civil when others were foaming at the bit. Merry Christmas to those with whom I've had fiery, opinionated exchanges, and those...

Leafing through some Forgotten Realms materials, I notice that the population of communities has roughly doubled between 2e and 3e. The Realms is currently full of small cities with populations ranging from 6000 into tens of thousands. For a points-of-light setting, what should the population...

Does that mean 4E will have a horribly micro-managed combat system where players sit around saying, "um, I'll dodge that super-fast punch coming at me. No, wait...parry! On reflection, I parry, I get a better bonus that way." For the record, I love Rifts as a setting, but Palladium just...

I would have liked an option for "convert characters to 4E and keep going". Or, better yet, "convince players to convert to C&C and keep going", but that's probably a very small minority vote.