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I voted for Planescape, because it's my favorite, but I'd really like to see any of them come back. I don't have the time/money to invest in acquiring the old materials (I started playing around the time of 3e), and I'd love to have to chance to experience them all.

To each their own, I suppose. :)

Putting the Blood War in the new cosmology seems somewhat of a stretch to me. In the Great Wheel, because of the alignment-based symmetry, it was understandable how demons and devils came into conflict: they both want to own the intervening lower planes between the Hells and the Abyss. In the...

For what it's worth, the Blood War is my favorite part of Planescape, and I've carried over the concept (if not necessarily the specifics) into more than one homebrew setting.

I didn't say it was impossible, just that it was unlikely, for a few reasons: 1) Assuming their goal is to get everyone to switch over to 4e ASAP, I doubt they'll be introducing many products that contradict the core in the near future. Eberron came out when 3e was already mature. I don't...

I find it interesting that, at the time I'm writing this, the #3 setting (Planescape) is one that's being explicitly invalidated by the new core cosmology. While it's certainly possible that they could update Planescape and just add a block saying "ignore all that cosmology stuff in the DMG," I...

I'm concerned about some of the large flavor/fluff changes that seem to be happening. I'm all for mechanic streamlining and simplification, but I'm afraid that flavor changes that are incompatible with my campaign (the changes to demons/devils, and the revised cosmology) will be deeply enough...

Then we'll have to agree to disagree, because it reads to me like gluing a bunch of stories I've already read together.

I am saying that they took elements from real-life myths and legends, and reimagined them D&D-style. That's different from just gluing them together.

Elements of the old cosmology are certainly drawn from other places, but anyone who has ever read any of the Planescape books (whether or not they liked them) will agree that it had a very distinctive portrayal of them, and of the universe in general. 3e and 3.5e inherited this depiction as...

That's exactly how psionics works IMC. To me, monks and psions are effectively the same, as are Ki and Psi. Psions are like sorcerers in that they have an in-born talent for it, while monks are those who have learned it only through discipline and training. If you've read the Wheel of Time...

Wow, this is going fun. :-) Must Buys: Exemplars of Evil - BBEGs are cool Elder Evils - ditto Rule Compendium - this sounds useful in the same vein as DMG2, which I loved Maybe Buys: MM 5 - just because it has an illithid on the cover

I updated mine a bit. Here is the updated version. Standard no-players disclaimer still applies.

Here is my 80% complete version. I'll continue to update that link as I add the finishing touches. To see the absurdly high resolution version, click the "Full Size" button. WARNING: This is the DM's map. I haven't exported a player's version, but it's pretty trivial to do.

I'd pay $100 for Planescape done Ptolus-style. Heck, even just Sigil done Ptolus-style.

I think if I were to allow the Warblade, I'd houserule its recharge to be a move action. So they're still recharging pretty fast, but without the ability to squeeze full attacks in there.

I have no idea to what extent the page's code constructs raw SQL queries, and to what extent it uses a DBA API built into PHP. If it's the latter, it's entirely possible that PHP is doing something stupid like transferring the large datasets back to the client at each step. As to stored...

That just seems like an awfully inefficient way to implement the recent posts thing. I feel like there's got to be some better way to do it. As an idea, I would suggest looking into using stored procedures (also called triggers) to fetch the most recent posts. Basically, these allow...

I just wanted to take a moment to apologize to Morrus for being a pain earlier. I was mostly just in a really bad mood at the time. In all honesty, though, this change does have a major impact on my browsing habits. I haven't been reading nearly the number of threads that I used to read, just...

We'll never know how many people care but aren't saying anything, because they don't know that this thread exists since there's no longer notification on the front page! I understand the need to keep the server load down. I've done system administration before, I helped get SSL set up for the...