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Howdy, Planescape fan here. I like the new cosmology. Plane Below and Plane Above were a couple of fantastic books. The flavor coming out of planar books nowadays is some of the best stuff I can remember seeing in an RPG, and I look forward to the next publication. I really like what they've...

The Legacy Powers on pages 5+ of the Game Master's Fantasy Guide are out of TSR's Red Steel setting. I was one of the handful of people who played Red Steel and recognized it immediately. I checked my Red Steel Campaign book, and it seems to be copied almost word for word. Even the...

This is a complex issue for me, because I like to buy new things but I also like to complain.

It is a liquid, but it becomes solid as it cools. On the surface, the only thing hot enough to keep magma a liquid is other liquid magma. No matter how hot it gets outside, the sun doesn't melt rock. Essentially lava moves through telescoping tubes where the outer layer cools and the magma...

I didn't care for the premise of the town, and I love the book. I love it because it's a product in the vein of the Mystara Gazetteers, because it's exactly what I hoped the Fantastic Locations line back in 3E would be, and because reading it changed my mind about the premise of Hammerfast- it's...

Alchemy & Herbalists and Spells & Magic are both 3.0, very early 3.0. I didn't pick them up until much later because they were overpriced at the time at $25 for under 100 pages. I think I got them for $5 and I imagine retailers are practically giving them away now. They're worth picking up for...

Isopropyl is used to remove paint, I wouldn't use that.

Let us know how it works out if you use the dishwasher!

I frequently boiled my DDM to correct bent bases or curled weapons. The paint did not crease or relax at all. Before I repainted some dragons I also immersed them in soapy water and scrubbed with a toothbrush to get rid of mold release agent. They looked brand new right up to the point I doused...

This is a good way to kill the spirit of exploration that a sandbox invites. But GMforPowergamers, if you're having this much difficulty with a sandbox style game, maybe it isn't right for you and your group. There's really nothing wrong with that.

Defining railroading is irrelevant. Do the players want to do the adventure you lay out for them? If so, it does not matter if it's a railroad or not. Clearly they don't want to do the adventures you're offering. Make some changes. I don't know anything about your game, but personally I am not...

Wow, those are great! I thought they were only introducing a few 3D elements with the first set, but that's a whole lot, and they look nice. I'll buy 3. I'll buy 4, just to invalidate this guy!

I don't use signatures on any message board I've posted on. I think I tried them briefly when I was a teenager using EZ Boards. I also made websites with custom cursors and 20 animated GIFs on a page. I ignore your signatures, all of them. I would turn off signatures, but sometimes I read a...

Which muscle groups are represented by the Strength ability, and which ones are represented by the Dexterity ability? Dexterity allows you to move your whole body to dodge, tumble or balance, but Strength allows you to move your whole body to swing a weapon or climb a wall. Surely these are the...

So the Skill Power feat grants you a bonus power- that's great news!

Okay, I'm thinking about it. And now I'm disagreeing with you totally. When I explain the rules to people new to D&D, the way I break down Intelligence and Wisdom is to say that Intelligence is your scholarly knowledge and Wisdom is your intuition. Nobody has ever had a problem with that, or...

This is going to redeem warlocks as strikers? I see a bunch of controller rider feats with highly specific, once-an-encounter conditions. I see one or two that add a small bit of damage under highly specific conditions. I see only one that increases damage on a reliable basis, and that's an...

The added cost of skill powers guarantees that they will now never see the light of day among the folks I game with. What a waste.

The PCs in my game started with 16 as their highest score. We used the standard array, and because 4E was brand new, there was little if any number crunching going on. Some folks did not even choose a race that gave a bonus to their prime stat. At level 11 the PCs have not been defeated, have...

In many cases it's the cost. Commissions are structured by level of work and a high-quality cover art piece goes for several thousand dollars (depending on the artist). Color art without scenery is less expensive and line art is pretty inexpensive. You could probably populate a D&D book with B&W...