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The WOTCspeak that gets me is "warmage". Obeying the rules of real english, my mind always interprets it as what you get when you lie down next to a fire.

Ack. Please say there are no "dragonborn", "eladrin" or "warlords" in there, I was considering buying this one.

OWAH TAGOO S..<cough cough cough> Right. There. I said the words. I'll be going, now. Bye.

On a somewhat Douglas Adams slant, how about the Church of the Return of Fnargh Moorh? Based around the idea that one day (maybe soon, maybe tomorrow!), Fnargh Moorh will return, and involves furious debates on what time that will be, exactly what it is that will happen when he does, and how...

I don't see anywhere in that post where it was suggested they were. All that was said was that a staff member proposed it and it was dismissed. How do you know?

I've read (or at least attempted to read) First Fantasy Campaign. It's like a bunch of whimsical DM's notes, complete with squiggles of dragons attacking castles, and information presented in an ad hoc kind of manner. It's not clear if Arneson and Judges Guild just wanted to publish his...

For a moment I had to ponder what you meant. Then the answer came to me like a bolt from the blue, like Athena sprang from Zeus' forehead, with clangor of cymbals and devastating chorus of the very Seventh Heaven's sound: Dragonboobs. O brave new game that has such things in't! Verily...

Contemporary examples? Costumes with demon horns and tail, Hollywood depictions of Lucifer, or Buffy/Charmed demons, maybe, but all these are fully fledged demons in concept, not hybrids. And the tiefling look is very stylised in an ungeneric way. Dragonmen I'm kind of struggling to think of...

I get the impression that changes to the implied setting like dragonborn and tieflings are their attempt to do that, to "contemporary fantasy"-ise the game to "what the kids are into these days", and many sacred cows were slaughtered in an attempt to fob off the D&D traditions and identity in...

Well, maybe they're preparing to sell the D&D brand. When I first read about this news it was something that sprang to mind as a possibility.

Ha, you're one to talk when it comes to that. I've posed questions but you've just ignored them. But hypocrisy is overcriticised. I'll answer my questions before commenting on your answers if you agree to answer them also, before commenting on mine. Then maybe we can have a constructive...

No Imaro, it is you who consistently cites stuff usually found in adventures (e.g. encounters, which aren't found in worldbuilding outside of the Wilderlands or maybe a rare book like 2E's Shadowdale book in the FR boxed set, and the exceptions prove the rule) as "worldbuilding." Your entire...

Not true enough a statement to be worth making. Many oldschool games can be traced directly in the nature of their weirdness, in joke silliness or way-out-there-ness to the magic items, the monsters, and the spells. When these are reined in too much for reasons of balance, redundancy, obscure...

This is usually termed adventure design, if you can actually interact with it. Will you please define terms and answer those questions, because discussing worldbuilding with you is a waste of time unless we know what you want it to mean.

And this is why this conversation with you is pointless until you define what you mean by "worldbuilding". To me, hooks = adventure design, sites populated at encounter level = adventure design, machinations and plots that will actually impact play = campaign arc design. I'm pretty sure that...

Imaro, we've got 30 years of evidence, the failure of TSR as a company, and edition-sized "anti-fluff" backlashes that suggest you're wrong. You can continue to stick your head in the sand on this issue, but no amount of worldbuilding you do will create a campaign players can actually play...

Part of the beauty of S&W is that any rules you don't like can just be deleted from the .doc file and replaced with what you want. Part of the design philosophy is giving the game back to the hobbyist gamer. If you have the will, just highlight the to hit table section of the rules, hit...

This has nothing do so with what I said. To reiterate, macro-level setting material for it's own sake is unlikely to impact play enough to justify the time and effort many DMs spend on it. But it can be rewarding in itself, even if it is often an inefficient use of prep time in terms of...

Calling someone petty is playing the man and not the ball. Of course it was an ad hominem attack, you're not trying for understanding here, just calling the other side names when you can't make sense any other way.

And another thing... For those campaigns saddled with someone's insistence on a choice of a freaky monster PC race, it's not unreasonable to expect the other PCs to attack it on sight if it has no place in the setting, and/or looks like a monster. This actually happened with a shortlived...