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Agreed, agreed, and agreeeeeeed! I think that WotC seriously chickened out on alignment. They removed it entirely from game mechanics, and in most of the game, if something didn't serve a game mechanics purpose, they left it out of the game. They didn't with alignment because they didn't want...

It looks like someone tried to make Neo a D&D rogue. Freaky. At least they didn't name him Sneaky McGothpants. But it's close.

I'd seriously consider going for the nWoD and Requiem. True, you'll need the core World of Darkness book for the basic game rules, but nWoD does for WW's system what d20 did for D&D: it provides a simple core mechanic... perhaps even more so than d20 did. (And the core rulebook is fairly cheap...

I think half-orcs are an artifact of compromise between wanting to play monstrous races and maintaining the heroic fantasy D&D flavor, made somewhat obsolete by increasing ECL options in 3.x and then even more obsolete by the PC race construction in 4e. I don't think they have as much of a...

I have to agree. The person is either deranged and logic-impaired, or intentionally disruptive because he's trying to find a way to "win" at a cooperative game, and even then that sounds somewhat sociopathic. The thing is that it can't possibly be "their time" to die every time a PC loses hit...

Yeah, the second edition of oWoD Mage was kind of ridiculous by the time the player's guide came out. It's pretty sad when you've got power creep in a game where you've already got the power to do potentially anything. Wait. What were we talking about again?

Edit: I just checked the reference re: Valley Elves in a Dragon magazine from 1982. Still, it seems like an absurd amount of the subtypes came from FR. Looking into the article that gave me the reference you were making, on wikipedia, more than half of the page is "Elves in the Forgotten...

I would say that the best theory around is the proliferation of elf sub-races: Grey Elf, Moon Elf, Golden or Sun Elf, High Elf, Dark Elf, Wood Elf, Wild Elf, Aquatic Elf, Half-Elf, and so on. That's enough to give anyone nightmares. I was happy with the treatment of elves in fourth edition...

I'd go with this, having the person's spoken name in the jar gives them power over that person, with the merchant-being either working for a major upcoming enemy or selling it to the major upcoming villain. The villain got a prophecy that their plans would be foiled by the character, and so...

In one of my first campaigns I ever tried to run, when I was in high school and admittedly not a very good DM, I had a player who did this. Every female character, whether it was someone's mother or the queen mother, became a target for his advances and lewd remarks. We were playing a fairly...

You really have to pick and choose which region of Kalamar you're using carefully. They're diverse enough to have different flavors. (The naming conventions also differ from region to region for those having trouble.) Find an area you like and consider it a campaign setting in its own right...

Are the pirates at sea, docked, or on dry land?

I keep seeing everyone in discussions about this comic saying "still, a year in the comic is a long time." But it's not one full year, it's before the end of the year currently in progress, isn't it? Any time before the end of the year. We had the celebration of a new year at least a few...

See the last paragraph I just wrote directly above. Since we're seeing PHB2 sooner than expected, we'll likely also see that same accelerated schedule continue. As I said, we might see psionics roughly around the time we expected them, just not in the book we expected. I doubt they'll hold...

Depending on what the classes in PHB2 actually are, this allows them to release the power sourcebooks on a faster schedule. You don't want to put out an arcane power sourcebook when you're sitting on an arcane class that a lot of gamers will want to play, but won't be out until PHB3 because...

Unless Burlew changes what happens when someone gets resurrected in this setting, then unless Julia can see Roy, and Roy realizes this and finally goes to Julia and tells her everything he's learned so that she can tell him when he's alive again, the reset button may very well still be in place...

The setting I'm working on both heightens some aspects of the Points of Light (or as I put it, lights in the darkness, or candles flickering in the night, which both sound less modern to me) and downplays others. 4e makes me alternately want to color in the pages of the world they describe...

I guess I just never thought about it, or assumed that in the core books they gave people different ethic appearances so that the art could fit into any campaign world or setting. Although I had an early 2e boxed set for Forgotten Realms, it never really interested me all that much. Most of...

This is more fluff than anything, but I did make a "Holy Assassin" out of a rogue with Initiate of the Faith. I don't suppose that's very 'sexy' in terms of crunch though... hmm. You take Divine Oracle as a paragon path with the Rogue / Cleric for an extra roll for initiative, use whichever...

Wow. That's... fast. It looks like they did what I was hoping they would do, and put off psionics until they could give them a fuller treatment. But not to fear, at this rate PHB3 could be out in the following October. Weird. It will be nice to get Arcane Power, though. Edit: What's the...