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Chuck Norris is nothing compared to Invisible Christopher Walken .

I ran the first session of my new Forgotten Realms campaign last night. The party is composed of all evil types who are being drawn to the north by dreams. These dreams are being sent to them by a BBEG who wants them to be his agents in the world. This same BBEG, who is currently trapped in a...

I seem to recall a certain Dragon article that came out during the 2nd edition days which dubbed Fighter/Magic-users "fusers." I think it was an April Fool's issue, but for some reason that term always stuck in my mind.

Great, now I'm gonna have that song stuck in my head all night. What about "One Night in Greyhawk?" :D </threadjack>

I learned long ago that in order to have a civil and effective arguement, there are a couple of simple tricks to keep the other party from getting defensive and angry. One of those tricks is to preface some sentences with "I feel" or "I think" or "it is my opinion that...." This keeps the...

Gnomes as they currently exist have got to go. They look funny, have funny names, and have been described as lovers of practical jokes, all of which equates to a blank check handed to troublesome players who get their jollies by disrupting games and ruining the fun of others. If 4e somehow...

Why a new edition? I want a new edition because the 3.5 ruleset is too complicated and burdensome for my tastes or the tastes of most of the people I play with. There are some things I love about 3.5 and some things I hate. My hope is that 4th edition will fix the things I hate and leave the...

If it makes sense for tieflings to be common in 4e's implied setting, then I'm all for including them in the core books. If not, then no.

It's been about ten years since I've played Fuzion, but I have good memories of it. The group used it as an expansion for Mekton Zeta, though, so there wasn't much in the way of interpersonal combat.

I've always thought it was weird that D&D was the only (that I know of, at least) RPG that was genre-specific but not setting-specific. Other generic games are 100% generic--GURPS, HERO, Savage Worlds, etc. And other genre-specific games are set in specific worlds with rules designed to...

I'm starting be my last 3rd edition campaign in two weeks. It's FR, and rumors are spreading about a dark power rising in the north. Typical "Dark Lord tries to take over the world" scenario, complete with the requisite army of orcs. The twist here is that, instead of trying to thwart the...

Quite the opposite, in fact. I was excited about third edition and as time wore on, I learned to hate the plethora of rules and micromanagement. I look forward to fourth edition the same way I looked forward to third, and to second.

It always bugged me that ogres and hill giants were the same size. Giants should be giant! I also feel that dragons should be bigger. Anything smaller than Huge should be a baby. As for the argument against fighting toe-to-toe with a giant, that's something that shouldn't be happening...

Sadly, legal issues took away the best racial slur for one of the core races: calling hobbits halflings. Half-orc: breeder, tusker, orc-spawn (they might not consider it an insult, though) Dwarf (and gnome): digger, grubber, dirt-herder, earthworm

26. Gnomes cannot have proportions similar to humans. If they did, their hands would be so small as to be incapable of grasping any weapon larger than a pencil, and their encumberance limit would be miniscule. The same goes for halflings. Both races are built like human midgets. If you don't...

I like the picture, too. I do wish the dragon was bigger, though. I never did like how small 3e's dragons were. The green dragon in this picture is what I would consider a hatchling or very young dragon. It reminds me of the Elmore pic in the beginning of the 2nd ed's PHB, where the...

Now if only someone would write such an essay explaining how spikey, odd-colored hair does not equal anime....

I mostly play humans, elves, and half-elves. Dwarves are cool, but for some reason all of my dwarf characters tend to be fill-ins or short-term characters. That could be because I've never taken the time to actually flesh out any of my dwarves. They end up being one-dimensional cariactures...

The only thing I would have to convert are stats from existing sourcebooks such as Eberron, FR, etc., and if I'm going to go through all the work to convert them, I might as well come up with new stats altogether. So while it's a bit upsetting to think that all of my Eberron and FR sourcebooks...

9. In keeping with their highly successful and wildly popular randomized miniatures line, WotC will include a sealed character card in the back of every PHB. Character creation is an optional rule listed in the DMG, players are expected to use whatever random character comes with their book...