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There is a nice, streamlined adventure creation process; it's designed to take about 50 minutes. The idea is to introduce people to a little bit of adventure creation.

One thing of note: people who plan to actually DM that day may wish to bring along a couple of extra figs and stats for monsters in the 6-8 level range that go well with either A) worshippers of Asmodeus or B) allies of the Far Realm. Despite the claim that there are more monsters than you need...

If the Feral Spirit is integral to the character concept of the Orc Chaman, then shaman or multi-class shaman feat is important. Otherwise, I agree that Warden seems like a good fit. The far seeing ability can be added by learning rituals.

If one looks at "D&D", the real, official and definitely old-school "D&D" of almost two decades (not "AD&D"), there were dozens of high level magic-users for the armies of the biggest nations.

People interested in reading about this may wish to start with The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz. Ted Talk here: Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice | Video on TED.com

If you played Baldur's Gate 2, you know that the Harpers can be real jerks.

Exactly what I started working on right when 4E came out. But I had nowhere near the time to work on it!

Well, yeah. But most rampling creatures are pretty mindless. I think it's all about making the PCs seem like heroes. There is a trope out there about heroes hitting big beasts as they charge past.

Frankly, I can't even see the homogeneity in the mechanics. And I spent quite a bit of time looking at and thinking about the system when it first came out, not simply in order to run a game, but in order to teach a university class on RPGs that included a number of academic papers on RPGs and...

Better would be to point out that a specific rule in the 1E DMG was not how it was done in 1E. Having played 1E for years, there were very many rules that had to be abandoned or heavily modified simply for reasons of playability. The removal of level limits by race is one of the most prominent...

If it is not acceptable to let uncreative work go unrewarded, then the solution does not have to be to tie creative work to monopoly rents in the form of copyright. Only in a specific kind of state imposed systematic deviation from free exchange is downloading the content from a book equivalent...

1. Story motivation: giving self over to Shadowfell in some way 2. Different, and interesting, mechanic: striker damage builds up over time, presumably through studying or becoming more in tune with the target 3. Too lazy to look at the docs again, but I'm sure that there's at least a 3 in there. ;)

Dark Sun, with its inflated ability scores and higher level beginning came out at just the time when I could still enjoy munchkinning. I only DMed it, though.

But those egyptian swords are legitimately different. Plus, they were in Unearthed Arcana and in Young Sherlock Holmes. (Both from the same year. An annus mirabilis for the khopesh!)

Why don't you just use those old products and drop in one of the encounter groups from the MM? Or make your own with the encountrer builder. It is ridiculously easy.

Perhaps the myserious "Seeker" class will be a divine archer. Githzerai are supposed to be good at it, and they get a Dex and Wis boost.

Can they? This is up to the players of the game. The restriction of dragonmarks is a story restriction, not a rule restriction. I agree with Keith Baker on the need to change the way the dragonmarks work. As they are now, they make more sense in allowing the houses to do what they are supposed...

Reminds me of the githzerai seekers in Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark

If I ever teach another class involving gender and science, I may distribute copies of FATAL as an example of how biases in scholarship can lead to grossly mistaken conclusions.

An excellent history. I just want to make one addition. The psionicist class was introduced in an excellent issue of Dragon magazine before 2nd Edition. I wish I could remember the issue, but I can provide the following details: faerie dragons on the cover; a really neat orc related dungeon (an...