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I pretty much imagine that Warlord will look like someone using the White Raven school of Book of Nine Swords.

Oh man, I still have the audio CD that came with Red Steel. Don't mess :)

QFT. I think it's silly that they carefully created a point-buy system, and then gave you opportunities to just 'add one stat' regardless of point-buy value. At the very least, improving your stats through level raises should follow the same point-buy system that your initial stats did, so...

I keep saying that D&D should have displacer beast people by now, and I'm not sure whether I'm for or against them.

Don't worry, you're not the only one. Because everyone has read the MM (not that I blame them!), I almost always change up one or two special abilities, or swap some AC for Attack Bonus, or something. This is part of why I'm excited about the 4E monster design paradigm: it should make it really...

QFT. To counter the anecdotal evidence given above, I will say that I have become less of a 'whittler' as I get older, turning instead to a 'big-tent' mentality. Want to play a loxo hexblade? Sure, why not - it's no skin off of my teeth. Finding a 'place' for pretty much anything in a...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hercules_slaying_the_Hydra.jpg http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=2926 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hydra_04.jpg Don't get me wrong. I think the legless variety is better. But this is clearly not something new to D&D.

Right. My point was that its depiction in artwork is not consistent. Some of the examples on Wikipedia are hundreds of years old.

To be fair, a quick glance at Wikipedia shows that both legged and legless versions of the hydra are represented in artwork. I think of the hydra as being legless - but only because I saw an illustration like that in a book of Greek myths when I was a kid. If someone else had read a different...

I won't lie. When stuff like that happens, I change the name and the outfit and throw that f**ker right back into the dungeon, a few rooms down.

Cloverfield gave me an idea for an RPG where every single game is a one-shot, set in the same night on the same city. I mean, over a million people live in Manhattan. You could run a practically unlimited number of games without them ever interfering with each other. Or maybe you could have...

I gave an example of a PC having a debuffing skill - one that would lower the Pit Fiend's AC. I have no problem with that. But I think we just have very different styles - I think things like your stoneskin example should be the exception, not the rule. Or rather - I would prefer to see...

I guess I've reached the point of 'mechanics minutiae exhaustion' where I just don't care how much comes from 'being a devil' and 'wearing armor'. I would have no problem at all with the Pit Fiend taking off his breastplate and facing no mechanical penalty. He's a Level 26 Elite Leader, and if...

It does sound like it will go pretty fast. I could imagine it really being something as simple as, "Pick the level, category (minion/regular/elite/solo), and class (soldier/brute/skirmisher/artillery) of the monster you want to build. This gives you all the stats for the monster. If you want...

Ah. I didn't see where you were going with that. The name is indeed a funny coincidence :p Have Gun - Will Travel also shows that such a game doesn't have to be one dungeon crawl after another. Gunfighting was only one of Paladin's tools; investigation and diplomacy probably solved as many...

Huh? We were talking about Westerns where someone goes from place to place solving the local problems. Have Gun - Will Travel is one example.

Have Gun - Will Travel.

Nah - if my PCs try to escape a fight by throwing themselves off a cliff, the bad guys will just follow them down :p

If the 'official' tool is an ActiveX widget, and not an AJAX or standalone app, I will bash my head against the wall. But then, it sounds like all of the online tools are going to require Virus Explorer.

Or it could be an artifact. The article even specifically mentions this.