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The advertisement is badass. It is obviously aimed at the same demographic as Metalocalypse and similar Adult Swim cartoons -- men in their mid-20's to mid-30's who probably don't have much first hand experience with the D&D of the mid-1980's. Also, the advertisement is badass.

Start small and think locally. It is a much wiser use of your time to map out the area within 75 to 100 miles of where the PC's will begin play than it is to map out a country, continent or globe. Likewise, it is more important to know the NPC's (friendly and unfriendly) that the PC's will...

It's almost always something of a hassle. Possible ways to do it. 1. Eyeball it. The exact height of the flying creature is relatively unimportant. The most important question is whether or not the PC's and the flyer can melee with each other. Unless one side or the other has reach, melee...

In my current 4E game, I use wandering monsters and random "events." "Events" are deliberately vague, things like "Make a DC: X endurance check or lose a healing surge." "Attack +X v. Fort or take a -2 to hit until you complete an extended rest." The idea is that when these events come up, I...

I'm going with Portshrieve or Bondmaster. I'm not at all interested in the pissing contest over the OED. Can the mods close this thread please?

There are 3 main "good" religions in my homebrew. 1. The Great Church. Organized around the sacred triad of Dadga, Lugh and Birgit. Take the names of the Celtic deities from Legends & Lore, mix in pseudo-medieval faux-Catholicism, and add a dose of Southern Baptist for flavor. 2. The...

Thanks for the replies. As I said in the OP, "Harbormaster," "Dockwarder" and the like aren't quite what I'm looking form. "Portitor" is more what I had in mind. Some background: Two weeks ago, the PC's in my campaign resolved a blood feud in their hometown with some crafty political...

What would you call the official responsible for overseeing shipments into and out of a harbor, keeping the dockside in good repair, and collecting necessary taxes and tariffs on imported goods? I could have sworn there was something directly on point in either the First or Second Edition DMG...

Wasn't Games Workshop in pretty serious financial trouble a few years ago? Have they been able to pull themselves together?

Compare any edition of D&D to Warhammer FRP 1st or 2nd edition (I haven't played WRFP 3d.) I suggest that the various editions of D&D are all more similar to each other than they are to Warhammer. I further suggest that the differences between any edition of D&D and Warhammer are greater...

We may be coming at the issue from different directions. If I understand the term "social unity" in your post, it's something that I take for granted in the game. In other words, if I'm playing in a game with a Mind Flayer, a Death Knight and a Hobbit, I assume the players of those PC's will...

I almost omitted "pseudo-European, faux-medieval" from my description. I DM'd a very satisfying Spelljammer campaign that lasted about 4 years, and I've got the 4E Darksun campaign guide on my coffee table at home. I kept "pseudo-European, faux-medieval" mostly because of D&D's reliance on...

I'm posting when I should be working, so forgive me in advance if this doesn't make as much sense as it should. w/r/t Point 1. I won't dispute that you can use D&D to play a ghost, vampire, Kaiju, or disembodied intelligence. I don't think the game handles these options very well, because (a)...

Dungeons & Dragons is a game where essentially humanoid PC's enter confined spaces and risk hand-to-hand combat with terrible monsters. It assumes a pseudo-European, faux-medieval setting. The more you deviate from this model, the less support you will have from the published rules. With...

Take a look at some of the traps in the compendium. Dart Trap (lvl 1) Perception DC 20: The character notices the dart firing mechanism. Perception DC 25: The character notices a trigger stone. Pendulum Scythes (lvl 4) Perception DC 17: The character notices thin slots in the floor. Perception...

First: I'll believe it when I see it. "I know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy" is pretty unpersuasive. Further, WotC has pretty much committed itself to the notion that, Spelljamming happens in the Astral Sea, not in space. I'd be very surprised if they put out anything like the 2E...

I agree 100%. If WotC hadn't pumped up their vaporware they way they did, the conventional wisdom would be "Their electronic support is awesome!"

It's a design decision. In 3.X "exotic" can mean one of two things w/r/t weapons. The first group of Exotic weapons are mechanically superior to equivalent martial weapons. The Bastard Sword falls into this category. You wield it one-handed like a longsword, but it does more damage than a...

I wouldn't pay 6 bucks a month for the e-zines. Dungeon seems to be mostly short, low-level, delve-style modules. I'm not even sure what's in Dragon anymore. Whenever I go to WotC.com, I see a bunch of preview stuff that WotC should be paying me to read and a bunch of little "Class Acts" type...

What does my ENWorld name mean? It's in my status. Stoat: The common Holarctic ermine (Mustela erminea) especially in its brown summer coat.