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I grew up in the Southeastern U.S. (Charlotte, NC) and played D&D in a friend's basement regularly from 1989 to 1993. Granted, his house was built into a hill and one wall of the basement opened onto the outside, but it was an unfinished room with a concrete floor, and they called it "the...

I'm down to two, maybe three hours a week, on the weeks when enough folks can get together to play. Everybody in my group is over 30. We all have (at least) full-time jobs. Half the players have small children. It's pretty common for one or more of us to have some scheduling conflict on game...

I DM'd a fight between an Ancient Red Dragon and the Tarrasque for a buddy's bachelor party,

Can anyone tell me where the link between Neogi and Clockwork Horrors comes from? I'd be interested in reading more about it.

I don't recall any connection between the Neogi and the Clockwork Horrors in Spelljammer. I don't recall any connection between them in 3.X either. To my recollection, Clockwork Horrors have always been fairly generic, "OMG, this Monster wants to eat everything!!!" To the extent they had a...

I do not like Canon, and I approve of Change for the Sake of Change. I welcome our new demonic spider overlords.

Upsides. 1. Pdf's are easy to store because they don't take up physical space, and they don't use significant amounts of computer memory. 2. Pdf's don't wear out the same way physical books do. Every time I open my copy of I6, it gets a little closer to oblivion. A pdf of I6 will last as...

I think this is a little less clear cut. "Experiment" in the context of D&D wizards usually means something less like "using the scientific method and a rigorous control group to test the validity of a hypothesis" and more "summons demons" or "stitches together corpses" D&D wizards look more...

One of the reasons I'm curious about the topic is because my idle speculation is that the thought process went more like this: 1. Draw out a diagram with space for 16 outer planes based on alignment. 2. Fill in the diagram with mostly classical references that relate more or less to the...

"Buffer planes" is a term Corathon used above to refer to the outer planes located between the outer planes that correspond to the 8 alignments. In other words, The Seven Heavens are LG. Elysium is NG. In between are the Twin Paradises/Bytopia, which are LNG. Why do that? Did Gygax, or...

I did a little digging after lunch. (Un)Reason's Dragon Magazine thread mentions an article from the July 1977 issue (Dragon #8) as containing "the first proper map of the planar cosmology." He doesn't mention who wrote it or go into too much detail about the contents. I'm particularly...

The Great Wheel cosmology was around for a long time. I'm curious about its history. When it was first published? Who came up with it? Why did they decide to split 9 alignments into 17 outer planes? Anybody out there have any insight?

Imagine a box full of squabbling goblins . . .

Whatever happened and whoever is right or wrong, you are making yourself look foolish and you should stop.

I'm pretty sure you can find the rules for ranger animal companions in the Character Builder. I remember looking for them, finding them either in the CB or the Compendium, thinking that what was online had to be incomplete, looking at the full rules in Martial Power and realizing there was...

I am the party meatshield. Int is my dump stat. Summoned creatures and telekinesis are for poncy wizards. Subtlety and pitons and ropes are for elves, and elves screw trees. You don't screw trees, do you? DO YOU? Yer goddam right I pull the chain. What next?

Huh. I'd like to see what that looked like. IMO, because playing over a VTT requires sacrificing facial expression and body language (and to a some degree vocal tone and timbre), a good map and tokens are vital. My instinct is that putting a flat token into a 3D environment would take me too...

I won't argue that it's either fun to read or well-written. However, IMO, it reads like it would be a blast to play, which seemed close enough to the OP's purposes for me.

Rifts. Reads like: Super, gonzo, sci-fantasty mashup. Be a dragon allied with the last scions of Atlantis and team up with space cowboys to fight Vampires in Mexico! Shoot lasers at wizards! Plays like: Kludgy, unbalanced, frequently vague rules + power creep worse than the Complete Book of...

Do you mean the user could create 2D tokens or 3D tokens? You may be right. To my recollection, WotC hadn't settled on what they were going to do, and a number of different pricing models were floated around. I was under the impression that they wanted to sell 3D tokens separately and were...