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I did exactly this with a continent of my homebrew back in the 3.5 days. I noticed how many homebrews based nations around particular character races so I did it for classes instead. Most of the players really got into the idea of representing a particular nation by their choice of class. I had...

Sorry I wasn't clear. I should have said, "negativity in D&D and among D&D players." We're almost a year into the new edition, and I still hear people complaining about how dragonborn have never been in D&D before and druids should've been in the first Player's Handbook and so on. And as far as...

In all fairness to editors... Many times, it's not their fault. It's usually the director or the DP. They don't want to pre-visualize or storyboard, they just want to show up the day of on the set and figure out how to shoot it when the production is spending multiple thousands of dollars per...

I hear a lot of players criticizing everything Wizards of the Coast does, ranging from the choice of fonts for the core rulebooks to the tiniest minutiae of rules. How dare these greedy corporate money-grubbers try to get our money by making a product that we enjoy immensely! The shame! I get...

You know, I never really thought about it until you pointed it out, but that's a very relevant observation. It's a very distinct method of expanding the setting that I haven't seen done in many other settings.

Over the years, there have been several official and unofficial Star Trek RPGs. My personal favorite has been the FASA version from the 80's. It's difficult to find material for, but it has a very simple d% system, and it actually does a good job of portraying the 60's show and the early movies...

To me, Greyhawk's appeal is that it's far more sword-and-sorcery than high fantasy. Sure, there's alot of high fantasy elements (multiple sentient races, a cosmic struggle between good and evil, and so forth), but it's more about ancient curses, battling mighty demons and the gods themselves...

There used to be a game store in Modesto, CA called the Gauntlet. I played a vampire LARP there every weekend when I lived there, and we kept getting bozos coming in thinking that we were "sanguinarian covens" and stuff like that. Yep, people coming in literally looking for stranger's blood to...

So I'd love to get my copy of the adventure but I haven't used my RPGA number in five years. How do I find out what it is?

I actually work in the film industry, and from what I've seen, shakey cam has gotten popular (at least in part) because it's cheap. Cranes and dollies are expensive pieces of gear, so when a DP tells a production manager that they don't need one, it's music to their ears. Professional steadicam...

When I DM, I do play monsters according to their motivations... Only the most fanatical or stupid creatures battle to the death. Even moderately intelligent creatures only enter combat when they've taken every possible means of gaining an advantage. I've never had a player try Intimidate...

I've been in good gaming groups and bad (most of them good, fortunately), and the biggest thing I've realized over the years is that life is too short for bad games. If you're not having fun, get out. You're spending a considerable amount of time preparing for and playing in the game. It's...

I've been playing 4E since the day it came out, and I've felt that some monsters have too many hit points that whole time. Some combats drag out endlessly, with the characters slugging it out with the brutes and soldiers long after the artillery, controllers, or the elite have perished...

I've been using index cards for about twelve years now. It's not only fast, easy, and cheap, it also allows me to pull out cards when people delay/ready actions and track monster hit points independently. I use blue cards for PCs and write passive Perception, Insight, and defenses for each...

Whenever I run Undermountain, my players betimes run afoul of the Xanathar's chief rival for beholder crime lord, the Notorious E.Y.E. That's an ancient gag and for an NPC though, so I'm not sure that it counts. A recent South Park episode and the release of Player's Handbook 2 has inspired me...

I was also disappointed in Manual of the Planes. I like 4E, I really do, but there are still a lot of things that I don't like about it. This version of the Manual of the Planes is one of those things. I really like the fey wild and the shadow fell, but it did seem rather sparse. There were a...

Between those two formats, I definitely prefer the older, Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil type. The new format just has far too much detail in most cases--that level of detail is nice sometimes, but often, it clutters the pages with too much information. Alot of the encounters in Keep on...

Futurama truly is a rare show. It gets pretty deep for its humor at times and picks from a wide variety of academic disciplines. One of the things that I really enjoy about it is their treatment of society and politics, they include tons of jokes about these things. Like when Gerald Ford's head...

I reckon the first step in GSL Cornwood would to be finish Appendix G: List of attacks. We've already seen the results for 3, 7, and 12... Only nine more entries to complete the table! :) That'd be an awesome special feature or D&D Insider article.

Yeah, Dwight described the party's dwarf-skin canoe rounding the bend when they saw the red dragon, and evocatively described the scent of dwarf urine in the first scene. They do seem to be hard on dwarves in Cornwood. But at least there are no elves. :) So how long until someone starts working...