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It's true, I only skimmed the adventure (although I plan on reading it fully because it looks quite good). I only chose him because I saw he had Toughness listed in his stat block. Toughness, along with Iron Will, Weapon Focus, and a few others are things that as a DM running the NPC I'll never...

There's always been a real underlying push at WotC/TSR since long before 3E regarding standardization: that something like a stat block has to be universal, and every time you present a new NPC, you've got to use the standard stat block. It's the idea that complete is better than easy to use...

And I don't. While I haven't read any of John's reviews, I've heard about them here and thus understand that he's great with stats. And that's cool. I'm not trying to slam anyone with my attempt at humor. Rules are rules and they should be followed unless there's a good reason not to...

I hear you, but I'm a "right tool for the right job" kind of guy. In an adventure encounter where I'm probably just going to run this guy in a fight with the PCs, I want it as streamlined as possible. If I want a fully-fleshed out NPC, I'll get an NPC book like the Rogue's Gallery. Yes. Yes I do.

Basically, no. This came up in 3rd Edition design. Twice, actually. And we considered it very strongly. But we ruled it out because we were afraid it would be perceived as a really big change (when in fact it really isn't). It's easy for me to look at things now and say we should have done it...

I think the way to approach this (and the way I do approach it in products I write, and my own campaign) is not to look at it like, "this person is powerful or influential, therefore they need to be high level," but rather to look at how they got to be powerful or influential. If they worked...

Yes. (You'll be hearing more about that really quite soon.)

Well, that was indeed the point of the piece that the quote was originally taken from. In the old days, TSR focused on modules and sold a boatload of them. Then they put less focus on them, and they stopped selling, and ever since "adventures don't sell." My point, ultimately, is that while we...

That's a very interesting point. I could quote parts of the DMG to you that would refute that statement, but that would be lame because regardless of what it actually says that's not what you, the reader, came away with, and that's actually the important thing. I'm sorry you came away with that...

To answer the original poster, no, I don't think we've lost the dungeon at all. I think it's alive and well. The quote attributed to me was taken slightly out of context. The piece it was taken from wasn't suggesting that we'd lost the dungeon but was referring to the fact that during 1st...

Chaositech has a template for doing something like this. So does Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary, which I also really like.

I'd say don't buy it. You already have everything in that book. The only reason to consider it would be if you needed two copies of it for some reason (maybe a player needs a reference--but even then, it's most DM info anyway, so...)

Glad you guys like them. They are good conversation starters. For what it's worth, my wife is selling the last one on Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2545&item=5189370601& She's got some other cool stuff up this time (she does an Ebay sale every year) including...

Hmm. I'd be interested to know who. (Just for curiosity's sake, I guess.) I'm also guessing that unless there are special circumstances, from the POV of the rest of the industry, any WotC property is probably going to be priced "prohibitively."

I agree. It's pretty nifty.

I was playing in Chris Perkins' amazing D&D campaign a few years back, and we were supposed to rescue this dwarf that knows some important stuff from a medusa sorcerer. We only discovered that he was held by a MEDUSA by rushing in, fighting a lot of grimlocks, and then we see her coming from...

In my opinion, not so well. Or at least, not with any kind of equality. But it's up to them, and for the most part they don't seem to mind. They've all gamed for so long, and been a part of enough who-gets-what arguments that they'd rather get treated unfairly than argue and get what they want...

Well, you're absolutely right. It fits into Middle Earth about as well as trying to fit Han and Chewie swooping in with Millenium Falcon to help out in the movie Apollo 13. But once you're past that, it is indeed a wonderful (extremely high level) RM module. It's heavily influenced by Zelazny's...

Nope, sorry. Early on in the design process, we divided the skills (still called proficiencies at this point) into three categories, creatively called A, B and C. A skills were background skills, like shipbuilding or shoemaking. B skills were adventuring skills, like climbing, lockpicking, or...

That's very cool. I have a photocopy of this, but not the real thing. I did, however, park my car for about 3 and a half years on top of where most of them are buried. And I do have a copy of the similiarly trashed-just-before-it-was-released Champions module, Wings of the Valkyrie.