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I like this theory. And much more plausible than it's all a joke.

Brilliant! It's like Mad Libs. Cool Adjective, Cool Animal Name, Cool Verb. Awesome Donkey Bash! Shimmering Werehog Slam! Mystical Monkey Grapple! Burning Sphinx Eyegouge!

Wow. There is a part of me that thinks we could be being put on. You have to admit, that would be a pretty funny gag. Could WotC be screwing with us? If one were to intentionally try to make up a ridiculously cheesy ability name, I'm not sure most people could come up with an entry as good as...

Yeah, the conversion rules apply to conversions of WotC IP. I can't Open material that I don't control the rights to. (I do have Open materials on the site, but I have been careful to clearly designate what is and isn't Open.) I started doing the WD conversions because that material seems to...

Unfortunately this isn't open content, but for the curious, Roger Moore did a nifty AD&D 1e version of the rusalka for White Dwarf magazine. I posted a 3e conversion on my website: http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/rusalka.htm

Given WotC's struggles with transitioning the magazines to an online format, I have to wonder if perhaps their original plan was to just let Dungeon and Dragon rest in peace and to instead gradually, maybe over the next year or two, phase in the new digital initiative as a completely different...

I'm not sure, but I think that was only for the first year or so. Hasn't he been full time with Wizards since 2003 or 2004? But it brings up an important point: the Paizo era wasn't exactly monolithic. I think they had just picked up Dragon when the magazine went "player's only" with disastrous...

Something pulled from Paizo's slush pile is NOT the same thing as a Paizo finished product. Not even remotely close. For that matter, something written by a Paizo staffer is not the same thing as a Paizo finished product. I figure editing makes up at least a quarter to a third of an article...

Well, I haven't had a chance to download your Dungeon adventure yet (and I'm sure it is excellent), but even if it were the greatest thing on planet earth, ever, it still wouldn't make up for all the other problems Patrick (and others) have outlined. And why haven't I yet downloaded a free...

I thought one of the new design paradigms was to try to get monsters back to their "real" mythological roots? I seem to remember a couple of monster redesigns where familiar in-game abilities were being jettisoned in order to bring the monster more in line with their "traditional" depictions...

Very nice, and not on my radar before. Any other suggestions? I am particularly interested in some fey-related prestige classes (maybe something like a "Faerie Knight") as well as something for making traps (like a "Kobold Trapmaster").

Are there any good, OGL monstrous prestige classes kicking around? The old Monster's Handbook had a few neat ones, including a giant rock thrower and an undead master class. Any and all recommendations welcome.

Ah, good old Hecatoncheires -- how could I have forgotten thee? I'm not sure that ability was updated to 3.5, but I'll check my ELH later. But in using that ability as a start, how does this look: Superior Multiweapon Fighting (Ex) A paigoel fights with a melee weapon in each hand. The paigoel...

The paigoel demon from Green Ronin's Book of Fiends is the horrific fusion of several dead adventurers, a ten-handed monster that wields 10 weapons with no penalties. Its Melee line reads "Melee 10 weapons +16 (2d6+5 or by weapon type)." Obviously, it doesn't follow the 3.5e rules for monsters...

Let me add my own voice to the chorus: this adventure rocks. On toast. If you remember the classic 2e adventure "Kingdom of the Ghouls" from Dungeon 60, "Empire" is just as good and in some cases even better. I wove in elements from "Empire" into a 3.5e conversion of "Kingdom," and the pieces...

I've been posting a lot less, but not so much because I feel strongly pro or con on 4e at this time (I feel rather agnostic right now -- I grok the avowed goals of the revision, though I've been pretty underwhelmed by WotC's marketing efforts and am downright skeptical of the whole Digital...

I know Illumians suck, but the only things I know about elans are what's in the SRD -- and it's almost completely fluffless. There's a brief mention of their past lives, but nothing else. What WotC book would be the best fluff primer on this race? And has any industrious third party developed...

The old Dungeoneer's Survival Guide described the aboleths as building floating cities that drifted through the underdark seas and which could rise or submerge beneath the surface at will -- it doesn't seem like a stretch to imagine them building some sort of tower, and this backstory would...

How does Paizo get around this in their Pathfinder products? All monsters, for example, have a citation line showing the source. To me, this practice is extremely beneficial to all parties: the source company gets their product pimped, while the "sourcing" company gets to use open material...

In addition, many monsters from MMII have received significant revisions in various and sundry 3.5e books. Many devils and demons got makeovers in the Fiendish Codex, and several aberrations were updated in Lords of Madness. The revisions to the grell, for example make it a much easier monster...