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Sure! The crunch material - monster stats and magic items for example - are presented in Pathfinder RPG formats. But the fluff - the stories, locales, and NPC descriptions - are great for almost any fantasy role-playing game. There is enough nifty content in this book that it's worth...

Regretfully, the topic of the format of the game never came up in our discussion. But I gathered that Mr. Salvatore was more involved with collaborating on the creative content end of the production - providing NPCs, locations, and adventure material - rather than on the playstyle of the game.

http://www.neuroglyphgames.com/rpgblogs/home/neurogly/public_html/rpgblogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/R.A.-Salvatore-Headshot.jpgLast Wednesday, I was offered an amazing opportunity, which any D&D blogger and reviewer would find impossible to pass up: the chance to have an interview with the...

Thank you for your support Hussar and Kitsune9, and I'm gratified that you enjoyed my review style. And I tend to agree with you as well, that a dry presentation of facts is not a review - at best, it's simply a "news report" about a game, and at worst it's just free advertising/propaganda for...

I think you're confusing critique with hatred. I would argue that it isn't hatred to point out the areas of the game that failed to live up to my expectations as a gamer - offering that opinion is part of the review process. Certainly it isn't hatred to have the opinion that I will not be...

Well agree with me or not, that's your prerogative, but its a bit low to call into question my ability to do reviews simply because I chose not to like the HoN app or disagree with your PoV. As someone else aptly pointed out in a later comment, if you're going to put D&D on the cover of new...

http://www.neuroglyphgames.com/rpgblogs/home/neurogly/public_html/rpgblogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/hos-cover.jpgWhenever an intellectual property is interpreted into a new media format, it can generate both hopeful anticipation and nervous dread from its fan-base. Movies become video games...

As the seasons change, and with the year of 2011 nearly done in, it’s time for the final issue of Kobold Quarterly for this calendar year! Open Design’s flagship periodical has been going strong these past couple years, covering a wide range of role-playing material for not only D&D 3.5 and...

Personally, you can never have enough magic items! I own all three books myself, but I also tend to be a completest when it comes to collecting books for a particular game. AV1 and AV2 definitely have more items in them than does MME, but AV1 has very little in the way of "fluff" text...

If anyone should ever ask me what my favorite role-playing game was, I’d have to say “Dungeons & Dragons“. But if anyone should ask the same question and add the words “science-fiction” to it, I’d answer without any hesitation: “Traveller!”...

I would have to agree, and that WotC "gimmick" is one of those great mysteries of this book that will almost certainly never be adequately explained to the D&D fans. There are plenty of places in the US alone that don't have a cnearby FLGS, and where mail order is the only reasonable way to...

Windjammer, I think the misrepresentation is suggesting that AV2 was anything like MME. It wasn't, and there is definitely a new attitude at WotC concerning creating useful background information and hooks. I'm not sure how you possibly missed that EVERY magic item in MME, including magical...

Actually Russ, I apologize for the contradiction, but as I mention in my own comment, I did use availability constraints in this case because it does change the price point of the supplement. Previously, this was not the case, but MME is a unique case, because no other 4E product has been...

No not really. The availability constraints are just part of the reason that I gave them an AVERAGE score on the product. You'll also note that this is a $29.95 book and only 160-pages, which puts it as one of the worst content-to-price books WotC has given us under 4E. Sure AV2 was the same...

I think it's a shame it has taken so long to get the online MB to this point, and it still is not as useful as the offline MB. Sure I have a subscription so my players can make and update characters in CB and so I can get all the DDI, Dragon, and Dungeon content, but I don't use the Monster...

For many years now, when gamers were asked about the best fantasy and science-fiction tabletop miniatures games, Warhammer 40K would have been the almost immediate answer...

No you are correct... they are probably out there in Pathfinder or 4E or both. But I think these monsters, as the author stated, came out in a wide range of products, so DMs might not have all of them - for those that don't have all of Open Designs' product line, this is a good chance to get a...