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I'm hoping with all the positive response from 4E fans to Kingmaker that WotC will put some effort into a similar product too (if probably at a smaller scale). I heard the inside map of the Hammerfast booklet is printed on hexes, but left customers at a loss how to operate, as there's nothing in...

Are these open to the public? I'd like to have a look at them. I'm tempted to log my own campaign onto MYRE, although I'm unsure whether that's possible and wortwhile.

I've finally located the old Enworld thread on sandboxes a (to me) very important post by Melan comes from. And found out to my joy that Rob Conley (whose current work I referenced above) is active in the thread too. Rechan, I hope you find this post therein to address a concern of yours voiced...

In fact my biggest fear about the Kingmaker Adventure Path is that, come instalment #33 (#34 at latest), the Paizo authors will revert to that model. ;) I'm not sure you read my OP in that thread 100% correct. It's not that (for all we know) NPCs in Kingmaker will be static. To the contrary...

If you do, please post your experiences! That would shake my world beyond the level of seeing my stuff getting used by other people. See, I've been busy flaming away at how harmful the RPGA has been in influencing 4E's design for the better part of 2 years now. So if you really pull a...

Wow, thanks for that!

This is exactly how I rationalize the surge as well in the thread next door. Don't forget that Paizo as a company has been doing for years what WotC' Rodney Thompson & company have finally turned to this month: solicit customer input directly on internet forums. While I'm bound to be...

Copy-pasted from the now fully updated OP: UPDATE, March 16 2010: All Further Info to go with the Map now available for Download as PDF I've collected all the official information on hex entries into a PDF, which you can download here: Hex Reference for the map above - 4E Silver Marches...

That's easily one of the best Gamemastery modules (nothing beats winged monkeys), but I'd be hard pressed to dignify Baur's efforts here - aka 'players follow trail from locations A->B->C->D to get to your dungeon galore!' - as "hex-crawly". I'd much rather recommend Conquest of Bloodsworn Vale...

There are plenty of speculations going round as to what the 'Essentials' line will be. Will it be a new (half-)edition, a re-packaging of extant material without significant rules changes, or something else? It's hard to say because WotC' own product announcements at D&D Experience have not...

Thanks! Your blog entry contains a link to this very cool player handout. It's recommended you print it on vellum paper (fake parchment). If you don't have that, here's a scan of a print I did which you can utilize if you got no vellum paper but plenty of colour ink to spare. Enjoy! PS. As a...

No question, but just wanted to alert you and readers of this thread of this amazing resource: Maldin's Greyhawk - Greyhawk's Underdark Region

Funny that you should mention this. Remember some time ago when I posted my hex-map for the 4E Realms? Only yesterday did I get round to post my random encounter tables which go with them (see here (plus a follow-up in which I explain my preference for these tables to method in the 4E DMG is...

Paizo's flagship product are their so-called 'Adventure Paths'. These consist of 6 modules which are intended to jointly deliver a campaign using the D&D 3.5 (now: Pathfinder RPG) ruleset for PCs from level 1 to 15. Ever since Paizo started doing these Adventure Paths (APs for short) there was a...

As I mentioned above, an 'Alumni' article on DDI basically hyperlinks James' blog already. I agree that giving him the attention of a full interview is in a different league entirely, but it's not like WotC ignore his existence. ;)

IIRC, the 'Rich Baker houserule' which you state here existed at the WotC offices from June 2008 on. Mike Mearls references it in a discussion on his blog - in reply to this question: Emphasis added. Here's Mike's response: I understand he's saying "people at R&D use" this houserule. And then...

Damn right you are. This is Zak Smith, Yale graduate and punk artist who as part of his work took the brave step of actually getting involved in the porn industry and then write an insightful, perceptive book about it. This is Zak Smith who's a talented enough artist to receive monetary and...

Why am I not surprised that the interview didn't bring up 4th edition? Oh, that's why: because Zak wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. His 10 foot pole. ... In all earnest: kudos to WotC for giving the OSR crowd some spot lighting. It's gracious to link to people who don't appreciate your...

It's one thing for a company to stop printing new books (or even reprinting old ones) for an edition of a game it no longer supports. Fine, everyone can understand that. However. Back when 3E arrived, WotC actually put up free support for editions they hadn't even helped to create. Look at the...

Thanks, that's terrific advice. To be honest, I never understood why the 4E rules didn't utilize a basic thought underlying encounter design more widely - whereby 1 level n monster is roughly equal to 1 single level n PC (major difference: the healing surges).* I mean, so the party is short on...