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Popping in for one more observation (and I haven't caught up with every post, so I apologize if I repeat someone): In my eyes, the key question here is how extreme you are in your view of evil. Again, I can only speak for Eberron, and in Eberron the goal is to play with shades of gray and to...

It depends. In my opinion, yes. A good person can kill evil people, but I expect them to do it quickly and cleanly. They should not take joy in the suffering of others, nor should they kill if it can be avoided without placing innocents in danger. If torture involves a slow, systematic...

I agree, and this is essentially the approach we tried to take with Eberron - highlighting that alignment is a spectrum, that evil people can serve good causes, and for that matter, good people can serve a greater evil. Hannibal Lecter and Jack Bauer can both be evil, even though one's a serial...

To date, I don't believe that I've worked on any non-Eberron D20 products for WotC (though I've certainly done a few for other folks). So I'm thinking Amazon has a few wires crossed.

This is indeed a legend. There are those who BELIEVE that the skeletal dragon is the Keeper. However, if you check the Lords of Dust article, some people think that this skeletal dragon was actually created by Katashka the Gatekeeper during the Age of Demon. The dracolich itself is certainly...

Don't worry. Secrets of Xen'drik is designed to be a toolbox: things you can choose to use or not, as fits the needs of the game. Xen'drik should always be the place where you can add your own lost city or previously unknown culture, and SoX doesn't change that; it just provides use with tools...

Like the other gods, there is no concrete proof that they exist or ever existed, and if they still do, it would be as disembodied (and statless) sentience. Eberron is the world itself, after all. The point is that if you believe the LEGEND, they've got to be the most powerful things around. But...

*shrug* Fair enough. The point to me is that when and if I use such a creature in my game, I don't expect the players to defeat it based on their character level - just going toe to toe and beating it down. I expect them to be using artifacts designed for that purpose, to be allying with other...

Generally speaking. The dragons are the first that comes to mind, because they acted when the giants were messing around with plane-splitting magic. But virtually any major force could take an interest, because you are dealing with potentially reality-shaking repercussions. Really, though...

This was intentional. While not literally a god, Sul Khatesh has power to rival that of a lesser deity. Deities and Demigods says "Deities do not have Challenge Ratings. Entities of this sort are so far above the realm of mortal heroes that determing their level of power in relation to mortals...

There's a chance, but I do already spend too much time online as it is, and it's hard to monitor lots of different boards. Really, the best place is the Ask Keith thread on the WotC boards. So far, I don't think there's anywhere that I've answered a lot of questions.

Of course - that's how it should be. I'm just telling you MY opinion. In my mind, if it could be destroyed it would be like those tales where death is trapped and now the sick and injured can't die. Madness seems like a curse, but what happens when it is gone? Do artists find that they have no...

Oh, as a side note, I'd like to acknowledge the help of C.A. Suleiman (Heroes of Horror, Hamunaptra, and many more)... Earlier in the year we spent some time discussing the Lords of Dust, and these conversations were certainly on my mind as I developed the article.

Destroy it completely? I would say no. In my opinion, the planes are fundamentally tied into reality and can't be destroyed. Shavarath is a reflection of conflict, and as long as there's conflict, it will exist. Xoriat is, on some level, tied to the mind of every mortal creature, just as Dal...

I see it like the Lord of Blades - if you like the approach I've taken you can use it; if you don't, you can go another way. Furthermore, there's nothing saying that all rajahs are alike; given their primal and mysterious nature, there could be another five that have a completely different...

Dungeon & Dragons Miniatures, I believe. Personally, I can't wait to see how the art for the Lords of Dust article turned out... (Edit: check it out - three posts on the same subject all posted at 8:30!)

Certainly. That's basically the approach I took with the deep merfolk in the PDF - presenting the fey merfolk of legend as opposed to the mundane merfolk of the MM. Depending on appearance, the Quiet Folk could be considered to be goblins (in fact, in Eberron I used the name for a group of...

Thanks, Joe! I hope you enjoy it. I am particularly pleased with the Fey feats section, which were designed to be used with any fey creature. Faerie tales are often contradictory - if the dryad in story X can curse the man who transgresses in her grove, why can't the one in story Y? The feats...

Indeed. I don't see why NPCs and PCs should play by the same rules - because the rules are designed for PCs. Why should the village blacksmith magically become a better blacksmith because he happens to hit a few goblins on the head with his hammer? He should become a better blacksmith by pushing...

As a wacky side note, just for kicks I'm doing a weekly casting call on my website to see who people would see in City of Towers: The Movie (not, mind you, that anyone will ever SEE such a thing...). So if you've got an opinion about who YOU see as Daine, drop by and let me know!