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I just noticed something while perusing WotC's article archives from the last year or so for my own purposes. It seems pretty relevant to the discussion at hand and seems to have been lost in all the talk as to whether Planescape is "dynamic" or "dramatic" enough (which I feel at this point has...

I like it quite a lot but wish it had a few more good races alongside the classic evil ones. Similarly, I'd like to have seen more PC races represented (beyond obvious exotic variants like drow and duergar). That being said, I'm largely satisfied with the product. The art is beautiful, the lore...

Sort of. I stopped playing D&D for a while ago for a number of reasons. Part of it was that I was really busy with school and some of it was that I'd grown tired of the 4e rules. I didn't hate them like a lot of people, but I did feel they were exceedingly combat-focused and it seemed like it...

It may be a bit early to say, but my copy is holding up pretty fine and I've look at it about once per day or more since I received it about a month ago.

To be fair, I think this is a criticism that can be levied at most campaign settings, particularly those that only existed for a single edition. The changes in the Realms from 1e to 3e were relatively minor, aside from the Time of Troubles (which was a controversial event, although nowhere near...

That depends doesn't it? If you spend $60 for an electronic service annually, that nets you the mechanical content of PHB, MM, and DMG for a much lower price than their current list price (even when taking into account the slashed prices a lot of vendors are selling them at), as well as any...

I actually usually have the opposite approach; I made extensive use of Dragon but I usually skipped over Dungeon since it was mostly adventures, which is good and all but not what I was interested in content-wise (since I generally engineer my own adventures).

That's... interesting. I'm intrigued but does that mean someone who already has the PHB, MM, and DMG in print would have to pay for them a second time? Because if so that's a big turn-off.

We talking annually or monthly? Because that makes a big difference. I'd be willing to pay probably about $60-70 annually but anything significantly above $10 per month seems exorbitant to me (D&DI was about that price IIRC and it seemed right).

And I think that's definitely an important option to have. I agree with Kamikaze Midget that no one should be forced to use a cosmology they don't want (and I mean that in both the soft and hard sense; obviously no one's forcing anyone to use anything but putting every setting in the Great Wheel...

Not necessarily. A person infected with rabies can pass it on to other people, but that doesn't mean the entire world is overrun with rabies. Just as infectious diseases like rabies are kept in check by vaccines, drugs, and sanitation, I imagine undead creatures like wraiths are kept in check by...

You have to take into account more than just the sales though. You also have to account for the costs of production. It seems to me that churning out book after book of splatbooks, one after the another, is a lot more expensive than producing a couple of thematic or setting books a year...

Fair enough. I'll agree there's wiggle room there. I get where you're coming from with this angle but to me those seem like two very different things. The fact that it's written in English is - as you say - just a linguistic convention necessary for intelligibility. That the characters speak...

Again, I think you're missing my main point. You've stated that you feel the 4e alignment system and arrangement of the planes were closer to the conception promoted by 1e. My point is that, based on Gygax's own statements (in which he's said the alignment system was based on the moral...

As a general rule, DMs are allowed to change whatever they like. It's their game. Indeed, it's kind of expected that most DMs will tweak things to their or their players' liking (unless they're completely rule/lore-bound). However, official changes which alter the assumed default are far more...

So is Greyhawk canon to generic D&D or isn't it? Because you seem to be going back and forth on this one. If it is, then setting material does encroach on "core" D&D (and vice versa). If it isn't then this point seems irrelevant as my key point was that the MotP was considered "canon" in regards...

I expect we'll hear something around New Year's after the DMG comes out. Setting books seem the most likely thing to come out next: probably Forgotten Realms but you never know, WotC might surprise us all with a new take on Greyhawk or Planescape to please the old crowd. After that we'll see. A...

If so it's probably worth noting that "orcs" and "halflings" didn't really exist before Tolkien. Oh sure, short people abound in folklore and the word "orc" ultimately comes from the Roman god of death but specifically mid-sized "burglars" with a predilection for good food and humanoid monsters...

Actually, I'm going to have to disagree with some of the other Planescape fans here and say that I actually don't think the jaded and casual attitude of planar inhabitants clash with the idea of the planes as awe-inspiring and wondrous. To me, there's nothing that says that a setting can't...

My mistake. But as you will yourself admit, the Great Wheel was presented very early in D&D and so has a long history that does not make it "intrinsic" to Planescape or antithetical to the spirit of D&D. Indeed, the fact that it was included in one of the core rulebooks (even in appendix, which...