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Keep in mind with the distribution that there are two divergent goals going on with these minis. People are collecting them for RPG use and for skirmish use. The common/uncommon/rare breakdown attempts to address these two issues in one mechanic, making minis you'd likely need a lot of for D&D...

I will admit my recollection of the Princess Ark series has grown a bit fuzzy - it's been about two years since the last time I read it in full. I think my articles are beginning to blur together; I'm mixing the vivid image of Haldemar dealing with all those dead bodies with the less vivid...

Eh... yes and no. The Bruce Heard articles have very OD&D-centric themes and occurences. They did very little to tinker with the basic rules of OD&D. No guns. The Red Curse weakened you with no real gain in power as an offset, but it also didn't make you freakishly deformed in the least...

The novels really are the problem with the Dragonlance setting. The setting is chock full of great ideas and neat spins on standard things that work really well in the pages of fiction but less well as codified RPG rules. For example, saying, "There are no gods anymore, divine magic doesn't...

If you want a little more staying power from a prestige class, consider the War Priest prestige class. It costs you (IIRC) at least one level of spellcasting and forces you to cater your feets more toward a combat focus, but you pick up an extra domain and (again, IIRC) a d10 for hit points...

Indeed. Never get in a bidding war with someone with more than 30 seconds left to go on the auction. There are no points for having the winning bid the longest, only having the winning bid last. Heh, people probably hate me, but 99.9% of the items I buy off of Ebay are obtained through...

Personally, I'm leaning toward the 3 X 4 method of base classes these days: Give me three versions of each of the four main types. I identify the four main types of D&D character as Warrior: He who can absorb/avoid lots of damage and deal lots of damage. Skirmisher: He who can deal good...

Typically the person that designs the toy's sculpt works on what is called a "2-Up" because it's (roughly) twice the size of the finished work. These are almost always done in a generic color, usually gray, and then painted by hand after the sculpt is finished. The manufacturer takes these...

If you wanted to take that one step forward, gnomes are just the male children of such a union, while halflings are the female union. Eventually, every gnome grows up to be a dwarf and every halfling grows up to be an elf. And, so you see, the only two races in D&D are humans and demihumans :p

With a prestige class that seems to be an uninspired "grab bag," you have to wonder what the purpose of the class is. One of the original design ideas behind a prestige class was to make it so anyone from any class could get into it*, there were just some roads that got there quicker...

If there is a conscious effort made to reduce the number of base classed available to players in 4e, it's won't be at the expense of options. None of the current classes found in core will "go away," they'll just switch form. If we see a drop to the "base 4" method (or "base 5" if you want to...

I wish I could celebrate by playing. My group and I parted ways about three years ago and I haven't been able to find new people to play with since. Granted, the three year break from DMing has been refreshing - I was working on seven years straight. Talk about burnout! Anyway, tonight I...

Of course, one needs to ask the question: Since skeletons and zombies are typically used as expendible shock troops for a necromancer or more powerful undead creature, is it necessary to worry about the transition from one to the other? Personally, my thought is that the magic that animates a...

Call me low-tech, but what I do is collect them all in the same folder until I have enough similar ones to burn on a CD. I label the CD with the names of the books on that CD, and make a simple text file that has filename - book name in it. It would be rather simple to make a basic database...

For someone trying to break in to the business, this topic is very fascinating. It amazes me that publishers ever publish works from "new" authors given the cavalier attitude they have about untested waters. Oh well, back to the slush pile for me!

You know, this reminds me of a setting we played in briefly in 2e. Fravenlance. Yes, Fravenlance. That would be the illigitimate love child of Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance if it was sucked into Ravenloft and dropped next to Barovia with a dash of Dark Sun for fiendish glee. That was...

Thanks, now my brain hurts! :mad: Boy, I hope I get a spiffy rejection letter. The ones I've gotten before have all been poor photocopies of rejection letters. I'm collecting them!

When playing with ability score adjustments, there are two rules to avoid a +1 LA: 1. Always make sure the adjustments are even numbered (+2, +4, +6, etc). Odd number adjustments can easily be maximized or minimized in impact by a clever player. An even number forces them to go down (or up)...

Isn't she just a big, powerful demon in Greyhawk, not a god? I'll admit to being ignorant on the subject. My Blackmoor was the ancient history of the Known World, not another region ;)

I doubt I'll ever stop buying d20 products, but my consumption has drastically changed. In the earlyl days of d20, I bought too many campaign setting books. It's something I swore I wouldn't do when 3e started. But there I had Scarred Lands books I'd never use and Dragonstar (that are great...