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Someone must have taken the Sudden Delete Spam metamagic feat. Wait, they didn't have that back in 1e, did they? So what did the old Grognards do? Roleplay? What's that??? :uhoh:

I'm not sure how much I spent last year. I'm saying between $200 and $250, just because I spent half the year unemployed and had to curb my spending big time. I think I bought Unearthed Arcana, Complete Divine, Eberron, and the Warcraft RPG. Of course, I used my birthday and Christmas to help...

Glantri became anything but vanilla after WotI and the move to 2nd Edition. If possible, it became MORE Glantri than ever before. A night dragon in human form charmed her way into the Council, gained emotional control over Jaggar, drove him to do some very evil things, and (of all things)...

I don't really agree with the unbalance stat block = +1 LA theory. I think it really depends on what unbalances the stat block. When you tie an ability score so closely to level, you create one situation in which the character might be overpowering and several others where they are weak. Case...

I think class "balance" is a fictional attempt to quantify the potential for a class to meet varying situations directly with ease. In other words, to say a class is "balanced" means it has benefits and drawbacks that make it worthwhile roughly 1/4 of the time. To say something is...

If you want to make a flavorful low-magic campaign, there are a few things (I think) you need to do. 1) Nerf the spellcasters. Here's the thing - if you leave wizards, clerics, druids, and sorcerers as written, you can't have a low magic setting. Even if you take out a bunch of spells, the...

It was probably changed back due to the status quo thing. For one, rules for draining the Sphere of Energy were firmly in place and required no additional development beyond what was done for the Glantri GAZ. Second, and a more speculative reason, how do you quantify the drain of Entropy out...

Here's my take on it. The problem with the conversion group is they're trying to translate 3e to Mystara, not Mystara to 3e. Everything has to remain identical, and if that's the case, just play OD&D. You're right when you say the bulk of Mystara is "vanilla D&D." It's very much a generic...

I believe it was Bruce Heard (though I might be wrong) that was said they wanted to do some dramatic things with the setting - have the Patriarch of the Church of Karameikos die and plunge the nation into the middle of the religious war, but the suits at TSR told them to leave everything exactly...

As the others have stated, the B series was repackaged later in its life as a single book and set to run as a big mega-adventure. Because of that, most of them can be placed in or around Karameikos and its immediate neighbors (Ylaruam, Darokin, and Glantri... even though Glantri is more of a...

Well, what do you want to know? *laughs* Let me try and summarize. The nomer "Known World" arose from the fact that the information presented on it in Isle of Dread was very brief. The idea was the DM would make up their own name for the world at large. It started out very small (compared...

Here, here! Tis a shame the hobbitsess came and kicked him out of his Barony. Ludwig and Bargle were the Laurel and Hardy of EEEEEEEVIL! before that. Split up they're like a couple of Art Garfunkles.

It seems people were expecting this book to be an Eberron book on Eberron races, when WotC always intended it to be a D&D book on Eberron races. They've just corrected the error on the cover mock-up. Big deal.

You know, it would be remiss if Bargle the Infamous wasn't mentioned at least once. He charms you, kills your cleric friend, then puts you to sleep and steals from you when you won't abandon her. Plus he's INFAMOUS, dernit! You don't get called "the Infamous" if you're not INFAMOUS!

I haven't yet read through Complete Adventurer (I've flipped through it a few times so I have a fairly strong idea of what's in it), but I've read the rest. For my money, Complete Warrior still has the most universal value to it. The feats and prestige classes are excellent and well chosen...

Part of the reason (if you believe TSR and WotC employees that talk on the subject) to revise D&D as a whole is because soft areas of the rules have been identified and good solutions have been released in a supplement or at least started toward through other material. The birth of 1e came...

One reason RPGNow doesn't really need to resort to using one of these more elaborate protection schemes for it's PDF material is because the bulk of releases through them are smaller publishers with lower demand for their product. Go on a file sharing program and search for any WotC product...

I submitted to the Eberron open call. I worked under the theme "You can't go home again," in which the hero was an ex-soldier that came home to find his farm had been given away by the ruler of his nation to a new noble as a reward for the noble's "valor in serving the country during the war."...

For the large part, I've been extremely disappointed with prestige classes as a whole. They're just not what I'm looking for in my campaign. What I'd like is for someone to sit down and make, say, ten achetype specific prestige classes that fill possible roles a base class can fill in a...

Perception plays a large role when it comes to introducing new core classes and whether this is a problem or not. I think what we're seeing here is a divergence between the implicit goals of the new base classes (and let's not confuse a base class with a core class) presented in the Miniatures...