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Okay, I'll bite. It's not about winning, I just love talking about old PCs! Milo Yurinov (AKA "Healinov" AKA "Dimitrious Healinov") A quick note before I go into the character - this was for a modification of Mystara my group played in for a while. It was set in a semi-post apocalyptic...

There's a problem with using D20 Modern as an example of how the "One Core Book" would work. D20 Modern works in one book because, as written, it's not a fantasy system. You don't need a chapter on races because there's only one you can play. You don't need an elaborate class chapter because...

The only problem with using a combination skill/feat solution is that is stretches a wizard's already thin skill point pool even thinner. When you consider that, chances are, they're taking Spellcraft at each level as it is, it limits the viability of taking ranks in a cross class skill. Now...

Blackmoor in Mystara is kind of a confusing topic. The "cannon" explaination of it has changed a bit over time. Straight away it was a nation in the distant past that rose to dramatic heights through the infusion of alien technology. How and why that happened differs depending on the source...

At the risk of reiterating Sean Reynolds, With all due respect, I think you're completely wrong and have misunderstood what "options" in a roleplaying game are. A kit did not serve to supply a player with additional options. It served to give an unbalancing quantifiable bonus to a character...

The downfall of the Scarred Lands can really be attributed to one thing: market oversaturation. On one hand this was S&SS's problem. They produced an insane amount of products for the setting that, in many ways, rivaled what was seen for Forgotten Realms over a four year period near the end...

It doesn't REALLY surprise me, to be honest. The market simply can't support all the campaign settings that have come up the past few years, and sometimes you've just got to know when to pull the plug. At least the Scarred Lands is being pulled at a point when it has had about four years of...

I've been excited about Blackmoor for months now. My only real experience with it has been looking backward at it through Mystara-colored shades where it was this super-advanced society that blew itself up. I got DA3 off of eBay a few years back and loved it, mainly because it put the world in...

I never had the main setting, but I had the Translyvania guidebook, which was a very well-written, researched splatbook. It mixed D&D and folklore perfectly, along with the (Ravenloft trademark) evocative bits of the "real story" behind what everyone in the campaign setting knew.

I'll still hold off going into too many details (I'd like to wait until I'm officially rejected), but here's some more background into my submission. As I stated before, the premise I started with was the line "You can't go home again." That actually turned into one of the working titles of...

Some things to consider are: The type of setting The primary environments used Archetypical monsters used A high fantasy setting will account for different sorts of PC races than a space opera or grim and gritty setting. The higher the fantasy element you use, the more likely you'll find...

Keeping in mind what WotC asked for in the synopsis, just remeber that "what a story is about" is more than "what happens in the story." Without giving any specifics about my entry, the one line I built my proposal around was: "You can't go home again."

I haven't used them, but I've really been considering doing D20 Modern style Advanced Classes of all the base classes out and running a campaign with that instead. PCs have to start in the Generic Classes, then have the option of growing into Advanced or Prestige Classes along the way. When I...

I remember playing this one when I was really young. We were hired by a local magic user in Karameikos to bring back dinosaur specimines alive. Everything went well until we ran into the korpu. I do believe I ended up dying in a battle in the temple after I got pushed into the lava.

My thoughts: A logo does not sell me a magazine. I don't care how they write "Dungeon" or "Dragon," the content is what makes me buy it. That said, the new logo WILL serve the purpose. It'll be easy to find in the bookstore magazine rack given the big, bold, retro letters. Part of me...

IMHO, 3(.5)e D&D is a game of modularity - being able to apply the same items for one character to another - and Dragonmarks were designed to be modular as well to give the players (and DM) more control over how critical an aspect of their character the dragonmark is. Relegating a particular...

I dig them. In the same campaign as a half-giant, they might be a tad superflous, but they seem custom made for the non-psionic campaign. I really like the cultural notes as they'll give players a good definition for their character, and goliaths end up being something unique and different...

The BoVD is a mixed bag. If your campaign skews toward the higher end of fantasy where evil is just as large and earth-changing as good, it can really give them some added oomph to push them over the top. It's of less use for lower fantasy games, but you could probably salvage a few things to...

Alignment in D&D is too black and white for some of these things. A good way to view the moral axis in D&D is like this: Good = Benevolence Neutral = Selfishness Evil = Maliciousness Now, if the person in question shows themself to be benevolent or malicious, they're good or evil...

It's all about economics. If you're given 320 pages to work with, you don't have the luxury of putting in dozens of pages of support for things your primary audience doesn't have. Case in point: the core rulebooks will outsell any supplement hands down; likewise, the CS will outsell any future...