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I've been thinking we may see something similar. Based on the Eberron material and their approach to the Realms, I have a mental image of "Unearthed Arcana: Worlds of D&D". A single book that gives a broad overview of each setting, any minor mechanical widgets it might need (so this would have...

I'm not familiar enough with Barsoom to find a good analogue to Tharks, but aren't rakasta essentially D&D-ified Kzinti?

I was always under the impression that that was a completely different Chris Perkins than the "DM to the Stars". Was I mistaken?

Organized Play is a very popular and productive thing, but I think Laeknir has a point in that WotC seems to be putting almost all their eggs into that basket. Perhaps it's just my own tendency to really dislike 'exclusivity' or things that make it harder for people to acquire material. I...

I'm not at all invested in 5E, but I can't help but wonder if things are going to get stale if they keep on doing the "megacampaigns based on nostalgic 1E AD&D concepts and vaguely shoehorned into the Forgotten Realms" pattern that we've seen and has been hinted at so far. (Riff on DL1-14...

I wasn't sure if Morrus was talking about Lankhmar or your earlier speculation of the Forgotten Realms. :) I wasn't counting Lankhmar as a D&D/TSR setting, since it's an adaptation. For some values of 'counted'. It had its own line logo, but it was never broken out from the core AD&D...

The individual components aren't unheard of--the conversion of Dragonlance to the (IMO superior) SAGA Rules System in 1996, and the licensing of Ravenloft to White Wolf in 2001. The two elements have never been combined in one, and I'm not sure how likely it is with the big 'mention every...

The end of that post suggests a possible design team member and announcement date: "What has Steve Kenson been working on the last five months? Find out in April!" Lord of the Rings is licensed, Green Ronin already has Game of Thrones ... what else is big in fantasy? World of Warcraft?

And we just got that quote from Mearls that 'too many D&D products are bad for the game.' I'm not sure if that's true, but I'm sure that WotC thinks it's true, at least. So, what would be the rationale for that? 1. Accessibility: Too many books scare people away from the game, so they're...

It happened before, with stuff that had been officially announced and even mentioned in published products. The Nentir Vale Gazetteer comes to mind, as well as the Class Compendium. I'm not convinced by Mearls' assertion that "a lot of products hurt D&D". Unless perhaps the plan is to build...

They're also available at RPGNow/DriveThruRPG in both PDF and Print on Demand format. You pay about the original cover price for the PoD versions, and can add the PDF to the purchase for no additional charge. If you only want PDFs, though, you'll save a few bucks buying straight from the Hero...

I'd note that my hometown B&N looked a bit like this ... but that was because most of the 5E stuff was included in their "Gifts for Gamers" endcap. I'm still Neutral Ambivalent on 5E and the broader D&D culture, but it's a good sign as far as marketing success goes.

And you've hit on the key reason why I've never given serious thought to using this monster. :)

You can get the revised verison on dndclassics.com, and I think that's even rarer. It's the version I have. In addition to some of the poll options (1E MM 2nd cover, 2E Monstrous Manual, 3E and 3.5 MM, 4E MM, Monster Vault, Creature Catalog), I've got a bunch of MCAs (all three Ravenloft, a...

Divinity of Mankind is one of the philosophies in the CPH. The intent in Domains of Dread may have been to use those spheres, but it's tough to say. I know that DoD imposes an Int 14 requirement on clerics of that philosophy, but I don't have a CPH on hand to check if the requirement's in that...

At this point, I think WotC has more or less committed themselves to a D&D based around Organized Play, lapsed/old-school gamers, and introducing new gamers through those two elements and perhaps 'transmedia' events. And I am ready to leave the game to them, maybe popping in if there's something...

No one expects the OSR Inquisition! ;) :p Using classic D&D modules is arguably 'old school', but doing it with 13A probably wouldn't meet with the approval of any of the numerous High Anticlerics of the OSR.

Barnes & Noble ranks it at #69 as of this posting. (It's gone up; it was #120 this morning.)

Best case scenario: 5E is a good game, but it doesn't fill the same niche as 4E, so a lot of people give 4E another look if 5E begins to get stale for them or it turns out it doesn't do what they want. Eventually, the broad distribution of the books and the 'legacy' DDI and GSL turn out to...

To be blunt, this is one of the things that has bugged me about Planescape, more in its fandom than in its official material--the tendency to conflate that specific setting with D&D as a whole. I remember one gentleman back on the old Ravenloft mailing list who insisted that Dustmen had to be...