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I think there may be a few people who want 5E to fail, but they're few and far between. I actually think there are more people who want other people to 'want 5E to fail' so that they can dismiss them as 'bitter edition warriors, nongamers, etc.' Personally, 5E looks gorgeous and seems to be...

For comparison's sake, here's the 13th Age hoardsong red dragon Large 9th level spoiler [DRAGON] Initiative: +13 Vulnerability: cold Fangs and claws +14 vs. AC (3 attacks): 30 damage. Natural 16+: the target takes 15 extra damage from a precise strike. C: Hoardsong +14 vs. MD (one nearby...

Well, it would be nice if someone had announced that there would be DS ebooks without us having to go digging through threads here. ;)

I'm not surprised there wasn't a PDF release yesterday. I am surprised there hasn't been any news about PDFs, especially at GenCon. Given WotC's strongly pro-FLGS policy, I would not be at all surprised to see them adopt a policy similar to that of Pelgrane Press, where the PDF release comes...

Compared to the vim, vigor, imagination and self-directing nature of the monsters in the 13th Age Bestiary I got just before the 5E launch, the previewed monsters are looking pretty cut and dried for me. The vampire is the only one I've been terrifically pleased with, and that's largely because...

My idea for fitting drow into Dragonlance is actually along the same lines--my theory was that when the Irda/ur-ogres fell, the humans who'd bound themselves in willing service to the ogres became goblins, and the handful of elves who did the same became drow. This may allow us to make sense of...

We have some indication from the TSR catalogs of the early 90s. They report that the combined sales for Expert, Companion and Masters were around the 500,000 mark at the point the Rules Cyclopedia was announced. By contrast, the 2E core books sold around 250,000-300,000 each in their first year...

And 2nd Edition replaced those measurements with real-world measurements, and there was a sense at TSR around that time that miniatures took away from the immersion a bit. See "Why I Play the AD&D Game" by Steve Winter in the 1993 TSR Catalog. Combat & Tactics did add in the grid, but the...

Got a Ravenloft game in the works? :)

I wouldn't be surprised to see 13th Age break into the Top 10 or even #5 with the release of the Bestiary and 13 True Ways.

There was a report that it was going to occupy the space between the Prime and Negative Energy planes.

Is Ravenloft in there?

Late 2E and 3E Ravenloft tended towards two major henotheistic religions--Ezra and Bane/the Lawgiver--a couple smaller or more esoteric cults--Hala and the Morninglord--and a few other henotheistic or tight-pantheon sects and cults, including a couple that were only figments empowered by...

Pelgrane products can be tough to get through Amazon, and their website is listing it as a pre-order still, but I have a print copy of my own and saw two more at another FLGS a few days ago. Check The Source. :) Also, did anyone else notice a certain set of magic items (minus one) hiding in...

I wouldn't be surprised if the Adventurer's Handbook is the 'overflow' from the PHB--races, backgrounds, subclasses, feats, etc. that they had to leave out of the book for space, complexity, or the need for further development.

I'm halfway through my copy, and it's the most fun I've had reading a monster book since the Dragonlance: Fifth Age Bestiary. I'm beginning to think there's something about FRPGs with "#th Age" in their titles ... :) The chuuls, hags and jorogumos stand out the most, followed closely by the...

You're probably going to have a tough time finding anything official--one of the world design premises of 4th Edition (discussed in Wizards Presents: Worlds & Monsters) was that capturing a soul was a very difficult and rare thing.

What about tacky, wasteful (a couple of the books in that collection were in legitimate demand) and a little mean-spirited? I can't tell whether it was meant satirically or seriously, to be honest, and the latter suggests an unhealthy investment in hatred for a game. But let the anti-4E crowd...

Basic says that the PHB draws on 8 pantheons--Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Eberron, Greyhawk, Celtic, Norse, Greek and Egyptian. It'll probably be lists with names, alignments, portfolios and domains.

Welcome back, Kai Lord! It's been a long time; I owe you a belated thanks for inspiring elements of my Dragonlance Anti-Canon. I didn't get as much play experience with 4E as I would have liked, but something that hasn't been mentioned is that the game made a lot of changes to the D&D...