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I think a full Icons sourcebook is in the docket, actually, so that may provide additional help for using them in play. I'd like some alternate setting outlines--I'm sure Ken Hite is busy on 0th Age and other projects, but get him to knock together a Universal Monsters/Hammer Horror/Ravenloft...

Ten foot, of course. :D This may be the one time we're on the same page. :) I was starting to feel more optimistic, but some of the recent Starter Set previews are giving me the same Neo-1E/3E Lite feel I got from the playtest.

I'm not a supporter of evil campaigns, but logic and anecdote suggest that an evil Dragonlance campaign has about a 90% chance of going in one direction: Kender. Extermination. EDIT: Oops, sorry, missed that you'd already noted that.

Changes I noticed when posting this at RPGNet: Prepared spells are now level + casting stat modifier (so for most purposes, level + 3 or 4 at 1st-3rd level, level + 5 by mid-levels) Turn undead's destruction clause is now triggered by CR, not Max HP.

And the code's balancing elements--and others--arguably relate to the whole model of play assumed by the older games. Playing someone strictly Lawful Good is going to be more of a limitation in an environment that assumes 'greedy, amoral ne'er-do-wells' are the standard than in the 'fight the...

pemerton is talking about the original cleric--the one from the first three books, before Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes introduced polytheism into D&D. (Although I suppose a case could be made that polytheism first really shows up mechanically with the druid. Was that Blackmoor or Eldritch Wizardry?)...

That's arguably a problem with the equivocal use of the terms "Law" and "Chaos" in D&D, which can range from anything to "Supporter/Opponent of Cosmic Order" to "Believer in/Opponent of Strong Government" to "Logical, Honorable and Somewhat Rigid/Impulsive, Free-Wheeling and Unpredictable". :)...

Well, the problem is the original paladin & cleric come from a different, quasi-Christian background of mythology and folklore--the former from Arthurian legends, the tales of Charlemagne, and Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions, and the latter from the Templars and Hospitalers, a...

I don't know; that bit about "other systems" is something that hasn't been mentioned. Maybe it'll be a part of the book that's OGC, and will include conversion guidelines for Pathfinder and FATE (which are the two other big open systems I'm aware of)?

DL fans have been trying to make sense of the whole 'steel pieces' thing for 30 years, and it's never quite worked out. Tracy Hickman is on record as saying "I wanted to make a point about the ephemeral nature of wealth, but the concept never did come across well ... or work in the game either...

The wild surge table uses 2nd person.

One of the few things they've explicitly backed away from is the idea of dragonborn being the offspring of unblessed dragon eggs, so I'm pretty sure that's out. I'm guessing the subraces will be based on either a chromatic/metallic split, or a division between 'immediate descendants of...

I think Frank Langella in Dracula is actually the closer resemblance. Unfortunately, that's 40 years ago. However, Langella has given a bravura performance as a quasi-lich, so maybe get him for Azalin. :)

The end of the Edition Wars.

But it's Tradition! :) From all the evidence I've gathered, the 83 Red Box fed a lot more players into AD&D than it did into Expert and beyond, and AD&D didn't even have the decency to warn you how different a game it was in the core rulebooks. (2nd Edition did, but not very clearly until the...

Actually, the 1991 Black Box was pretty good--it went all the way up to level 5, IIRC, and was full of neat stuff and ways to teach the game. It got a good chunk of support from TSR, too, with 3 big add-on boxes and numerous smaller modules. (And it apparently sold about half a million copies...

This would only work if WotC would stop talking about the mechanics--although while they're continually doing so, they're also being vague and indefinite. :)

Actually, DC Comics has acquired quite the negative reputation for focusing like a laser on the "male, 20-40" demographic over the past few years.

I've seen variations of the idea in the OP mentioned in several places, and this is my first chance to set out my personal response: If the only way for D&D to be successful is to market it as "Satan's Game", then not only does the game deserve to die, I'll shed no tears for its death. :)...

You jest, but I have to wonder if Tyranny wasn't conceived as a Dragonlance reboot or event (the Resurrection of Takhisis) and then moved to the Realms in order to better leverage their IP and/or avoid the heavy baggage that DL carries.