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If WotC does reprint settings, which versions should they pick? The determining factors, IMO, are going to be demand, attractiveness to fans, and production costs. The last factor means that, IMO, we're likely to see a preference for hardcovers or for boxed sets repackaged as hardcover volumes...

There's another reason to consider this plausible--there's still a high demand for 3.5 core books, if Amazon resellers are any indication. The PH and MM start at cover price in the used listings, and the DMG at around $25. And it's not like the books were underproduced, as opposed to most...

Hmm....a badly translated Biblical demon (the Asmodeus of Tobit is almost nothing like his D&D counterpart) who has been thwarted by an angel . . . vs. a scribal blunder that underwent an apotheosis. Give it to the Red Death. :)

The shadow dragon does have a name--Whisper. And I believe DL9 also includes Cymbol the copper and Harkiel the Bender, a red. Ravenloft--At least the ones I remember RQ3 From the Shadows, Ravenloft Gazetteer II: Ebb, shadow dragon, mount for Azalin. (Gazetteer II introduces the possibility...

Changing orcs to Chaotic Evil in 3E was a deliberate change from AD&D 1E/2E to match "how most gamers actually used them."

Two axes--Law/Chaos/Balance and Good/Unaligned/Evil--that can be combined, used independently, or jettisoned altogether. If you keep the mechanical effects boxed off or flagged as 'alignment system', it shouldn't be too hard to do.

2nd Edition. :D ;) :devil:

I don't know if they did or not . . . but they did send it out to game and comic stores as a stand-alone free sample. They also did a Captain America vs. Baron Zemo one, and I've heard rumors of a Thing vs. Doctor Doom version as well. Unfortunately, this is being done just as WotC kills the...

I happen to have DRAGON #264 on hand, so here's a collation. I hope (un)reason doesn't mind. 1. Ascending Armor Class: Like 2. No more racial class and level limits:Ambivalent 3. Monks and assassins: Like 4. 4d6 drop lowest, assign: Dislike 5. Change Exceptional Strength to standard...

This serious Ravenloft fan (over 20 years, two DRAGON articles and subtle influences on 3rd Edition Ravenloft to my credit :) ) thinks it both does and does not work. It's fine for the 'Weekend in Hell' model and for what Ravenloft is by night, but it's a bit too overly supernatural and gloomy...

Hmmm...this is the more worrisome part than 'paladin gets flattened' for me. Was this all the wizard could do in all the encounters put together, or did he have other options in the other encounters? Was the success of the sleep spell against an ogre likely, or was this more of a desperation...

Good point. I'm just a little nervous because of the design teams' expressed preferences (Mearls' anti-2E sentiments, the push for the Great Wheel, the assassin and warlock as favorite classes), which don't quite mesh with my own. (Side note to self and others who may be concerned: Buy the new...

I'm not a big fan of it either. The question is, are we the target audience for 5E? I'm beginning to wonder, considering that most of the marketing-speak seems to be focusing on 1E/OD&D/possibly BX nostalgia, with a nod to the 3E crowd. Mearls is on record as disliking 2E, which I find clunky in...

For most of the 'old school' group, the exploration is the point and the caution is smart game play. 'Action', if by that you mean combat, is generally to be avoided in favor of cunning plans and easier ways to get to the treasure. 'Story' is a non-element. At least, that's how I understand it...

I've read the DBZ book (my local library had a copy), and I wasn't terribly impressed, especially since it uses the most stripped-down version of the rules. If you're a DBZ fan, it's probably a worthwhile purchase, but if you're only after the system, you can find it free (and legal!) here...

Yes, but Miranda was signed on just before the buyout. Kim Mohan goes back to before AD&D, if memory serves. Though I don't believe either of them has been there continuously since their first hirings--I know Mohan left for a while from the mid-80s to early 90s, and I think Miranda's been...

A large part of the negative reaction was the sense of 'bait and switch'--HERO Games had been working on HERO 5E, it was expected to be coming out at about the same time, and so when Champions: New Millennium came out, it felt like something other than what HERO fans had been expecting. There...

To answer the original question: Castles & Crusades (ascending AC and saves linked to attributes were two things they wanted to do but either couldn't do for backwards compatibility or couldn't work out how to do) with a little less 1E/Gygaxian feel, a bit more polish, maybe not quite so unified...

I haven't read it since the initial release, but I have to agree. It's not like Lord Toede, which is off-center but feels like DL (given that Jeff Grubb was part of the original team, that's no surprise). Siege . . . is just . . . odd. Not necessarily bad, but odd. But then, that may be...

In fairness, that got leaked long before the Trolls wanted to announce it. On the main topic, I hope to see a strong family resemblance, but D&DN will probably not be quite so 1E in its aesthetic and philosophy. The CKG's ramblings on the importance of equipment left me cold, for example, and...