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It's "he." Owen K.C. Stephens. I didn't mean to be anonymous. While you may well be right WotC would rather I shut my yap, they're a client, not my boss. They don't pay me enough to control my every hour or thought. That said, I seriously doubt anything I say here is going to create a...

It's okay to be dissappointed for any reason at all. Do keep in mind the classed monsters are less than 15% of the page count, however. Tough call. But it can come up with any game-type book. What if you want rules for shadow magic, but hate everything else in Tome of Magic? What if you love...

Your dedication is, in all seriousness, to be commended. Unfortunately, to make a living WotC has to sell books to people with less time and creativity than you. There are DMs out there who need a lot more hand-holding than you do. Sample adventures and sample lairs are there not only so they...

Okay. Look in the 3.5 MM. Look at the ogre. There's a classed version right there. The precedent is set, the MM series includes classed versions of monsters. There are several more of those throughout the book. If they hadn't been included, there would have been room for at least 5 more...

You do realize there is no mythic guarantee to have a MM book come out every few years, right? That if the book had been called Enemies & Allies II, it would still be the same freaking book with the same cost? And then, of course, people would be complaining that it had too many new monsters...

I find the more feats you have, and the more feats that require mid-to-high levels to qualify for, the more people stick with fighter for the long haul.

I -am- a contributing author to the MM IV, and I haven't seen anything but the raw files yet, so I actually can't say if I'm going to like the book or not. On the other hand, I'll get three free copies, so it's not like I have to worry about deciding if I want to buy it. And I hope most of you...

Note that SotG isn't designed for the revised SW rules. The main change is doubling all DR values. Owen K.C. Stephens author, SotG

Dragon Magic's support of "other" magic systems was discussed several times. Chris Perkins made some early suggestions, Rodney and I talked about it between ourselves, I pitched more stuff to Chris, and when we were done Andy and the development team took a look at everything. There were things...

The low-level security gaurd on p.16 should have three feats, as listed. He gets two, like any starting human, and gets simple weapon prof. from his classes. Those aren't class features, as they are listed before class features in the class description. AL isn't alignment in d20 Modern. It's...

Regarding the stat block for the Low-Level Security Guard: AL doesn't stand for Alignment in d20 Modern. It stands of Allegiance. The security guard isn't assume dto have one, so none is given. The AL could have been left out altogether, but no word is missing. The Security Guard has the...

I'm going to restrict my answers to movies no one has mentioned yet (since all the movies listed so far are great), and note that these are movies I enjoy, not necessarily ones I think are brilliantly well-done. 5. The Sword and the Sorcerer: Maybe it's because of how old I was when this movie...

Dang NDA. I think I can safely say you won't be seeing Spectaculars in July. That doesn't mean you'll never see it, but I can't say you definitely will either. The one thing I can say with absolutel certainty is that if the book never shows up, it's not because WotC decided to save money by...

From my point of view, the vigor spells do heal damage, they just do so in a way that happens to have a game mechanical name (fast healing). If they were transformation spells, I'd feel they didn't heal but instead gave you a new ability. But as it is, I see them as conjuring healing energy...

Hit points are rolled as 1/2 hit die + 1/2 maximum for hit die. Ie, a cleric rolls 1d4+4, a barbarian 1d6+6. While this leads to fighter having to roll a "d5," it's easy to fake that for one roll per level. This prevents bad die rolls over a few levels from cripling characters.

Personally, I would rule that either the vigor spell does the additional healing in the first round of its duration (but not subsequent rounds), or that the duration of the spell was extended tpo include the aditional healing. Under the first ruling, a vigor spell would heal 8 hit points on its...

I'm a full-time freelance writer. The vast majority of that is RPG writing, and the majority of -that- is work for WotC. Originally I mostly did licenses (Star Wars, Wheel of Time, EverQuest, Black Company), but in recent years I've done a lot more d20 Modern and an increasing amount of D&D. And...

As a way of creating a game with a different flavor, both my current D&D games outlaw all the core classes from the PHB, and no spellcaster can have more than half their spells be PHB spells. As a result, we use a lot of stuff from the complete books, the Advanced Player's Manual, and even less...

Thanks for the review! The back cover is where we mention the book is completely open game content. I suppose we should have mentioned it other places too, but yes the text is 100% open. And if anyone really wants to see my writing style (and hasn't picked up a Star Wars or EverQuest book I've...