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Hey, thanks for the heads up! I completely missed that. I'll have to start the email avalanche immediately :D.

Ditto. Many games look like that, anyway. Encounter, followed by rest, encounter, followed by rest...

Yggsburgh is for C&C. If you need d20 NPC stats, you will have to do them yourself. It's not a bad city, either. You just need to put some more work in. You can look whether Bard's Gate contains enough stuff for you by looking at the building list here.

The CSIO NPCs are generally a bit higher level than in many other city supplements. The whole city has a somewhat pulpy feel. The government is evil, justice doesn't really derserve that label and slavery is commonplace. I like the city very much, but it might not quite be what you want. Bard's...

I am not worried. I'm pointing something out. If a product blurb misses one of the most important pieces of information for an adventure, it probably hurts sales.

Very cool maps. How were those done?

Is there an option to make the ridges of the mountains run out more smoothly? I think that the current solution shows too much contrast, making the mountains look spindly.

I've seen that, and it was already stated in post #3. I was talking about the RPGnow blurb.

Are these the same kind of tiles they used in the basic game?

The RPGNow blurb seems to lack the level information, or am I just blind, too?

To be fair, it was the Player's Guide that got me interested in the setting. Upon reading that one, I immediately wanted to run a campaign in the Wilderlands, which reminded me somewhat of a Conanesque kind of game. Although the info might be somewhat sparse, the Player's Guide is enough to run...

Well, that's Turjan of Miir, from the first fantasy collection I ever read (The Dying Earth, 1950). He uses swords and magic and breeds creatures in vats. What's not to love ;). I've been using that handle for ages. Admittedly, it's not original, but I'll keep it anyway.

That looks correct. I'm always reminded of UO roleplaying servers, where you usually have to apply seperately for being allowed to play a different race than humans in order to make sure that you don't play them as humans. Except it's humans and dwarves; as the latter are basically grumpy and...

Yes, Midichlorians are silly. But the SW universe is silly, anyway. I'm not sure why nobody gets upset about his planets, which defy the basics of geometry. Anyway, as D&D treats magic as a science, it's not that different from midchlorians in the sense you brought up. But there's nothing to...

The important thing Star Wars shows us stands though: Technical gimmicks don't hurt fantasy a single bit! I don't think that you can doubt that Star Wars is a very successful brand, even more so than D&D. And the point that the Star Wars RPG is not as popular as the D&D RPG does not prove...

Just a remark: Star Wars does not belong into the sci-fi genre, but is generally considered to be fantasy. The original film is the classical fantasy story par excellence.

And how do you see one other staple of D&D, the mind flayer?

I made a thread about the most popular 3rd party d20/OGL (if compatible with D&D) books some months ago, and this one vanished into Nirvana. It's not the same as "most important", but I may list the final outcome here, anyway ;). Places 5 and 6 and the places 7 to 10 shared the same number of...

I'm not a fan of psionics in my game, as I see it as redundant, even more so as it became more similar to magic than ever. I'm more in the "either magic or psionics" camp. Nevertheless, I don't really see those points you brought up, except the first one (which is principally legitimate, but...

This is definitely the usual way how high tech is used in fantasy. The flying cars in the Dying Earth were also a technology that was far beyond the capabilities of their users. In principle, there's nothing wrong with describing a metal wand of fireballs with 50 charges and use a laser pistol...