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DRAGON offers great opportunities to gain exposure to new ideas (rules, atmosphere, story ideas, and a bunch more). For me, an issue of DRAGON brings inspiration and gives me a different way of looking at experiences iconic to D&D. For me, reading DRAGON gives me a feeling of being part of the...

This is an excellent book, with a ton of great ideas for Xen'drik. I wish it could have been twice as long... A pity this came out just a few short months *after* my Eberron campaign ended! I am a bit disappointed there is no scale on the Xen'drik map. Am I just missing it, or does anyone...

I personally loved the new format, the layout, everything about this monster book. I like the new approach, and I can already see a ton of time-saving uses for it.

Amen!

I have recently looked into the Warmachine rules & miniatures by Privateer Press. I have played Warhammer and Warhammer 40k in the past, but I am interested in learning more about Warmachine, with an eye towards playing a few games and purchasing product. Does anyone have experiences to share...

"Heroes of Horror" has the "Summon Undead" spells, although I think the undead available could use some expanding on what is available...If I recall, another book (Libris Mortis, perhaps?) has a slightly different version of the spell that is a bit too powerful.

I've used Dundjinni on OS X, and it has proven to be rather buggy at times, especially when it comes to printing.

Here's a very good resource site: http://www.coveworld.net/eberron/index2.html

The way I understand psionics-magic transparency, it refers to magic resistance and spell resistance, and how effects stack. It doesn't affect skills and feats, for example -- thus the UMD and UPD skills, and Craft Wondrous Item and Craft Universal item. P.S. Mercule, noticed on the EN...

If such a PrC doesn't exist for "Fallen Paladin," it should...

I was thinking along similar lines, but as mentioned, putting it out into space with Spelljammer, too. Basically, take the Dragonmarked Houses and take them into the future where they are, in a sense, megacorporations. Each house controls some aspect that is vital to travel or...

I subscribe to both; I've been getting Dragon since issue #30, and thus have seen a lot of editors come and go, and have watched the magazine go through many changes in layout and style. I have always enjoyed Dragon, and have always looked forward to it each month. I would have to say that...

I plan on doing something along similar lines for my next campaign. Basically, some of the feel of Firefly, but using fantasy and Spelljammer instead of SciFi. One thing I like about Firefly is that the bad guys are not all pervasive and all powerful. They may have tremendous power and...

Wow, an impressive and thorough review, MerricB! My fingers get tired just reading it. I recently purchased Sons of Gruumsh and have really enjoyed it. It is great to see more adventures coming from WotC, especially one specifically for the Realms.

Some players hate losing so badly, and/or hate the idea of muffing a die roll and letting the other party members down that they feel compelled to "creatively re-imagine" the die results. When the person really needs a critical hit, or really needs to save, the result is pretty much...

I recently picked up one of these new adventures, "Sons of Gruumsh," and have been reading through it. Looks like it would be fun to run or play in. Good stuff indeed... Haven't had a chance to read through the first Fantastic Locations yet to see what it is like...

The boxed set of CHILL (Pacesetter games) was mentioned previously -- it had some good ideas for invoking fear in players. One of the best suggestions involves playing with player/character perceptions. The example given describes how the characters hear something clawing and scratching at the...

I still remember a game where everyone was having a great time and fully having fun. We stopped after a major battle and noticed the clock...it was 3:15 a.m., although technically 4:15 a.m. because of the change for the end of daylight savings time had just started. About four hours had simply...

One of the gentlemen at the Sovereign Press booth told me that the "Serenity" game book sold out the first day, all 500 copies. Not certain if they expected to sell out that quickly or not, but he seemed pleased by that level of sales. I don't know if it is typical of GenCon, but there were...

I think one of the guys I'm going with (one of my group's players) is taking his computer along to GenCon...primarily so he can play "Runescape" online when he has the free time (in the hotel). Another person sorrowfully addicted to an online RPG... :)