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Sigil, definitely. My tour would involve visits to the Civic Festhall and the Other Place, at least. Possibly also the Brothel of Slaking Intellectual Lusts. Eris404, MirrorMask... There are no known portals in Sigil to Narnia, but as I recall, there's one in Faerûn, in the Weathercote Wood...

Well, being the first gamer in my school, and being the only one to own the books, it kinda fell on me naturally to run the games. That was about nine years ago, and I'm still doing it. I'd just wish someone else in the group would take the screen every once in a while.

Same as Crothian, except that I also have the habit of making gamers of friends I meet, which is a very useful skill to have. When I'm starting a new campaign, I fire off e-mails to five or six likeliest players and then proceed through the player pool until I've got my group. New players I've...

Dear Santa, Please let my current campaign hold and survive Christmas, near-TPKs, old players leaving, new players arriving, and the games being held at my house in the middle of nowhere. Please let my DMing and session preparation be even as half as inspiring as it was today. Let my plots be...

There's at least one more obvious one yet to be named - the phoenix, which we didn't get until Monster Manual II.

Heh. Recently, one Markus Montola was accepted to write his doctoral dissertation about roleplaying games in the Tampere University, Finland. Here's his initial research plan.

Congratulations, victorious ones. I've made no progress to speak of in the last week and have really no hope of making the deadline, though I still have a couple of scenes that I must write to get them out of my head. We'll see next year, then.

In the campaign I started yesterday, storyhour possibly forthcoming... Gnome psion (seer): pistol, light crossbow, quarterstaff and mind thrust. Half-elf bard: rapier and light crossbow Human cleric of Azuth: quarterstaff and light crossbow. Dwarf fighter: dwarven waraxe.

I've got 46, by a quick count. That is, all of them except for character sheets, DM screens, map sets and Fantastic Locations. If there's nothing new in the Spell Compendium, I shall not be buying it.

I've just finished reading a load of Finnish classics that are all dreadfully boring and only considered classics because we'd be a sorry nation if we didn't have some literary heritage other than The Seven Brothers and Kalevala. I'm now on a bit of a gaming novel binge to counterbalance the...

I let the character grow organically, molded by his adventuring experiences. I rarely start out a 1st-level character with a prestige class already in mind, unless it's something really obvious like Red Wizard of Thay for a Thayan wizard character, and even then, if campaign events render the...

For the fifth wheel, I'd take a bard or a marshal. Both are support characters in combat and can act as the party's public face in social situations. For the totally oddball group... The Officers' Club. Gnome marshal/fighter, gnome marshal/fighter/wizard, gnome marshal/fighter/rogue and gnome...

Umm... yes. Canon is the stuff that's in the books. It's official. Adjusting it in a home campaign is an entirely different thing, and does not require one to be a published author. And I was actually referring to the fact that in Shelzar: City of Sins, there is an NPC named Bla'yne Nightfall...

Dude, he was in the books. We respect his authority. A couple of us did actually buy a substantial pile of SL stuff. I think one of the other players got the entire game line, and my Scarred Lands purchases number seventeen, all because of Nightfall's campaigns. And in any case, questioning...

No. Started with MERP, followed that up with stuff like Paranoia and WHFRP, got into AD&D 2E right after the WotC buyout, and been with D&D ever since, with occasional, brief forays into other systems.

My players? Not as a rule, not really, no. Most of them have never really concerned themselves with the in-depth workings of the Realms. But I care. To me, one of the great joys in crafting a Forgotten Realms campaign is in carefully fitting a campaign seamlessly within the published canon...

After an initial reaction of "meh", my curiosity was piqued by something someone said in our chatroom. I can no longer remember who it was and what he said, but it inspired me to pick up the book. I like it. It works. The fluff is a bit dull and I've never been too keen on new races, but the...

"D20 Lite". Green Ronin's Blue Rose, among others, uses it. Apparently, the rules are a stripped-down, less detailed version of D20. I am led to understand this is supposed to be faster.

Apart from Monte Cook... Well, there's James Wyatt. Jeff Grubb. Ed Greenwood. Mike Mearls. And in the past I've generally made it a point to buy at least one book by every D20 author we've had as a regular chatter at #dnd3e (printed book, that is, since it's currently not even an option for me...

Well, there was that one Cthulhu-style Sunless Citadel that I ran. The basic idea was that kobolds were Cthulhu cultists and goblins followed Hastur. They were pretty surprised when Meepo nearly bit the wizard's hand off and the swarm of evil kobolds carried off the dwarf paladin to be...