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Just FYI, numerous real world animals cannot be bred in captivity. If a party breeding rust monsters for efficient magic item conversion offends, you could limit it that way. Clearly, the rust monster produces the same gp amount of residuum as the original item it devoured to make it possible...

This is very encouraging news. I was thinking of putting many of my 3.5e books up for sale. It sounds like there's a pretty eager group of people wanting to buy. If people are having fun playing an RPG, it's all good.

I will note with mild amusement that the Monster Builder tool on the WotC website delivers monsters with the correct damage output from the DMG. Perhaps we need to petition WotC to have their monster designers use their own tool.

Yes, I would definitely agree that this is a problem as well. In fact, I think it leads into a more general issue with the powers so far: they have too little effect on a miss. In the previous editions of D&D, it was a very low probability at higher levels that the warrior types would end up...

I think that directly changing the monster's damage and hit points is the way to go. One of the advantages of 4e's more transparent math for generating opponents is the ability to spot and correct problems exactly like this. My guess is that the designers figured that by the time that...

Ooops, Piratecat below was quite right. Thanks!

Even if your description of WotC were correct (I do not believe it is), WotC is simply a game company. That's it. It doesn't produce deadly weapons, unsafe vehicles or toxic foodstuffs. I think terrorist organizations, tyrannical governments, fraudulent financial institutions, abusive...

Isn't the fact that Sigil is a fascinating and mysterious city, filled with portals leading to and from endless places in the cosmos, populated by interesting NPCs and factions enough to justify its use in any campaign? Do we really need to come up with some special hook, like "Biggest City"...

OK, I wrote this up, decided it was too long to plunk into the thread, but since the thread has died down, I’ll just leave it here for posterity. Yeah, it’s long and rambling. Having read over the Scales of War recently in preparation for starting a new campaign, I've got some notes I wrote up...

This is naive, but has anyone with a similar project ever asked WotC what it would take to obtain a specific license for such a work? It probably wouldn't be worth it just for WotC's lawyers to take a look at it, but I have to admit I'm curious.

Despite my criticisms of the plot threads in Scales of War, I should note that I still plan on using the adventure path. I've had some similar issues with the Paizo adventure paths (the role of the Ebon Triad or Celeste in either of the first two adventure paths, for example), but Mottled Tower...

We're talking about the same NPC. Spoilers blacked out below:

Yes, and the Path adventures to date have been pretty straightforward with the parcel system. My main gripe about this module is that it has the primary problem of all of the previous SoW adventures to a magnified degree: encounters, areas and challenges that would make perfect sense in a...

Pretty much nearly *all* of the Forgotten Realms pantheon were taken from other sources and repurposed with the same names into the Realms. Loviatar, Ilmater, Tyr, the entire Mulhorandi pantheon, the monstrous deities, Oghma, Silvanus, Mielikki and many others. Others are very similar to gods...

While I believe that I am in the minority, I actually prefer the electronic mags to the paper versions. I've never had much of a problem reading on a display, but I would agree that the first read through is better in a paper magazine. After that, I think the advantages of the electronic...

I haven't played or DM'd enough 4e to have a broad perspective on this, but I've seen it written about enough in threads. What do you think about the level of "boss monsters" in final encounters. I've read threads about the final encounters in KotS and Thunderspire often leading to long...

One aspect I've been seeing in some of the published modules that I think might need rethinking is terrain that only hinders the PCs or can only be exploited by the opponents (webs that spiders can walk through, poison pools with poison immune enemies). I've seen this happen to the party a...

While possible, if this problem is one that you have experienced as more prevalent in 4e than in previous editions of D&D, it seems unlikely to be one-trick pony related. After all, in previous editions, the martial classes and low level spellcasters had fairly limited options per round in...

It's a bit basic, but I don't think that makes it silly. As I wrote earlier, I greatly prefer it to every previous explanation used for the Blood War. The majority I've been exposed to are pretty much non-explanations (and proud of it). I utterly dislike the primary Planescape boxed set...

The quote provided says nowhere that Hevastar is the most cosmopolitan. It says that: "many consider that the cosmopolitan heaven of Hestavar is the most beautiful, richest, and civilized." This not only has the qualifier of "many consider", but has Sigil *ever* been identified as the most...