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While gathering such components may not be appropriate for all D&D campaigns, I don't think that referring to such things as stupidities is appropriate. It is, after all, very much in the tradition of the suggestions for magic item creation in 1e and 2e. I believe that requiring such...

I believe there have been designers stating explicitly that there will be no spells or rituals that involve using XPs as fuel. Also, that magic item creation will be accomplished with the ritual system and will not involve XP cost.

You don't say. You don't say. You *don't* say! Who was it? He didn't say!

Yes, it was released a while ago. I do think it didn't attract as much attention as it might have. Of all the Dungeon modules released this year, Touch of Madness does have the greatest feel of a module written for 4e temporarily using 3.5e mechanics. The fluff and background definitely are...

As on the forced movement thread, I think this is primarily there to encourage to get the ranged strikers to move tactically, instead of just finding a cozy spot away from the action and sniping away round after round. It's a carrot to get the ranged strikers moving around the battlefield to...

If that half includes all of Al Qadim, I'll all for it!

I'd imagine the primary issue that having such books be "core" is how elements from those books are referenced in future adventures and supplements. Dungeon magazine had a policy that any monsters or new classes introduced in books after the Big Three had all of their stat blocks and abilities...

I can think of a few reasons: 1) One of their big new classes is the warlord, a class with a strong emphasis on tactical manuevering. This may have led the design team to be thinking about movement powers as they developed the warlord and that bled over to the power development for other...

While there are indeed many reasonable parallels to the Points of Light setting in the real world, I think what primarily inspires this is the portrayal of world in fantasy fiction. In many of the inspirations for D&D, like Conan, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, the Dying Earth and even Lord of the...

I do wish people would spend less time wringing their hands over where the influences of the game came from and more time on the quality of these influences. I don't care if marking came from previous versions of D&D, other RPGs, video games, CCGs or fever dreams after a late night at the...

I think that's a very safe assumption. One area of concern is the very nature of open design, since by nature people are going to be submitting many, many house rules, alternate systems and rebuilt mechanics. In every case of this I can recall, such open calls lead to opposing camps of...

But assuming the Alpha is representative of the final version, will Pathfinder adventures be playtested and designed to challenge 3.5e PCs or their more powerful Pathfinder counterparts? Will those people wishing to use 3.5e find that Pathfinder adventure paths grow more difficult...

Yes and there are several news articles online that give Sept. 1999 as the date that Hasbro announced the acquisition. I think the 2001 date is when Adkinson left Wizards of the Coast post-acquisition. http://ww2.wizards.com/Company/?doc=Founder

I was reading ENWorld from the early days (mostly for the news leaks on 3e), but I rarely posted and have only recently created a new login after the 4e announcement. I did read the forum pretty often. I will say that ENWorld was overall one of the most positive areas of the net for 3e, but I...

I think that many of the skills such as Profession: Beekeeper and Perform: Dance are better captured in the character description and background than mechanically. PCs should feel free to pick as many such skills as they think their background calls for (within reason). If a check is needed...

Has anyone in the history of human interactions ever responded well to psychoanalysis of their motives in a positive way? If anyone's goal is to encourage people to see things their way, I don't think speculating as to others' mental state is going to lead anywhere good.

From my recollection, there was pretty much just as much negative grognardism/positive fanboyisms back at the 3e launch as there is now, if not more so. I do think people forget just how much crap/flamewars were being thrown around back then. It certainly wasn't 90:10 pro-con or anywhere near...

Exactly, nowhere has Paizo burned bridges with 4e support, just that their own Pathfinder series currently is aiming towards 3.5e support and possibly their own house system next year. I won't be surprised at all if we do indeed get some fine products for 4e out of Paizo. As to the Adventure...

I will likely continue buying some of Paizo's 3.5e stuff, but I have no intention of buying the Pathfinder RPG or any Paizo material that compromises 3.5e compatibility in any way at all. And that means, no, I won't consider using conversion documents or free online material to use Pathfinder...

I do think this does point out the rather fine line that Paizo is likely to have to tread. If they deviate too much from 3.5e, they'll be making their own, distinct version of D&D that may alienate those fans who *want* 3.5e material, not 3.75e material. But if it's just mild house rules for...