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Do different editors work on the magazines? I honestly have no idea--but if so, then having two different editorial philosophies and voices would offer a nice (if subtle, given the ultimate control of the line developers) difference in content styles, even aside the crunch/DM tool split the...

It, er, does have them. Bonegrim Armor, AV p. 42.

Arguing that using a new class is the equivalent of implementing a set of optional rules--which are mutually exclusive from the rules in the PHB--from a Big Book of Optional & Alternative Rules is intellectually dishonest to a degree it is difficult to civilly express.

I suspect it's because player characters could not create them, and the ability to create magic items is a significant part of the magic item/economic balance in 4E.

I would prefer not to explain it.

I walk into a game with an attitude that the story isn't what I plan, it's what we retell afterward. The player decisions, including names, inform the shape the world takes around my general idea for the campaign. As long as the names aren't absolutely asinine (and I currently have a Crong, an...

If anyone gives you grief for this, Scott, kicking them in the groin becomes my divinely-inspired mission in life.

To be perfectly fair, a lot of this is Prose Edda content. Loki was a far more minor and less archvillainous figure before Sturluson (a Christian) banged the myths into a shape that more fit his religious worldview.

Really? There's a call for that? I just don't see how it can be made inoffensive--for god's sake, the name alone needs changing! And the content would almost have to be pure orientalism nonsense. It'd be akin to a D&D book called "Indians: Adventures in Noble Savagery".

Some of them seem to be in the new character creator open beta, at least.

Minotaur looks like it's the Monster Manual version, still. Oversized is present.

The problem comes from some people having such an animus against games being played--by people they've never met--differently than they play them (or as they appeared in books they once enjoyed), that they have to make it known how incredibly wrong certain types of play are. My general sense...

Ha. Given that I was born in October, 1982 (Hi, old guys!) and study linguistics, this is quirkily appropriate. (Although I suspect that the magazine actually arrived some time before October, cover dates being what they are.)

He is describing his experiences while acting as a "player"--a sort of writer-director for a single character--within the popular fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Noe, these are imagination games, that take place arond a tabletop with words--not the sort of role-playing game you...

I'm thinking of a fire genasi druid whose "normal" form looks essentially human, just with a ruddy or copper complexion, and whose wildshape is the flame-halo'd ele-man of the WotC illustrations.

Anyone want to lay odds on "Evolve or die" turning into the title of the collected volume?

Sounds like a Cunning Bard, definitely. If you have DDI, the preview is worth checking out.

Contrasting the AD&D1E PHB I recently acquired with the 4E PHB, the former skims a lot like a textbook, especially with the minimum of art (and what is there, is fairly unevocative); the latter comes out and screams "Play me! I'm filled with fun! Look at this guy! He's stout and smashing horned...

From what I understand of Dark Sun, psionic and elemental would be a far better fit for that setting than psionic and ki. Perhaps two each of ki and elemental classes, plus four psionic? Then PHB4 could be two each ki and elemental, plus four shadow.

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