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I quite liked the cavalier, inquisitor, oracle, and witch. I do have one issue with the oracle, however - I simply can't stand the curses. It's not merely the execution (although I wasn't happy with that either, for the reasons that Kaisoku spelled out), but the very idea. The basic concept of...

The Tome of Secrets has a priest class, which is very similar (but not exactly the same) as the cloistered cleric.

What about Age of Worms?

A god doesn't grant spells to a cat in return for worshipful purring. A cat grants purrs to a god in return for casting spells on the cat's behalf. Having said that, I'd go with rogue. :)

While my first choice would be to play with Pathfinder, I simply love Trailblazer. I picked up the PDF a while ago and recently got the print version. What I love about it is that there are many bits that can be incorporated into PF as easily as it can be incorporated into 3.5. The solo and...

No, the "lesson" of the quote is not that we should make unsubstantiated blanket insults. There's no "lesson"; I wasn't quoting Gygax as if his word is sacred ("Our Father"? I respect the man, but come on), I was quoting him because it suggests what he had in mind for his campaign. Insisting...

Now that you mention it, I've noticed (and I'm sure you have too) that the DL and FR novels now have the D&D logo featured prominently on the cover, while the campaign setting logos are only on the spine. They seem to be wanting to give the D&D brand itself the central focus, so calling the new...

Why do you think that's what they'll be calling it? There's the Nentir Vale Gazetteer coming out next year, but I didn't think that this is the next campaign setting.

[pure speculation]When you put it that way, I wonder if the red box at all indicates that the next setting is Mystara. While I'd be surprised if this were the case, Mystara would certainly work perfectly well using only the Essentials red box.[/pure speculation]

Ah, I think I see your point. The way I look at it, though, is that because GH incorporates elements from all these authors, any one of them could be represented in GH. It's not necessary to include all elements into a single adventure or location. The way I play, I see the variety of monsters...

You've gotten the conditional statement wrong. The claim is not that if you like S&S, then you'll like GH. That would imply that if you don't like GH, then you don't like S&S. That's the thing that you're saying is wrong, and I agree with you. But it's not the claim being made. The claim is...

I think an answer to the question of Greyhawk's relevance might be found in Gary Gygax's forward to the original D&D rules published in 1974: D&D has grown and changed much since those days, but that was when Greyhawk took shape. So remove "DUNGEONS and DRAGONS" from the above quote and...

I was pretty clear, in the passages you quoted, that my point was not about establishing the relevance of Greyhawk (indeed, as I stated, it's an open question to me). My issue was with your criterion of relevance. But you seem to insist on misinterpreting what I say. Fine. I'll save you some...

No. Not at all. I was challenging your definition of relevance as requiring people to be paying attention to it. To describe what I was doing as special pleading is to beg the question on your understanding of relevance. A society could pay no attention to medical science; that does not mean...

That's a good point. All the information is there for me to play in a Greyhawk campaign. If what I'm after is a campaign that I can make my own, then I don't need WotC or anyone else to publish the setting anew. Of course, if we follow through with that line of reasoning, if I want to make my...

Given that I was making a general claim, and not exempting anything from a general rule, in what sense is what I said special pleading?

Out of curiosity, if you've never read much about Greyhawk, how do you know that it's "bland and boring"? There's no reason you have to learn about it if you don't want to, but your judgment seems to go beyond this.

I don't know what Stormonu has in mind, but the fact that it isn't played much does not mean it's irrelevant. Something could be relevant if it has something to offer us, even if no one recognized that relevance. Having said that, it is still worth asking why (or whether) something is relevant...

I don't want to derail the thread, but I feel strongly enough about this issue to want to briefly address it. (Besides, it's somewhat relevant to a point I make below.) I'm also under the impression that 3.x assumed you'd typically (not exclusively) fight one monster at a time. However, in my...

As Klaus pointed out, the Greyhawk Wars were not a conflict of Good vs. Evil. Greyhawk is more complex (and plausible) than that. Some conflicts are more about Law vs. Chaos (Trithereon can and does come into conflict with Heironeous, say - and both are good deities), or other factors...