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Woot! If you do, does that make me an honorary Sammich Guy too? :P If so, all shall be right in the world and an everlasting time of great joy and happiness will come upon the earth, at least where ever I am standing at that moment and until the moment passes. Still, I would be happy as a...

The large/huge half giant is a pain to deal with adventuring. I like the redone 7' tall one. That is teh only thing I would swap out of the original setting.

Dark Sun doesn't have big good NPCs like the other settings. All of the NPCS that are big are ancient and evil.

I am not sure you read the Dark Sun boxed set now. I think your thinking of another setting, lol. First off, there never were dragons before the cleansing war. Then, the champions of rajaat used their dark rituals to turn ONE of their kind into the Dragon, Borys. Their is one dragon that...

Flying, skinny godzilla ;), that breathes superheated sand. Oh, and drains life.

That's the power attack part in action! Although, we should probably test it out both ways to make sure. We will wait to hear back from Jaerdaph to see if it breaks in his game first. If so, then I can give it a quick edit. ;)

Conflict resolution allows for resolving outcomes between two or more opposed results that cannot be done through the measured physics of the typical task systems of D&D and other similar games. Usually, these systems resolve social conflicts or pit the odds of certain circumstances in a broader...

I think this is the case, that wizards will make attack rolls for their spells with a + to hit from INT modifiers. Clerics will use WIS, etc.

Dragonlance and Greyhawk aren't different enough from Forgotten Realms or Eberron in gameplay or market perception to warrant doing them that soon. Greyhawk and Dragonlance suffers from lack of campaign setting interest too. I would bet Darksun and Planescape are the first two around the...

My list isn't based on my personal preference. It is my professional opinion what I think is best for WOTC to do based on my understandings of 4e, D&D settings, the interests of the fanbase and what seems like the likely path. I could be wrong though. Personally I would like to see Spelljammer...

Books 1-4 are pretty good and give a good feel for the Dark Sun setting. Book 5 is bad and hurts the setting with the way it ends. That is all I will say. You should read them.

I don't know why, but I really love those Sammich Guys. I mean alot. Almost an unhealthy amount, and not totally but mostly, in a platonic way. Everyone should give them 2.00 just because and me 1.00 since your giving them 2.00 anyways ;) Hey Jaerdaph, can I get a special guest npc spot or...

You take the marketing approach I brought up. Mix in everything A'koss is saying with the heroes and villians, artifacts, world events and such, then give it a good look and feel and rename or remove those bad names and I think Greyhawk could have a second life again.

Which it is sounding like 4e is finally incorporating something of this nature.

I wasn't being all inclusive. From my experience and what others have said, story driven GMs tend to fudge over simulation driven GMs. I think this is a given. I also think 99% of story driven games do this. But, when all of those statistically modified random results that did help build a...

I had forgotten about them till now :P Yet another example what to remove from Spelljammer. http://www.spelljammer.org/monsters/conversions/SpaceSwine.html For those who don't know what he is referring to.

This is a must. Agree 100% The idea of the party running through the halls of a spelljammer they just boarded and firing their pistols and rifles, then going to melee weapons like raipers and daggers is too cool. On the other hand, I'd emphasize the fantastic designs of the ships; more...

I second this. The degree of "cheating" is tied to the playstyle of the group. The story driven party is more likely to have a DM who fudges rules to get the story to go the way they want. The simulationist style of players are going to accept the rules as they occur. But, both of these groups...

Ok, low level planar adventuring. Starting characters in the planes. 1) What do you do to make this work? 2) What sort adventures do players go on? What changes to the planescape cosmology or D&D rules to make these two design constraints work better than in previous editions?

What changes need to be made to Ravenloft to make it play better? What changes to new characters and what tools given to DMs make it run smooth and give the proper horror experience without sacrificing the base systems of D&D or burdening the game with to many add on game systems?