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I agree with this sentiment, and it makes me skeptical of plans to take away free access to signatures. Most signatures are just noise and I've learned to ignore them, but there are a number I've seen that contain very helpful links to posts and material that I wouldn't have found otherwise...

Having just got my PHB3, the races section makes me wonder about how much will be different in the Essential books. It seems like a fair assumption that there will be new and different builds for the classes presented in the Essentials line - but what about races? All of the races in the PHB3...

I can't remember specifics or anything, but I seem to recall that in Ptolus Monte Cook played around a bit with NPCs having the same first or last name. In a few cases the characters were related, in a few others there was no link and it was just a coincidence, and in one or two cases they were...

The new covers are attractive - I think they'll definitely stand apart from the current 4e covers, while still maintaining a lot of stylistic links. The recent thread on the marketing of D&D (to adults or to children) made me wonder something though - how visible are these covers to potential...

The horse is on its way out of the barn for me. I've been DMing 4E since release and having a good time of it, but some facets of the system are starting to grate on me. The tactical nature of the combat is fun for myself and the seasoned miniature wargamers of my main group, but several of...

WotC have been marketing D&D as a 'more social' alternative to MMORPGs for quite some time - this ad is from 2005. I don't have any more recent examples, but I've seen banner ads expressing the same ideas on Penny-Arcade in the last two years or so. I think the tongue-in-cheek jabs at the...

I didn't see it posted earlier in the thread, and you need to be a member of the PP forums to download the .pdf, so I figured I'd repost the notice sent to PP and the response they gave their fans. (attached as .pdf as well in a more readable format)

If Privateer Press felt that they had the legal duty to comply with what Lone Wolf was asking, they had to make it public. Complying with Lone Wolf involved deleting several threads and censoring a commonly used phrase - this wouldn't have gone unnoticed. Imagine if they'd put the word...

I'd love systemless adventures - it is pretty much how I use my adventures anyway. I don't think I've run an adventure 'by the books' stats-wise in my entire DMing career. At the end of my 3E run when I did Ptolus my system was so house-ruled that I re-did lots of the big encounters. When we...

As I interpreted it, Sheperd killed TF141 because they knew or would find out that he had engineered the entire war between the US and Russia. He had used this war to get 'a blank cheque' from the American military and radically increase his personal power. It isn't really presented very...

It was a real shame because some minis that were pretty cool concepts (Warforged Artificer comes to mind) ended up looking like blobby wrecks.

Yeah, I don't really think it is that duplicitous for Trevor to say something like that. I first saw his message on Twitter, and in my Twitter feed right now I have two other people (webcomic artists) saying something almost identical. I remember last year before he announced DungeonADay Monte...

You're probably right - I don't think they did the best job of making the visible minis equal in value. If you look at the secondary market, there is a fairly wide spread in prices between some of the boosters from the newer MM sets. Just from MiniatureMarket,the Balor Boosters are 18.50 vs...

From WOTC Forums Interesting development. I'm not too surprised that the PH Minis line didn't have much traction. At least in my case, I only use plastic minis for monsters and the PCs are usually a metal mini that more closely fits their character concept. I'm curious if they will move back...

Oh, I forgot about Monster errata - I print out most monsters I use on 4x6 index cards (from the .pdfs when they were available, from the Monster Builder for newer books) so any of the significant monster errata have been penciled in on the relevant cards. The books are still untouched, and I...

After the first set of errata was released for the core books I put a bit of time into mocking them up in InDesign so that I could seamlessly paste them over the passages in the books. I finished all of the PHB updates right around the time that the second set of errata came out - and realized...

Is the Hybrid Talent feat printed in that update? I couldn't find it in my read through, only mentions in the class writeups. Can you take it more than once, or is that only available with Paragon hybrid?

What kind of opportunities are there for PCs to find supplies that can benefit the village? Is the village the first civilized outpost in this area, or is it on the remains of some fallen ancient civilization? The PCs could venture to the ruins of an old dwarven forge in the mountains...

Amazing. I'm starting to sketch out a West-Marches style sandbox and flavourful little lairs like this are exactly what I need.

Er, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. While there might not be forests in the middle of the Sahara, it is definitely possible to have forested areas in the midst of a desert. Look at Arizona on Google Maps - dry, brown deserts broken up by swaths of forest along waterways and on the...