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There's a decent little anthology called Hitler Victorious which features stories about... well, guess. Editors I believe are Gregory Benford and Martin Greenbert. It was inspired by the Iron Dream and similar novels. S. M. Stirling has a sort-of alternate history series that sets up a cold war...

From the article: I guess those of us who are bewildered by the idea of finite space are left to find comfort in ice cream. Somebody pass the neapolitan...

It kinda depends what you're interested in. AU is basically a new set of base classes and a new magic system, so for best value you'll want to use either or both in your game. IMHO it works best run on its own, combining it with the PH is doable but takes a time investment. The minis won't add...

No arcane caster is rough from about 5th to 11th level. Below 5th a wide range of weird party compositions can work just fine, above 11th a cleric can handle a lot of the arcane caster duties (though ideally you want two clerics in the group in that case). 5th to 11th is when the arcane caster...

In this context, it seems pretty clear that "official" means "is allowed to use the Dungeons and Dragons brand name/trademarks/etc., instead of operating under the OGL or d20STL." In other words, it's a marketing distinction. I'm somewhat mystifed that so many people think that marketing...

Right, party A: Aggro the Axe, 4th level fighter Abner, 5th level magic-user Arkayn, 4th level cleric Arlanni, 2nd level thief Party B: Gutboy Barrelhouse, 6th level dwarf fighter Balto, 1st level monk Blastum, 4th level magic-user Barjin, 4th/5th half-elf fighter/magic-user Party A wins the...

Hmm, not quite sure what the basic question is. Let me approach this from a metagame level: I'm a member of a group of people who get together regularly to play D&D and have fun. When I DM, I have fun by running adventures during which my players have fun. So I talk to them and find out what...

I've had the book for a bit over a month now, and just started running a game recently. Here's a combination of my impressions and early player feedback; it's concentrated around the lower levels, since that's where our playing experience is. Thumbs up is an enjoyable balanced class, thumbs down...

In the Arcana Unearthed world I'm working on, I'm sticking with just the PC races for humanoids - Giants, Humans, Faen, Litorians, Sibeccai, Mojh. With no alignment I don't really need a specifically "evil" humanoid race, and the AU races cover a nice range of sizes and abilities. In D&D, I'd...

Believe it is strictly game balance - spell effects are balanced by level, not by save type. If reflex saves were easier to bypass than fortitude or will saves then spells allowing reflex saves would have to be a bit weaker to compensate. Whatever description you give in game for a successful...

I kinda like single-session adventures for an introductory adventure. Wizards Amulet, available free from Necromancer Games, is a nice little adventure that's straightforward enough to be a good teaching session and usually gives the group a nice sense of accomplishment at the end. It can lead...

The campaign I'm currently playing in has sort of a low-powered epic feel. The background when we started was that the gods were dormant and had been for a thousand years or more. The gods were the source of magic in the world, so with them gone only low-level spell effects were possible - up to...

I prefer point buy because I hate to see a good character concept get steamrolled by bad rolls.

Eh, it's completely playable, and the layout isn't a big deal for anyone who still uses it - they likely have 10 or more years of experience. The big knock against reissuing old modules for 1E is the people most likely to buy them already have them. That restricts the market to a prohibitive...

You can get even closer to this case: create a story that includes vampires, werewolves, and star-crossed lovers from feuding factions set in urban club culture ('cause if it's cool enough for the Matrix, it's cool enough for this). Now imagine how many "points of similarity" from the suit WW...

"If you can find it for less" is my estimation of Malhavoc's position. It may come as a shock to you, but they don't determine what Walmart charges. If you buy the book from Malhavoc, it'll cost you $30, and the PDFs are $18. Walmart will sell you the book for $19, and won't sell you the PDFs...

The hardback cover price is $29.95 US. If you can find it for less, great, go for it - but I suspect Malhavoc's PDF pricing is based on the cover price. They probably also figure anybody buying all three PDFs will pay the bundle deal of $18.

I usually treat planar travel as a big event. Spells to get to other planes are rituals, there's always a hint that things could go wrong and that might be very bad, etc. That's more a sense-of-wonder thing than anything else, I don't want the planes becoming just another place you go. It's also...

Hmm. I'll happily consider anything a player wants to use, but I'd have to say I'm far more likely to give the nod to skills, spells, and feats than classes. And since prestige classes seem to be the major contribution most d20 products (or WOTC supplements) focus on, that means there's not much...

I don't doubt it, because I doubt there's any connection. The question wasn't "Did White Wolf copy these ideas", it was "did White Wolf initiate these ideas". They'd have to do the latter to claim ownership. You seem to have this weird idea that if any two products express the same idea, one...