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When cutting and pasting from a PDF, I always seem to have to put a little work into re-formatting, fixing characters like apostrophes that don't come across right, etc. Not a big deal, but that's why a RTF file would be nice (you could include it in the same .zip file) - or at least much...

A remorhaz can be even more frustrating - it's got a bunch of bulette abilities (come up from underneath & disappear again by burrowing, swallow whole) - plus it melts your weapons. Having the hilt of your favorite sword burn your hand as its blade drips molten steel onto your boots is pretty...

This is one of the things I've had in mind while creating the New Iconics -- B3's forthcoming series of characters that are statted out, equipped, and fleshed-out from 1st level through epic. Because this will let you have all the character sheets prepared in advance, it'd be super-easy to do a...

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It'll be interesting to see how that translates into the Living campaign for Eberron. One of the things I found interesting about overview statistics for the Living Greyhawk campaign was that bonus-feat-and-skill-points results in a selection of PCs that pretty well represents the racial...

Me too - I've been excited about the Beast Builder ever since hearing you talk about it at Gen Con Indy, and having building blocks from it as a RTF file would be cool indeed. P.S. Thanks for correcting the Masters and Minions entry, Quillon!

I'd like to play a manga-style game in which clothes are always the first casualty in any battle: the drow swordswoman's slash cuts through the belt of the handsome paladin: will he provoke an AoO as he tries to keep his pants up, or fight heroically in the buff? The dragon's breath weapon...

The Hugo and Nebula award anthologies have often excerpted parts of the novel that won that year's award; it's quite common for an author to publish part of their work as a short story, then develop it into a complete novel, even as the original story is reprinted in a Year's Best anthology...

Lots of cool stuff to check out - this shopping list is going to make for a happy holiday season for my FLGS :) Chris, did you do Vortex of Madness in the early days of the SRD before Githyanki became PI, or did you get special permission to use 'em, or did you refer to 'em obliquely without...

I think it'd work best on a blackmail model: Dear Publisher, Your book The Power-Gamer's Guide to Awesome Sweetness has been selected for inclusion in the Year's Worst d20. By clicking on the attached PayPal link, you may choose to decline this nomination... If all goes well, the book would...

I've always thought githyanki & githzerai were cool, but I've gotten even more interested in them since learning that they were invented by Charles Stross, IMHO one of the most important SF writers to come along in the past decade. (Here's an interview with him about how they came out of a...

Both of the big guns of cyberpunk SF evolved away from nihilism in their later (and IMHO better) work; check out Gibson's Virtual Light and Sterling's Holy Fire for good examples. Neither is particularly game-ready, but it's a good proof of concept that what you're trying to do is not...

Just wanted to point out that all the "Year's Best" collections I know of are essentially the choices of one or two people -- Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, for example, could be titled "Year's Best According To Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling". The decision to use a recognized name is a...

Now that's what I like in a monster - staying power! And fear! Crothian, did your players run because they feared for their lives (swallow whole), or for their weapons - like a rust monster but without the obvious "uh oh, looks like DM thinks we're overequipped" angle?

You know, the bizarre arctic worms that radiate heat so intense that weapons striking them melt -- that swallow you whole (on a roll of natural 20 to hit in 1E!) -- that have an awesome Trampier illustration in the AD&D Monster Manual, but were first depicted by Erol Otus in The Dragon #2. Lots...

You want awe-inspiring? Try sharing your home with hundreds of stirges and minotaurs. I'm really looking forward to getting that list of donors so that I can inflict all these monsters on someone else!

Well, you're assuming that the year's best publishing in our field will include PI materials. Are you saying that the growing number of people who are releasing all or almost all of their work as open content are naive, or haven't understood what they're doing? I'd be honored to have...

Cool! Do you know if either of those has an online edition or archive of back issues?

Well, cable TV. G4TechTV to be precise. But still, super cool! Their show Screen Savers features a segment on Gen Con So Cal which includes interviews with Peter Adkinson of Gen Con, Ed Stark of Wizards, and Nat Sims of Behemoth3 - pretty stellar company (even if we are prefaced with the...

The Science-Fictional Future of the Gaming Industry Here are my own thoughts on the nutty, far-out future of gaming; things that would make the 40th Anniversary of roleplaying games not just an extension of current trends (whether positive or negative), but a fundamental shift in the way things...