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I really envy you fast readers. It would probably take me an hour to read, cover-to-cover, a book like Book of Iron Might (60pp). I'm guessing that's not what you meant by "a larger book." (And it's not just my imagination--i can't read over someone's shoulder most of the time, 'cause they turn...

Every now and then i really miss playing D&D. The last time that hit me, i played D&D3E. If that'd been my only experience with D&D i never would've loved it in the first place--yech. This time around, i was the GM (rather than a player), so i could pick how to scratch my D&D itch. I chose...

I'd say red--that's the only color to appear on the cover of a rulebook prior to D&D3E, isn't it? Though, if i could've voted for more than one, i'd say red and silver. With blue, black, and white tied for a very distant 3rd. Because when i think of D&D dragon, the only colors i really think of...

Well, first of all, my track record for RPG books is better than for non-RPG books. As someone once said, buying more books than you have time to read is optimism in action. I really do intend to read all the books i buy. It just doesn't always happen. It's a lot like ordering too much food for...

Um, the sample is even more skewed by the forum [than merely doing it online would skew it]. EnWorld started out as a D&D3E forum, branched out into D&D-supporting D20 System and a bit of AD&D (mostly as context), then further expanded to deal with all D20 System stuff, and only recently has...

Not even close. If by 'D&D' you mean D&D3[.5]E, it's actually on my "i'm never playing that again unless there are significant and compelling mitigating circumstances". If by 'D&D' you mean the general sort of high-fantasy adventure-quest gaming that D&D has historically been about, then it's...

In the real world, many more people are injured by wild herbivores than by wild carnivores. In general, herbivores are the most dangerous wild animals--carnivores tend to only attack when (1) they're hungry and (2) they're sure they can win (and they're rarely sure they can win against people...

That's kinda what i'm hoping, and seeing the players' guide has almost pushed me over the edge; i'm --><--this close to pre-ordering. My only real remaining concerns are tying too much into the D&D classes/races (i.e., all major NPCs are elf/dwarf/human/gnome/halfling, rather than orcs and...

I was unclear (or, arguably, wikipedia is). The "open-ended" concert flute is only open on one end. That is, the transverse blowhole is not at the end of the flute, it's on the side, and there is a cap on the end closest to the blowhole, while the other end is open. With pan pipes, the blowhole...

Dunno; never like either enough to bother trying. As an example, i consider the Seven... line from Atlas to be perfectly useable with other game systems. The classic Citybook line is my gold standard--and those were, despite some serial-number-filing, written specifically for D&D. On...

Nitpick 1: I'm pretty certain that one end of a flute needs to be closed for it to work. So it can't be hollow all the way through. Of course, that may be more realism than is needed for such a weapon/instrument. Nitpick 2: A tube with holes in it would make a poor blowgun, unless you stoppered...

Yeah, the particular things that have me torn right now are: I've been wanting a super-deluxe, super-detailed fantasy city setting for a couple decades. How useful will Ptolus be for not-D&D3E, and for that matter non-D20 System play? (Maybe Monte will answer this question, since he's missed...

Arcana Unearthed wasn't initially a setting. Frankly, i wish it had stayed that way--the large %age of Diamond Throne content in Arcana Evolved was one of the main things that prevented me buying it. Iron Heroes isn't a setting and, unless i missed a product, the supplements haven't created one...

Can only cause conflict and grief? Discussions of sensitive, world-shaping topics can never lead to (1) understanding of someone else's POV, (2) enlightenment or broadening of view, or (3) a change of opinion? Wow, i guess the legislature can cut out the whole debate part, and just vote on...

Calorie intake doesn't scale proportionately with mass--it doesn't even come close. The bigger the creature, the fewer calories needed in proportion to their mass. Another example of the square-cube law (in this case, the decreasing surface area in proportion to the volume). As an extreme...

I think that highlights the real problem: when fluff and crunch don't agree. When that happens, and you have some people who take the fluff into consideration and some who don't, you get conflict. Frex, when i read just the title and flavor text of the cleave feat, i expect something that really...

I've never been in a gaming group without girls/women--and much of the time more than half the group has been female. That includes having as many as 6 female regulars + drop-ins in my highschool group, and 3 steady female players in my primary college group. And there was the recent group that...

I don't think it's even that your friend needs a hook. Rather, he simply can't create a character prior to playing the character. It's just that having the relatively vague and open-ended packages that are classes and races in D&D allows him to have a character sufficiently-detailed to make the...

Actually, it is arguable that precious metals became the dominant currency in so many places and for so long precisely because they didn't have much (or any) utility value. You can't do anything else with your gold, so you may as well trade it. Something that has intrinsic value, you have to...

Good point. Here's my counter-: How is the GM any more likely to know that the player wants his character to die dramatically--or pointlessly--than another player does? In fact, given the way a lot of groups i've seen play, with the players spending some time collaborating out of GM's earshot...