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This is exactly why I'm happy about tieflings in the PHB. FINALLY, after 30 freaking years of High Fantasy races in what was originally conceived of as a Sword and Sorcery RPG, we have all of ONE core race other than human appropriate to a Sword and Sorcery game! :D As such, the inclusion of...

As a GM, I've simply not had enough time to prep and run a game. Once, I put a game on hiatus with the intention of picking it up at an indeterminate later date; about six months later, the laptop that had my notes on it died, and while I could have recovered the plans, by then it seemed like a...

Would you be using NWoD (or OWoD) splats for the various Eberron races? So spellcasters would cast Mage style, Shifters would use Werewolf rules, Vampires would be, well, Vampires, Warforged would be Prometheans and Changelings and Kalashtare would, I guess, use the Changeling rules? Or, would...

Hope it works out for you! I still can't suggest checking out Spirit of the Century strongly enough, though. If nothing else, it should prove a rich source of house rule inspiration. "Quoted For Truth."

Half a million compared to 8-9 million subscribers for WoW, 10-12 million NEW copies of Final Fantasy 7 sold, or even an estimated 5 million active D&D players? Again, 500k isn't above the range the more successful Suikoden and Wild ARMs games shot for, much less really high profile offline...

Personally, I don't have a problem with the number of elves. Lots of people must like them, or else why include them? If lots of people like them, it makes sense to have them around. Then again, I don't expect to use the core book races AT ALL except in Spelljammer games, where half-elves...

Actually, I think you'd be much, much happier with an RPG that isn't D&D. For a non tactical RPG, I can't recommend Evil Hat Productions' Spirit of the Century strongly enough. Its whole system is built around your declaring some cool thing you want to try - and then making it happen. It...

I agree with this; my only caveat is that in this case, it's the "good" that's in question, not the "standard." But that assumes a standard that hasn't changed. We have the races we have because Gary Gygax felt it economically necessary to include a nod to Tolkien in his homage to Howard...

I would guess the balor fits the "Triathlete" role or whatever it was they slotted the dragon (and beholder, IIRC) into - a boss monster that's supposed to challenge the PCs all on its own, probably by getting multiple actions each round. I'm also assuming such monsters will be available from...

Ah, OK. I was bored stiff (pun only somewhat intended) by Diablo 1, so I never got 2 and didn't recognize that. Put that way, it makes ME think of Angels and Archangels in Heroes of Might and Magic, who could rez other stacks in combat and were ALSO awesome. :)

I've read The Masters of Doom; the fact that id Software's creators played D&D and were inspired by it when they created their iconic first-person shooter doesn't exactly reflect on the creation of a genre that predated Doom by over a decade. ;) Haven't read Dungeons and Dreamers, though...

As a Designer: When the SRD comes out, I'll write third-party product for 4e, both for my own multistatted products and for other companies who want to put out 4e material. I'll still release 3e-compatible versions of all my own electronic products until such time as it no longer seems to be a...

I like it a lot, have no desire to put it in small sized font, and implemented it in a fairly cludgy manner in the last 3.5 campaign I ever ran by having "boss" type NPCs spend their wealth-by-level on Contingent Spells ala Complete Arcane. The idea of it becoming core and expected is probably...

I'll be starting both of these shortly. Fall of the Ivalician Empire A sequel campaign set approximately 500 years after my last Ivalice campaign. Ivalician power has never been greater, but nor have Ivalician corruption or decadence. Into the rotting heart of this once-glorious empire go the...

Personally, I find movement speeds and especially RANGES listed in squares MUCH easier to use, whether I'm using a battlemat or not. Bravo to this change!

Nah, as noted above, it's so Castlevania. In other words, AWESOME. :D

Considering that CRPGs, while influenced in their gameplay by D&D, actually seem to be direct descendants of text adventure games that had more in common with Choose Your Own Adventure books, I'm not sure D&D was a necessary prerequisite for them. On the other hand, the style of computer...

Wow. My experience couldn't be more different. Provided they listed it as in stock, I've never had an item take more than a week to get to me from Amazon (with Super Saver Shipping), and rarely that.

I certainly reject it. I know of literally not one D&D player in my group (which includes 15+ people, BTW) who hasn't at least run one session of some RPG, and only one or two who haven't run at least one campaign. By the same token, not one hasn't been a player in at least one campaign. My...

I'm pretty sure Fumi Ishikawa did at least some of Suikoden 3 as well, but I'm not sure how much. I have a copy of Suikoden 5 sitting next to me, and perusing the manual reveals nothing... :\ I'd prefer not to add Amano, myself. Maybe if he were the ONLY artist working on the book, I...