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[Puts on Flame-Retardent Armor] To tell the truth, I never liked Planescape. I always envisioned the planes as some legendary, mystical places, not as some cosmic adventuring grounds. Plus the setting and all the inherent factions and philosophy never made much sense to me. For those...

Speak Language! In almost every D&D setting that I've played in it's assumed that everyone in the world speaks common. As a result, no one ever buys ranks in speak language. As a fellow gamer told me, "Speak language is a friggin' waste of skill points!"

I would be interested in contributing to a d20 Linguistics book! I have a BA in Linguistics, and I will be starting a graduate program in Applied Linguistics next semester. I am also a gamer. As such, I feel qualifiied to contribute to a d20 linguistics project. Anyway, give me a PM or...

Fantasy Linguistics Guide? As someone with a BA in linguistics I have two words: $#@! YES! I would love to see linguistics finally expounded upon. I've seen one too many campaigns where everyone speaks the exact same language and dialect. Even in campaigns where different languages exists...

In my homebrew goblins aren't some savage tribe, rather they have their own kingdom, Kuk-Ngo-Thal. However, they are very despised by most other kingdoms because of their militaristic nature. Kuk-Ngo-Thal has been in several wars to expand her territory against the neighboring dwarven and...

Well all the years of playing Dungeons & Dragons didn't turn me into a satanist, but D&D did turn me into someting far worse!

This thread has really gotten some replies. My initial post was a little "ranty" (as many posts are). As far as the planes being "complex", I was refering to a lot of the 1e and 2e material, especially the Planescape setting (which was often very surreal). The heavens and hells were pretty...

I'll admit I really hate the concept of the various planes in D&D. I've always hated monster statistics that state that the monster "comes from the elemental plane of X". I've always hated spells that allow the user to contact the "plane of Y". It just seems like the whole D&D cosmology is so...

2e started out OK. In fact in some ways it was an improvement over 1e (yes, the blasphemy)! 2e managed to get rid of the annoying hit matrices and made the bard a playable class. In fact, 2e spawned some of the greatest settings ever. The problem came in the form of the endless source...

There are a lot of fantasy clichés that I'm absolutely sick of. Specifically I don't want to see any more D&D campaigns incorporating the following clichés: Universal Language: Most D&D campaigns seem to take place before the Tower of Babel. While I understand that the common tongue makes...

charisma In today's society image is everything. Intelligence and wisdom are overrated. Having good social skills and a good image is much more important in many areas than being intelligent or wise. I've seen too many extremely intelligent people get rejected for jobs that went to dumb, yet...

Hearing some of these stories make me wonder if Jack Chick and Pat Pulling were right all along! ;) Seriously, I doubt that gamers on average are any more maladjusted than the rest of the population. However, there does seem to be something about gaming that seems to attract some rather...

The most interesting person I gamed with was a girl whom I shall simply call "S". I met S one morning at my high school's game club. I soon learned that she was despised by a large portion of the student body because she was (among other things) overweight, physically unattractive, and...

I find myself in a bad gaming situation. Ever since my previous gaming group broke up, I have had a hard time finding a permanent gaming group. I've done a lot of one shot games with various people, but I haven't played in an ongoing campaign for a while. Part of the problem is that there...

Obviously this list is highly subjective. With each of us looking for different things in a game, our opinions will vary significantly. In my opinion the worst D&D products are: 1. Complete Ninja's Handbook 2. Hero Builders Guide: Most people don't want to shell out $12 for a simple list of...

It's nice to know that there are other 3.0 Diehards out there! To keep peace (and keep Eric's grandmother happy) I have to supress my hatred on these boards, but I personally HATE 3.5e (or 3.$e) with a passion. The release of 3.5e nearly killed D&D for me all together. I have only brought a...

Some years back in high school I ran a GURPS: Cyberpunk game which was TOTALLY ripped off of various movies and video games. For example, it had a corrupt government performing experiments on children to unleash their psychic potential (from Akira) and villain clad in a black trenchcoat who...

I never use review to influence my buying. It just seems that my tastes are too different from most other people's to put too much trust in reviews. Too often I see reviews that say that a product sucks when I think it rocks, or vice-versa.

If I were to guess I would say that it would be a 3.5 update. Seeing that everything is going 3.5 these days along with the hordes of fanatical 3.5 diehards, an update would be natural. Of course, that is just pure speculation.

I'm neutral in regards to elves. On one hand they are integral to most standard D&D fantasy campaigns-the quintessential fantasy race. On the other hand they are often portrayed in D&D supplements as insanely powerful "tree huggin' nature freaks", not to mention to absurd number of elven...