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When (not if) 5e arrives, I'll judge it on its own merits. If I like it, and I suspect I will, then I'll move to it. I enjoyed BECMI D&D. Great game. I got many years of gaming pleasure out of it. I enjoyed (some of) 2e. Was it a better game than BECMI? Not in my opinion. However, it was a...

Varies based on the tier. In our games, we tend to level up after (on average) 6 combat encounters, 4 skill challenges, 1 major quest award, and 3 minor quests / traps / obstacles. XP split is about 60% combat / 40% non-combat. In the Heroic tier, it takes us about 45 minutes on average to...

Our campaigns always set out to hit it, but we have never managed it so far in 4e. All of our campaigns start at 1st level. We've had several campaigns terminate in TPKs at 8-10th level. We've had two campaigns terminate in TPKs at 19th level. We've had one campaign terminate in a TPK...

I can only recall seeing Blackmoor on two maps: the classic Greyhawk campaign setting map, and the four Blackmoor-based BECMI modules (e.g. DA1-DA4). Possibly also in the old Masters ruleset from BECMI? There was a line map of Mystara on the inside cover, which might have had the outline area...

The golem does whatever is most cinematic and liable to raise player anxiety. In my game, it begins turning that "small door" into a gaping hole large enough to fit through by tearing huge pieces out of the wall. It'll be obvious that it will take some time to get through (so the players don't...

I view "casual gaming" as a group of friends who will occasionally do some roleplaying. No set schedule, no long-term campaigns, no long-standing commitment to a rule-set, and random newbies might show up to any old session and just play a fill-in character. I don't see it as having anything to...

Stable. I have 6 steady players (plus myself as DM), and 3 others who participate whenever they're in the area. We use a homebrew campaign world that has been around for 25 years. Over 250 years of history have passed in the setting over that period, so events that my players triggered 10...

It's a caste thing, although there is an implication that some of the koroashi races might have resulted from genetic modification by the culture-as-a-whole in the past. For example, the kopru may have been (willingly) mutated from land-bound mind flayers through genetic modification in the far...

In my homebrew campaign world, the koroashi [eaters of knowledge]. This includes mind flayers, aboleths, kopru and neh-thalggu. Unlike other campaign worlds that split the races out, I see them all as part of a single culture. They arrived on the Material Plane as intruders from "elsewhere" a...

You're wrong. :) If you want to simplify the roll, make it 1d10+2, as suggested by keterys. That has an identical distribution to 1d12 (reroll all 1's and 2's). You have an equal chance of getting any number between 3 and 12. Rolling 3d4 produces a bell curve. This might be easier to see if...

[SPOILERS] S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth is one of my favorite AD&D modules, especially when paired with WG4 Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun. For anyone who is unaware, these two old classics are a "loose" series. They are set in the same basic geographical area, and the "friendly NPCs / patrons"...

I'm glad to hear that the modules were perceived as "too easy" by experienced players. That sounds exactly like it should be for a Game Day. I attended a 3e game day some years back where we had a mix of experienced (3 players) and inexperienced (2 players), and we were utterly decimated by the...

As a mini junkie, I'd normally be all on board for this. The randomized nature of the packages doesn't faze me at all, as it's really the only reasonable business model for making this sort of thing available. However... The price point is high. I understand why this is, and I might still be...

I don't normally respond to posts, but I'm forced to this one time. Please re-read my post. I actually sort of agree with some of your points. If you're playing in an environment where the majority of creatures are human (e.g. D20 Modern or similar), than I agree that daggers or knives could be...

Who I support, and who I think I should support, are the same thing: any publisher that has a product that I am interested in buying, and does not carry out illegal activities. I don't care if they're "Big Business". I don't care if they "don't listen to their customers". I don't care if they...

#1: Heroic fantasy, guys. Conan looks much better posing with the obligatory Nubile Maiden (TM) while holding a 5-foot greatsword or battleaxe... rather than a 4-inch knife. #2: As JRRNeiklot noted above, not many daggers on the field of battle in real history. #3: Daggers may be dangerous...

...and specifically, if you were looking for "blood hammer" in giak, it'd be Adez Moggador.

Good info on other sources, but actually incorrect. There was an orcish lexicon printed in the classic Dragon #75: "Even Orcish is logical" by Clyde Heaton. The only challenge is that it's not a "naming" lexicon - it's more like a "Tourist's Dictionary". It has many of the words you'd need for...

That gets a hearty "Huzzah!" from me. I've disliked the Delve format ever since it's 3e introduction, and was disappointed to see 4e continue with it (especially given the generally reduced size of 4e monster statblocks - I thought it would have been an ideal time to return to inline encounter...

My justification for the City of Doors is... well... because it's the City of Doors. In other words, exactly what it says on the label. Sigil has the highest concentration of portals anywhere in the Multiverse. For those who have dealings on interests in other planes (angels, devils, proxies of...