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They're bald if you want them to be bald (...assuming you're the DM). They're not usually bald in my campaigns. Of course, they're usually not purple-skinned with silvery facial markings in my campaign either. Basically, I treat devas as 2e/3e aasimar. They're the distant children of celestial...

I'd suggest caution. I picked up a couple of books and was disappointed. Poor art, shonky statistics, a lack of ingenuity and creativity. I forget the titles (long time ago), but they were two hardback books related to the Lower Planes (devils, demons, etc). Read through them once, then chucked...

I keep a running tally of PC deaths on a piece of notepaper; one line per PC death. I'm about to start my third page since the release of 4e. That's over 50 dead. We play weekly; fairly long sessions. There is some degree of DM fudging, but most of the time we let the dice fall where they may...

3.5e is hard to estimate. From experience with the Age of Worms campaign, we were lucky to squeeze 3 combats into a 5 hour 19th-level session. Most sessions were "1 combat per 2 hours". However, Age of Worms was very carefully designed to prevent most "save-or-die" situations. Monsters had...

Love 4e, played all of KotS (enjoyed it), all of Thunderspire, and some of Pyramid of Shadows (still ongoing). While there were parts of Thunderspire I thought were okay, I absolutely loathed the Trial. Here was my experience: Party of Five - avenger, cleric, bard, warden, fighter...

Panicky post with erroneous headline based on a hypothetical question posited to one person in an online interview, who offered a completely sensible answer ("It'll evolve in a fashion consistent with the continuity of our existing product line, rather than veering off in a wild direction or...

Difficult question. I'll go with "What's my Top #1 from 5 separate editions?", rather than my Top #5 overall. Otherwise, it'd likely be all Basic/Expert modules... B4 - The Lost City (Basic/Expert) GDQ - Queen of Spiders (AD&D) Fires of Dis (2e) Red Hand of Doom (3e) Hook Mountain Massacre...

...ooh, ooh! I know the answer to this one! Run B4 instead. I agree with your position on B2 (...needs more than 1 session to do it justice) and B3 (poorly designed; needs work). But surely we both agree that B4 is the Awesome Sauce? Do Tiers 1-4. You don't even need to do Tier 5 (or anything...

As implied by the previous poster, note that (unlike the modules) Against the Giants is not the first installment in the trilogy that ends with Descent and Queen. Instead, it starts with White Plume Mountain, followed by Descent into the Depths of the Earth and Queen of the Demonweb Pits. The...

That'd be my answer as well. In my campaign, it's all about belief. If enough people believe that a thing (god, archfiend, large tree, whatever) is divine and can grant "miracles", then it usually can. Most of the archfiends aren't well known (or have large followings) on my campaign world, but...

Virtually every campaign I've run since 3e was released has ended with a TPK. Most of those were "unintentional" TPKs, where it wasn't the climax of the campaign. The dice gods simply frowned on the players, and that was that. However, there have been two particular campaigns which speak more...

It's an interesting discussion topic, for sure. Personally, if I was responsible for releasing 5e... I'd start with a basic boxed set. No PH/DMG/MM. Maybe only the first 5 levels of a limited set of character classes. That's a much more compelling "entry level purchase" for new gamers than...

All opinions expressed below are simply... opinions. OD&D Good: The foundation on which everything in the future was based. Set the ground rules for "What is D&D?". Has a certain Old School charm in the way in which it is presented. System simplicity. Bad: Unbalanced, incomplete (without...

While understanding the reasons for removing Morale, and that it's not everybody's kettle of fish... I miss it. I get warm fuzzies looking at the Morale values of creatures in the Rules Cyclopedia. As a DM, I could ignore them if I wanted to... but they were a useful guide to the "aggro" of...

The impact of CRPGs could have something to do with this. There is now a default standard (thanks, Diablo...) that Red is Health and Blue is Mana. You see this time and time again, to the point where I've seen games criticized for "confusing" players by breaking the norm. It's not just CRPGs...

A long time indeed. Although The Witcher was also baking for a long time, and the fiction it's based on has been in print for much longer. It's possible that I set my expectations for the setting a little too high. There was much hype (pre-release) about the intricacy of the Dragon Age setting...

Intended to be balanced? Sure (...so I voted Yes). There are too many nods to balance to ignore it. For example, wizards have poor attack rolls, can't wear armor, have low hp... but can cast spells. The Vancian magic system. The more powerful magic items are harder to find. Artifacts can "break...

True, true... but we're not talking someone taking a plot hook from a Hitchcock concept designed 40 years ago. I have no problem with a game being reminiscent (for example) of a particular Conan novel I've read, or having themes similar to a CRPG released 20 years ago. We're talking an almost...

The CRPG is a good game, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I'm on my 3rd playthrough (PC version), and considering it's about 60 hours to complete... Having said that, the world is pretty ordinary. Almost disappointingly so. Some of the things that got to me... It shamelessly rips from another...

Based on the thread title alone, I came in here expecting to see something about "Rich Campaign Worlds". That, for me, is the only thing that 2e had going for it. The 2e material for Planescape, Dark Sun, Birthright, Ravenloft, etc... there's just no comparison in 3e or 4e. I was never that...