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I'm thinking the cauldron-born would be ideal... Cauldron-Born - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia They were popularized in the Chronicles of Prydain, but various Celtic legends of the "Cauldron of Plenty" restoring health and life to the badly injured are all over the place (e.g. the 2000AD...

Exactly. Frankly, I'd like to see the bullywug, remorhaz or frost giant "go the distance". They're the creatures I'm most interested in seeing expanded in a Dragon article. Even the ankheg could be kind of cool - especially given they have a rich history of appearing in everything from the...

Yep, me too. I thought Adventurer's Vault and PH2 rocked hard (...and a number of other 4e releases have rocked mildly), but MM2 is my most anticipated purchase so far. Can't wait.

Done. Always a fond spot for any monster iconic enough to make it into the 80's D&D cartoon series. I've gone 5-from-6 on the match-ups so far. Stupid adamantine dragon. Who voted for that parrot-faced, weaksauce, excuse-for-a-true-metallic? It almost begs for some strategic voting to put Rusty...

One of the guys in our group has played a beastmaster (bear) from 1st to 10th level so far. Some thoughts: 1) Yes, the flanking is useful - not just for the beastmaster, either. Most of the party members have melee characters. 2) The bear is a huge meatshield. Defenses aren't that great, but...

Well, that's even better then. Of course, I haven't had to make a death save yet. We're cutting our way through Keep on the Shadowfell at the moment (yeah... we're getting to it rather late; we've had other campaigns to play up until now), and it's all going very well. After 7 combat...

I'm currently playing a deva avenger. It's huge fun. 1) I'm not sure if Memory of a Thousand Lifetimes (the "+1d6" to d20 roll power) works for death saves. I don't have my PH2 on me, but I seem to recall it's a free action - rather than a "no action". I don't think you can use any type of...

Fantastic creature. Mechanically, it's awesome - it feels like no creature I've seen in the original MM, and has a tremendous combat flavor. Storywise, I'm glad to hear that MM2 may have a little more fluff than the original MM. Artistically, I was surprised... I read the name and the stats, and...

Dragon #281, pages 46-49. Article by Owen Stephens on naming for a host of different underdark races. I was just using it myself a couple days ago to name a couple of Duergar. It's not old enough to be in the CD compilation, unfortunately.

...although you could also say that fey spirits are immortal, and simply reform as they are killed. I know that some older D&D products suggested that a slain fairy/pooka/sidhe/etc simply reincarnates when destroyed (similar to how devas are constantly reborn in PH2). That would make an...

Indifferent to WotC's decision. I prefer physical copy to electronic copy by a massive margin. I stopped reading Dragon and Dungeon when they became electronic. I loved getting my physical copy from Paizo, and I eagerly look forward to the upcoming "Best of Dragon Magazine" hard-copy...

I like the product WotC produces. Why hurt myself by boycotting something that brings me and my gaming group a lot of enjoyment? If you want a PDF copy of their products and *don't* want a physical copy, then don't buy the physical copy. Personally, I'm the other way around. I stopped reading...

This is unbelievably good. I've found WotC's past attempts at April Fools humor pretty hit-and-miss (mostly miss), but this... a) ...is genuinely funny (the "flail snail fail" ability nearly killed me). b) ...is a great tribute to... uhhh... "classic"... monsters. c) ...offers probably the...

Dragon Warriors. It was first released as a series of six regular-sized paperbacks in the 80's (and mostly in Commonwealth countries like Australia and NZ, rather than the USA). Mongoose is currently re-releasing it in slightly updated form. The rules system had its own unique charm as a...

Pointy-cowled robes. Iron incense burners and thuribles. Intense, supernatural cold... and darkness. Some of the mythical 3,333 gems of Tharizdun. A 4-faced statue, representing the four facets of Tharizdun (red/strength/fighters, purple/wisdom/clerics, etc). Magical implements used to open...

1) All the Powers: In my game, it's the player's responsibility to track the conditions they place upon their targets with colored chits. We use small colored plastic beads to do things like marks, quarries, etc. It's also critical that all players have power cards. Most of my players use their...

Picked up my PHB2 today, way down here in New Zealand. It looked exactly like the photos... and exactly like most other imported hardback gaming manuals I've purchased here over recent years. Shipping... moisture... climate change... etc. I can confirm, like other posters, that it self-corrects...

No. Just the basics: Elf, Dwarf, Halfling. Which, as you probably know, are race/class mixes (e.g. you're a 7th level Elf, not a 7th level Elf Fighter / Magic-User as in AD&D). There's more info on the unique Mystaran races in a series of articles written for Dragon Magazine in the [rough]...

Not quite so much. Gary Gygax strikes a really conversational tone in the DMG, as if he's providing advice directly to the DM-to-be. For example, there might be a paragraph which says: "Be wary of giving the players too much information. Players of superior capability will undoubtedly identify...

Dungeon Master's Guide [1e] - A terrible rulebook but a fun read, thanks to Gary Gygax's torturous prose. Like most of Gary's work, it's schizophrenic in tone. It's just a game and the DM should feel free to call it as they will... but if you're not playing by the written rules, you're not...