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I like the alternative cover, but it seems so different from the other alternative covers of the past. Ideally, they'd all be done by Hydro74, but even with different artistic takes, it seems odd that the design approach for this one would be so different (it almost looks like a "leather cover"...

That is weird... and I can't believe I didn't pick up on that at all. After a while, all of the different mythologies just sorta run together to me. LOL

It's awesome that you're tackling the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse! Quick question: is it intentional that War has a lower AC than Strife? Maybe it's because the idea of Ares from the comic book universe in his full blown suit of armor is too engrained in my head (and yes I realize that the...

Are you really surprised that they would want to provide examples of how one could use the product they’re trying to sell? Plus, it’s not like you couldn’t just adjust the stat block to suit your own purposes. I wouldn’t use any of these as-is without _any_ modification.

The target consumer is that person who has never played Dungeons & Dragons before and very likely doesn't play too many games in general so a mass market store like Target makes sense. I'm skeptical that there are a whole lot of starter sets and the like moving through most FLGSes, which seem to...

Mystara?! Yes, please!

Yep -- $19.99 list price at Amazon. The extra $5 is for the license. LOL The miniatures are a little weird -- rubbery and flexible -- but they work just as well as the WizKids minis and have a decent sculpt. The adventure looks pretty short, or maybe it's just sparse on explicit details. There...

I like the visual design of the map in the included adventure, but the "handwriting" font is too neat and perfect to look like a little kid wrote it. I would have preferred the notes to look a little bit more "scrawled" (in other words, the immersion level could have been a little bit higher). I...

I think most people will have heard the name before, but there's certainly a large group of people now (especially the younger generations) who don't know the lore and just know him to be "some vampire."

I never knew that all I needed to do was say something is so three times to make it a trend. ROFL. I would agree with the sentiment at a high level, and I personally wouldn't be bothered one bit by an IP labeling a species of three-headed dogs as cerberi. That said, I think the relative rarity...

Add to that the fact that while Dracula was the catalyst for a new lore of vampires as these seductive, "noble" beings who just so happened to murder people for sustenance, the public's idea of what a vampire is these days is no longer aligned with the Dracula mythos. Lestat and Strahd are...

I saw a couple of articles talking about this very connection as well. It's all speculation, but the evidence seems to point to that writing as the source of the idea. It seems like Gygax went with the altered version of the gorgon from that book as a play on it having the same name as the...

Yeah, that's one problem with a lot of the Greek mythological monsters as they're not very easy to extrapolate to modern day settings that make up the bulk of fiction. I don't anymore, but I imagine that what we're talking about is so limited in scope that 99% of people who do read comic books...

Also, this "genericization" of Dracula as a reference for vampires as a class of entities won't ever happen because of the fact that the association of the character Dracula as "the" vampire is not nearly strong enough. Band-Aid still has a strong enough brand recognition to be "the"...

It's not really a convention, though, if only an extreme minority of the relevant population knows about it and/or cares to use it. This really sounds like you having heard a term being used, having adopted it for yourself, and now hoping you can get it over so it's the "cool" term to use. ;)...

That's a very specific and limited scope to extrapolate to the whole of society, far outweighed by the ubiquity in movies, television, etc. where the term "vampire" is indeed the generic term. You're certainly free to refer to vampires as "draculas" if you wish, but it's not what the...

BINGO. We have Clash of the Titans to thank for that. I was in early grade school when that movie first came out, and it was more or less my introduction into Greek mythology. I was surprised to find out, after jumping all over the actual mythology, just how much the filmmakers pulled out of...

Fluffy is not referred to as "a cerberus" or "the cerberus". He is referred to very specifically as a "three-headed dog." The name "Cerberus" is not used in either the book or the movie.

You are quite literally the first person that I have ever heard refer to the category of vampires by the name of the arguably most famous one. Everyone knows that Dracula is _a_ vampire: the books, the movies, etc. make it abundantly clear when they refer to his victims becoming vampires. And...

I think it all boils down to how ubiquitous that information is. Very few people, relatively speaking, are going to know what the heck a gorgon, but most will have probably at least have heard the name Medusa (all thanks to Clash of the Titans way back in the day). Practically everyone has heard...