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At the time, first of all the subscriber's content was under "Reviews", which it wasn't, so I couldn't even find the section. Even when I eventually did, I could only see the most recent Zeitgeist adventure, Admiral o' the High Seas, and the portrait package. That seems to be partially fixed in...

One thing I haven't found a way to do that I don't see mentioned above is download the subscriber content (e.g. the Zeitgeist adventures).

Of course not. Half of it hasn't even been written yet. But the 4E version of WotBS hasn't been compiled into a single book either, so I'm not sure I see your point.

Short version of this post: Lanefan had everything right. BC = British Columbia, the Canadian province of which Victoria is the capital and everyone thinks Vancouver is the capital. Victoria is on Vancouver Island (which Vancouver isn't - don't worry, it's confusing even to Canadians) which is...

And they seem to be proportionately the most popular in Canada (the US has about 7.2 times as many hits as Canada - based on population, you'd expect them to have 9 times as many instead). However, that doesn't account for Winnipeg coming ahead of Calgary (also Canadian and with about one and a...

I'm surprised (pleasantly) that Winnipeg rates so highly. There's maybe three quarters of a million people in the greater Winnipeg area, peanuts compared to most of the other places on this list (we're flanked on this list by Paris with its 2.2 million, albeit many of them non-English-speaking...

Contrary to the story quoted here, Hasbro doesn't own the game rights to Star Wars, FFG does.

The current playtest pack makes me feel like WotC doesn't know what direction to take the game in, and in the areas I've checked carefully it seems inferior to its predecessor in most respects, and the same as its predecessor in the area where change was most needed - monster stats. The worst...

Probably the best thing that could happen to the franchise is having it in new hands with Lucas as a hopefully-respected "creative consultant" but kept at a minimum distance of 50 feet from the writer's and director's chairs at all times.

This is true of the Spell Compendium, but mostly false for the Magic Item Compendium. The whole point of the book was to rethink the whole way magic items worked in 3.5, and while some items had appeared before, a great many had not, and many of those that had were changed almost beyond...

I'm not necessarily saying it doesn't, but could you spell out the supposed "proof" and "flaws" you're getting at here? "Proof" is an extremely strong word that takes some serious backing up, and unfortunately I don't follow your reasoning here at all.

Regarding whether, if the fighter gets access to healing, the mage also gets bonus spells from somewhere, normally no, because only one of those things is a normal, expected function of being part of a tolerably well-balanced party of adventurers, i.e. the way the game is actually played most of...

A lot more with Sleep than without it, which is fine by me. Back atcha. The mage needs support too, or he's going to get mobbed and killed to death long before that spell goes off unless he's very, very lucky. The mage needs other characters for support, if anything, more than the fighter does...

Sleep: That is the point of this spell. At the levels where the 4 HD limit doesn't completely cripple this spell (so that would be first to about third then), it can only be done two or three times a day, and even at 1st level it won't work on a "boss" of any seriousness. In any case this isn't...

Please elaborate. The only one of those I have any problem with is Rope Trick.

As I observed earlier, adding a flat 5 to the number given by the existing system is exactly the same as using HD + half Con. (You're already adding your con mod, which is just (Con/2 -5); add another 5 to that and you're left with just Con/2). So an added bonus of using this suggestion is that...

Right now, monsters are so badly calibrated that this discussion is almost meaningless. Give me a solid idea of what monsters can do and then we can meaningfully discuss PC hit points. (WotC really should have designed the two in tandem, but the ship appears to have sailed on that.) It makes a...

I think Lolth was originally meant to have roughly the role Zugtmoy does in the adventure as released, the whole "elemental evil" thing being a front she's putting on and nothing to do with elementals, except incidentally to make the ruse more convincing, or the Elder Elemental Eye/God. I...

Yeah, it's so insulting to him to make claims like: He "looked deeper" than even his fans give him credit for "Thus his words and opinions remain valid." "They cannot easily be dismissed as a product of the era... he did not choose to limit his perspective to that of the era." "Gygax's words...

This rule was controversial and widely criticized even "back in the day". The very first Forum letter I read in Dragon was a critique of this very thing, and that was (albeit just barely) when Gygax was still with TSR. Every circle of people I ever gamed with disliked this rule and actively...