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I'm dying from dehydration, and you're giving me Dom Perignon. Either of those would be stellar, better to me than a player's guide or campaign book. All of them would be better...

See, I (selfishly) want the opposite. I've got just about every Greyhawk product ever published, aside from a couple of the non-canon modules and some magazine articles. The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer is a already a solid foundation for a GH campaign (and would be perfect for C&C players). I'd...

Erik Mona seems to be happy about his next freelance project, hinting that it tops his latest "dream project," FC1. http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=2892737&postcount=331 http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=2900655&postcount=396 http://www.superunicorn.com/erik/2006/04/bingo.html Martyn...

Tell them not to come back. Like Frukathka advises, I've tried to lay out what is causing the friction and see if the player is willing to change. I'd like to say it helped, but in my experience (three times in the last decade) two players flipped out with completely out-of-the-blue reactions...

Sounds about right. Remember, this was a much different game before the worldbuilders, simulationists, dramatists and storytellers stretched the game into a hobby; originally it took less than two minutes to make a new character... three minutes if you played a wizard and had to pick a spell (no...

Meh. How about they just publish it as its own title, and let it stand on its own merits? No need for Dragon to (ahem) hold it back.

The Silent Storm games are turn-based tactical RPGs set during a semi-historical World War II. You can make an Axis team or an Allies team that investigates a covert group dealing in super weapons. They're fun games, along the lines of Jagged Alliance. There is a little less-than-subtle Nazi...

Dragon is running on all cylinders right now. Best its been in quite some time. I'd like to see a "You Design It" feature. Every other issue they give a topic (new monster, new item, new rules plugin, new class, etc), then in the next issue present the best three takes on the concept. Readers...

I like the idea of consolidated skills and level-dependent feats, coupled with more feats and few skills considered cross-class. I'd like to see the idea of feat chains scaled back - none in the core books at all, except maybe to illustrate how they should be balanced for expansion books. I...

It's early, but I'm having a hard time thinking of even a single colony in history that didn't at least try to rebel. I'm sure there must've been a few that were wiped out before the idea came up...

From Men & Magic: "Number of Players: At least one referee and form four to fifty players can be handled in any single campaign..." With 5 PC deaths and 10 hireling deaths a week, you could make it in under ten months. If the author had a big campaign with multiple refs, or if henchmen were...

You're absolutely right. I don't think it would be a service to the game to ignore any form of fantasy fiction.

Thanks! I needed some plant creatures for an upcoming game. All in one place is always good!

Link?

This is good advice. I usually make an outline of the dungeon (no interior details) to give to players as a clue at some point within the first couple of sessions.

Dragon Magazine Compendium.

As long as pech are in there, I'm fine with any of them.

Step 1: Play a Battle Dancer.

Hell yeah. I'm assuming of course that a DM that took time to make such intricate maps would also take time to make fun stuff to put in the maps. Mapping them might be a pain, but imagine the sense of accomplishment if you "finish" a level!

As you note yourself, they're different. Try comparing effective levels as a starting point if you want to compare their relative power. Or if you insist on comparing CR's, at least use CR's for both. From your notes above, it looks like Athux is CR21 (+3 for half-fiend, +1 for drow).