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You can get the revised verison on dndclassics.com, and I think that's even rarer. It's the version I have. In addition to some of the poll options (1E MM 2nd cover, 2E Monstrous Manual, 3E and 3.5 MM, 4E MM, Monster Vault, Creature Catalog), I've got a bunch of MCAs (all three Ravenloft, a...

Divinity of Mankind is one of the philosophies in the CPH. The intent in Domains of Dread may have been to use those spheres, but it's tough to say. I know that DoD imposes an Int 14 requirement on clerics of that philosophy, but I don't have a CPH on hand to check if the requirement's in that...

At this point, I think WotC has more or less committed themselves to a D&D based around Organized Play, lapsed/old-school gamers, and introducing new gamers through those two elements and perhaps 'transmedia' events. And I am ready to leave the game to them, maybe popping in if there's something...

No one expects the OSR Inquisition! ;) :p Using classic D&D modules is arguably 'old school', but doing it with 13A probably wouldn't meet with the approval of any of the numerous High Anticlerics of the OSR.

Barnes & Noble ranks it at #69 as of this posting. (It's gone up; it was #120 this morning.)

Best case scenario: 5E is a good game, but it doesn't fill the same niche as 4E, so a lot of people give 4E another look if 5E begins to get stale for them or it turns out it doesn't do what they want. Eventually, the broad distribution of the books and the 'legacy' DDI and GSL turn out to...

To be blunt, this is one of the things that has bugged me about Planescape, more in its fandom than in its official material--the tendency to conflate that specific setting with D&D as a whole. I remember one gentleman back on the old Ravenloft mailing list who insisted that Dustmen had to be...

I think there may be a few people who want 5E to fail, but they're few and far between. I actually think there are more people who want other people to 'want 5E to fail' so that they can dismiss them as 'bitter edition warriors, nongamers, etc.' Personally, 5E looks gorgeous and seems to be...

For comparison's sake, here's the 13th Age hoardsong red dragon Large 9th level spoiler [DRAGON] Initiative: +13 Vulnerability: cold Fangs and claws +14 vs. AC (3 attacks): 30 damage. Natural 16+: the target takes 15 extra damage from a precise strike. C: Hoardsong +14 vs. MD (one nearby...

Well, it would be nice if someone had announced that there would be DS ebooks without us having to go digging through threads here. ;)

I'm not surprised there wasn't a PDF release yesterday. I am surprised there hasn't been any news about PDFs, especially at GenCon. Given WotC's strongly pro-FLGS policy, I would not be at all surprised to see them adopt a policy similar to that of Pelgrane Press, where the PDF release comes...

Compared to the vim, vigor, imagination and self-directing nature of the monsters in the 13th Age Bestiary I got just before the 5E launch, the previewed monsters are looking pretty cut and dried for me. The vampire is the only one I've been terrifically pleased with, and that's largely because...

My idea for fitting drow into Dragonlance is actually along the same lines--my theory was that when the Irda/ur-ogres fell, the humans who'd bound themselves in willing service to the ogres became goblins, and the handful of elves who did the same became drow. This may allow us to make sense of...

We have some indication from the TSR catalogs of the early 90s. They report that the combined sales for Expert, Companion and Masters were around the 500,000 mark at the point the Rules Cyclopedia was announced. By contrast, the 2E core books sold around 250,000-300,000 each in their first year...

And 2nd Edition replaced those measurements with real-world measurements, and there was a sense at TSR around that time that miniatures took away from the immersion a bit. See "Why I Play the AD&D Game" by Steve Winter in the 1993 TSR Catalog. Combat & Tactics did add in the grid, but the...

Got a Ravenloft game in the works? :)

I wouldn't be surprised to see 13th Age break into the Top 10 or even #5 with the release of the Bestiary and 13 True Ways.

There was a report that it was going to occupy the space between the Prime and Negative Energy planes.

Is Ravenloft in there?

Late 2E and 3E Ravenloft tended towards two major henotheistic religions--Ezra and Bane/the Lawgiver--a couple smaller or more esoteric cults--Hala and the Morninglord--and a few other henotheistic or tight-pantheon sects and cults, including a couple that were only figments empowered by...