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Pelgrane products can be tough to get through Amazon, and their website is listing it as a pre-order still, but I have a print copy of my own and saw two more at another FLGS a few days ago. Check The Source. :) Also, did anyone else notice a certain set of magic items (minus one) hiding in...

I wouldn't be surprised if the Adventurer's Handbook is the 'overflow' from the PHB--races, backgrounds, subclasses, feats, etc. that they had to leave out of the book for space, complexity, or the need for further development.

I'm halfway through my copy, and it's the most fun I've had reading a monster book since the Dragonlance: Fifth Age Bestiary. I'm beginning to think there's something about FRPGs with "#th Age" in their titles ... :) The chuuls, hags and jorogumos stand out the most, followed closely by the...

You're probably going to have a tough time finding anything official--one of the world design premises of 4th Edition (discussed in Wizards Presents: Worlds & Monsters) was that capturing a soul was a very difficult and rare thing.

What about tacky, wasteful (a couple of the books in that collection were in legitimate demand) and a little mean-spirited? I can't tell whether it was meant satirically or seriously, to be honest, and the latter suggests an unhealthy investment in hatred for a game. But let the anti-4E crowd...

Basic says that the PHB draws on 8 pantheons--Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Eberron, Greyhawk, Celtic, Norse, Greek and Egyptian. It'll probably be lists with names, alignments, portfolios and domains.

Welcome back, Kai Lord! It's been a long time; I owe you a belated thanks for inspiring elements of my Dragonlance Anti-Canon. I didn't get as much play experience with 4E as I would have liked, but something that hasn't been mentioned is that the game made a lot of changes to the D&D...

I think a full Icons sourcebook is in the docket, actually, so that may provide additional help for using them in play. I'd like some alternate setting outlines--I'm sure Ken Hite is busy on 0th Age and other projects, but get him to knock together a Universal Monsters/Hammer Horror/Ravenloft...

Ten foot, of course. :D This may be the one time we're on the same page. :) I was starting to feel more optimistic, but some of the recent Starter Set previews are giving me the same Neo-1E/3E Lite feel I got from the playtest.

I'm not a supporter of evil campaigns, but logic and anecdote suggest that an evil Dragonlance campaign has about a 90% chance of going in one direction: Kender. Extermination. EDIT: Oops, sorry, missed that you'd already noted that.

Changes I noticed when posting this at RPGNet: Prepared spells are now level + casting stat modifier (so for most purposes, level + 3 or 4 at 1st-3rd level, level + 5 by mid-levels) Turn undead's destruction clause is now triggered by CR, not Max HP.

And the code's balancing elements--and others--arguably relate to the whole model of play assumed by the older games. Playing someone strictly Lawful Good is going to be more of a limitation in an environment that assumes 'greedy, amoral ne'er-do-wells' are the standard than in the 'fight the...

pemerton is talking about the original cleric--the one from the first three books, before Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes introduced polytheism into D&D. (Although I suppose a case could be made that polytheism first really shows up mechanically with the druid. Was that Blackmoor or Eldritch Wizardry?)...

That's arguably a problem with the equivocal use of the terms "Law" and "Chaos" in D&D, which can range from anything to "Supporter/Opponent of Cosmic Order" to "Believer in/Opponent of Strong Government" to "Logical, Honorable and Somewhat Rigid/Impulsive, Free-Wheeling and Unpredictable". :)...

Well, the problem is the original paladin & cleric come from a different, quasi-Christian background of mythology and folklore--the former from Arthurian legends, the tales of Charlemagne, and Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions, and the latter from the Templars and Hospitalers, a...

I don't know; that bit about "other systems" is something that hasn't been mentioned. Maybe it'll be a part of the book that's OGC, and will include conversion guidelines for Pathfinder and FATE (which are the two other big open systems I'm aware of)?

DL fans have been trying to make sense of the whole 'steel pieces' thing for 30 years, and it's never quite worked out. Tracy Hickman is on record as saying "I wanted to make a point about the ephemeral nature of wealth, but the concept never did come across well ... or work in the game either...

The wild surge table uses 2nd person.

One of the few things they've explicitly backed away from is the idea of dragonborn being the offspring of unblessed dragon eggs, so I'm pretty sure that's out. I'm guessing the subraces will be based on either a chromatic/metallic split, or a division between 'immediate descendants of...

I think Frank Langella in Dracula is actually the closer resemblance. Unfortunately, that's 40 years ago. However, Langella has given a bravura performance as a quasi-lich, so maybe get him for Azalin. :)