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Not so. The Chaos War came from the pens of Weis & Hickman, who were simply envisioning it as a big event and the Krynnish version of Ragnarok, not a system changeover. After presales of DoSF were good (and the book was in galleys), the DL fans on TSR staff got the go-ahead to relaunch the game...

If that's the case, then WotC is in a no-win situation and has only themselves to blame for announcing D&DN this early. :) OTOH, 2nd Edition seems to have taken a few years from announcement to release, but communication was a lot slower in those days and the game didn't have three or more...

3E was a GenCon announcement for release at next GenCon, but the history of information release is skewed by the fact that a few playtesters on Usenet treated the announcement as undoing the NDA for a while, and were being quite free with the information. Still, solid tidbits on mechanics--if...

If they can pull it off, I thoroughly agree. My concern is that eventually, they may have to make choices about what the 'baseline' is or what to include as the initial modules, and from the designers' statements and records, I fear that (with the exception of gridless combat) they're likely to...

I'd be sorely tempted to resilo a 'New 4E''s powers into Attack, Defense (non-attack but combat-useful) and Utility, myself. And make Skill Powers core. :)

I've been assembling Mystara material over the past few years and developing an appreciation for it, but since Bruce Heard was in charge of it for almost the entire run, how different would this be from the published material? Or are you thinking of a combination of the old Gazetteers with the...

What do you mean by 'conversion'? Because this is apparently the notes from Ed's home game, and that hasn't even reached the Time of Troubles yet. Anyone else notice the conspicuous absence of a D&D logo on this cover?

If WotC does reprint settings, which versions should they pick? The determining factors, IMO, are going to be demand, attractiveness to fans, and production costs. The last factor means that, IMO, we're likely to see a preference for hardcovers or for boxed sets repackaged as hardcover volumes...

There's another reason to consider this plausible--there's still a high demand for 3.5 core books, if Amazon resellers are any indication. The PH and MM start at cover price in the used listings, and the DMG at around $25. And it's not like the books were underproduced, as opposed to most...

Hmm....a badly translated Biblical demon (the Asmodeus of Tobit is almost nothing like his D&D counterpart) who has been thwarted by an angel . . . vs. a scribal blunder that underwent an apotheosis. Give it to the Red Death. :)

The shadow dragon does have a name--Whisper. And I believe DL9 also includes Cymbol the copper and Harkiel the Bender, a red. Ravenloft--At least the ones I remember RQ3 From the Shadows, Ravenloft Gazetteer II: Ebb, shadow dragon, mount for Azalin. (Gazetteer II introduces the possibility...

Changing orcs to Chaotic Evil in 3E was a deliberate change from AD&D 1E/2E to match "how most gamers actually used them."

Two axes--Law/Chaos/Balance and Good/Unaligned/Evil--that can be combined, used independently, or jettisoned altogether. If you keep the mechanical effects boxed off or flagged as 'alignment system', it shouldn't be too hard to do.

2nd Edition. :D ;) :devil:

I don't know if they did or not . . . but they did send it out to game and comic stores as a stand-alone free sample. They also did a Captain America vs. Baron Zemo one, and I've heard rumors of a Thing vs. Doctor Doom version as well. Unfortunately, this is being done just as WotC kills the...

I happen to have DRAGON #264 on hand, so here's a collation. I hope (un)reason doesn't mind. 1. Ascending Armor Class: Like 2. No more racial class and level limits:Ambivalent 3. Monks and assassins: Like 4. 4d6 drop lowest, assign: Dislike 5. Change Exceptional Strength to standard...

This serious Ravenloft fan (over 20 years, two DRAGON articles and subtle influences on 3rd Edition Ravenloft to my credit :) ) thinks it both does and does not work. It's fine for the 'Weekend in Hell' model and for what Ravenloft is by night, but it's a bit too overly supernatural and gloomy...

Hmmm...this is the more worrisome part than 'paladin gets flattened' for me. Was this all the wizard could do in all the encounters put together, or did he have other options in the other encounters? Was the success of the sleep spell against an ogre likely, or was this more of a desperation...

Good point. I'm just a little nervous because of the design teams' expressed preferences (Mearls' anti-2E sentiments, the push for the Great Wheel, the assassin and warlock as favorite classes), which don't quite mesh with my own. (Side note to self and others who may be concerned: Buy the new...

I'm not a big fan of it either. The question is, are we the target audience for 5E? I'm beginning to wonder, considering that most of the marketing-speak seems to be focusing on 1E/OD&D/possibly BX nostalgia, with a nod to the 3E crowd. Mearls is on record as disliking 2E, which I find clunky in...