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4E used "Exarch".

The game has very little left that interests me, and WotC doesn't think I'm worthy of it. :)

And it's been confirmed from the original Black Box that Greater Powers can come and go from Ravenloft as they please (see the entry for the Horn of Valhalla). Since Chaos is (depending on your interpretation) somewhere between high-end Greater Power and Fundamental Cosmic Force, he's pretty...

Doesn't line up with what I heard from one of the designers on the Fifth Age game: DoSF came first, they got the go-ahead to do a game based on presales for the novel, they proposed an AD&D-lite variant set post-WotL, and got told "No, it needs to be non-AD&D, card-based, and post-DoSF." Has...

One of many things I've learned about Dragonlance over 35 years: The series has two major strains to it--the idea of being a world for Epic Romantic fantasy adventures with dragons, and the story of about 6-10 close friends and their formative experiences. Weis & Hickman, and most of the...

I wouldn't expect to see Kaz. He's Richard Knaak's creation, and whenever Weis & Hickman have given their take on Huma and Magius (hints in DoSF, their brief appearance in DoaVM, the Anvil of Time adventure, and probably Dragons of Fate--I don't know, not having read anything but the last...

Dragons of Summer Flame was driven by Weis & Hickman--the only major involvement TSR had, as I understand it, was limiting it to the 'one book to finish up the Chronicles cycle' which they had contracted for instead of the 'trilogy with game support and spinoff novels' W&H wanted. The actual...

Lots of non-D&D, non-WotC RPGs have used it, and it was even the original term for what became 3.5--they adopted the latter name before publication, based largely on online chatter.

And you have to justify devoting resources to that project instead of something for D&D, which will almost always be more likely to produce better return on the same resources. IMO, this is why we'll probably never see another non-D&D ever again from WotC.

Any news from last night's What's Up with Pinnacle seminar?

They were removed from the cosmology in 3E, along with the quasi-elemental planes (which have never returned). If you haven't paid close attention to 5E, which I haven't :), this might look like a return.

Yes. There are games where crafting can be interesting, but it's hard to fit that into the unbounded, low-cost magic paradigm of D&D.

The blurb makes it sound like they're trying to avoid spoilers for anything beyond the first couple of chapters of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Odd choice for a 40-year-old book, but OK. :)

If that's what you're talking about, then Essentials was meant to be 'evergreen' in the sense that 'retailers can stock these 10 products and point people to them in perpetuity as a starting point', with the subtext of 'the numbered PHB, DMG, MM series didn't work out as well as we expected.'...

Well, that depends. Are we using the definition of edition used by TSR and most other RPG companies--"revise the rules, fix the trouble spots, and require some level of conversion or rebuilding"--or the definition of edition adopted by WotC--"Scrap all prior stock, condemn the immediately...

Dungeons & Dragons 2024, brought to you in part by the National Institute for Co-Ordinated Experiments? ;)

Does this mean we get 4E back? :D

A substantial but not groundbreaking revision Of an edition that I never found compelling Of a game which I'm concluding I'm fundamentally ill-suited to playing From a company that seems to regard me with hostility and contempt. Yeah, I think I'll pass again. :D

Rippers and Rippers Resurrected for Savage Worlds use the Ripper as a foundational concept for their Victorian Gothic action-horror escapades.

So that would be Arcane ... as distinct from Essence, Channeling, or Mentalism. :)