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I never said Tome of Horrors is canon, but I believe that it does represent the most powerful published version of Orcus to date. And if that version is only Huge, what's up with a Gargantuan one?

As an aside, can anyone point me to a press release or something about tact-tiles halting production? It's too bad that one of the most useful gaming items I've ever bought is no longer being made.

Interesting, but Gargantuan? Even the Tome of Horrors CR 35 version is only Huge. Maybe this set comes with other pieces, like the Throne of Orcus or a couple of minion demons.

Red Widow Vampire? What the heck is that -- sounds very cool. This is the first WotC monster book to tempt me since Fiend Folio.

I think this looks really sweet. It suggests maybe these fiends should all be unified as a new demonic subrace with a special subtype like "tanar'ri," "obyrith," or "loumara." Any term that can be looted from the Mayfair supplement?

It took a while, but I finally got the adventure -- and I've got to say, after a quick skim, it's looking really, really sweet. I've been on the bubble for a while about picking up these Bleeding Edge adventures, and I think this has finally pushed me over the edge. Many thanks, Green Ronin!

No question that the passage you've cited is an editing atrocity on oh so many levels, but your thread title is just a tad bit hysterical and somewhat misleading, don't you think? I'll take your word that many of the d20 mechanical pieces are awful. If your cited passage is somehow...

Echohawk, Nice catches all. I lost many edits to this list during the Great EnWorld Server Crash, so it's great to have another set of eyes on this.

If you ever got the green light for something like that, drop me a line and I'll hook you up with the Polyhedron info. It's not a lot, but I love to see cool, obscure bits of D&D resurrected.

I will, though not many of those monsters really grabbed me -- many of these are jokey monsters. I am very curious now whether this birch tree spirit is the same as, similar to, or different than the White Dwarf one.

In general, any creature with a 3 or more Intelligence is eligible for taking class levels. The aboleth is another example of a monster listed as advancing by HD but can also take class levels, as shown by the aboleth mage in the SRD.

Wow, most of these were played for one-shots. Anurin, human, male Garnfellow, human, male Rolthir Yarl, human, male Hecatesseus, human, male Jubal iJembe, human, male Toran of the Red God of Storm, human, male Alchebath, swordwraith, male Tom Hop o' my Thumb, halfling, male Spindleshanks...

Isle of Dread is always fun, and its open structure would allow you to fit it nicely into whatever time you have. Just make sure to handwave all the "getting to the island" scenes, maybe by starting with a shipwreck.

Here's my 3.5e conversion of the encounter tables from D1-2-3, including the drow merchant trains: http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/underworld.htm

I heard they will give you hairy palms and -- if you read them enough -- you can go blind. Merciful Minerva, those heartless cads at Wizards! Fie on them! Fie!

The Difference Between Feats and Talents I agree with the posters above that talents are ideally class- (and could also be race-) specific abilities; in addition, I think feats should be limited to generic abilities that nearly anyone can take at nearly any time. In a talent tree and feat...

I think talent trees would be a beautiful addition to D&D: a nice, clean, unified and modular mechanic for customizing characters -- and if trees were implemented correctly could do away with the proliferation of base classes and prestige classes. Just have six or so base classes, and then use...

I'm interested in playing around again with some monstrous characters, but I was wondering what the current state of the art is for dealing with these beasties. I am familiar with Level Adjustments and the various "monstrous classes" from Savage Species and the WotC website. But I don't have...

Note that there is a MASSIVE typo in the SRD description of the Trap Essence ability . . . it's missing a crucial sentence or two. I just ran an advanced elite devourer a couple of weeks ago, and discovered this in the middle of combat. Luckily I had read the entry in the MM earlier in the day...

A very nice scoop, but an incredibly lame and misleading thread title. "Necromancer's Thoughts on 4e and their Releases" would be less colorful but a lot more appropriate.