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In my experience, in older days people were a lot more willing to try other systems than I've seen of late. Nowadays I see a lot of people push back against playing anything other than D&D, or if they want to do a different genre they'll just use D&D for it with a couple custom tweaks.

I don't think we will, since 4E they've been trying to build brand identity for the visual look of creatures, so variety of appearance runs counter to that.

I feel like we need a Ribald Street somewhere in Hackwark. And some kind of Las Vegas strip - maybe the southeastern arm of the Grand Road?

I could see the roads in Hackwark expanding out in concentric circles from the Operium/Hackwark Hill.

There's a temptation at high level to make everything "world/reality endangering". Be aware of the implications to your game world they would create - especially if the PCs fail. Try to build into multiple states of success or failure to such themes; they're generally much better than binary...

More: (hope this doesn't seem like spam, this is the sort of design I love to do) The Skybound: Originally started as a cross-city courier service employing mounted Griffons, today the Skybound have two divisions - the long-vaunted courier service and a branch that acts as a form of aerial...

It's me again: Palaise de Operium (based loosely on the Palais Garnier): Commissioned by the royal family, this grand opera house stands atop Hackwark Hill and it is considered that both ends of the Grand Road were built to lead up to its courtyard. The opera house itself is over 500,000...

Ever? D&D (B/X-BECMI, 1E, 2E, 3/3.5E, 4E, 5E) Pathfinder 1E Star Wars (WEG, d20, SAGA) Star Trek (Decipher, Modipheus) Savage Worlds Vampire: The Masquerade Werewolf: The Apocalypse / The Forsaken Changling: The Lost Hunter - The Vigil Pendragon Shadowrun 3E Star Frontiers Alternity Aliens...

It took me a bit to understand what was going on with the falling guy in the background of the monk picture (dismounted sniper archer with arrow in hand from I'm guessing a deflect missiles use) - but what's the story with the person hanging half-way out the window? Got the sill pulled down on...

A note on Cloaks of Displacement - they can be taken out of the picture by attacks against saves (such as area effect spells like Fireball, Web or spells that entangle) or the likes of Magic Missile, that allies of the attacker can then use to their advantage - until the player's next turn. The...

Another idea: The Great Road: Not to be confused with the Grand Road in Hackwark, Lambeth's Great Road stretches from the edge of Trigon Bridge to the westernmost outskirts of Lambeth, curving to follow the base of the Lambeth Earthmound. While starting wide in the east - enough for two lanes...

An idea: The Waveswith Aquaduct and Canal: Some time ago, an enterprising individual realized there was great profit in erecting an aquaduct that ran almost directly from the Water Rift in Ellindam Lake straight down into Waveswith, bypassing the fouled waters of the Ell. The individual formed...

For my money's worth - streets. Seeing how the city blocks are broken out is pretty defining, from the grid layout of planned cities, to the meandering cow-trails-turned-roads of Atlanta, or the narrow, defensive streets of some European cities. It can be as defining as the architecture or the...

Sorry, I don't want a game organized around optimizers and tryhards. I want a relaxed game that can't be "solved" and is more interested in giving me the tools to tell a fun and interesting story. A mix of mechanics and not-mechanics that aid those stories, not "keeping players in line".

I suppose it comes down to "are you more a TV person or Movie person?" TV glosses over the differences in languages. Movies generally don't. As for Nothics speaking only Undercommon, I attribute it to them become like hermits in the dark underground, listening to and answering the strange...

It takes experience, familiarity - and most of all, not getting stung or frustrated. I'll admit, I gave up after my encounters with high level in 2nd and most especially 3rd and have no desire to repeat the experience. There's certainly individual people able to do it and have fun with it. I...

The ones I'm aware of are: Q1 - Queen of the Demonweb Pits (1E) (and the GDQ series that could be used overall) City of the Spider Queen (FR, 3E) Expedition to the Demonweb Pits (3E) I've run Q1, and I'd say it's pretty bad and unfocused, but it can be fun if you're willing to expand the alt...

From the adventures I've seen them publish over the ages, they never had the experience in the first place. 1E - "High level is dumb. We'll make all the character's high level abilities not work so the adventure won't be a cakewalk" (Bloodstone series) 2E - "Let's not talk about it. We have to...

If I had my way, it'd be boxed set instead of slipcases anyways :P