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Classifying items defines player expectations of obtaining them. With the current system players feel entitled to every item available and if it is not provided they are free to create it through ritual. A DM can restrict access but he is forced to do so openly; he will have to deny an item a...

I'm inclined to believe that a lot of players make strange race choices because they feel race is secondary and they try to match a race to the class and build they want to play (ability-wise). If you relax the ability bonuses granted by PHB1 or even PHB2 races to be more flexible like the PHB3...

I never got the Super NPC problem in FR. It is pretty clear that the Super NPCs would never be able to take care of adventurer issues since they are utterly dwarfed in numbers by the number of super villains. The problem with FR imo is that 3E glut demystified the setting. I used to have a...

Honestly the most perverse sexual act in fantasy should go to Memories of Ice from the Malazan books of the fallen (where they have an army, the Children of the Dead Seed conceived of cannibalistic female religious fanatics who rape the men of conquered cities and kill them trying to impregnate...

Themes! I love themes from Dark Sun and they are far better than paragon paths in evoking the hundreds of societies of the realms. The realms have always had after all a massive load of crunch that they are desperately missing.

This is pretty much implied of the mord-sith (along the SM part ofc) so it is not really unprecedented in fantasy at all.

Btw I don't see why I'd have to have an outhouse instead of a toilet. There was a . . . peculiar article by Ed Greenwood describing how this works in the Realms and some of the richer estates in the North had toilets (which were scented and essentially ended in a bowl that had to be cleaned and...

Yeah it's a small moon by Chamadas in Gehenna I think, cannot remember what it's called. Assasin mimic disguised as a toilet!

The price tag is a huge thing. I just would not be able to afford PHB gifts for friends I want to lure to D&D but I sure can afford to buy a redbox as a gift even with no particular occasion.

Unless such a product focused on crunch, which by the title your preempt it will not, I do not see the use. Certainly RPG products can present one with great ideas for adventuring and world building but especially evil or erotic material needs to be well developed to be acceptable in a campaign...

There was actually an FR book describing a yuan-ti male that was rather explicit about this issue (more disconcerting considering he was a pureblood . . . )

I like my own FR tbh. Played with 4E (and in my soon-to-come next campaign, using tons of custom themes), about 10 years after the 3.5 era, with the spellplague staying as an event but rather changed (as the merging of the shadow Weave with the Weave with neither Mystra nor Shar gaining...

Good god, the link was not even up on the site yet.

I think that the monster manual as the third of the big three books for D&D is an outdated and ultimately problematic template. What is needed is an encounter manual, including in one place encounters with archetypical monsters, traps and terrain effects, skill challenges or in non-4E systems...

How DID they enter the country? The bounty hunters teleported out so it wasn't by tracking, they just found their destination in the bounty papers and once there Belkar tracked their scent. So they could have gone there by wind walk (and so never passed a border check), by some local mage...

Well it was implied on the Planescape products that Shemeska the Marauder was a crossdressing arcanaloth. He picked to evolve as a male arcanaloth yet presented himself as a female in Sigil. Hence, King of the Crosstrade instead of Queen. Pretty sure A'kin knows of it:) I don't know I find that...

I think there is a lot of potential in sticking with 4E and reprinting the core books with heavy errata after 4-5 years from their release each. The subscription model and the ability to errate the compendium and CB fast makes this all the easier. Few things are more desirable for a company as...

Truth be told I don't think any edition of D&D had a good way of handling truly collosal monsters. There is the obvious issue of melee reach (most melee powers would still at best be hacking below the knee on a tarrasque, even with reach weapons you'd still not hit the body). I've been wondering...

Btw there is a faction of Eberron warforged that would probably be very interesting in getting laid, the Reforged. They are a religion/philosophy/lifestyle dedicated to experiencing the world and community and is prone to adapting any human practice. If they feel OK to dress up like humans...

TPK does not really have to mean they are all dead now, does it? I know this is exactly what it is supposed to mean, but perhaps some are unconcsious and stabilized by villains interesting in "reeducating" their enemies through torture or magical compulsion? Or slavery at the low ends of the...