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I checked out the free version last month and I almost brought the boxed set. However, I decided to give a pass and wait to the updated full version soon to be published by the Trolls. BTW, do you have any news regarding the revision?

In the other hand, if I wanted to run a game in the Realms I would stick with the old grey box, which I found to be very good. However, this would render many of the new books inconsistent with the setting I am running. Without metaplots, new books would be as useful as the old ones. Ronaldo

Actually, according to Erik Mona and other insiders, the 3e softback was a good seller. Problem is, WotC is afraid of having more than two settings being supported at any time, especially because Forgotten Realms absorbed so much of Greyhawk to be in line with D&D that turned hard to sell the...

My plan is to keep the honor point and start tracking them to the ocidental characters to measure how they are seem by the oriental people. I was planing to jettison only the NWP, as I don't think they are particularly well designed and I would need some adaptation to give them to the western...

I agree. I am glad you liked the concept too. I was thinking about taking out the NWP system and I was wondering if this move wouldn't hurt the balance of the Oriental Adventures characters. However, I downloaded your C&C file and, although I only quickly read it, sounds pretty good. The...

u I don't like the concept. My first experience with a setting was the World of Greyhawk boxed set and I liked the concept of showing a world frozen in one moment of time. Any developments were up to the DM, as the adventures, even the epic ones, such as The Queen of Spiders, did not...

Metaplots is one of the main reasons why I don't like published settings. I know that there are people who are thrilled following the metaplot in each new supplement being published. Me, I would rather read a good novel.

Gary, I was thinking of running a West meet East campaign, something akin to my Portuguese ancestors exploring the orient in the XV-XVI centuries. As such, I just ordered a replacement copy of Oriental Adventures. I know that you were more a supervisor than a designer to that project. Still, I...

All good choices, you cannot go wrong with any of them. However, I recommend you to read the books first and then the game supplement so that you will be more in tune with the setting.

Perhaps they cannot force you, but they can definitely charge you for errata.

Survival pools are basically about what you dislike less. I would say that the result was Sigil, Greyhawk, and Freeport were the more bearable cities among ENWorlders (Greyhawk and Sigil votes were technically a tie). The last vote is about favoritism, and thus there is no reason why its results...

I wonder if the power creep wasn't a design goal. Releasing supplements that allow more powerful characters, and thus with an incentive to purchase, is exactly the strategy developed by WotC to their collectable card games. Why they wouldn't apply it to their roleplaying line?

Sigil, as well as all other Planescape setting material, could be more popular if written in English, for a change. Additionally, as much as Planescape was interesting, Sigil was kind of boring. It allowed too much, restricted too little, and thus became somewhat bland for a multiplanar setting...

I found Fiendish Codex I to be good, better than any other product in the list (didn't read FC II, though). However, after the elimination of RHoD, there is no excellent book in the pool and, as such, I will decline to vote.

I haven't voted for Ptolus yet as there was little chance of taking it out. But I certainly think it's substandard compared to many of its competitors. Don't assume your taste, just because is yours, will be shared by others.

I read this one but, I am sorry, I found it pretty boring. The fact I read it about a year and a half after the release of D&D 3.0 probably took any sense of wonder that I guess impressed the early readers. I didn't liked any of the adventure path modules and just found Return to the Temple of...

It seems that Sharn is leaving which means that, from all cities owned by WotC, the ones current in print are out and only remains a dead, Sigil, and an undead one Greyhawk.

Still, it is the first good adventure released by WotC to D&D 3.X, it should be worth of something, especially considering that these sourcebooks, with the possible exception of the fiendish ones, are rather weak.

There is quite a lot of truth in your statement. Unfortunately, pools such as this are more a popularity contest than anything else.

Let me see, Greyhawk City is a cosmopolitan corrupt city developed by a mad wizard turned god, ruled by criminals full of prejudice against gypsies and still the shinning cultural center of its world. My definition of bland is definitely different than yours.