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Grey or black? When I am logged in the text is black, otherwise grey. Weird but true. And of course I am yet another of those rare people who like 4E and have Dark Sun as a favourite D&D setting. What I really really hope is that they don't start explaining too much in this new version. When I...

Not that I think the 4th Edition rules are perfect, but I still don't want to go into detail with what things should be changed for 5th edition. Other things though, I really hope that they will be done differently. With 4th Edition WoTC seemed to want to approach every game world from the same...

Easy. Use the old classic "Teenagers from Outer Space" and reskin a little bit. Thematically a much better fit than World of Darkness.

It is a badly chosen name, as it does not give an image of what the game is about. Even if you realise that it is a Fantasy RPG, it does sound more like a game about being druids and rangers in the wilderness, than the generic thingy that it is.

To me, the main thing with a good "one-off" game is not the crunch, it's the fluff. Yes, the system needs to be easy, but what really matters is that the game has a clear idea that is exciting for players to pick up and run with without long preparation. The best one off I ever ran was of the...

The Keep on the Borderlands was the first module I read, the first module I DMed. Even as we played through it, way back then, I started to wonder if something like that was really good enough to publish. I added a few things here and there, as I felt that my players would otherwise never be...

In general, I think published adventures have too many pointless and uninspired combat encounters. Combat is there to be exciting and fun, and I feel that there are just so many uninspired rooms with boring critters. Plot on the other hand, is often underdeveloped - and oh so few real RP...

I have also taken that survey, and have the same feeling - for once it felt worthwhile to answer the questions to the best of my ability. This seems to be a new trend at WotC, as I recently answered a similar survey on why I don't play MtG Online anymore. (By the way... my answers about their...

I don't know Randy Buehler personally, only from things he has written and numerous live commentaries he has made from the MtG Pro Tour. The image I get of him is somebody who says a lot of things that seem less thought through than they should be, and shrugs it off when people are annoyed by...

Somehow Dwarven mountains for me usually end up with dramatic cliffs and fjords on one side - shaped by the windy ocean - and softer hills on the other, worn down by the ages and gently translating into forests and farmlands... just like the Scandes that I grew up next to. Probably not a...

Homebrew, for several reasons. First of all, it usually means that we as players have more of a chance to help build the world - using backstories and ideas that we have during the campaign. Also, the homebrews I have played in have had so much more flavour than the commercial settings. This...

Sidetrekking, but can't help myself... If I have understood what that post says correctly, then I totally disagree with you. If we don't agree on definitions of terminology, we aren't even really debating the same thing. If we instead take it for granted that everybody understand what...

My main issues with D&D 3.x are: 1. Swingy (=crits matter too much) and unfun (=not enough options for players) gameplay during low levels, making it unnecessarily difficult as a DM to run fun sessions. 2. Swingy (=saves matter too much) and clunky (=too many options for players and opponents)...

Just like a grocery list is not a poem or a passport photo is not fit for an art gallery, most roleplaying isn't art. On the other hand, I have seen and taken part in roleplaying that was using artistic techniques from drama and literature, in ways that made it be called art. In no way is...

I like to have 2 pages open at a time on the monitor, which means that portrait is preferable to me. Portrait A4 mind you. For that horrible Letter format, Landscape is a little better.

Totally agree. I also feel that Ravenloft and Dark Sun had more potential for a mature game than the 1E, 3E or 4E settings. Of course people mean so many different things with "mature", not to mention "adult".

Great post. I personally don't want my D&D to be adult, but I try to make it mature from time to time. I do think that there is a lack of mature material for D&D. Heroic fantasy doesn't need to run away from strong emotion and ethical dilemmas, but there was a long time since I saw a...

athas.org works fine, arthas.org doesn't :)

Adding my condolences, and the hope that everyone affected by this has strength and good friends to help them through it.

Me and my friends moved into 2E on the day it was published, having consumed all the previews we could find. At the time we were running an annual kind of prestigious AD&D tournament, where we took pride in including the very latest official rules. As the tournament took place in late September...