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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 2461803" data-attributes="member: 363">Well, since this is a "wish list" thread:* Giants In The Earth - Long-time readers of Dragon will remember a regular department of the magazine decades ago was Giants In The Earth, in which readers submitted stats and write-ups of characters from fiction and legend. The title comes from a Biblical passage, by the way.Anyway, I'd love to see something like this in book form. Obviously, characters from more recent books would be less likely to appear, given that it would be expensive to license the use of a lot of them. I dunno how much, if any, trouble Dragon got into for including characters from fairly recent (at the time) books - this is assuming they didn't even bother to try to acquire the right to use them.Still, this leaves a lot of ground to cover - Greek, Norse, Finnish, and Egyptian mythology, as well as mythologies from many other cultures around the world; historical (and historical/legendary) figures like Julius Caesar, Alexander, King Arthur, Leonidas of the Spartans; and literature in the public domain like The Well at the World's End, and maybe The Worm Ourobouros (not sure if it's public domain yet).Now, some may find such a product to be of no use. On the other hand, it would not only provide a good collection of pregenerated NPC stats (which could have the serial numbers filed off for personalized campaign use), but could also introduce gamers - particularly younger ones - to literature they might not be familiar with. * Birthright update - One of my all-time favorite RPG settings. I'd love to see the crunch adapted for 3.5.* Epic Level upgrade - Although I feel the Epic Level Handbook was flawed, it still had a lot of potential. I'd like to see a new version of the book which casts caution to the wind in terms of game balance. I don't mean make things unbalanced, but rather make them so the whole epic concept isn't handled so conservatively. Some elements from Deities & Demigods would work well here (Divine Ranks, for example). The issue of Dragon that had epic articles had some materials that really deserved to find its way into such a book - the epic level "real world" items are fantastic examples.* Greyhawk Redux - Yep, I'd like to see a GH book also. I'm not really keen on making it as detailed as settings like Forgotten Realms, seeing as i think the original gazetteer from many, many moons ago is enough to run a campaign (I like Greyhawk to be as customizable as possible). I have pretty much all my old Greyhawk stuff, but it'd be nice to see it brought back into the limelight.* Poly Minigames/Amazing Engine Settings - I'd love to see these things given some attention, perhaps collected into a single large volume. I'd also like to see new material along these lines. Perhaps even take the concept and do a line of GURPS-style sourcebooks for d20. Some of the concepts from the Polyhedron minigames and even at least one Amazing Engine setting (Bughunters) have found their way into d20 books from WotC, which is cool, but I'd love to see more.</blockquote>

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