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Change!

Is nothing safe from it?

Yes! Srihoz refuses to threaten the world in D&D 3.5 only!

D'oh! Good point, GnomeBoy!

I'll have to defer to someone with an objective opinion.

But I'll venture to say....yes!

Hey, guys. This is a one-time-only bit of self-promotion (for these boards, anyway—I yap away on my own website). Yesterday my first novel hit shelves. And in honor of oldschool D&D (DCC-style, to be sure!), there's a tiny bit of dungeoncrawling in the book and even a very oldschool monster whic...

Indeed. This is a pretty sad. :( While it's an immediate loss for everyone who knew him personally, I think we can safely agree that this crazy planet has already gained a great deal from Mr. Gygax already. Everyone here no doubt would be on a different path were it not for that amazing old wizard. ...

I might be able to supply a bit of thought on that, Hybban. The irrepressible Harley and I wrote the gazetteer. He fleshed out the Cillemar material fully and even filled in a few gaps here and there (culture section, etc.), while I did most of the Kingdom of Morrain material. I'll start with the fa...

Sure thing. If you have any questions, we're here.

Particularly anything in that boxed set!

Generally speaking, the Gazetteer book is safe for players and the GM's Guide is less so. I won't say that should be a hard delineation, but it's a start. Any god entry in the GM's Guide could be available to any players considering that god. There's no solid GM-only secrets in there; mostly just fl...

True, true. But it's not entirely fair to compare a stand-alone book with part 1 of a trilogy. Although the events of The Crystal Shard are somewhat independent of the rest of the Icewind Dale trilogy, the characters go on and develop more in later books. I can tell you from experience that when you...

Arek, were there any other stand-alone books you tried? I've only read a few of the Forgotten Realms ones ( Neversfall by Ed Gentry, part of the Citadels series, and Frostfell by Mark Sehestedt, part of the Wizards series) and I really enjoyed them. I'm curious if you can compare Ghostwalker with an...

N'Haaz-aua wrote:my wish list: actually play in a game.

I'm with you on that, N'Haaz. Three times I've been to GenCon and never actually played in a real game. I mean, geez.

Yet we are sadly at our most vulnerable at GenCon. (The concealed ninjas being the only real line of defense.)

(Note to self: Steer clear of Adrian, Harley, and Co. My proximity is too close.)

Here's the thing. The sheer writing skill of Mark Frost suggests Twin Peaks must be good. But he also did the script for The Fantastic Four and its sequel—neither of which hold much interest for me. But perhaps in time I'll Netflix the first disk and see what it's all about. :? But now we're off top...

Let's see...when Twin Peaks came out, I was like 13....so I was probably watching something else at the time, or maybe reading D&D books and the old Realms and DragonLance novels.

Ohh...speaking of the Fergunator...

Happy birthday, Mike! (Yeah, I know.)

He sure is! On that Amazon page, it even says, "The Twin Peaks co-creator's first novel confronts Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a mystery involving black magic and Satanic manifestations."

(Which makes me interested in Twin Peaks, which I've never seen.)

Has anyone here ever read F. Paul Wilson? Notably, either The Keep or his Repairman Jack books? Neither are fantasy, per se, but all of them involve the supernatural events. Which, for me, is a must. In any case, I'd recommend every one of them. Another gem is Mark Frost's The List of 7 . The main c...

Oh, great. I invite "the Ferg" into my play-by-post game and NOW someone warns me not to trust him. Just great.

I don't know, AvatarArt. Stats blocks can take more time than you think. Putting out two versions of something as massive as Castle Whiterock, for example, would be pretty labor intensive. (Then again, we don't yet know how easy they are in 4E. Maybe it wouldn't be so hard.)

A bit off-topic, perhaps, but for those of you familiar with DCC #35, you might know that the Xulmecs are already familiar with such an animal as this.

One-Ton Rat Roamed Ancient Swamplands <--- (this is a link)

I love it when D&D isn't that far from reality.

I don't anticipate any 'conversion' problems, since I'm generally not attached to specific powers anyway..... Attitude makes the man, as it were.

And that's a good attitude to go into 4E with, too.

i have w&m, too. the more i read the more stoked i am. d&d moved towards aereth, not the other way around. I'll be picking that up today...for, uhh, research. :D and i know they say you can't convert the characters, but i don't believe it for a minute. a character is a set of ideas swinging...

It should also be noted that there are many other plausible ways to insert the new player races. The drakon of Ssorlang could just as easily be dragonborn, bred by the nagas of Zimala when their great power first began to wane by mixing their blood with the blood of dragons and men. So picture a dra...

I'm very glad to hear that Goodman Games is on the table front and center with 4th Edition. I can't wait to see what comes of it!