Recent content by Aurumvorax

I wish Wizards would republish Birthright in 4E. Just like Gamma World was built around random card decks, a Birthright game would be built around a tabletop war game. Players can either adventure in traditional D&D style or turn to the board game to manage their domains and go to war.

Check your yellow pages for a local printer. They might have samples. I'm sure you can also find a book on professional printing because there are a lot of nuances you have to look for. Most printers will do corrections for you. You should always receive a preview copy before finalizing the...

Send them an email and they might tell you. Like I said earlier, I doubt they use one manufacturer. They probably associate with dozens.

This link might help you out. These guys do custom boxes and are pretty popular, even working with Nintendo on Pokemon. This post deals with board game self-publishers. Printers are pretty flexible and can manufacture a wide array of material, not just books. Some don't advertise (or rather...

The 4E books say "printed in USA" and there are a couple of big printers in Texas. I doubt they rely on one printer and go to whoever gives them the greatest rates for their print run. I'm taking most of my information from the comic book world, which I'm somewhat knowledgeable in, and this...

FATE really requires a group of people willing to engage in the game. You can't have the typical wallflower player who flips dice and shrugs his shoulders whenever asked a question in another game. I played the game a few times with some friends and we all take a shot of Bacardi 151 before...

Stretching the term "megadungeon," the classic Journey to the Center of the Earth may fit the bill. I use Dante's Divine Comedy as the basis for planar travel, particularly the players walking through hostile terrain while being accosted by trickster outsiders. I prefer my outsiders...

They're what I know and I like playing what I know. I enjoy any setting that's interesting but traditional fantasy is what I return to.

I did not say this is how you play D&D. I said this is how D&D is written. If you play the game differently, good for you. Pretty much no one plays the game as written. If alignment has never got in the way then you're ignoring alignment as a mechanic. In AD&D, alignment was supposed to...

When you introduce "maybe" into the equation, you've already lost. D&D's alignment isn't maybe, it's a hard rule. Good people do A. Evil people do B. Deviating from this changes your alignment. By the book, there's no middle ground. AD&D even makes a point that true neutral is the hardest...

^^^I've also adapted D20 Modern and Conan's oath/organization system. You believe in THIS so this is how you behave. If you falter in your beliefs, you have no one to blame but yourself. No invisible hand is there to wag "no, no" when you fail but other people might hear about you and think...

In order for alignment to make sense you have to establish if it's metaphysical or based on societal standards. If it's metaphysical, as in how the universe views things, then everyone should adhere to those restrictions. If entering a dungeon, killing the denizens inside, and stealing their...

They work fine if a character goes through transitions but transitioning shouldn't be painless. The books reinforced the DM tracking alignment shifts but not for minor transgressions. It even says people act out of character and that's fine. A lawful good person killing out of cold blood...

Wizards provided the single greatest boon to keeping D&D alive: the Open Game License. All the old editions are still in print, they're just called OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord, Swords & Wizardry, et al. I find it disheartening that AD&D to you is in the name, not the spirit of the game. The rules...

Some researchers argue that mistranslations of Plato's hypotheses placed Atlantis in the Mediterranean when it would realistically be in the Black Sea. Recent research of debris found in Spain coupled with Plato's writing and historic accounts of natural disasters suggest there was an ancient...