Recent content by Darrell

The PF Beginner Box is an amazing value, considering everything you get for the money. I took an "E6-ish" approach (well, 'E5' actually, I suppose) with it, and made a makeshift GM screen out of a restaurant menu and information from the 'reference pages' from the Gamemaster's Guide, and now...

I clicked "OD&D," because (pre-1st edition AD&D) Dungeons & Dragons isn't broken down on the list. I've been playing the Moldvay/Cook "B/X" version of D&D. I've also been playing my own permutation of Microlite20 lately.

Yep. I started playing using the old digest-sized OD&D booklets, and my (Southern Baptist) Mom and two of my brothers were some of my first players. In fact, my Mom and Dad gave me the Moldvay/Cook 'B/X' boxed sets for Christmas, and Mom continued to play in my games until I went away to...

I used to be in the "Gargantuan" range; but I sold it all off. Nowadays, I have only the "B/X" D&D boxed sets, some basic Dungeon Tiles sets, and a small collection of D&D Miniatures ... and my homemade "shelf copies" of my permutation of Microlite20, if you want to count that ... less than 6...

I use props a lot, but not costumes, really; although we made an exception for about ten years or so (before, during, and after college) for the yearly game session on the Friday closest to Hallowe'en (when we did a 'dress as your character' game ... I guess it helped that the guys tended to...

I don't know. It sounds to me like you've got a set of rose-coloured glasses there, man. I was playing in '79 and '80, and I recall news reports treating the Egbert 'disappearance' as a joke. Granted , I was 13-14 years old and living in North Carolina, but every mention I heard was treated...

I've been playing m20 pretty much since Greywulf wrote the thing, and I've always assumed it was standard d20 'equal or better' for attacks. I think it may just be his 'shortening' of the phrasing to cut down as much as possible. The whole concept of m20, after all, is to be able to use...

I liked all of the 'Slayer's Guides,' but I have a tendency to prefer backstory and campaign ideas to new and/or expanded rules. Each of the Slayer's Guides read as a fairly cool "Ecology of ..." booklet. Some stuff I kept, and some I tossed, but I never regretted buying them. If you can find...

I did a bit of 'racial reflavoring' an age or two ago, right after I'd read a book called (as I recall) King Arthur in Fact and Legend. It was one of the first sources I read that suggested the Arthurian mythos was originally from the north of England along the Scottish border (like the Clive...

Perhaps because you keep harping on it. Asking once isn't hostile. Asking again and again and again, to the point where you give some people the impression that you feel 'entitled' to the information can be construed that way, however. Paizo will not release that information. Period. No...

Tell that to WotC. They released 4e knowing it would make a large part of their audience happy and would drive off a smaller part of their audience; and some of that smaller part of the audience did leave. Doesn't seem to have really hurt Wizards all that much, though, does it? If the...

DonTadow, I have to say, I loved the movie; but I seem to have gotten exactly the opposite feel out of it. I saw it as necessary change to get out from under the thumb of the old continuity. Regards, Darrell

Pretty much the same, here. I recently adopted B/X D&D as my 'one and only' system, and one of the driving forces in my decision was that, rather than carting around a bunch of heavy books when I move, I now move the equivalent of 2 'magazine-sized' books and a restaurant menu (my home-made DM...

Waited a while after seeing it before posting, to be able to consider it more fully. All in all, I didn't like it. I liked the comic (I hate the term "graphic novel," it smacks too much of trying to pretend it's more high-brow than it is; kind of like saying "erotic thriller" instead of...

I'm afraid I cannot agree with, nor even understand the viewpoint of, anyone who prefers Keaton's Batman. I hated the movie when it came out, and thought from the get-go that he was horribly miscast. Of course, a good deal of my dislike for that movie also lay in Nicholson's 'Shining/Witches...