Recent content by Darth Krzysztof

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Four things above all: Clyde Caldwell Jeff Easley Larry Elmore and especially the late, great Keith Parkinson. Don't get me wrong, I like the new art, but when I think about D&D -- which, needless to say, is a lot -- their stuff is what I'm seeing.

As long as there are ability scores, races, and classes that have -some- resemblance to what we have today, I don't mind scrapping all the other details and rebuilding. Plus, I didn't end my world when the last edition came out. It might be fun to blow it up now.

I'm simply devastated to hear this. Like many of you, I always thought that Parkinson was the best of the Fab Four. His work really defined what D&D--heck, what fantasy in general--meant to me. His dragons, in particular, were always my favorites. I only met him once, at a convention in 1990 or...

X2 Castle Amber-TWO sequels? Well, I didn't have many quibbles with the list. Mine would have included Treasure Hunt and the Bloodstone Quartet, but oh well. In the entry for X2 Castle Amber, John Rateliff mentions that the module spawned "not one, but two sequels." I know about Mark of...

I always liked Karl Waller, who did B&W stuff for Al-Qadim and Shadowrun, among other things. Just about anyone who did stuff for Planescape, especially DiTerlizzi & R.K. Post. And Mike Mignola. Sure, he's not a "fantasy artist" per se, but he did do an excellent Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser...

So I'd like to spring a graveyard encounter on my players, in which a necromancer summons some undead critters directly from their graves and straight up through the ground-- --but it turns out that animate dead, and the create undead spells, are all touch spells. Is there a way to pull this...

They aren't gods in my campaign, because it dates back to 1st Edition, when PCs actually -could- kill them. Orcus and Tiamat (who was an archdevil back then) both bit the dust in the Bloodstone campaign, and Lolth mostly got killed when I ran GDQ1-7. Mind you, I still like the idea of archfiend...

Gee, in my campaigns, it was Vecna. One of his nicknames was the Raven...

Wait; it gets worse. I'm pretty sure that H4 establishes Orcus's home on the 66th layer of the Abyss... Planescape and later products list it as 113th. So maybe he carved out a new realm when he came back, further down the Abyssal Turnpike?

Oh, that's easy. Jaws. I agree with The Godfather, also.

As much as I'd love to return Barrier Peaks and Tsojcanth--and I would--Return to Bloodstone would slake my thirst much better. Specifically, a return to Orcus's corner of the Abyss, updated with Manual of The Planes, Book of Vile Darkness, and maybe Epic Level Handbook stuff. I've kicked...

My all-time favorite has got to be the World Builder's Guidebook. Every fantasy campaign I've put together since that book came out has started with it, including the ones set in published settings, and the ones that didn't use D&D rules... The original DMG hardly needs any more love, but it's...