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And this related image that really captured my young imagination:

If you're thinking of this section of Catalyst's website, it's out of date! Kind of disappointing. Somebody on Reddit posted this guide to the boxed sets and rulebooks much more recently but it doesn't address Technical Readouts or any of the setting material (game sourcebooks or fiction). I...

I never answered @payn's question, did I? I've only read a couple of Battletech novels -- Decision at Thunder Rift by William H. Keith and Double-Blind by Loren Coleman, the latter of which was recommended to me as having good examples of people fighting 'Mechs with lesser technology. There's a...

If you want to get seriously into the Battletech board game, it's an amazing deal. The base tier is the core rules and unit-construction rules for the board game, and the core and so far only book for the latest RPG for the setting. Then the bonus collection adds lots and lots of extra optional...

Thank you!

Mine came in the Mentzer Red Box, but a late enough version that they were pre-inked and each a different color. They're aging very well - no visible wear. I had a great moment a few years ago when I realized that half the people at the gaming table were younger than those dice.

This bard from the 5e PHB. I wish I knew the artist's name: I love the self-assurance. Here is a character who is ready for whatever the DM throws at her.

#184 was the first issue of my subscription! I'd been picking up individual issues here and there starting with #138, then made the jump to subscribing and kept it up into the low 220-s. "The Sunset World" from #150 and "The Color of Magic" from #200 have already been mentioned but they're...

It really is amazing. I haven't gotten a copy of Slaying the Dragon yet, but my big takeaway from Jon Peterson's The Game Wizards is that nobody at TSR ever learned how to run a business. Nepotism and poorly-thought-out ventures were the norm from the very early days on.

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At least some of the old portraits are still on the D&D site moved to http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/pc. There are also some new ones at http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/character-portraits.

It seems like most of my (rare) posts lately have to do with the Temple of Elemental Evil, but... what you're suggesting sounds a lot like reconstructing the Temple of Elemental Evil, after Princes of the Apocalypse deconstructed it. Which means that, if you're the sort of DM who enjoys...

I'm not sure there's more to be found than this, in the Candlekeep Library: So it looks to me like like it's not an official class, but one fan idea of how to flavor the standard monk class.

There are conversion notes in the ENWorld download library -- from Herzog here and from TheYeti1775 here. I haven't used either myself, though.