Recent content by Mystaros

I hope to be at GaryCon, I would love to attend. Just depends on the economy...

First, welcome to the Wilderlands! Glad you enjoy the setting. Second, I should note that the Mayfair CSIO is a completely different creature from the original; almost nothing, save for the vague shape of the city and a few place names, are held in common. The gritty sword & sorcery factor was...

Here are my predictions from August 5, 2006: http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=2990924&postcount=407 I was way off on that... but then, I felt then and still feel now that they missed the sales curve and should have skipped 3.5 and gone directly to 4E in 2005. Though they still insist...

If you wish to send a few words that will certainly reach the family, you can go here to read the obituary on the funeral home's site, and at the bottom is a link for sending in condolences: http://gracelandfairlawn.com/obituary.aspx?MemberId=41147&MName=Robert%20E.%20Bledsaw

At this time I have no plans to include articles for LL, BF, OSRIC, or any of the other reetro-clone game systems. Castles & Crusades covers the d20/D&D-retro-clone territory quite well, I think, and anything done in C&C can readily be converted to any of the retro-clone games or ver3.5. We've...

Hi Folks! Sorry for the confusion. Here's the way things currently stand: The first book to be published will be the Wilderlands of High Fantasy: Player's Guide to Races & Classes. This includes the following information from the original PGW for ver3.5, all revised and expanded: Races...

Well, as they are obviously reading this thread, perhaps we could all chime in and say "Please, let the clause refer not to OGL products as a whole, but specifically to OGL products utilizing the d20 SRD." Still not the best solution, but a solution. So as long as you keep your Runequest or...

Actually, that's pretty darn cool. Don't sell your ideas short.

How's this? Huh... I thought it was at a higher resolution than that, but I guess not. And I've searched for the original, but it seems to have been lost during one of my computer crashes. It might be on a backup I've not found yet... hopefully. If it's kinda hard to make out the continents...

I used to run into this issue all the time when I ran for younger players. It is only natural for them to want to explore the "Dark Side" of things. I have generally allowed players to choose whatever alignment they wish, with the caveat that "Evil gets as Evil does." There are always...

Sympathy from Bob Bledsaw Dear Friends, Gary and I have known each other practically all of our adult lives, and I have always held great admiration for his achievements. Beginning in 1975, we worked with phone calls and handshakes, and there were no contracts or lawyers, but the industry grew...

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Well, realize that if you are going with monotheism and Christianity is the One True Faith, then all other magic is, by default, arcane as opposed to divine. You could punt it and say that the "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me" means that there are other gods, but then that is not truly...

To answer the rest of the questions... The whole syncretism issue never really occurs, as mentioned before; this is because the gods of Aerth are the gods right out of Deities & Demigods, i.e., they are not metaphysical ideas so much as real beings with unique natures. A bit of oddness can...

Mostly because the gods are very real here; true deific syncretism is rare in this world, and only happens when one god kills another and "takes his stuff." Another reason is the different history of the empire... here are my notes on the founding of the Roman Olympian Faith. They've neither...