Recent content by amethal

I've got the original version of the Halls of Arden Vul, but I've also been picking up the new "bullet point" version PDFs as they come out. I'm finding the bullet point layout much easier to follow, so much so that I've (almost) got over my resentment at paying twice for the same adventure. (I...

I assume with early White Dwarf the main issue was taking up as little space as possible in the magazine. Even then, some of their Traveller modules were really well laid out, given the space constraints.

Counting BECMI and AD&D 1e as the same game, my second RPG was Call of Cthulhu (3rd edition, I think).

Arden Vul looks like it could be an amazing campaign, but it would be hard enough to run in 1e/OSRIC due to the sheer size of the thing and the amount of background lore. I'm usually very amenable to running whatever people want to play, and I've got lots of experience converting things into...

Pathfinder 1e has several ways to get flight apart from casting spells. A number of Sorcerer Bloodlines eventually grant wings. The celestial bloodline grants wings at 9th level, but only for 1 minute / level /day. The draconic and infernal bloodlines grant wings at 15th level, with unlimited...

I went with 41-50, as I'm running Zeitgeist using Fate Core and we meet every 2 weeks or so. That's on the basis that my two Pathfinder 1e games count as "D&D" - they do to me. Otherwise it would be (way) more than 60 hours.

Raging Swan's "The Shunned Valley of Three Tombs" now has an OSR version. It's basically 3 very small dungeons (the tombs) with a bit of wilderness. Also, Raging Swan's "Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands" is a nice "clean out the keep" adventure. Takes a lot more than one session to do it all...

I had a string of kickstarter disasters not long after I started using it. E20 System Evolved (already mentioned above) Throne of Night (already mentioned above) City State of the Invincible Overlord (I don't think that was mentioned above, but there was a thread about the new kickstarter; it...

5th edition's use of natural language at all costs sometimes feels like a backward step. As a Pathfinder GM who sometimes converts 5th edition adventures to PF (1e), every time I see "Resistance to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing and slashing weapons" I wonder why they didn't just use...

That makes perfect sense, except for when my collection gets close to complete, and I end up paying more than I want to for the last few items. Still not paying $200+ for hardback Book of the Damned, even though it's the only PF1e product I don't have.

Literally everything I know about New Coke I learned on ENWorld. I've never seen it mentioned anywhere else. Was New Coke ever sold outside the USA? It sometimes seems like there are a whole lot of sub-sets of Godwin's law in operation. Discussion about free speech - shouting "fire" in...

If I could track down my players from the mid-80s and ask them what they thought of Isle of Dread, I imagine the response would be very negative. ("You just wander around fighting random dinosaurs for no real reason.") It's not the adventure's fault - it was the first wilderness adventure I...

Thanks for the link. I miss John Cooper's analysis of monsters, so I just gave his 20 year old review a "Like".

Yes, it would have been nice. Paizo wanted to do it, people wanted to buy it, but WotC said no. I imagine it played a part in Paizo's realisation that they needed to move towards owning their own IP. I don't expect there's any interest within WotC for doing their own version for 5e.

We had a choice of 3 channels, one of which didn't really show Children's TV, so we all watched whatever was on. The idea of not watching a cartoon (unless it clashed with something on the "other side") never really occurred to us. At the time I had the Monster Manual and Monster Manual II, but...