Recent content by GM Lent

The Illithiad from 1998 had a bunch of fancy tech for mind flayers, including biosuits, exoskeletons, glare goggles, and more. Some of this stuff was included in the 3.5 book Lords of Madness.

I run a weekly Dungeon Crawl Classics game in a local shop, and each session is roughly 2 hours (the store closes early-ish and while the owners don't care if we go over a bit I try not to abuse the privelege). I also run a DCC game online for my 11yo and his friends. Earlier this year I had a...

I have never used miniatures in my games; if I want to play a fantasy boardgame I still have my old 1990s HeroQuest game. As I believe I mentioned in the other thread, I find players are far more imaginative in TotM combat than when they have a gameboard to use. IMO combat is tedious enough...

Good stuff! The Building A City web enhancement for the 3.5 DMG is also super useful, IMO. I've even used it for other systems/games.

Do limited series count? Here I am thinking of V, and its sequel V: The Final Battle. Shocking in its time and influental, I feel it/they should be on the list.

There was an article in Dragon Magazine back in the day called "The Color of Magic" that handled this kind of idea. In a nutshell, it suggests reflavoring spells to suit a specific theme (the example it uses is an ice mage whose magic missile looks like icecicles and similar reskinnings) and...

Tough one! My initial throught was mind flayers, but honestly I don't use them much because if used to the maximum of their capabilities I don't know how a party could beat them. So I vote the Living Wall. They're disgusting, tragic, and evocative - equally as useful for intense personal and...

Weis & Hickman James Gunn James Cameron Wolfgang Baur All white, almost all men 🤮. If Weis & Hickman have to count as two (which would be fair), I'd drop James Gunn.

I first heard of VtM when I was 16. I had been accepted into a "Gifted & Talented" high school located in the corner of a college campus about 2 hours from where I'd lived prior to then and several of my new friends had the WoD books. I never played in a strictly VtM game, but in several general...

DCC RPG Distant second: Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea Even more distant third: Avatar Legends RPG

I have never used miniatures in my TTRPGs in over 30 years of gaming; if I want to play/run a boardgame I have HeroQuest. I have played in a number of games over the years that did use miniatures, and while there are advantages, it's been my observation that players in such games don't tend to...

Red Steel was an expansion of the Mystara line in its waning 2e years (ca. 1995-96), focusing on the coastal areas southwest of Karameikos and the Known World. They called this area the Savage Coast, and it was introduced mostly by Bruce Heard's Voyage of the Princess Ark columns in Dragon...

Alas, another flurry of no-shows.

I once backed an entire Conan 2d20 Kickstarter because it looked cool and promised all kinds of neat charts, tables, maps, etc. As a consequence I've have 20+ high-quality PDFs doing whatever the digital equivalent of gathering dust on a shelf is, for like 7 years. O how I wish that was the...