Recent content by catenwolde

I welcome the reprint, but I have to admit that I was under-whelmed by their 5e translation of The Keep. I was expecting something that threw in a bit of variation in encounters to account for 5e's power levels and monster mix, and also adjusted the treasure amounts and types to fit with 5e's...

If you're not already invested in 28mm figures, there are two (at least) 15mm wargaming companies that are busy expanding their D&D type lines: Khurasan: http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/15mmfantasy.html Splintered Light: http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/15mmfantasy.html If you take a...

Okay, sure, Greyhawk is technically older than anything else, being Gygax's world ... but in MY world of D&D, Greyhawk remained something rather remote that was used as official background for spells and magic items, while Mystara was introduced in 1980 (my freshman year of high school) with The...

Kids and their newfangled Greyhawk - everybody knows that Mystara is where the real action is! ;)

The first time I ran it (WAY back when) I used the tunnel as the secret entrance for the evil cleric in the Keep, who was the mastermind behind the gathering of the goblinoid and undead armies - that actually worked out pretty well, allowing me to play off the conspiracy elements a bit better...

About a dozen years for me! I started in the 70's with the Holmes "Blue Book" and then played a mish-mash of Mentzer B/X and AD&D1e, and eventually played a lot of 2e as well. 3e seemed ok, but didn't hold my interest after low levels, and although I ventured off into C&C and various clones, and...

The overall attitude always seemed (at least to me) to be based on a reasonable interpretation of what the character could do, with a little luck thrown in when appropriate. The "reasonable interpretation" bit is based on the player and GM interacting with each other to establish what the...

Poser. I'm assuming everyone is in the know about this, but here's the text from "T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil" pg. 26. Lareth the Beautiful is the dark hope of chaotic evil—young, handsome, well endowed in abilities and aptitudes, thor- oughly wicked, depraved, and capricious. Whomever...

I've gone through the same thing over the past three years or so - my son is now 11 (and his sister, 3 years younger, sometimes jumps in). So, I'll just pass along my experiences. A few years back, I was much more into the historical wargaming part of my hobby, and my son and I were playing...

RPG mag's vs. Wargaming mag's I have tended to wander back and forth between rpg'ing and miniature wargaming over the years. RPG'ing is on the upswing now, as time for large historical wargaming projects continues to grow harder to find, and my children are finally old enough to play...

On top of a mountain in Greece, in the middle of the ruins of a 3500 year old citadel. In the lounge of an Ivy league philosophy department. On the kitchen counter of a rae gae bar. In the locker of a 250lb linebacker and shot-putter. Forgotten on a side table at the Frankfurt Airport. I'm...

Aha - that explains it! Looks like more Zagyg goodness to buy.

Oh, I'll definitely buy it - Yggsburgh was a great start, and since I was one of those lucky few who actually wasted money on WG7, let's just say I've been waiting a while. ;) However, I thought that the original plan (many supplements) had been changed/streamlined/whatever to fit into these...

Err ... there's only two Castle Zagyg supplements now (The Upper Works and The Dungeons). Still, buy away, and the more the merrier. How's OSRIC going? {edit: obviously, replying to P&P two posts up} At any rate, on the topic of character customization, I think one often overlooked component...

This is a "gaming philosophy" point, but I've always *liked* big discrepencies in stat scores, and never considered "balance" to be a vital issue in an rpg. C&C goes a long ways towards making stat differences less important by reverting back to a bonus model closer to 1e, and Primes and...