Recent content by francisca

In 2010, during one of the early Gary Cons, Ernie was kind enough to let me tag along over to his home where we and others talked quite a bit and played the San Juan card game. When Ernie found out I was a Fritz Leiber fan, he handed me a postcard Fritz has sent his mother Mary Gygax. I'm not...

Yup. I've seen that. The D&D games that I was hard pressed to recognize as the same game I played, for example.

Started around 1980, though I had been hanging around my older cousins' basement, watching them play a lot in the late 70s. I have the same reaction as you do, fairly often. I also have the "you're full of it, you weren't playing back then" or "playing the goldbox games from SSI in your...

Carse is part of Midkemia. https://midkemia.fandom.com/wiki/Carse

Thanks for posting this. IMO, those Midkemia supplements were some of the most useful additions to the game, published back in the day.

I know Hat of D02. You are no Hat of D02.

Howdy- I went to look at the dtrpg page for this, and the first bullet point reads: "Unique cinematic three act structure." The grumpy old grognard in me reads that, and says, "Sounds like a railroad." Could you comment on that, and and "cinematic" features, as I don't really know what that...

If he doesn't I'll gladly take it.

That's great! Thanks for that info. In the little I've been able to compare (the Ogre and Ochre Jelly), there is quite a bit of difference. Yeah, got it last night. But I appreciate letting me know, just the same. I agree, whole-heartedly.

Not with my hectic schedule. Also, are you sure there will be monsters with that update?

Thanks guys. Looks like I'll be rolling my own to get an adventure ready for gencon. (I'm not spending any money on 5e until I play it a few times, then I'll decide.)

So.....no monsters. I'm planning on reading through the download, and if it seems okay, I'm going to run an adventure for some old friends at gencon. Problem is: I need monsters. There was the a preview a few days back with some monsters from the starter set, so I have that to go by. I was...