Recent content by Frank Mentzer

I don't play PF regularly; I'm an old-schooler hard-core. But several among my (formerly regular) gaming group have shown me graphically how to do it. It's a matter of attitude, not rules. You learn to escape nitpicky rule-referencing but use the system in a more general sense. One of the core...

I'm honored to be working 'with' such an incredible group of talented, proven designers. One major thing I've learned in the past 3 years is that you CAN play Pathfinder 'old-school' style. It's flexible enough to accommodate a lot. So sure, I'm in. (My other recent works are at...

Breaking news: Eldritch products will be available at GenCon. Old School booth (between Authors & Entrepreneurs). FM

Now available in PRINT and PDF formats: The premiere products of Eldritch Enterprises Ltd. Jim Ward: "Dark Outpost" A space station in orbit, built by robots and crewed by automated machines. But something has gone wrong. Beware: High fatality rating. Frank Mentzer: "Lich Dungeon" (Level...

0e, 1e, and BECMI. Don't care for the kits 'n' splats of 2e; 3 and beyond get too much into rules instead of roles.

fyi, Jolly Blackburn is using extensive VR tools with Hackmaster. A lot's happening there. Regular reports on FaceBook; check it out.

I seriously doubt that we'll be done by 10p. Midnight maybe. MAYBE. Lots of 'way cool collector stuff here... and there are a jillion OTHER donations to the charity auction as well, contributed by many of the vendors in the Dealer Hall. Did you know that the GenCon Auction... ...sells...

Too bad this doesn't cover the Old School community, with numbers over 50,000 and growing daily. :(

Publishing Lich was actually a reaction, not a plan. The first full work I wrote for publication was Mystery of History, but I decided not to 'lead' with that. The mystery involves about 95% role playing (and player mystery-solving) and 5% (or less) is combat. It works fine, and will be coming...

I'm more than 'a little' perturbed at the binding problems (printer error). otoh we had to accept a percentage of errors to get them to GaryCon in time to meet our commitments. Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do. All such problems (binding & some color streaking inside covers) were entirely...

Thanks for the kind words. ::sigh:: I do have a lot of ideas for NEW stuff, and Lich is from the '70s... The writeup for level 1 was actually the second (or third) thing I wrote in the last year, but I figured I oughta stick to vintage old-school stuff at first, lest I scare people. ;> And...

From the same sites. (They're all up on several now.) Each has to check the PDF for printability, looking for known glitches. Should certainly all be available in paper by mid-April, maybe earlier.

Recently I posted a Stat Conversion Crib Sheet for Lich Dungeon Level 1 (newly available from Eldritch Ent. Ltd.) over at Dragonsfoot. Since then they've had massive SQL errors. (I'm not arrogant enough to believe that my post had anything to do with it). Since the info has become temporarily...

Contrary to popular scuttlebut, I don't bake. I taste. My wife Debbie created all that good stuff. (She still does a little, heh heh heh) As to Nowbiz (instead of pastbiz): We're up on DriveThru with PDFs: DriveThruRPG.com - Eldritch Enterprises - The Largest RPG Download Store! F

Anbody near Davenport IA? Within shootin' range? Like 4 hrs? Or-- Chicago Bloomington, Madison/Milwaukee, St Louis, Kansas City? The event is Xenocon. Worth checking out. It's their first year, tho. So for a (notably low) admission fee you can be the monsters and attack their system, so they...