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Early White Dwarf magazines are graced with many great Russ illustrations -- paging through those issues is like finding a lost section of the 1e Fiend Folio. I suspect many wacky FF monsters never would have caught on in the game if not for an evocative Russ drawing. In tribute to the man I...

I haven't been around EN World regularly for a long time, but whenever I did check in I always swung by the CC, and I found it so comforting to see Shade continuing to plug away at monster conversions. A very generous and prolific contributor, I bounced a lot of ideas off him and he always had...

How is the Monster Book coming?

This is still an awesome idea.

Is Grim Tales not available as a PDF?

Your best bet for more details would be the Gord novels. There are lots of bits and pieces scattered throughout. Several demon lords in the novels have names that are suspiciously close to names on the list and are probably one and the same. For example, Vuron (the adviser to Graz'zt) sounds...

Magic: The Gathering is doing fantastic right now.

Seems like an awfully long time since we've heard anything about it.

In the run-up to Halloween I watched a bunch of classic Hammer horror films, including 1970's The Vampire Lovers, based on J. Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla. I was struck by a few things -- how reasonably faithful the movie was to the source, the variant abilities of the vampires (for...

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Mechanically awful, just awful. Some interesting bits of classic Gygax flavor scattered throughout, but it was a hard slog to find them. One of the greatest things Necromancer Games ever did was to translate the mega-adventure Necropolis into the d20 system.

Where I am we missed all the rain (and all the snow earlier). My cross-country skis and snowshoes got hung up the second week of January and never came down again. Last year I was still going strong into the second week of April.

Awesome. I wasn't sure if there was a super-secret patron forum I was missing out on. And I hear you about the weather here in New England: hard to get anything done that doesn't involve beer, grills, or being outside.

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There's a neat article over at Slate.com on the surge of fan interest in learning the fictional Na'vi language, just as people have taken up Klingon. But what I found really interesting, from a gamer's perspective, was the intense desire for many of these fans to establish an authority over...