Recent content by Hadit

Hello Gary! I hope all is well! I've just come from Dragonfoot where the torch burns as strong as ever for good ole' 1E D&D! (Huzzah!) A question though... and a hypothetical one at that (which I know you have distaste for... sorry). If original D&D had remained within your control over these...

Heya Gary, Mention of the Lake of Unknown Depths has sparked a trivial (but old) question I've had for awhile. How do you pronounce Nyr Dyv? (I've always said it like: "nyer deev".) Also, how do you pronounce Flanaess? Thanks, Duglas

They do... http://www.tridentbooks.us/ I confess that I've suggested a book to you that appears to be out-of-print now (having just perused the website myself)... I apologize. (My copy was a gift from a book publishing friend.) There is a copy available on Ebay for around $120 the last I...

Hey Gary, Have you had a chance to see a publication called Demonographia, by Trident Books? It is a complete collection of illustrations of demons as decribed in J.A.S. Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal (along with descriptive text). Its a very classy book and quite useful for GM...

Really? I guess I missed that somehow.

Bah! Boo to that! Definately NOT my crew!

The LoEG movie does look like it will be pretty good, but I am still leery that it will not come close to the excellence of the comic. Hollywood tends to err on the side of excess (and simplification). I read an interview with Alan Moore in which he was questioned about how he would feel if...

Grunt! You can't be serious! The beholders in that movie were horrid and brain-damaged. UNLIKE D&D behoders totally. TOTALLY.

Re: Re: Re: Paladin's Detect Evil Power Yeah, I always sort of looked at it like that as well. To a lesser degree, the casting of detect evil on folks seems similar to the modern habit of imploying lie-detectors or urinalysis on prospective employees... extreme annoyance! This brings up a...

Missed your post as we posted at the same time. You raise some valid points, Celebrim... stuff I will have to take time to consider. Since the spell hasn't been abused (yet) in my campaign, I will probably just use the simple ruling I described above, but I will keep your warnings in mind if...

Yeah, I think that's a good point... the point I was looking for to rationalize my intuitive ruling that the recipient of Spider Climb can climb about perfectly fine without the hassle of 'climb checks'. Thanks!

I apologize if this is a question already discussed in previous posts I haven't seen... Okay, this is becoming a minor controversy in my game. 3E Spider Climb states that "the subject can climb and travel on vertical surfaces or even traverse ceilings as well as a spider does". In game...

Wow! Castle Greyhawk is one cool dungeon! I hope some day that it manages to get published. I guess then if Zagig was treated with proper respect he was amicable enough... better China than dead! Does this mean that the Oerth is detailed in full somewhere in your notes? Or did you just 'wing'...

Of course this begs the question: Did any of your players reach the "ultimate conclusion" of Castle Greyhawk? Or do secrets lie there still?

Hello Gary! Firstly, thanks again for this continuing opportunity to ask questions of the esteemed author of AD&D! It seems the more I read, the more questions pop into my head that have been accumulating over the years! I was curious if any of the AD&D cosmology (inner and outer planes...