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I like the original D&D alignment (law/chaos axis only). It very much channeled Moorcock's fiction and presented law and chaos as actual factions existing in the world to be... uh... aligned with. With the introduction of the good/evil axis, alignment shifted to being more of a behavioral...

I suppose that's part of it for me, too. When I play D&D, I want it to feel like D&D. Even Eberron and Planescape still feel like D&D to me. Dark Sun does not.

I'm not a fan of Dark Sun. It feels, to me, and I could be wrong, that the entire design edict behind Dark Sun was "take everything AD&D and do the exact opposite" (again, I could be wrong, but that's how it feels to me). It's an interesting idea, but in actual play, it always felt very shallow...

There used to be more and those that still exist don't (IMO) do a great job of maintaining neutrality when covering certain news stories. That's a big part of why I like ENWorld.

Now included is A Minimalist Fantasy Companion that introduces new races, new classes, simple rules for character advancement, more advice for the Referee, and a new minimalist adventure!

I'm in. I am convinced that ENWorld is now the best source for RPG industry news on the Internet (even non-D&D news), so listening to Morrus's podcast seems like a good move.

Irilian is a big 'ol city. Very Warhammer-ish vibes. I forget what issues of White Dwarf it was serialized in (I'll have to go digging around in my closet), but it hearkens back to a time before White Dwarf became little more than a giant ad for Warhammer and dedicated many of its pages to other...

Yes, Rising From the Last War is the hardcover. My other favorite D&D settings are a bit obscure. For urban/city D&D fantasy, I prefer The City League (from TSR UK's Pelinore) and Irilian (a city published as a series of articles in White Dwarf by GW). For classic, world-spanning, high fantasy...

I wasn't averse to it, just disinterested. Until 5e, but it had nothing to do with the 5e rules. Rather, it was the approach to setting materials they took. The big hardcover campaign coupled with the AL adventures made it really approachable. I now thoroughly enjoy Eberron. It may be my...

It's not available yet, but I sold a game to Jayson Elliot of Solarian Games earlier this year that is explicitly meant to be used with Shadowrun setting material. It's small enough to fit on the inside of a 4-panel GM screen. Last I knew, Jayson was still deciding on what art to use on the...

No. No he was not. He prevailed on ONE count of many. And won an entire dollar bill in damages. Unless you're talking about Billy Mitchell. Billy Mitchell was actually vindicated in court.

She needs to stay lost forever. Or at least until she addresses and takes accountability for the dozens of credible accusations against her (and her husband) from sex pest stuff to non-payment of freelancers. Here is a collection of some of them. And INVENTED LIVE STREAMING?!? Sounds like she's...

I do recall that I did have a friend (sadly, no longer with us) who purchased nearly the entire Exalted 1e line when we met in Topeka and, when he moved back to California, his father found his Exalted books and literally burned them. My friend was too good for this world and his dad was/is a...

I am currently reading Fantasy Express by Firehawk Games. A neat game that hits many of the same notes as Rolemaster (unsurprisingly, it is developed by former longtime ICE employee Tim Dugger), but with less rules overhead and a lite version (Fantasy Express Lite) for people who want a taster...

Until I worked on Tribes in the Dark, I honestly had not been very excited about FitD games, with one exception (Court of Blades). Both Court and Tribes take the time to expertly adapt the FitD system to their respective settings, something that I haven't felt many other adaptations do (or at...