Recent content by JML

RIP, Mr. Zocchi. A life well-lived by all accounts! 91 is a pretty fine run at it. Met him at a couple of cons, always nice, especially to anyone who wanted to talk about dice!

I dunno, Tepper is a well-respected author and I've certainly heard of this one. Dragonlance is still being reprinted. Rosenburg's Guardians series was quite popular (I think it reached 8 or 9 books?), and while The Secret Country might not still be in print today, it got a reprint in 2003 and...

I asked Easley to sign my Unearthed Arcana at GaryCon one year! He was quite nice about it...and sketched in a dragon!

It depends. If you believe that the continued sales growth of the game requires robust participation by resellers in the secondary market and access to "chase cards", rather than by actual players opening actual packs (or participating in online venues controlled by Wizards) then they need to...

I'd certainly be more skeptical of any endeavor he's a part of. I'm increasingly appreciative of companies putting out AI statements on things like their Kickstarters or other creative endeavors. The AI slop that floods the zone sucks, and statements like this from people like Dancy are...

I got the same bemused reaction from Dale A. Donovan (another Dragon magazine rock star) when he came through my booth at GenCon (I was working for Prolific Games at the time). He seemed surprised that anyone knew who he was as well. But was also very nice. I suppose it's not unusual for...

Absolutely. Moore was an outstanding writer and quite a bit of the lore he created with his Dragon Magazine articles has stuck for a long time. Really smart writing that was also useful. Met him at DragonCon one year. he seemed mildly surprised to be recognized (this would have been 2018 or so)...

The conversations I had with them at GenCon they said they were putting a little of the 2E crunch back in? Either way, I'm excited for this one. I've played a tiny bit of 1E, a LOT of 2E, and a little 3E and generally speaking M&M is the best supers system I've ever played. (and I've played a...

I know a lot of people whose Unearthed Arcana and Oriental Adventures books have busted spines and pages splitting out. (I'm still amazed my UA is in one piece) And we definitely shouldn't talk about the 2E core books. I think the 5E stuff holds up very nicely in terms of quality and durability...

I'm not surprised that they're doing this based on the Hickman Secret Wars, but I have residual fondness for the OG and hope it doesn't get forgotten. (There always seems to be a desire from some to diminish anything Shooter did in comics, especially at Marvel (while personally blaming him for...

Got mine 2 weeks ago, and they look great. Very fun trip down memory lane, and looking forward to running a one-shot for friends who never played it before. The Mutagen Green Foil covers look sweet AF. I know Palladium had some real issues related to Robotech and the minis game, but this one...

I've enjoyed these books quite a bit. Much stronger than the Sword Coast book from the early days of 5E and a better pair of books that the 4E Realms books as well. For someone like me who prefers gaming books in print, it's a bit of a bummer to know that most of the additional support for the...

seriously. it's really rare for him to have a dog, especially in the early years of his contributions to the magazine. Roger Moore's stuff was pretty consistently great as well, as was Jeff Grubb's. Not hard to see why TSR hired both Moore & Grubb and basically printed anything Greenwood wrote...

You're quite obsessed with declaring other people's opinions as "wrong" with you as being "right". Maybe the Forgotten Realms in a particular style is very important to you, but we've got over 35 years of publishing history that has been at various points contradictory. Beyond that, someone's...

I totally ran a Druid/Ranger. When I was playing 1E, Rangers were far and away my favorite class (not a surprise as a big LotR fan) and we played around with all kinds of mods. Immediately house-ruled it to allow elves to be Rangers, etc. I'd probably start the "best run" of Dragon a little...