Recent content by M.L. Martin

It came out in August/September 1996, just before TSR went under. Great system and setting wasted on an unappreciative franchise and fan base. :)

Note that 'older' here applies to all pre-5E products, as far as I can tell.

The script for "The Ring of Dreams" (by Michael Halperin) can be found in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Complete Minicomics Collection. Lord Masque's origin is mentioned in the Trivia section of He-Man.org, while Granamyr's background is confirmed in He-Man and She-Ra: A Complete...

An unproduced mini-comic, "The Ring of Dreams," was set to include a glabrezu, which I believe is a creature unique to D&D. Also, several of DiTillio's RPG campaigns and writings influenced his MotU work--the villain Lord Masque from "House of Shokoti, Part I" came from one of his campaigns...

So, are we setting up for PCs allying with freedom-fighting demons against tyrannical angels?

I know him because this isn't the first time he's been written up in RPG terms … you can find him in Michael Surbrook's Larger Than Life, available in HERO System, Savage Worlds, and Mutants & Masterminds 3E editions. :)

A 'hot take' that came to me today and that seems apropos to this article: Gygax made a mistake when he made full-spectrum spellcasters a PC option, one that has been compounded by further developments.

It has more or less turned out that way. :) Given the swings of the editions and WotC's general relation to the game's history, I've been predicting that 6E will be my dream game but will be designed, announced, and then cancelled before release as being 'a betrayal of the game's legacy,' and 7E...

Good. Glad you and everyone else enjoyed it. It just rubbed me the wrong way due to my own peculiarities, which is one of the many reasons I'm not part of WotC's target audience anymore. (But then, my relationship to D&D has always been ... idiosyncratic, not being a real fan of 1E/OSR...

I'm too attached to the 2nd Edition setting, and the changes and additions felt gratuitous (e.g., dusk elves and Mordenkainen), contrived (Madam Eva as Strahd's half-sister), and/or overly bleak (large numbers of soulless Barovians), and a read through suggested little worth mining.

5E lost me, Curse of Strahd (the only 5E product I've bought) alienated me to the point I'm planning to sell it ... yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm not the target audience anymore.

You've got Casting the Runes on there twice too. :)

The Zorro Roleplaying Game by Gallant Knight Games.

My apologies for forgetting the Seraphic Doctor, especially since my doktorvater was a Bonaventure scholar. To bring this back on topic, you can see some Platonic ideas filtering into Ravenloft and (I believe) Planescape in the mid-90s. I know it from the Nightmare Lands boxed set, which...

Thanks for the clarification. I've always wondered where the D&D archons came from, as they weren't from the hierarchy I know (Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, Angels) or any other I've heard of. And while I have some knowledge of Neoplatonism...