Recent content by M.L. Martin

After this thread, I'm convinced that if it were somehow to happen, the results most likely would be "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." with a possibility of "going from early to mid-Revolution."

I suspect Weis is pretty indifferent to Goldmoon--she isn't big on clerics, and Goldmoon gets sidelined pretty quickly once the novels move away from the modules and she starts having more influence on the story's direction. Goldmoon is, in fact, the only Hero of the Lance not to appear in...

Not quite, but Tolkien looked for that ultimate triumph as both originating in and ending beyond the circles of the world. Cf. the "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" in Morgoth's Ring, and what it points to ... and why I consider Middle-Earth one of the only fantasy settings with true hope. :)...

At this point, I think we'd all be a lot happier if we stopped pretending that we were interested in the same games or hobbies, or had compatible loyalties, just because we enjoyed something that at some time had gone by the name "D&D."

Any chance of a 40th Anniversary Pendragon reprint, like the ones you did for Runequest and Call of Cthulhu?

Thank you. I stand corrected.

So it's presented as a tragic fall from grace?

A Ravenloft where is very far removed from what I wanted out of Ravenloft, I'm afraid.

Giving Melkor the widest spread of domains makes sense, as "he had a share in the gifts of all his brethren." He might have Tempest as well, but excluding him from Life, Light, and Nature makes sense, at least in his downfall: He can't create life and doesn't have the concern for others to do...

I believe I know the set you're talking about--it was produced by WotC in 1998 or 1999, and reused the art from DLQ1 Knight's Sword for the cover. Unfortunately, tracking down more details is providing a challenge ... EDIT: And LordBP's link comes to the rescue! It sounds like the D&D Adventure...

I stand corrected; I haven't touched the War of Souls since release, save for a brief skim of an Advanced Reader Copy of DoaVM to see what had changed between it and the final version.

Against the Darkmaster seems to be a solid contender.

Yes, but you'll need an average of 16,667 attack rolls before it does. :)

You can't decapitate yourself by default with a fumble in either RM2 or RMSS Arms Law. To get a death result, you'd have to roll a fumble; roll a natural 100 on the fumble table while using a one-handed, mounted, or thrown weapon, which triggers a "D" level critical of varying types roll 86+...

Anything that's not some form of D&D? :) A bit tautological, yes, but the game has always had certain strong flavors built into it that channel it in certain directions. What those flavors are change from edition to edition, but it's never (with the possible exceptions of OD&D, which was little...