That would be the "they" of which I speak. Obviously, the races in question are from Star Frontiers, ever since the original box over 40 years ago. I'm just wondering if anyone knows why they didn't stick with the original names and felt the need to tweak the appearance and change names between...
Yeah but Strahd isn't necessarily an "imitation" so much as he IS Dracula... for D&D. But, whatevs, have another pointy-eared, long-haired, emo Drac wanna be using the same name. No skin off my campaign :P
That is both crazy and frightening. Literal witch hunts in the late 90s. I wonder if any of the D&D playing celebrities have to deal with stuff like this in this day and age..?
Gary always dug the dice and said choosing a characters abilities was silly. I like that when playing "old school", but I'm also a fan of a player having as much control as possible in the creation of their character. Some campaigns, I literally have them choose ability scores based on character...
I found the d20s to be a bit too large, but I'd love to see something like this for Mystara or Greyhawk. I do like the map and dice box set up. Not sure how useful the cards are though...
RIP to the worlds of Greyhawk, Mystara, Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Spelljammer, and Birthright. It's been years, if WotC were ever going to do anything significant with these settings, it would have been done by now. Guess fans of those settings are forever on their own using stuff published back in...
You could actually see the change in "feel" of TSR between '83 and '84 through their books and marketing. I personally can't stand anything published after '83. It just feels too "corporate" or capitalist for me. The older stuff is what really got my imagination going. And I wasn't even a...