Recent content by MW Turnage

I wouldn't expect much out of fan efforts to acquire the d6 rights right now. There are still licencees out there and any such arrangement would have to take their financial arrangements into account as well. Also note that there are standing offers for d6, as well as other properties, and have...

I'm not a RPGA member, and have no intentions of being one; that style of play has never particularly appealed to me. There's no denying how much of a draw it is to many people, though. For several years now, our local con (MidSouthCon) has had a strong RPGA presence. I don't know the exact...

Potential Blue Beetle/DC Universe spoilers below In the new Blue Beetle comic, Jaime, the new Beetle, has just learned that his powers/suit/symbiote is an alien weapon...and one intended for use against the Lanterns and Oans. The creators are still unrevealed. It's been implied that...

I picked this up during and ran my first session of it Friday. Very nicely done book, and I like the new layout of encounters. I'm not sure if separating them from when they occur in the adventure is a good idea, though. Without getting into spoilers, there is one thing that I have noticed: the...

Nope, you're right. I read the intervew last week myself. It sounds like this site is just picking and choosing qutoes for it's article. They leave out the fact that Stiller would have been a member of the new Ghostbusters team having to rescue the old ones...and that Chris Farley would have...

Why would Truman's agent help? Shouldn't you be talking to John Ostrander? Now, if you wanted to talk to Truman about a Scout RPG, on the other hand, I'll race to be the first to preorder (as I would for Grimjack as well). BTW, Ostrander is a gamer and has actually run a few things in Cynosure...

Quite a number of SF&F authors, and SFWA (Science Fiction Writers Association) as a whole. Several already had exclusive contracts signed with other publishers for electronic rights. One of those involved was an intellectual property lawyer with a specialty in author's rights. And then there was...

It also bears pointing out that Cory isn't talking out of an orifice here. He's a published SF author with several works released not just commercially, but under the Creative Commons License. That means that, at the same time he has those books on bookstore shelves, they're free to download and...

It's happened before. I know of several authors that have had problems with copyeditors becoming overzealous and actually rewriting text. John Barnes had a novel in the 90s (Kaleidoscope Century IIRC) actually get pulled from shelves and republished on the publisher's dime because someone...

Run out ASAP and get find a copy of Pepper White's The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT. It's White's memoirs as a grad student at MIT from '81 to '84. While it's about MIT rather than CalTech, you'll find a lot of similarities. Going into an environment where everyone was the top of their...

I think folks are losing site of the bandwidth this place must pull down. $400/month = lots of bandwidth unless Morrus just has the worst provider rates in the world. Somehow I doubt that... "Unlimited/Unmetered" hosting facilities can offer deals like that because (a) if a customer goes past a...

My recent 3.5 campaign started with five PCs, with a sixth joining in towards the end, all at the same level. My players could easily handle combats with ELs 2-3 levels higher than the DMG would suggest. For example, a party of 4th level characters should be able to handle an EL 4 encounter with...

Wish I'd seen this earlier. I live in Memphis, and I can tell you there's not a shortage of gamers. In a lot of ways its a military and college town, though, and groups tend to be somewhat insular, school buddies/friends-of-friends and such. Unfortunately, there's only two dedicated game stores...

While having a slower cyclic rate is handy in some circumstances, I cant see it having much of a game-system effect. Honestly, d20M has just too coarse a level of detail for it to matter. Certainly nothing so great to justify a new way of handling burst fire or autofire. I haven't seen the...

While there are 9mm conversion kits for the AUG, they have a very bad reputation, and only number in the few hundreds. They're prized for their rarity, not their usefulness. The AUGs that Steyr makes in 9mm are supposed to be pretty reliable, though they aren't very popular compared to the MP5...