Recent content by Philip F Goding

I started with D&D in late 1979/early 1980. My first adventure was J Eric Holmes' Ruined Tower of Zenopus. That would be my first choice. That and the Great Skull on Stone Mountain. There was not a lot available at the time, but we had B1 and Hommlet (T1). We also had the original White Box and...

It was a dangerous profession and you had lots of henchmen and hirelings. This way if your character died you could just take control of whomever you put next in commend and there were people to pull you out of the dungeon and get a Raise Dead or Resurrection done. They were especially important...

Here's the thing. I am pretty satisfied with everything they do. I can think about how to make anything better though. I can also see how things could have been worse as well. I see pros and cons in each edition and systems other companies have created as well. What I want has many aspects that...

Yeah, I do like grim and gritty old school Greyhawk and want closure on all the stuff I heard about that never arrived, but I like exotic settings to visit. Give me that world with all the floating islands in the sky and airships top get between them or portals. Give me exotic minotaurs...

I certainly do not need Dragonborn in Greyhawk. I don't actually need 5e product at all. It all goes back to how things were in the 1970's and '80's with D&D when we were starting out and using modules they supplied as the basis of things and experimenting with changes. In those days these super...

I think it likely that many of these start as PDFs until there is playtesting and they become final. Then you may have a Print on Demand option for those that got the earlier PDF version and it's updates. When it's final a regular hardback might be available.

I pretty much agree although I don't think we can count on any set gap between settings. First of all there is already some Greyhawk setting specific adventures out there. Then with the Plain Shift materials coming out we already have five of those M:TG settings out there in some form and I'm...

Yes, I'm sure we would have started in THAC0 AD&D 2nd Edition either in Greyhawk or Dragonlance and then converted to d20 D&D 3rd Edition when that came out or we would have been players together in someone else's Forgotten Realms game.

It wasn't just the Gnome not being allowed to be a Paladin, but other races could not bne certain classes as well. Human was the only race that was allowed to be any class. Also the various races were limited in how high they could progress in classes and class abilities, not just in accordance...

My opinion on what WotC is doing as far as classic settings such as Greyhawk, Mystara, Blackmoor, Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Kara Tur, Al Qadim and all the rest is that first each has to be significantly different than Forgotten Realms and also be true to what they were like before. I am sure there...

The way I understand things Sigil is a Ringworld sort of place somewhat separated from the planes with doors or portals that you need a key for that leads to all the different planes. The Prime Material Plane itself is composed of all the different settings/realities/alternate universe/etc each...

As far as Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica Maps & Miscellany. They mentioned isometric maps of some areas of the city. All I could do is speculate about those being areas of interest in a planet-wide city although since we seem to be looking at adventure hooks for characters starting in one of the...

Well that is a thing I've been pondering and I do seem to remember in earlier editions that for clerics that did affect higher level spells. The solution being to start to take on the worship of another god/deity. When I played in Kalamar I was following a FR deity and had no problem. Perhaps...

And then there are ten combinations of two colors mixed together. OK I can accept that. I see FR as pretty much AD&D 2e although there was play test materials coming out in Dragon Magazine before that. The very first published materials were at the very end of AD&D 1e and then FR became...

Well, there you go then. I can get along with not knowing what the Soylent (Pick your favorite color) is made from and as long as the waste doesn't go into the water everything is fine.