Recent content by R_Chance

My condolences to his family and friends. It's always painful, but forty-eight is way too young to be leaving us. Rest in Peace.

It's been done. Midkemia Press "Cities" supplement. One of my favorite worldbuilding books. It will help you build a coherent city, populate it, and provide a huge variety of random encounters (including ongoing encounters where the PCs walk into a situation already happening). Great stuff. I...

I guess most of you don't follow the video game industry. Studios open and close regularly. Today's darling is tomorrows crash and burn. Ayoub, the head of the D&D franchise, has a solid video game background. If anyone is going to make this work for WotC he can. As for 2 studios close...

Designing a Quasi Medieval Society was a fun (and useful read). The Ale standard made me laugh out loud, and it made perfect sense too. Loved Stormbringer (and the later Elric game.) I have the boxed set, but didn't get to play it much (my group was wedded to D&D). Fifth Frontier War made for a...

I think we need to put my original woodgrain box D&D set in my brother's gun safe...

Not for 5E, but back in the day... You (or the leader / caller) have to decide "run or fight." Then, if fight, you dump the heavy / clumsy stuff on the ground (have to be an optimist :D ) you can pick it up afterwards. If running what can you drop to distract the enemy or increase your speed :)...

Resource management was key in original D&D, and I liked it. Choices were important, what to take and what not to. The choice between eating and treasure was fun too (for the DM). It did make first level magic users useful after they cast their one spell for the day. Who needs a pack mule when...

Every time someone references "BLM" I think "The Bureau of Land Management, what do they have to do with CR?" Then I go "Oh, Mulligan." :D

I've pretty much done that. In 1974 it started as a castle and small town. PCs were locals. Every time I moved (college, jobs, etc.) or a new edition of D&D came out I advanced my timeline and reworked / expanded the town into a decent sized city (c.15,000 population, more at peak trade and...

Thanks for the link, although I don't see using logs as closely related to ball bearings. Marbles would be a better description as opposed to ball bearings or shot. Dropping measured amounts of hot metal into water will give you round shot.

You have that backwards. They have kids, then they get old :D

As a history nerd in grad school I loved Katherine Kerr's articles. I remember this issue specifically for Gygax's recommendation of Glen Cook's "Black Company", still one of my favorite books (and authors). His Black Company and Garrett P.I. novels are among my all time favorites. So, a...

49 pages of comments... it would take divine intervention for this to be well received by all, and iirc they're a bit short of gods in Darksun :D

Yep, you think they could drop "Forgotten" off of it :D Shorthand already has it as "The Realms" and in Spelljammer it's "Realmspace." Still ... that's kind of a generic name compared to other settings :)

"Into the Forgotten Realms." It was the special attraction in the issue, being a tournament adventure set in the Realms.