Recent content by Starmaster

Yeah, I always figured that was the reason.

The tale of mighty, unstoppable Ungoliant and her all-consuming appetite was my favorite part of "The Silmarillion". I especially enjoyed

The module map on page 20 reflects something that I've always liked about module maps made by UK authors rather than US authors. The maps of castles and other fortifications usually LOOKED more like realistic castles and fortifications, with a logical layout for defense, thick walls, arrow...

The second character I ever played was a half-orc named "Crunt". I didn't yet have a player's handbook since it was way, way, way back in the day, so I relied on the DM for a description of the race. He said half-orcs were ugly, rude, crude, and went around farting all the time. None of that...

I was DM most of the time for my group. We knew all the rules well and were quite aware of all the henchmen and hireling rules, but few of the players in my 1e groups had much interest in dealing with NPCs. I neither encouraged nor discouraged the players' use of hirelings & henchmen. It was...

Yes, I think it's cool to expand the druid levels in this article. I liked 1e druids and at least one person in my group ran a druid once, but I understand why nobody in your group wanted to run one. I remember EXACTLY why people in my group weren't too fond of running druids back in the day...

"Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd" was one of my all-time favorite Dragon articles. It was short and useful and it was written by Mentzer rather than a freelancer, somebody who would have the official word on such matters. I always thought (and still do) that every monster with an unusual name should...

I think there are probably at least 3 main reasons for the larger number of followers: 1) Due to the controversy, more people may be aware of the project than the first time it was attempted. 2) The FOMO effect since this will be a limited print run. 3) Crowdfunding projects have been...

I liked this cover a lot when it came out because it made me think a bit. Could be that he's using star energy to power his scrying, but I figure it's more likely that he's scrying on the events taking place on a neighboring world far above him.

Release date is August 19th. It's been listed on Amazon for several weeks now: https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Book-Michael-Witwer/dp/0593969316

That sapphire dragon looks like a delicious piece of hard candy. Yummy!

It' interesting that I still remember "Grakt's Crag" all these years later, even though it's probably been over 40 years since I looked through this issue. I got my first set of PHB/DMG/MM books May 1980, and I think I this may have been one of the first modules I ran for my players, but it's...

The problem is that most of the old modules folks are nostalgic over are either Judges Guild or TSR, and WotC is apparently not currently licensing out any more TSR stuff for updates. I suppose that's because they've decided to do it themselves in some cases (Yawning Portal, Ghosts of...

I usually waited until the OARs made it to Amazon so I could get them at a slightly discounted price and not have to pay pay shipping, but it looks like I'll have to become a backer and pay full price in this case since it probably won't be available anywhere else. At $150-$200 (and that's just...

Sounds like Joe's got some difficult numbers to crunch. He want to sell exactly a certain amount of the item (any fewer and people will only get a portion refunded, any more and JG gets some proceeds). But, he has to figure out what to charge for it and the variable tariff situation will push...