Recent content by trystero

I'm absolutely delighted to see these creatures reappear for 5E, and also enormously pleased by the f-bomb in the introduction. That's how I feel about cancer and other serious illnesses, too, so I'm right there with Mr Mearls.

Ghal Maraz, I'm also thrown by the use of the past tense for the DG RPG, given that the second rulebook just came out in print earlier this year.

I agree, with one caveat: be aware that Lovecraft was a virulent racist even by the standards of the 1920s and 1930s, and that you may feel a strong urge to retroactively punch the author in the face. I struggled a lot with this on my first readings back in the 1980s, and while I think the...

Your findings are off-base as regards Call of Cthulhu; it's only ever been published by Chaosium since its original release in 1981*, and older books are re-issued primarily because the original editions are unavailable, not just to update them to the newest edition of the rules. (The only...

It looks like a loose translation of "La Rivière de Cassis". Google Translate gives the second stanza as:

Guessing here before I read the thread: "Dust" is the Desert of Desolation adventures (set in the Forgotten Realms again, as in I3–5), and "Midway" is something circus- or carnival- or fair-themed, rather than being a reference to the WWII battle or any sort of halfway point.

Yeah, that sentence is set in small caps, which is standard for the first line in a chapter in WotC's D&D 5 layout, and the words "Tales" and "Yawning" and "Portal", being capitalised, have larger initial capitals. I don't see a problem here. I haven't noticed any run-on sentences so far. But I...

The link should be http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd%2Foa%2F20051031a. In general, you can replace "www.wizards.com" with "archive.wizards.com" and get a lot of older material that's inaccessible under its original URI.

Given that this is Paizo, I'm certain that there will be a ton of splatbooks. Whether they'll be needed will of course be up to you, your wallet, and Paizo's marketing team. :-)

World War Cthulhu, Cthulhu Britannica, and Lone Wolf Adventure Game were all Kickstarted C7 lines, and all three are licensed. But I expect that Chaosium and Joe Dever (RIP) had less-restrictive licensing terms than GW does.

Well, The One Ring is an original design, and so is Lone Wolf Adventure Game, though I don't think the designers were C7 employees; do those count? I believe their Doctor Who RPG is an original, too, but don't own it and so know less about who designed it.

You got it; I see the same thing listed for the WFRP books I've purchased at DTRPG. Well spotted!

I ran my group through Lost Mine of Phandelver, which we all liked, and through Hoard of the Dragon Queen, which my players liked more than I'd expected. We didn't go on to The Rise of Tiamat, though; instead, another player is GMing Curse of Strahd (and another is talking about running Storm...

RuneQuest (4th Chaosium edition/7th overall edition) Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of Blue Rose

What does this have to do with Sandy Petersen or Petersen Games? The company had nothing to do with the running of the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition Kickstarter project, and the extent of Sandy's own involvement was helping replace the original management (who were misspending funds and weren't...