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First, quoting someone 15 years later seems bizarre, but it happens. Second, yes, "too," as the original poster cited them - speed factors - as being in 2e. I was simply stating that speed factors were in 1e, also, regardless of which came first, because the poster was talking about 2e as his...

Ha! No, not as far as I know.

Several moves and new computers later, and I no longer have any of the files, including my own. I recall there was a time when I couldn't pay as much attention to the pages as they deserved, and traffic to them essentially dried up. It'd be cool to see that material again (holy gazookas! That...

Banewarrens (#18) is from Malhavoc, and Caverns of Thracia (#24) is from Judges Guild.

Fascinating. I would never have expected to see the Banewarrens at all. Again, not a bad adventure; in this case, I'm surprised simply because I rarely see any discussion of it. Judges Guild manages to make the list with Caverns of Thracia, but I would have guessed Dark Tower would have been...

An interesting list, and a number of surprises for me regarding inclusions, exclusions, and rank. Red Hand of Doom placed far higher than I would have expected, even if I'd actually considered it to be on such a list. I like it a lot, actually, but it wouldn't occur to me to place it in the top...

Even as a joke, that makes me cringe. I think releasing player material as microtransactions could work, and could even help sell PHs. Of course, this is assuming that they don't go OGL with Next, and no freely-available SRD is available.

I imagine it would have to be something that wouldn't alienate old school players, many of whom have shown more interest in Next because of WotC's willingness to listen, the old school nature of much of what we've seen with Next, and the back catalog being released as pdfs on DnDClassics. WotC...

Ugh, forget it...

I'm sure he does, but definitely not that one. It's by Clyde Caldwell. Caldwell sells prints of it on his site. https://www.clydecaldwell.com:3301/large_images/alrelean_mp.html

Tolkien described Thorin's surname as being derived from his using an oak branch when his shield broke. So that's not a Jackson innovation. This is clearly described in the Appendices of the Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien described Thorin's surname as being derived from his using an oak branch when his shield broke. So that's not a Jackson innovation. This is clearly described in the Appendices of the Lord of the Rings.

I'm sorry; I will bow to your expertise as a professional PR person. All I can say as a potential customer wanting to spend my money, is that any update at all would be welcome. Given that this is the first statement I've seen from Mrs. Gygax in while, I didn't think it unreasonable to ask about...

I would have hoped that Mrs. Gygax could have given us an update on the progress of the Castle Zagyg project while clarifying her position regarding this upcoming magazine.

If you know who "they" are, yeah.

Subjectively hard, but not objectively. A lot depends on how willing one is to strongly assert that one's campaign version of the world the players know is not the same as the one in the book/movie/etc. Some people enjoy that kind of meticulous research. Those who don't, shouldn't bother...

I don't think the substance of the charts really fits the setting or matches what went on in the books, but again, that just proves my point about how everyone perceives a work of fiction differently. I have my own rationales for most of those "crits" characters from the books endured, and how...

Sure, and that sweet spot varies for everyone. For all the work I've done regarding Middle-earth and D&D/d20 (dating quite a ways back; I recently ran across some of my homebrew stuff from the '80s, when I was running 1e, and there was Middle-earth material in it), I've rarely used the setting...

The entire system, really. The crit charts were a big part of that, of course, MERP (and RM) being what it is. It all fits with what my perception, and the perception of the guys I gamed with back in the '80s, of S&S is. I distinctly remember that we loved the crit charts, but we did agree they...

The mentions of MERP in this thread point up what I mentioned before about how perceptions differ vastly about what the "feel" of Middle-earth is. To me, the MERP system is not only ill-suited for Middle-earth, but it evokes almost the polar opposite of what I think the setting "feels" like. I...