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These are some great suggestions, thanks! Which of the Dungeon Crawl Classics are the best?

For a number of real life reasons, my gaming has dried up lately. People have moved away, I've changed jobs...honestly, if I don't get some dice rolling soon I'm going to succumb to madness. My solution is to salvage what I can of my local players and start anew. I've always been the kind of DM...

...but seriously, folks.

Congrats to the Judges! Hopefully I'll throw my hat in again next year. I'd really like to be a part of the ENnies.

More I subject all flavor text to a test. I imagine reading it to a table full of gamers. If I see their imaginary eyes gloss over, the text fails the test. That means it must be evocative without being cheesy, descriptive without being wordy, and grammatically sound without being too hard to...

Hey, I'm late to the party. Price can occasionally tip things in one direction or another. It might cause me to give slightly lower ratings to a product if its overpriced compared to similar products. On the other hand, I might be willing to overlook some flaws if a particular product is...

I still don't see any evidence that Ravenloft (as a setting) has ever been about dungeon crawls and dragon fighting. Beyond I6, which is an adventure rather than a setting, the majority of the Ravenloft material that I've read seems to encourage just the opposite. From what I can tell, you seem...

So it seems that, while not everyone agrees on lower magic, certainly the DM of a Ravenloft campaign needs to take a more direct hand in how and what the PCs are aquiring in terms of magic items. What about other treasure? Should the PCs by hauling out piles of gold from the cultist's lairs, in...

The question isn't really how the PCs get the wealth. I accept your proposal that the magic shop is something of a hand-wave to ensure that the PCs are properly equipped to face encounters of the appropriate EL. So, if I create a clever and setting-specific means for them to aquire magic items...

Well, with the exception of the original module, which was something of a dungeon crawl through Strahd's castle, the Ravenloft setting never existed the way you describe it. Even the boxed set advised the DM to avoid random encounters and other trappings of a typical fantasy setting. When was...

Well, I'm not saying that magic should be thrown out the window. In the default 3E setting, PCs are assumed to have the means to simply purchase the items they want. As written, it seems to me that a party of means will be loading themselves up with animated shields, boots of striding and...

D&D assumes a certain amount of magical treasure, which increases with character level. Do you think the assumed wealth level is appropriate for a Ravenloft campaign? In other words, do you think that a proliferation of magic items dulls the "gothic horror" feel of Ravenloft? If so, why? And...

There is something similar in Unearthed Arcana, although that still uses the standard DCs rather than basing them on a static number like C&C. I'm interested in the idea.

I agree. These are very, very nice.

This is fantastic. I just discovered it two days before a big high level adventure I'm writing for a friend's bachelor party (yes, we're nerds). It was a tremendous help. Thank you.

Alright Crothian, my friend, you've sparked my curiousity. If one were to pursue this dark path of Diaglo, exactly which products would one need to aquire? Are such books even within the reach of poor radio DJ Drew? And, at what point do I get to learn the "real spells?" I've got a real need...

Sounds very Lovecraftian to me. I think its kind of neat, but its all in how you spin it, eh?

Hmmm... D&D has probably given me hundreds of words, but I've been gaming for so long that its hard to pinpoint which came directly from the game. Recently, I was looking through a book someone left laying around called Vocab Rock. Vocab Rock is meant to serve as a study guide for the SAT and...

I found some of it a little unclear. For example, in one section it says: "help us understand what leads you to like this game. In your opinion, how good were the following" One of the choices was "showing off my skill to others." The scale goes from "very good" to "very bad." Now, am I...

I agree regarding the final challenge. What about a gauntlet of multiple kinds of events with a best 2 out of 3 kind of deal?