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The book is a massive 800+ pages thick. One way to look at it is that the book is less than 9 cents per page. I own one of the old black hardback copies, and that thing can double as a wizard's tome. I think it's the heaviest book I own.

Here is my suggestion for a LOT of systemless reading material for an old-school (from the 1970s) fantasy world that has all the D&D tropes with extras mixed in: The World Book of Khaas: Legendary Lands of Arduin link: http://empcho.bizhosting.com/worldguide.html another link...

In late 1951 J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a long letter to Milton Waldman (letter #131 in The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien--see second footnote on page 158 for the following quote) in which Tolkien wrote: "The Hobbits are, of course, really meant to be a branch of the specifically human race (not Elves...

I've long considered halflings to be short humans (Englishmen!) with big, hairy feet. I'd consider them to be natives of the campaign world.

That's pretty good stuff, though I'd be tempted to make the various types of fey and demi-humans NON-natives. The only animals druids would regard as natural would be those organisms that exist in the real world, as well as giant and miniature versions thereof. IIRC, druids in the AD&D Players...

Thank you for that. That's hilarious! :lol:

Judges Guild's old Field Guide to Encounters includes as monsters: giant over-easy eggs giant strips of bacon giant cups of coffee giant burning cigarettes etc. And you thought that killing the giant with surprise attacks as he was sitting down to eat was easy? Ha! Just wait until you're...

I think Peter Bradley's maps for James Mishler's Wilderlands of High Adventure products look to be the best FRPG maps I've ever seen: http://www.adventuregamespubs.com/previews.htm

I voted for "Creating a fantastic world and watching it grow through play." That precisely describes what I like best about D&D as a DM As a player, my favorite thing is "Exploring a fantastic world and watching it grow through play."

Indeed. I think the best thing to do for a campaign set in the Americas is to simply not use demi-humans at all.

Oddly enough, he agrees with you. I read an interview with Ed Greenwood and he said that he prefers to write fantasy novels in the style of Guy Gavriel Kay. However, TSR and now WotC totally trash his novels when they edit them, plus they require you to have a fight scene every X number of...

I'd really like to see a pure Ed Greenwood Forgotten Realms boxed set.

Nowhere. And that makes the quote in the OP all the funnier!

Look in Dragon #62 (June 1982) on page 28 of Roger Moore's article, "The Gods of the Orcs". Here is a quote from the third column: "Shamans tell of the battle between Corellon Larethian (the chief elven god, whom the shamans call The Big Fairy) and Gruumsh, in which Corellon tried to shoot out...

I'm very interested in "kid friendly" products, but what I mean by that might be different than some. By "kid" I mean age range 9-12. By "friendly" I mean easy to understand, like the old basic versions of D&D from the late 70s and 80s. I do NOT mean "light-hearted and childlike". I started...

I voted for Blackmoor, from the OD&D booklet.

A little over a year ago I gave a one-hour presentation on H. P. Lovecraft to a group of about 30 high school students. I pointed out that Lovecraft was an inspiration for the Dungeons & Dragons game. I was initially pleased to see that so many students claimed familiarity with D&D. I was very...

I'd forgotten that! In that case, I can always think of her like Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi: She was wearing sensible adventurer's clothes, but after getting captured by Jabba/the efreeti, she was stripped and put in sexy slave-girl garb.

Two modules that might fit the bill: The Goblin Fair ( http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=review&reviewid=2009345 ) sounds pretty light-hearted. The old B1: In Search of the Unknown has a sense of wonder to it that I've never seen equalled in another module. Plus, it doesn't stock the...

We MUST have nudity, and we MUST NOT have nudity. "Huh?" Look at the illustrations in the 1st edition AD&D Monster Manual, Players Handbook, and Dungeon Masters Guide. They don't shy away from featuring nudity IN MONSTERS. Succubi don't wear clothes! Harpies don't wear bras! Etc. It would be a...