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Thank you for that conversion, Gary. It's very enlightening.

I voted "Gods can be permanently destroyed. Stats needed, as is someway to destroy the being." That's what D&D gods are for: killing.

A human male is 5' 9" on average. A "halfling" who isn't about half that height isn't much of a halfling--more like a "three-quarterling". :\

Not only is slaying gods Moorcockian, but so is "Wizards spell failure due to armor is gone (hurray!). Picking the right feats wizards can go around in heavy armor" (think Elric). I'm all in favor of slaying gods. :) I'm all in favor of wizards in armor. :) It's very UN-Moorcockian, though...

I prefer being the Dungeon Master.

I'd love to see a press release like that. It would mean no more fears of suited busybodies getting in a snit because somebody printed the words "carrion crawler" in a game product. It would free everyone from having to wonder what is or isn't legal (or what can or can't be gotten away with)...

The Castles & Crusades Basic Set (which is rumored to be an early 2008 release) might fit the bill: http://www.trolllord.com/newsite/cnc/8951.html

I started gaming in late 1980. There were four of us in the core group, and each one of us regularly acted as DM. None of us had a distinct campaign world. Instead, we all simply ran adventures in what might be called "D&D land". There was little to no continuity between one adventure and the...

Gary, how big a hand did you have in the assembling of the Mythus Prime book published in 1994?

Gary, in your LA and A/D&D games, you include demi-humans right alongside humans as PCs. In your Dangerous Journeys: Mythus game, however, you relegated demi-human PCs to explicitly optional status, and gave them only 2 pages versus 17 pages of descriptions for human PCs. Why the de-emphasis on...

One of the things I like about LA is how easy it is to make an Elric-like character without so much as bending the rules. Just take Weapons and Sorcery, and there you have it.

Lava children, flumphs, and flail snails for sure! :lol:

Gary, I'm sorry for this question. Please don't hesitate to throw up your hands, say that you can't possibly remember, and have a good laugh. The FOREWORD of the Fiend Folio states that the book was completed in August 1979--just a few months after you finished the Dungeon Masters Guide. Yet...

I haven't bought Learth yet (though I'm going to), but let me say that the Aerth book is one of the all-time masterpieces of FRPG products. It is a fantasy version of Earth, so ANYTHING you read in mythology, legendry, or weird stories has an instant place in Aerth.

My favorite measurement is the cubit (and no, I'm not joking). A cubit is the length from your elbow to the tip of your middle finger (so everyone's cubit is somewhat different). But it is very easy to measure cubits as long as you have at least one arm.

A similar suggestion is this FREE PDF, which has rules virtually identical to those recommended by T. Foster: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=29547&it=1

Gary, you and Brian Blume share the credits for the 1974 Warriors of Mars game. Do you recall how much each of you contributed to the game? Did you ever referee any rpg campaigns using the individual rules in this game?

The only way I can do it is to adopt a strategy of some horror movies: The best way to make a monster scary is to keep it off-screen as much as possible. In my fantasy games, I try to do that by A) requiring all player characters to be human and B) limiting the PCs' interactions with demi-humans...

I thoroughly agree. Non-humans should not be absurd "funny-looking humans with cool powers".

Whoa! I've never heard of that one. Since The Moon Pool is thus far perhaps my favorite Merritt tale (though it's so hard to choose), I'm going to have to track that one down. :) Gary, how do you treat small, very young dragons in your A/D&D games? Do you make them significantly shorter than...