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I prefer FRPG settings at either of these two extremes: 1. Only humans as PCs. Any non-human race is simply too, um, non-human, to interact well with a party of adventurers. 2. A truly exotic and imaginative world such as Talislanta or Tekumel. Talislanta is full to the brim with outlandish...

Yes, indeed. I own the latest version of Talislanta, and that massive tome is one of my favorite RPG books. At least two-thirds of the text is a description of the world of Talislanta. The rest is devoted to very simple rules, much simpler than d20. In fact, Talislanta has a better claim to be...

Why does every single campaign setting for D&D have to have all (or at least most) of these guys in it? Greyhawk--has them all Forgotten Realms--has them all Kalamar--has them all Ravenloft--has them all Scarred Lands--has them all (except for gnomes) After Winter Dark--has them all etc. I was...

I voted for Call of Cthulhu. The dark, alien feel of the magic is great. I also like the heavy penalties for casting a spell. A man can only rarely cast spells, or he'll be dead or insane. This is a wonderfully self-limiting system. No lobbing spells right and left in this system.

I intend to DM a dark medieval fantasy game using the d20 Call of Cthulhu book and the equipment lists from the System Reference Document. Checklist for a dark fantasy game: 1. blasphemous gods (CoC has them) 2. hideous monsters (Coc has them) 3. twisted magic items (CoC has them) 4...

This is the most exciting news in gaming! Here's my wish: You and Rob write-up the dungeons using OAD&D rules. Kenzer publishes it as-is with the following tongue-in-cheek note: "The infamous Gary Gygax finally found his way into our office. He was wild-eyed and waving a thick stack of papers in...

I voted for demilich. Look at the Tomb of Horrors and the Return to the Tomb of Horrors. Acererak the Demilich is the most formidable villian (as well as the one with the most story potential) of any D&D monster I've ever seen.

Gary, it is a privilege to have the Master of the Game be so generous with his time and insights. Thank you very much for making this thread possible. I have two questions: 1. My favorite modules are your D trilogy. In the random encounter tables, ghasts and ghouls show up quite a bit. Since...

Why Lejendary instead of Legendary? (I remember being taken in for a few moments by an April Fool's joke a couple years ago [I believe it was in the LA Web Community on www.gygax.com] in which you were reportedly gunned down, all because of the "J".) :eek:

Gary, in the original 1974 D&D rules, does every monster get only one attack per round, and is the damage always 1-6? (With the clearly stated exceptions, of course, of giants and ogres) I'm mostly wondering about dragons and other fearsome creatures. Do they really deal out only as much melee...

The hard work you put into it shows, Mr. Gygax. Aerth is my favorite generic FRPG world out of all the multitude published. In the forward to the original Necropolis, Lester Smith (I think) mentioned that Aerth has its roots in your unpublished world of Oerth (with the published Oerth being a...

B1: In Search of the Unknown, by Mike Carr It's a classic dungeon perfect for beginners.

My agreement with WotC prevents me from posting my eleven entries. ;)

Actually, the very first appearance of the mind flayer was in The Strategic Review #1 (the precursor to Dragon magazine), way back in 1975. It doesn't have a by-line, but most of the stuff in those early days that didn't list its author was by Gary Gygax. Mind flayers are not in any H. P...

Cybernetic, that would be so cool and much appreciated!

I'm thinking maybe I could use the Equipment I and Equipment II sections of the System Reference Document ( http://www.wizards.com/D20/article.asp?x=srd ) in conjunction with the d20 CoC book for a really good medieval Cthulhu game.

Could a CoC game set in the Middle Ages be run using only the d20 Call of Cthulhu book? Does it have any info on medieval arms and armor? I was thinking it would be cool to run a medieval fantasy game using only the monsters, spells, and magic items from CoC. It would have a dark and brooding feel.

I'm not at home so I can't give you the exact reference (but I am 90% sure it's in book II of The Book of Lost Tales), but Tolkien's latest conception of balrogs was that there were, at most, 7 balrogs. Two were slain in Gondolin, some (an unspecified number) were slain at the end of the First...

I vaguely remember reading that Dragon magazine never turned a profit and that it has always just broken even. So why has it been published all these years? So TSR and later WOTC could freely advertise all their products in it. In short, (on the commercial level) Dragon has always been one big...

What, exactly, does that mean for Dragon magazine? Will there be a hiatus in its publication (like when TSR stopped publishing it)?