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I know it's a joke and all, but that KoDT still annoys me as a DM. A group of players that actually, genuinely cares about your NPCs is a freaking gold mine. Instead of getting the players to turn on their new home, a DM could lure them into the dungeon by revealing that the monsters abducted...

Jack O' Lanterns blowing up goblins? Heck, use it for the ironic reversal if nothing else! Also, what a well-timed Halloween update. Has that happened before?

I was a huge fan of Keyes in the early 2000s or so. Sadly, the Newton's Cannon series sort of petered off in the later books, and the Blackgod world (Fool Wolf's world,) only has two books. I haven't checked much of his later stuff, but judging by Wikipedia, he only dd another series since...

I don't really see names as helping with the problem. As long as there is a system where characters can find better weapons at random, they'll probably sell their old stuff and get the new ones. At least with later editions and lenient DMs, you can have the option of upgrading. "Hey, as long...

See, I love the "elves=cats" comparison, especially as a satirical concept. It explains how it takes elves centuries to do what humans can do in years, save for the rare elf that has the sense of commitment to adventure for a few years straight. All the others have distraction issues and bound...

I never really minded the NPCs with high ability scores, to be honest. I mean, you could pretty easily calculate what the odds are of a character having stats that high. Once you do that, you just divide the total population of a fantasy world by that number. Even unreasonably high numbers...

I don't know about anyone else, but I remember being completely shocked at TSR's bankruptcy and buyout by WotC. Sure, by going over these recaps, the writing was on the wall with the obviously doomed Dragon Dice, nearly infinite settings, Spellfire totally failing to catch up to Magic, etc...

Hey, didn't you miss a comic? There's a new one between Knights and Floyd.

I thought you mentioned some issues with the Hard Fun stuff specifically back in the 200 video review. I do agree that the strip ended up being one of the best ones Dragon did. I can already tell you one thing I liked about this new era of the magazine: hard-backed spines. It makes the...

Any chance you can give us your final thoughts on Yamara, now that the strip has reached is depressing conclusion?

Of course, in my case it helps that I mostly know Steve Jackson games for my beloved Toon RPG, which is about as rules-light as a game gets.

I remember being annoyed that Floyd was introduced just before the end of Yamara, on the assumption it was essentially that strip's replacement. But I grew to enjoy it. At any rate, I like a lot more than Nodwick. Did Williams ever make a proper ending to it?

Wow, that was an absolutely fascinating read. Not too surprising given the presence of (thunderclap) Lorraine Williams, but still. When was it published? I wonder how the business model is different between then and the Hasbro and 4th edition days. Not that I'm going to go the 4th-ed bashing...

This my first year going alone. My dad I used to do Gen Con tomorrow as a sort of bonding thing, but financial difficulties hit us both hard in 2009, and I'm only just recovering (and he still has a ways to go.) So I booked it this time. It wasn't that bad. Apparently there's a new hotel in...

Okay, this is a really random question and a few pages late, but I'm curious about something. I wondered why months ago you didn't comment on the political satire in Libram X, and then I realized that because you're on the other side of the pond and (based on the videos) younger than me, you...

I played the crap out of this game on the NES, which indicates that this is another really old game or a really delayed PC adaption. It's not an easy game to get into if you never did strategy games, since you literally start out in exile and spend most of the game being ludicrously...

Heh, that ad caught my eye too when I reread the issue to follow you. I doubt it, though given how irritating Solstice was, it's possible. I'm more bothered by the advertising method here. "Buy Equinox! You will ruin your life playing it and never even be satisfied with a conclusion!" Also...

I'm the same way. I need a story and actual characters when playing games. It's the same way I prefer traditional video game RPGs like Final Fantasy and the various Bioware things to MMOs. Still, you can't deny that this is a momentous issue. As for Underground, it's amazing how fast it...

I remember that Soul Blazer review as being one of the things that annoyed me about Sandy at the time. Nobody, myself included, probably would rate it up there with Link to the Past, but it had very clever innovations and game play designs (like the whole "free souls to fix the world" thing,)...

Of course, we saw the down side of that, too. When the creator gets so big that he is immune to criticism or editing in any form, you get Jar-Jar. And a lot of people point out that Empire Strikes Back is only as good as it is because Lucas had a lot of his ideas shot down in favor of a darker...