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I would second Ed's "Hamlet of Thumble". A good module geared specifically for the beginning DM. Another option, if there's no problem with using older material, is Colin McComb's "Thunder Rift" available on RPGnow: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1183& It was a tiny Basic...

I prefer the first version as well mainly because eye-candy for eye-candy's sake has never done much for me, particularly when it's meshed with reference information. I think it looks nice, but it doesn't really serve the reader's purposes in using the book. I think the two biggest issues with...

Another Mac user here. Been using 'em since '89. I've worked as a graphic designer (mostly print) for the last 12 years so my Macs have been my babies. Haven't actually made the full jump to 0S X yet, mainly 'cause 9.2 still does everything I need and the combination of hardware and software...

Two, I read your last post just before I left for school today and have been thinking since how to respond. I get home tonight only to find that MoogleEmpMog has said almost exactly what I was thinking only much better than I could have said it. :) I guess it seems to me that your position...

While I applaud the idea of digging through the pop-cultural facade and making real, human connections with each other, it seems to me that once you suppose you understand the motivations of others and declare that you don't want to see that behavior, you have chosen to stop the conversation and...

Movie and TV quoting pops up these days in nearly every social situation, gaming being just one of them. Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, has another book called Survivor (no relation to the TV show) in which a character posits that the question of our age is no longer "Why are we...

Amazon can be difficult for RPG stuff. I was given an Amazon gift certificate last May and decided to use it on Ed Cha's "Hamlet of Thumble". The projected shipping time was 1-2 months. It still hadn't shipped by the beginning of September so I finally cancelled the official Amazon order and got...

I want to throw in my 2 coppers about an area of the industry (an important one to me) that I think has been overlooked. Since you offered to open this up for debate, I figured I’d just jump in with both feet here. I assume that by omitting the Best Graphic Design category, you are in favor of...

I have a similar situation with my wife. I introduced her to the game early in our marriage, and at the time we had several friends (all couples) that we gamed with fairly regularly. My wife really liked it, but more for the social aspect than the gaming. As time went on, many of the friends...

Welcome to Utah! Hastur Hobbies is definitely the best shop for RPG stuff in SLC. If you head further south to Provo (my neck of the woods), then Dragon's Keep is the place to go (I game there regularly...they are a great bunch). The other game shops in the area tend to focus on CCGs and Minis...

I saw that episode a couple of weeks ago. Made me chuckle. I particularly liked it when, as they were carting him off, one of the cops says something like, "Call dispatch and tell 'em to have a cell ready for a demi-god." I think the guy was played by one of the comics that appears regularly on...

Looking forward to seeing the replies on this thread...I put in an order for Hamlet of Thumble almost two months ago on Amazon (I got a gift certificate from a friend), but, sadly, it still hasn't shipped. It did say 1-2 months on the order page, though. I was just hoping it was an exaggeration :\ .

Started playing back in 1980 with my cousin's copy of the Holmes blue box set. Over the years I owned a copy at one point or another of every set from Moldvay to the Rules Cyclopedia. I think they're all still on my bookshelf upstairs along with all my other RPG stuff. Not played enough, but...

The Holmes blue-box basic set back in 1980. Ahh, to be 12 again...

A slight tangent here -- I was reading a book on game design last night and came across a similar list of player types with their definitions that I thought might be of interest for this thread. There's a lot of crossover with the list from the poll, plus a few others: 1) The Competitor: plays...

I chose butt-kicker (though more often than not I'm on the receiving end :p ) and casual gamer. The butt-kicker part of me provides stress relief and is why Quake 3 will forever remain on my computer. The casual gamer side of me is the main reason I like boardgames, pnp games, and minis games...

Thanks Krieg. The reviews make it sound interesting and I really like the fact that it focuses on the PCs as children. I already own Midnight, so I know FFG puts out great stuff. I'll see if I can find it at my FLGS and look through it.

Wow! Thanks for all the wonderful responses and links! As I've been working on the setting, handling the magic has seemed like the hardest bit of the books to replicate in D&D. I'll definitely try out several of the options you've all brought up. I'm particularly intrigued by the Mutants &...

My daughter and son (ages 10 and 7) have shown an interest in learning D&D and they're really interested in playing in a Harry Potter-type of world. So, I have begun to homebrew a Hogwart's-style school with the idea that this school is another academy in the same world as H.P. I'm hoping to...

Discovering and following one of Angelsboi's threads sometime back is what turned me from an occasional lurker into an active, daily lurker. His posts put a human face on this board for me; made me want to get to know more about him and others on ENworld. God be with you, Angelsboi. You are...