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Eight or nine encounters is a ton for a day. I use the One-Page Wilderness System for mine, and I don't even think my players could hit eight encounter rolls, much less eight encounters.

13) Old School: In the second film, the party was smart enough to know that taking Smaug head-on was impossible, so it did everything but a frontal assault. The GM was so impressed that he let Smaug fly away in disgust instead of turning them into dwarf-kabobs.

Other events: 1968?: David Weseley's first Braunstein 1996: 2.5e Players Options books (not that anyone ever played them) Sometime in the 200s: merger of RPGNow and DriveThruRPG The individual AD&D books were so monumental that they might each warrant a mention, until 2e. Unearthed Arcana...

Forgive my ignorance, but does an akin app exist for Pathfinder? If not, then it makes sense to develop the tech for it, and later apply it to the newer 5e. (It also makes sense to go iOS first. It has the bigger installed tablet base and the iPad sales issues are exaggerated since the tablets...

How many of the above would you recognize without the captions?

I confess to paying more attention to a scantily-clad Helen Mirren, but might I draw your attention to a 1981 film called Excalibur? And it was quite popular at the time.

Apparently, there is yet another version of the Dungeon Master's basic rules (v3), coming just a few days after v2. Does anyone know what is different? Edit: aside from the two new magic items, which the page lists.

Spikes by games coincide with new editions, since the core rule books always are the big sellers. To pick uncontroversial examples, GURPS got a new edition in 2004, but hasn't since, so it hasn't shown up again. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay got new editions in 2005 and 2009, explaining its spikes...

Tome of Horrors, anyone?

A vote for the five-mile hex. Five-across overlay hexes are much tidier than six. Regardless, however, so long as it's not a huge hex like a 12-mile hex, I'm totally cool. Now, if we can get rid of scripted adventures and get the bulk of XP from something other than killing ...

Stories—and I think I'm not stretching it to assume that means "story lines"—are NOT what Dave and Gary did. They have their spot, but not every gamer is going to use them, maybe not even most.

As someone with a journalism degree, I can confirm that it does not.

Underneath the skin of this badly-written article contains a legitimate contention: was Clark Peterson dealing with RPGs on taxpayer time and, really more of an issue, dealing with other business (selling RPGs) on taxpayer time? Unfortunately, this is twisted with the usual sensationalism of the...

A minor point of clarification: Judas Priest didn't have to defend its lyrics, which would be odd since the song was a Spooky Tooth cover and thus Gary Wright wrote the song. (Which would have been funny to see court; Wright also wrote "Dream Weaver," notoriously successful bubblegum.) Judas...

My current group just dropped from 4 to 2 members, and you can't run much with just 2. Thus, I'm looking for folks in Minneapolis; I live in the Whittier neighborhood over by Universe games, if that helps.

That it includes stats for the last edition of D&D as well as the current and next one is telling that Wizards is swallowing its pride to acknowledge that many folks still play 3.5.

What's wrong with giving humans +2 to add to stats as they wish, then giving the other races all -2 (say, a halfling's Strength) or -1/-1 (a dwarf's Dexterity and Charisma)? I don't get the extreme fear of penalties that Wizards has had in the last couple of editions. I get avoiding if possible...

Ranking the ones I've actually played: 5) Forgotten Realms 4) Known World 3) Ravenloft 2) Greyhawk (tops if you want a more generic fantasy or a standard sandbox) 1) Dragonlance I like settings I can grasp fast, which is why I like Greyhawk much more than the Forgotten Realms. I'm sure there's...

How did you get a guide for equipment by level?

Having at-will cantrips doing damage lessens some of the need at the early levels for lots of spells, which might set some tone.