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AD&D 2e is sort of the "forgotten" edition of D&D. By the 1990s gamers were moving on to other things. There are people out there passionate about AD&D 2e, but they're more keen on bringing back a campaign setting, like Ravenloft or Planescape, rather than seeing an AD&D 2e resurgance. You...

I think WotC should stop supporting ALL of the campaign settings. Wipe the slate clean. 0-hour. No more Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Eberron, etc. Campaign settings aren't really that useful. Even the most avid Realms player will never use or explore all of the material the Realms has churned...

Whoops. Double post.

When you enter the small room you see a skull with some jewels in its mouth on a stone block toward the back of the room surrounded by assorted treasures. You don't know that the skull is Acererak the demi-lich. You don't know his powers to suck the soul of the most powerful character in the...

I'm wrestling with this issue right now. As I've said before, "I love my collection of RPG books, until I have to move." After moving about 50 Banker's Boxes of books (RPG and non-RPG), its really gotten me to think about trimming down my book collection. My only problem is that I just don't...

In my experience, groups did stick with 2e and even 1e. Maybe there were just more 2e and 1e diehards in my neck of the woods, but I was the only one running 3e in my college gaming club for over a year after 3e came out. And I was okay with 3e, for awhile. It was the game of choice and I...

Okay, what if I posed this theory for D&D/Tabletop RPG timeline? Pre-1989, 1e/OD&D: Antiquity 1989-2000, 2e: Dark Age 2000-2008, 3.0/3.5e: Late Medieval Period 2008-present: Age of Enlightenment with all the conflict (Edition Wars) that goes along with it.

If only more people shared your attitude. I have similiar feelings about 2e. I played it growing it. It worked for what it was, but would I try to run a campaign with it? Probably not. Maybe a one-shot. The main trouble would be finding people in my area who'd want to play 2e. Actually, I've...

I think you just supported what I'm arguing, in part. Some people do put the decline as far back as Dragonlance. Indeed Grognardia states that Golden Age ended in 1983. The next year Dragonlance, of course, was published ushering in plot-driven modules and campaign settings. Along with other...

Here's three more pieces of evidence that point to gamers being more unified back then. 1. Although there many games listed on the wikipedia article it is generally agreed that D&D was the first and most played. More people were brought into the gamer subculture because of D&D. That's a...

I agree. We are speaking in generalities. And that is what's happening with the OSR. Yet there is also a contingent that wanted rules light, and that's been there since the beginning. To name once example: the folks who played D&D, but when AD&D came along they just used the D&D combat...

If D&D leads people beyond the game to literature out there, both past and present, great. Yet the OSR brought the past back into the lime light, which has had some influence of the end 4e. It's not so much worrying about the past, the so-called Golden Age, its a commentary on the state of the...

Hussar, you are right. There is nothing stopping me from going online and finding a game right now on Google+ or whatever. Yet I'd prefer not too. I spend a lot time during the day writing at my computer. I want to unplug at the end of the day and not have my social interactions with RPGs via a...

Thank you. Maybe next year I'll try for a hundred. Yet still I plan on painting 52 as the base goal.

What more do I want? Well, my answer is based on my experiences... --For people to stop judging me based on whatever edition or version of D&D I decide to run as a DM, with out regard to the fact that I do run great sessions and tell great stories. --Less emphasis on the rules, more...

I've completed my goal of 52 miniatures this year, and then some, for a total of 69! (no snickering in the back!) ;) You can see pictures of them on my blog, along with the wargame I used them in last Saturday. d20 Dark Ages. I doubt I'll have much time to paint during the upcoming holidays...

I think 5e will be the last chance the WotC has to make D&D viable as a tabletop pen & paper game. So far their playtest seems to be going well. It depends if they can get enough people to stop playing other D&D clones like Pathfinder or previous editions. Everybody seems to be peddling their...

I get this feeling tabletop roleplaying is all but coming to an end if this trend continues. Why bother going to somebody's house, or even your FLGS (which all seem to push the latest CCG or Warhammer these days), when you just sit at home with your computer and all the pdfs you can buy or...

The grognards have had their say, the Golden Age of D&D is long gone. And i agree. But I'm not part of the old school crowd. I started playing D&D in 1989, when AD&D Second Edition was published. AD&D 2e was great, the rules were organized, easier to use. Yet somehow, the aura of mystery and...

Second to the Loctite Gel. It bonds both metal to metal, plastic to plastic, and plastic to metal well. Make sure you get the gel and not the really runny superglue. If you want a really great bond (say for glueing a wing to a large dragon miniature) use a combination of Loctite Gel and Green...