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Because our DM said we had to go there first and wouldn't let us enter the Temple until we had done the Moathouse :(

Darker Days Presents: The Darkling Podcast Episode #4 Darkling Podcast The Darkling Podcast is Darker Days' 15 to 20 minute podcast focusing on material created by our listeners. Episode #4 features Monte Cook's World of Darkness in a special feature submitted by WGPRN listener Beckett. Lift...

Hi Aedh! :) I'd agree with DMfromdimensionX - check out the "mortals" line and explore some of the super-creepy adventure and setting ideas from that line. Urban Legends, Mysterious Places and similar books are full of great material. maddman75 has a good point with Hunter as well. It's a...

Yeah, that's right. We tracked and converted over 200 monsters from 2e to 3e when doing the athas.org Terrors of Athas monster manual, with another 60+ in the Terrors of the Dead Lands undead and vermin supplement. A handful of these (half a dozen or thereabouts) were invented out of...

My co-host Vince on our podcast has a really funny story about his D&D-centric players in his WoD Inquisition game always wanting to know how many gp they get from looting the bad guys, and how many gp it will take to bump up their Resources dots :D. Drives him up the wall.

:) Oh, I do love it. I'm maybe being overly critical. My point is more that I think the Hawkmoon books lack the quality of writing that some of MM's other works possess. So when I say they're a bit more hackish, that's what I'm referring to - that, and the fact that they have a slightly more...

Got no problem playing or running OOP games, or introducing new players to them. My current game is Mage: the Ascension, for example, and I'm planning an AD&D1e one-shot. With eBay, Amazon sellers and pdfs, OOP just isn't an issue these days.

No problem. Always a pleasure to geek out about MM :) Like Rackhir says, the Mars books are a bit hackish. MM wrote them as a tribute to the originals, so they are something of a pastiche. They're fun, but not his best stuff. Also, although the Nomad of the Time Streams series is generally...

If you liked Elric, dive right on in with the Corum books: The Swords Trilogy The Knight of the Swords The Queen of the Swords The King of the Swords The Chronicles of Corum The Bull and the Spear The Oak and the Ram The Sword and the Stallion Corum crops up in one or two other places, but...

Well, it has the only iron mine, but economic juggernaut it's not. In the first boxed set, the iron mine isn't even open any more, and Tyr's merchant houses are in collapse. Vordon is a laughing stock. Balic, on the other hand - there's a real economic juggernaut. What does the map have to...

No. You're just Playing Dark Sun Wrong. And if you were enjoying it, that was wrong too. And you probably smell as well. :p (Seriously, though, I'm happy to agree to disagree on this. No sense in going round in circles. Just so long as you admit I'm right.)

"Just fluff"?? That's what the setting is made of. There's little sense in dismissing material as "just fluff" when that's all you actually have to go on. And I notice that you've omitted several key passages from your quote - notably the sections where it talks about the growing...

Kalak's Tyr received little more than a page in the original Dark Sun boxed set. A few paragraphs - nothing more. So you didn't get much of a description of Kalak's Tyr first time around either. And yet that doesn't seem to have been a problem for you. In fact, what's stopping you from still...

No, it's nothing like that at all. The first boxed set is very explicit about the imminent revolution in Tyr, and about the role that slaves will play in it. It's far from just a hint. Freedom presented one way that you could portray that revolution. You didn't have to use it. But claims...

No, you're right. It happened entirely off-screen. The PCs were tangential at best. In Freedom they got to take part in the gladiator games and help folks escape the arena. Then at the end, the NPC heroes appear and have apparently saved the day. Unless you read the novel (which I didn't...

WotC said they wouldn't have Kalak overthrown? Where did they say that? And I really doubt you've spoken to "most" DS fans. Well, that's something of a false dilemma. Going by the original DS material, Kalak's Tyr most emphatically did not work. The treasury was bankrupt, the iron mines...

No, it happened in the very first product that came out after the first boxed set (Freedom). It was also heavily foreshadowed in the first boxed set itself under the writeup for Tyr, where it goes on about Kalak being about to fall and the slaves being the ones who are going to do it. Written...

*shrug* That's what the DM said happened. I wasn't there.

Charged in and slaughtered them all. Still not sure how we got away with it. Of course, we were very drunk at the time. No, although the DM kept egging us on to try it, the swine. I ran the same adventure for a group who went to great lengths to avoid the shrine entirely. You'd think it had...

Darker Days Episode #13: Halloween Special! Darker Days Podcast Welcome to our thirteenth episode! Lucky for some - this week we have not one, not two but three special guests. Chuck Wendig, Eddy Webb and Stew Wilson rejoin us for 1hr and 45 minutes of horror goodness. After the Secret...