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I'm doing some stuff with minis and DF for Grognardia Games' Dwimmermount that I think is really cool, and I could use your help! Since James uses miniatures extensively in his home Dwimmermount campaign, some of the backer rewards I've put together for the Kickstarter effort to fund...

I do believe I am in there talking about Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium (which I worked on) and the 4E Red Box starter set (which I used with the kids in Adventuring Parties' afterschool class), but I haven't listened that far yet!

In a thread about the Adventurer Conqueror King System, Piratecat suggested that Legacy would be a good place to post about the Kickstarter for the Player's Companion, ACKS' first supplement. Orion at The Moldy Vale is willing to take the blame for telling you to check this out (in language not...

No one who does not puke from sheer pre-game excitement deserves to be using Vancian spellcasting. That said, ACKS spellcasting is more like a sorcerer in 3.X, where you flexibly cast as needed from a small list of available spells. Thanks for the review, Thunhus! Great to see how international...

Thanks for spreading the word and helping bring out more NYC-area EN Worlders, .5 Elf! Some stuff folks have said about previous installments are in this post at The Mule Abides. A maybe-interesting question for people who aren't in NYC: We can't name the games we're doing for various...

Falstaff: We're going to be sharing a booth at Gary Con with the AS&SH guys, who are really dedicated and passionate and fun to hang out with. Plus, self-interest-wise, their book is so beautiful I'm hoping some of the shine will rub off on ours if they are at the same table! Consonant Dude: We...

Sorry for the error in judgement, folks, and while I appreciate Mark standing up for me I regret having given him cause to do so! I haven't been around these parts since the D&D Next sub-forumization and the disappearance of the Publisher Forum, so I guessed wrong in where this should go. And...

At Vaults of Nagoh, Chris Hogan has a post called ACKS Eats 5E's Lunch, Belches Heartily where he says it "basically does what WOTC wants to do with 5E: namely, nick the best elements from preceding editions of D&D and kludge them into one (hopefully) all-conquering whole." (Orion at the Moldy...

I'm organizing a discussion on how playing a role on stage relates to gaming in NYC on Wed., Dec 14th at 8:30 pm. It'll be at the Flea Theater immediately following the 7 pm performance of the play SHE KILLS MONSTERS, which has Dungeons & Dragons as one of its central themes. I put this...

I heard that the first 3 issues of the IDW D&D comics shipped with variants that included playable versions of the adventure after each issue, complete with character sheets. Can anyone confirm or help point me to what these were?

Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair is on the AD&D recommended reading list and is set entirely in a multi-level bomb shelter with secret doors, teleporter traps, slimes, and other characteristic D&D elements. The Descent is a contemporary modern thriller set in a hollow world; it's got...

The Third Annual Dave Arneson Memorial Gameday is on what would have been his 64th birthday - next Saturday, Oct. 1 - and better than ever. It runs from 9 am until 11pm, hosted by the Brooklyn Strategist which is doing really cool outreach to kids and working to become a third space for their...

I love, love, love Caverns of Thracia. It was the tent-pole dungeon for my White Sandbox campaign, and was also a big part of the Borderlands campaign that was the other source for Adventurer Conqueror King. Reaching the climax took 22 sessions, 37 players, and 55 characters (link contains...

Thanks for the link! Freelancers are often the last to know. It's possible the need for additional revisions was my fault. I spoke to someone at the booth who said they were waiting until it was the best book possible to release it. I know I was late on my turnover and didn't hit some of my...

Since the EN Worlder in question is me :blush: I know part of this story - back in '08 I applied for a game designer position posted at the WotC site, and James Wyatt liked the design test portion of my application and took a chance on me - thanks man! Thanks also to Mike Mearls for later...

The Tower of Gygax is also raising money to support the statue, plus it's a roaring good time. It's in JW Marriott, room 303, table HQ this year - it begins Thursday at 8 am and has slots every two hours after that until the last one ends at 4 am, and in previous years some DMs have kept on...

Yes, we definitely plan to make it available outside the con, and hopefully the shipping to rossik won't be too outrageous (or we find overseas distribution)! Here's the plan: I'm the "I" who will be happy to answer questions - you can reach me at tavisgygaxmemorialfund.com. When I sent out...

Morrus, if you're not completely booked, it'd be great to get together in NYC - unless my Manhattanocentrism deceives me and you're going to, like, New York State. I am up for touristy stuff by day with my nine-year-old, and gaming by night; the New York Red Box is an always-ready fount of...

Because that's true, lots of retroclones are there to fill the gap. Adventurer Conqueror King will have a free online SRD when it's done; currently the rules are available only to Kickstarter backers of $5 or above, so that people understand they're still being polished and not be like "yeah I...

My own experiment in this didn't get past the first few levels, but I had problems of the opposite kind: I found that it was really hard to balance the PC's barbarian henchmen, which they insisted had the 12 HP max at first level + Con bonus and could survive up to -9 HP, with the Chainmail-era...