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I wouldn't consider Ars Magica as a pioneering game at starting characters at higher level. GURPS has been around for a long time and you started and built characters at whatever point level the GM set.

That photo alone is enough to make me buy this game. It is self-explanatory, and easy to use.

Wow, this is right during the heyday of my Dragon Magazine collection, so this brings back some great memories. It's funny how just seeing the covers instantly brings me back to my junior high and high school days.

I don't blame DTRPG for not exactly bending over backwards to refund money when the blame was squarely on WOTC for pulling their catalog. People rightly should have been demanding WOTC refund their money after that fiasco, not least of which because they were the deeper pockets in that...

Agreed. Witches are far more native to a pseudo-medieval European setting than AD&D's version of the monk class.

I found a lot of the letters and columns Gary wrote in those years left me rolling my teenage eyes. I love the man and the fact that he played such a big part in bringing roleplaying games into my life, but he sure did come off as a crotchety old man.

They are definitely inspired by the Prydain Huntsmen, right down to being created in a cauldron. Although I can't remember if only the deathless Cauldron-born were created that way in the books. I remember always trying to make some version of them in every D&D game I played because they were...

Why on earth did they put the space maps in a hardcover book???!!! You've got to put those in a spiral bound like the Loke Battlemats so they lay flat.

Holy crap, that's an amazing accomplishment!

Makes a great pulp name, though: Cocks Thundershot!

Makes a great pulp name, though: Cocks Thundershot!

I get it. They just seem so proud to jump into every thread to tell everyone that THEY aren't going to pay to playtest someone else's game, like it's a scam that only they have figured out.

I'm amazed that 6 months after the playtest was announced that people still think you have to pay for it.