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The Morrissey covers are indeed fantastic. Love the detail he put in them. I never liked the DL modules from the moment I first saw them because I hate railroad gaming. One thing that I recall from the earliest DL modules that that the PCs weren't even allowed to kill off major NPCs who...

I'm an old fashioned pen and paper dude who has used digital tools for a few things but never in group play. I can see how they would be handy for people in different geographic locations playing together and, I must say, the graphics looked beautiful. However, after watching the "D&D direct"...

I guess you'll consider me old fashioned but, if a player (or the entire party) wishes to construct a base of operations, I prefer having them do it in the way that was first described in the 1e DMG and later expended upon in other products. The original DMG had a price list for everything from...

I didn't in 1981 when I bought my first Fiend Folio.

Looks like the type of covers on the sci-fi novels I was reading in the '70s and '80s.

The assassin bug mentioned above was one of the critters that made it into the Fiend Folio (page 12). I remember that critter mainly because of it's super-cool, terrifying name. When thumbing through the book, it's hard not to stop and read an entry titled "assassin bug." To digress briefly...

If I may back up a bit to the scene where Bond is about to be bisected by laser in "Goldfinger": Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?" Goldfinger (rather matter-of-factly): "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die." One of my favorite little snippets of dialog due to Goldfinger being so casually...

Yes, that was pretty much the case, but Gary refined them somewhat when they reappeared in UA. This is because the NPC classes in Dragon were generally much, much more complex than the PHB classes and subclasses. They were also often much more powerful than the standard classes or too...

Perhaps they had to add a new wing to the school's morgue during his time there.

I wonder if WotC may be trying too hard to give this Starter Set a Candyland vibe. D&D has been around 50 years now and attitudes of the general public are a lot different than the Satanic Panic days that I had to live through. D&D is on TV and podcasts everywhere. For the parent who sees D&D...

If you make it to Gen Con sometime, you might want to see if they're selling them at their booth. It wasn't a very big booth last year, but they did have a selection of products available.

I just checked and I see that there are some "Wings of Glory" items listed on the Ares site.

Yes, Ares is still in business . . . at least the one that I order from. I buy "War of the Ring" games and accessories from them. That line of games was originally published by Fantasy Flight Games, but Ares took over the WotR line years ago. They've had a booth at Gen Con the past few years...

Thanks for the updated info. Although Goodman runs late on their OARs, they are nowhere near as bad in missing deadlines as Ares Games (overseas company that makes "War of the Ring" board game products, etc). I've occasionally ordered limited edition products directly from them. Ares...

I keep checking for any news of an OAR# 10, but have not yet been able to find anything. It has me wondering if perhaps OAR# 9 (Thracia) will be the last book in the series. I don't expect any more TSR products to be done due to licensing (unfortunately), but there are other JG products that...

I bought the original Caverns of Thracia when it was released back in the early 1980s. Bought a lot of Judges Guild modules back then since they were dirt cheap compared to the TSR modules. They held down prices by printing their products on cheap paper, but that didn't matter. Thracia was...

When the new books first came out, I was annoyed at the more widely-known controversial changes (dropping orcs from MM, dropping half-races from PHB, no ability bonuses for races, etc.), but I figured I could live with that so I'd go ahead and use 5.5 so I can stay up-to-date with things. As I...

I wish you luck in getting the remaining ones you want. I've checked eBay periodically over the past months to see what the OARs are going for and it seems that they fluctuate over time. Sometimes prices on certain ones have been extremely high and sometimes the same ones can be had for a...

I really liked this concept, especially as a new DM. B1 was the first module I went through as a player in 1979. The first thing I did after buying my first set of PHB/DMG/MM books in 1980 was to get a copy of B1 and stock it with a selection of monsters from my shiny new Monster Manual. It...

Ahhh yes, d4s. Those wonderful foot-stabbing caltrops of gaming tables everywhere.