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No. The first three are lumped together because they overlap, but the rest are fairly different. Heroic Worlds and Shared Fantasy are probably the best, given their limitations (HW is mostly an index, and while SF is a landmark, I've seen some claims that they double-counted some of the people...

You're probably talking about Thirty Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons, with a foreward by Vin Diesel. It's still dirt cheap on Amazon, if you want a copy. These focus more on the history of RPGS in general, but D&D is inexorably meshed with the more general history so...

Might want to consider #11: The Dragonfiend Pact and #31: The Transmuter's Last Touch. They're not on the big sale page because they're only marked down 25%, but when the retail price is only $2 to start with.... Here's a link to a thread from about a year ago that rated the various DCCs that I...

I ordered from them a few times, but not since 2005. Great sales, good shipping. However the only time I had a problem, they said they couldn't do anything and referred me to the manufacturer. The book had a bad glue job along the binding. I never did follow up because while it looked ugly, the...

Well, yes. That's the same person who wrote a review of FATAL that incorporated a link to tubgirl. Hardly a model of nuanced restraint. Jeff Rient's review is pretty negative but ultimately decides it's not as bad as Synnibarr. Though it doesn't seem to address the hottest of the hot button...

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Wraeththu (I'm not sure I can even describe the game without offending Eric's Grandma, but there's a not-necessarily-safe-for-work review here) or RaHoWa (short for Racial Holy War, the white supremacist RPG). Games like KABAL (perhaps the first RPG flop) and...

Godwin's article "How many coins in a coffer?" in Dragon #80 goes into a lot of detail, listing specific gravities of various metals, speculating on coin dimensions, and the differences between stacking them and leaving them loose. I haven't gone back over all his assumptions (I believe he used...

Based on the list of qualities you're looking for, you might like Valus. The cosmology is well done, and merciless. The tone is dark and relatively mature, with uncaring gods, racism, intolerance, and xenophobia. The new races are adaptations of old races (the outcast half-troll trulls, the...

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*Codex of Erde (Troll Lord, 2001) *Diomin (Otherworld Creations, 2000) *Dragon Lords of Melniboné (Chaosium, 2001) *Dragonmech (White Wolf/Sword & Sorcery, 2004) *EverQuest (White Wolf, 2002) *Everstone (Guardians of Order, 2004) *Ghostwalk (Wizards of the Coast, 2003) Grimm (Fantasy Flight...

Added Elder Evils (but not Elder Elvis :p).

Moving towards Over the Edge, then. It's hard to comment intelligently on a system based on a few highlights after all, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

The system sounds appealing. But why not make Perception a save? Saves represent a character's ability to react in critical situations. Whether it's resisting torture, throwing off a disease, or dodging an eldritch blast, it's purely a response to a situation. React, not act. Do you notice...

That's my assumption too, though we don't know whether sales before and after the peak dropped precipitously or gradually.

Yes. That's why I said "product line". I also have no idea how long they sold that fast... one day? three months? a year and a half? There's just so little good information about actual sales in the RPG industry. Not that I keep up on it, but I used to read Ken Hite's yearly foray into wild ass...

I found "at one point, the Quintessentials were, quite literally, selling one book every thirty seconds!" interesting. 2 x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 30 days = somewhere in the rough range of 86,400 books per month in one product line for an unknown period of time.

I seem to interpret "iconic" differently. To me, these are the humanoids that help make D&D D&D, not another generic Tolkien-derived fantasy: mind flayers drow trolls kobolds githyanki gnolls liches yuan ti bugbears sahuagin D&D just never did enough to differentiate orcs, for instance, to...

That trick doesn't work once you introduce the third dimension. All it takes is a few sets of stairs. Mazes should be a modified version of a chase scene. Instead of lots of explosions, gunfire, and screaming pedestrians, use sniping kobolds, traps, and twisty tunnels, all alike. Don't let them...

Kord's picked up storms? Unexpected, but it fits. And shouldn't Ioun be the god of anti-magic? :)

History makes as much sense, and Arcana is already overloaded.