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Bad shape, yes, but not as bad a shape as they would have to be to file other kinds of bankruptcy. Chapter 11 is "we can pay our debts if everybody gives us time and stops suing us" kind of bankruptcy. If GenCon LLC is filing that, it's because they think they can pull off Gen Con Indy and use...

I think we just found out how Gen Con LLC is going to deal with this: Chapter 11 bankruptcy. http://community.gencon.com/forums/thread/167900.aspx

You know where most PC parties go wrong with scouting? They're scouting without a plan. The thief/ranger/whatever is a couple of rounds of movement ahead of the party, encounters something, and then makes a split-second decision that screws things up, and everybody gets annoyed. Players need...

JeffB's got it. Steading of the Hill Giant Chief was the first standalone adventure published by TSR in 1978, but it's actually only the third or fourth module commercially released. Two other publishers beat them to the market. A company named "Wee Warriors" actually published two Dungeon...

I'm curious: What was the rationale for recapping First Edition rules in the Paladin and Ranger handbooks?

I would have told those guys, "Dude, I bought the damned rulebooks for a reason," and left to play with somebody who actually used them. I have better things to do that keep relearning a game I already know better than most people. The tweakers, I usually just roll my eyes and put up with it...

I never changed a single damn rule in my 2E games. I don't like changing rules -- it undermines the idea that we're all playing the same game, and makes it hard for players to changes DMs. I had to add things, though, usually as a response to something dumb and/or crazy my players did. My...

I can confirm that. The last game of 2E I ever played was with Ed Greenwood... at a convention in November 2006. I don't even think he plans which scenario he's going to run -- he just shows up with a binder full of 2E scenarios, and picks one when he gets to the table. Before he showed up...

In my 1E/2E campaign world, I always figured that the races that don't have magic-users (remember race/class limitations?) would be the ones that invested in science and engineering. So it's the dwarves who've pushed technology a little farther -- steam power, gunpowder, coal furnaces, a...

That's because a lot of the L&L fantasy miniatures are from the old days. Most of the Sandra Garrity minis are re-issues of stuff she did for other companies.

The Mythus lawsuit was filed in 1992 and settled in 1994 -- Sean started working for TSR (as their online coordinator) in 1995 -- before that, he was just another gamer on too many mailing lists. (Remember mailing lists? We had those before the web. They was kewl for the 1990s.)

Piercers are way cooler than trappers. (They're a Tome of Horrors monster in 3E.) Other than that, I'm a little vague on your criteria. Would the Wolf-in-Sheeps-Clothing count? It lures you in with the cute, fluffy bunny, the tries to bite your ankles off. I love that in a monster.

According to my 1E DMG, "the writing completely and permanently disappears from the scroll." Does the 3E DMG not mention this kind of stuff? Self-destroying scrolls seem impractical. considering scrolls can have more than one spell on them.

You realize, of course, that entry is way better than most of the D&D entries, don't you? It has proper citations. It just doesn't recite the plot of a book. It has historical information that's accurate, and it connects the subject to things outside itself, illustrating its relevance to other...

No, let's just say you're wrong. Because you are.

Pretty good, actually, if you're willing to wait 10 or 20 years for some WOTC employees to retire, clean out their attic, and sell their unneeded kitsch on ebay. (Not joking. You see ex-TSR employees selling TSR kitsch on ebay from time to time.)

You bring your own dice. In fact, everyone at the table will be evaluating your masculinity on the size of your dicebag. Sorry, the Exhibition Hall is way too crowded for running. You'll have to buy something at the booth so you can pretend you're looking at the merchandise. You point over...

It's not a "space" problem, it's a "resource" problem. And by "resource," I mean "editors who aren't hacks." The people who think that every band, book, cheap fanzine, crappy website, and local celebrity need Wikipedia entries are mostly drive-by hacks. They create a crappy entry about a...

They're still there.

I used the D&D Detroit Meetup to find most of my current group. My experience, though, is that a lot of D&D Meetup members refuse to attend a meetup unless you guarantee there'll be a game at the meeting. The lets-meet-and-arrange-some-games approach just doesn't work for most of them. This...