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Gygax got it from Steve Marsh -- Marsh created most D&D's early aquatic monsters. For the record, Marsh says "sahuagin" should be pronounced like it's Spanish.

*bump* U-Con opens tomorrow morning! Anybody still interested in a little meet-up?

Roll a d14 and a d4. If the d4 result is 1, add 0 to the d14's result. If the d4 result is 2, add 14 to the d14's result. If the d4 result is 3, add 28 to the d14's result. If the d4 result is 4, add 42 to the d14's result. Equal chance of any number from 1 to 56.

The tract-thumpers in your neighborhood are amateurs compared to the ones in my neighborhood. When I was a teenager, my brother and I once found a copy of "Dark Dungeons" inside an AD&D module. The Chick fanatics where I lived were apparently sneaking into the toy store (they still sold D&D in...

I had the exact opposite happen: The DM got tired of the village he had designed for our characters homebase. One day, our characters returned from an adventure and found out the place had burned down during a peasant uprising. There was no adventure connected to the event at all. The DM just...

I loaded up at Gencon: You know, I don't think I've ever bought dice over the Internet. Edit for additional info: These are the first dice I've bought in over ten years. Before this binge, I only had 36 dice in my roleplaying jar, plus whatever's in the various boxed games lying around my...

Since somebody mentioned lead coins, I might was well mention that Iron Wind Metals has rereleased the Ral Partha fantasy coins: http://ironwindmetals.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=123 They're not really lead anymore, and probably not cost-effective for Kae'Yoss, but they are kinda nifty for props.

The Bloodstone modules are a special situation right now. There's a lunatic game dealer in the U.K. who insists the out-of-print RPG market is "undervalued", and he's trying to prove it by "cornering the market" on H1 (and possibly the rest of the H series, but H1 is his special fixation)...

Thus speaketh Gygax, DMG, page 40.

1E had that as an optional rule, too. It's in Unearthed Arcana. Grind that axe all you want; it's still not gonna chop anything.

Yes and no. Here's the simplest possible explanation: All of the DMG printings before 1983 have the efreeti cover. All the DMG printings before December 1979 were six pages shorter than later versions. The difference in length was caused by incorporating the errata (that originally appeared...

U-Con's registration page is open!

I think the nerfed version of Time Stop should be a lower lever spell than it currently is.

"The Depths of the Earth"

Those are Creations Unlimited abbreviations. (For those who don't know, it's the company Rob Kuntz created after leaving TSR -- his adventures are basically Greyhawk in disguise.) It used slightly different abbreviations than Mayfair Game's Role-Aids. For example, Constitution was "Vitality" in...

I'm one of the freaks who answered 1-3. All I have is a 3.0 PHB and DMG. I guess I tried 3.0, but it didn't take. The only reason I have a DMG, actually, is that my cousin owns a gaming store -- he gave me the DMG after the 3.5 version came out, probably because he figured it wouldn't sell...

According to the ad I just found in my copy of Dragon #69, the Dragonbone was a product of "DB Enterprises". I'm pretty sure they don't exist anymore -- it was one of those "guy in his garage" companies -- the body of the original model was just a piece of PVC pipe that he cut some holes in...

I've used serve-and-return rules, like tennis, for mage duels in games. The mage challenged to the duel decides who must cast a spell first. The other mage counterspells or cast his own spell. After that, they alternate "serving" each round. I think this makes mage duels more of a intellectual...

I get to answer my own question, because I asked the cashier at the Chessex booth at Gencon about the Armory dice. Except that she had no idea what I was talking about, so she asked another employee. And he had no idea what I was talking about, so he asked the oldest guy at the booth. That...

Decipher publishes licensed games for Star Trek and Lord of the Rings. I'd guess the dice were a promotional item, or possibly from a boxed set.