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Interesting addendum . . . late last week I saw a copy of T20 on eBay, which I bid on and won. Turns out the seller was none other than Marc Miller, and he kindly autographed the book for me. Very, very cool.

Added another conversion: sraim demon.

I think that the slime reaver from one of the Creature Collections makes a much better approximation of 1e-style bullywugs than the MoF conversion.

Yeah, there's nothing more frustrating than realizing, after the fact, that the monster had a crucial special ability that might have changed the outcome. I find it happens far less often with the new monster/NPC format, but it still happens. It certainly does pay to develop a strategy ahead of...

I think that's an extremely cool take on it, and a neat way to spin a familiar module in an new and interesting direction.

I've cruised through much of the Classic Traveller CD-ROM, and obviously it's a lot to asborb. But I also have the Dragon Magazine CD-ROM, a pretty nearly complete collection of early White Dwarfs and Polyhedrons, and several issues of Space Gamer. Are there any really excellent Traveller...

I've finally had a chance to check out a couple of issues -- very tasty. The level of quality found in Traveller fanzines is pretty darned high.

Anyone care to post an executive summary?

For those lurkers who might find their appetite whetted by this thread, this is what I've found for available products: Classic Traveller Materials As plugged several times upthread, Marc Miller's Far Future Enterprises (FFE) produces CD-ROMs that collect older, out-of-print materials as PDFs...

An interesting topic, for sure. In my experience, if you graphed the level of 3e fun against the number of players, you would have a curve rising steadily until you hit 4 players, peaking at 5 players, starting to drop somewhat at six players, and then falling quickly above 8 players. I think...

The epic feat Dire Charge: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/feats.htm#direCharge

Mechanically, if one wanted to run a cleric-less game but still more-or-less maintain the same power levels of standard D&D, the nifty reserve point rule from Unearthed Arcana goes a long way to addressing the hit-point recovery problem. Of course, you're still SOoL if you're killed. If you...

Yeah, it's there . . . have I mentioned how much this CD-ROM rocks?

Except when they weren't. See, for example, Gygax's essay "Poker, Chess, and the AD&D System" from Dragon 67 for maybe the best example of the theme "If you aren't doing it the Lake Geneva way, you aren't really playing AD&D" -- though other examples from the pages of Dragon or Polyhedron are...

I'm in Central Maine (between Bangor and Waterville off I-95), but I am seriously considering running a play-by-chat game to get my feet wet. Advantages: pbc fits a lot better with the sci-fi genre than fantasy. Disadvantages: it would be really hard to run a new game system AND a new chat...

Oh, it's included all right -- This CD rocks! Thanks for the suggestions; I think my plan would be to use one of the introductory adventures as a test case; if successful I would be tempted to run "The Traveller Adventure" as a campaign.

I ordered the Classic Traveller CD ROM last Thursday and got it in the mail TODAY. Holy crap that's good service. And the CD itself is mind-blowing. The scans look pretty good, and the sheer volume of material is crazy. Brothers and sisters, we live in a golden age of gaming. Sadly few among us...

Thank you for the kind words! It's always nice to hear when other gamers get some mileage out of your work.

I think the second example may have come from my website: http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/newstatblock.htm