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we could call it 'the big book of statistics and descriptions'. That way, even in RPG people overlook it, it might sell well to the math majors...

I had the opportunity of (briefly) talking to Cook at a convention in MT way back in the 80s sometime. I have mixed feelings about his work at TSR. He did a fine job on assorted things like OA and 2E. OTOH, I was not really impressed with Taladas, and he was the main idea guy behind the...

I'd always thought the DS world was 'closed off' due to the really weird magic system it had there... doesn't really fit in well with the others. That said, it didn't stop the Ravenloft demiplane from entering it and stealing the population of a city to make another Island there...

…the very bar where your party is (where else would they be?) Roll for initiative...

I can remember some people confusing the 'role playing' part of the game with the role playing that psychologists use sometimes to alter behavior (the two really aren't related at all). Apart from the 'Satanic panic' group, there was another anti-D&D group that thought the game was dangerous...

ya know, growing up in rural MT, I always thought that the people there were pretty devout Christians.... but after comparing them to some of the stuff I've been reading here, they now look like a bunch of lackadaisical heathens. Yeesh.

that was EGGs' version, on that map that came out in one of the Dragon Annuals, showing the full map of Oerth (something I was less than impressed with). My attempt was long before that, and based on that expanded continental map of Oerik that appears in the WoG folio... there is a peninsula...

way back in 2E days, I had a part of the WoG that I intended to use as a pseudo-India, and drew up a set of rules for Indian-type NPCs, monsters, kingdoms, etc., based on much too little research. Sadly, the PCs never did make it to that part of the world...

sad to say, as much as I loved putting non-European cultures in my game worlds, I never really based any campaigns there.... they mostly existed for the sake of standard adventurers to go there and do stuff....

I turned 60 today. Which means I am officially entitled to gripe about young people now. Dang young people these days with their 5E and Feats and Skills, why back in the old days, we rolled 3d6 in order for stats and 3 out of 4 new PCs died in their first adventure... and we liked it that way!

yeah, my first thought was 'get a pet ghost, hug him a lot'. But then you'd get the brain of a baby dragon in the body of an adult one. That could be interesting....

meh. D&D is medieval based because the game started out heavily influenced by LOTR (in spite of what EGG said)… the basic appeal of the game was 'hey, you can play an elf and fight orcs in this vaguely medieval world'... the nice thing about D&D is that it's bendable enough that if you don't...

I can vaguely remember seeing that article too, but I just don't recall when it appeared.... obviously, it had to be in the fairly early days of Dragon, early 80s... there was some fairly specific numbers in it, i.e., a greater god had to have at least XX number of worshipers, etc....

two weeks shy of 60. Discovered D&D in college when I was 20. It's been a long fun trip...

I didn't really like any edition after 2E, but I did like how they finally fixed that 'AC runs backwards' thing...

I was roughly in the middle of my gaming years when 2E came out, and there were some things I wanted to see done that weren't. I wanted an end to level limits for non-humans (or at least more generous ones), a revamping but still included barbarian and cavalier, and most of all, a complete...

I had them all (emphasis on 'had'), but the only one I ever used was the Viking one for a couple of one-shots...

I'm not I'd trust anything a kobold gave me, especially if he claimed it was a healing potion...

I'd have to go with option 2 and 1E; a lot of it is nostalgia, and I never played any editions after 2E, but I have a LOT of fond memories of those early days of D&D...

nice story, but now I'm wondering how she took any baths while waiting for those things to dissolve...