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acquiring SPI and Amazing Stories, in hindsight, were a couple of real wastes of cash TSR needed later. At the time, though, I suppose that expanding beyond RPGs seemed like a good idea...

does his weekly check in on this thread to find everyone talking about.... Davids okay.

well, that would explain why the drow hate.... everyone.

I lucked out in that my first game was as a player, with a DM who had quite a lot of practice at it, and several experienced players who were willing to let me sit in... they were running a one shot with new PCs, and were down a player, and let me join in. I had read the books, so I knew...

or maybe this one kingdom isn't so blessed with arable land or abundant water, and turns to magic to feed everyone? That could be a case where, 'yes, it's necessary'....

I'd think it would come down to 'would it be all that necessary for magic to be used in agriculture?" I'm no expert, but I always had the idea that medieval farming, inefficient as it was compared to modern farming, generally got the job done, as in, they usually grew enough to feed most of the...

I always imagined a D&D world to have more or less normal Medieval type farming, which is basically very labor intensive, and magic won't really enter into it... unless something bad comes along that would threaten harvests. New crop/livestock diseases, for example, or drought, early/late...

there's a lot of 'the wild west' in D&D campaigns, frontier places not really under anyone's control, independent groups can go out and find stashes of gold, etc....

I'm 62! do I win?

not just 'a major seller', but the largest boxed set seller TSR ever had. But yes, it definitely was mishandled after EGG was gone. First just ignored after FR was released, then retooled as From the Ashes, which AFAIK was not a great seller. The handful of source books (compared to FR)...

Flight of the Boodles was an amusing game, but there was a 'answers to your many questions' following article that was hysterical....

not sure just how true that is. IIRC, Rigg's book has a chart showing that the WoG boxed set outsold every other boxed set, including FR. But... you have to consider that the FR also included a ton of books, modules, and companion boxed sets as well. Add those all together, and it's likely...

I have to admit, when the 1E boxed set came out, I didn't find the setting all that fantastic, didn't see any real advantages of it over Greyhawk. But when the novels started appearing, it started to pique my interest. And in the 2E days, when it went multicultural with a bang, I really...

I was one of the few people who bought the Maztica set. But I bought all the FR sets. Wish I'd have kept them, just have the 2E FR set left...

it's been decades since I read the book, but yeah, that's how I understood it to mean too. Even so, having a scene where a teenage girl rips her shirt open in the middle of a battle is rather cringeworthy...

does his weekly check in on this thread to see what stupid things NuTSR has done lately, sees a bunch of posts about stick shift vs. automatic transmissions heh. When I took Drivers Ed in HS, our training was on an automatic. But the first car I got, a gift from my parents, was a manual, so I...

it is, but unlike other cursed items, it's not stuck to you; you can toss it if you like. But... it's also a handy garbage disposal. You can use it to get rid of those annoying regenerating troll bits and pieces that are always left over after a fight. And if you're not a nice person, and...

you can have a lot of fun with a Bag of Devouring

this happened a lot back in the early 1E days, when published adventures were still kinda sparse. The only one I recall for me was running through B2, as a fighter/thief in the back of the party. Wanted so bad to warn the others about the pit trap in the kobold lair, but didn't... and everyone...

I dunno, I'd say you were awfully lucky that you didn't summon a demon....