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I just completed an interview about Reign of Discordia with Mike Davenport. If you want to know more about the setting, you can check it out in the transcript.

I just completed an interview about Reign of Discordia with Mike Davenport. If you want to know more about the setting, you can check it out in the transcript.

Yeah, I used to have most of the monster books, and I agree they're quite valuable. I actually own a good number of them on PDF, but I'm looking for the reprints. As for setting material, again, I own most of the PDFs that interest me, but there's just something you can't replicate about...

I guess it depends on what you like. First edition and Basic were all about the adventures while 2nd edition was really focused on providing a variety of settings that run deep and span numerous books. Third edition was "Back to the Dungeon," though there were a ton of splat books and setting...

I was never a big fan of Planescape. The art didn't grab me. Neither did the Blood War, the City of Sigil, the basic conflicts, and so on. I know a lot of people loved it, but it was a miss for me. I do like the planes in general, but I'm good to go with the Manual of the Planes.

I'm running out of titles that they currently have available. I am impressed with the speed that they're increasing the selection though. Hopefully they'll get Isle of Dread up there soon in print.

Actually only about $100 of the editing money went there. The rest was from other jobs. My goal is to not spend more than $100 from any given freelance job on reprints.

About five years ago about 90% my classic D&D collection was completely ruined in a basement flood. Needless to say, I was pretty devastated at the time. Fortunately I had the 1E and 2E core books and some select modules on my bookshelf in my main room. Now that the reprints are available from...

My love for D&D includes older versions. White Star seemed like the best fit to make a version that's OSR.

I'd argue that this was a "too many cooks" issue. At the time, WotC was having rolling layoffs and shortly thereafter all the designers who worked on 3rd edition were gone. Some of the folks who had primarily been setting writers, or adventure writers moved into positions where they were...

I'm hoping not. WotC did learn a lesson about messing with the backwards compatibility with half-editions. 3.5 was also released just three years after the lunch of 3rd edition. They've been telling us 5.5 will be fully backward compatible, and it's already been eight years since 5E was...

So having been there during third edition, this isn't actually the case. There was a boom period, and sales did slack off a bit as expected, it was actually 3.5 that caused the bust. 3.5 was largely seen as a cash grab by the majority of people, causing A LOT of customers to drop. The D20 bust...

Reviews typically sink those products. When anticipation is high there are a lot more eyeballs on it once the product is released. If it's poorly done, people notice and word gets around.

There are cases where my personal assessment doesn't align with popular culture, but you are right in the vast majority of cases.

5E is absolutely a quality RPG. I support my position with the following arguments: Ryan Dancey famously described 3rd edition as a half hour of fun condensed into four hours. In other words, the rules gave you all kinds of amazing options, but the class/feat structure created a lot of bloat...

In 2008, Reality Deviant Publications (now Gun Metal Games) and I teamed up to released Reign of Discordia for the True20 system. Although it was well received, Dave Jarvis decided to focus the majority of his efforts on Interface Zero for Savage Worlds, and he very graciously turned all the...

In 2008, Reality Deviant Publications (now Gun Metal Games) and I teamed up to released Reign of Discordia for the True20 system. Although it was well received, Dave Jarvis decided to focus the majority of his efforts on Interface Zero for Savage Worlds, and he very graciously turned all the...

Heroes of Gracia Episode 4, Shadowguard, is not for sale. With the events at the Ruins of Aridas behind them, Antilos, Nalgaar, and Tanryn return to Ansti for what is supposed to be a brief stop to resupply before venturing back out into the wilderness. Such a brief stay is not to be the...

It has come to my attention that people like getting things for cheap. I have also recently become aware that many people are sadly stuck at home and unable to attend the magnificent gaming convention, Gen Con, which is going on right now. As luck would have it, I'm one of those people. So, to...