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Goodman Games' Known Realms has only the boxed set. Sure, the DCC's are set in it, but they are only icing on the cake, as they are adventures, not source material per se. Add in your favorite cities, towns, villages, hamlets, castles, citadels, ruins, islands, and encounters from Necromancer...

In summary, C&C takes the best parts of every edition of everyone's favorite game, strips down the d20 System (Fantasy) to its core to form the SIEGE Engine, and rebuilds the game based on that... but, unlike in the standard d20 System (Fantasy), the SIEGE Engine is a foundation on which to...

Wow... 35 posts and not one mention of "Iron Crown Enterprises did this 30 years ago with RoleMaster's Spell Law..." I always thought adapting that system to D&D and using a spell point system worked admirably... I'll have to dig up the conversion system I used back in the day, adapt it to 3.5...

Here ya go... Ancient Europe http://www.amazon.com/New-Penguin-Atlas-Ancient-History/dp/0140513485/ref=sr_1_3/002-3120355-9012835?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175719071&sr=8-3 Medieval Europe...

RE: Lack of Paizo listing on #s above... Erik, Those numbers do not include magazines, art books, miniatures products, or card products, just game books and book-based boxed sets (i.e., like Wilderlands and Known Realms). The numbers only include sales through brick and mortar hobby retail...

Quite right, Geoffrey. The difference between the "color" versions and the "gray" versions is the sepia tone and the brown paper, not true four-color. Map, it would have been awesome to have gotten those in color... but then it would have cost like $140, not $70 retail... If things go well...

Detect spells of any sort and identify. I've always hated them. Leaves no mystery to things and makes character's lives entirely too easy and much too long.

Yup, I have the State of the Gaming Industry article in the issue that should be hitting stores this week, and NWoD + Exalted (i.e., essentially everything WW did in 2006 that registered even a blip in sales) came in at the #2 position. Here's the general breakdown for 2006 RPG sales in market...

Mechanurge, Tegel Manor is scheduled to be the last Judges Guild product produced by Necromancer Games; I sincerely hope they can release it in the deluxe format they have planned, as it will be a seriously kick-ass product. Goodman Games, through Eostros (the Geilman's company) will release...

Immediate Future, new products (not including "Offered Again's"): Game Trade Monthly #83 (Products releasing Feb/Mar 07): Total of 13 products from 5 companies. Official D&D Dragon #355 (Paizo, pg. 24) Dungeon #146 (Paizo, pg. 24) Deluxe Dice (Wizards of the Coast, pg. 36) FR: Cormyr HC...

I've gone through far too many purges over the years, mostly due to moving. The first one, unfortunately and foolishly, was voluntary. There was a brief time in my sophomore year of high school when I decided that D&D "wasn't cool" anymore, and wanted to go out and have a "real" social life. I...

Excellent! I am very glad to hear you are recovering well. As for the Bears... well, I've still never forgiven them for giving that last "gimme" TD to the Fridge rather than Sweetness, so I'm hoping the hex I put on them all those years ago still holds. Plus, having grown up a Region Rat, the...

Get the Known Realms for the overall setting, and get the Wilderlands to grab cities, towns, villages, hamlets, dungeons, ruins, castles, keeps, islands, and encounters to populate the Known Realms. The Known Realms provides an awesome overall framework, and the Wilderlands provides all the...

I've played with Gary on several occasions, most notably on his porch in his weekly Lejendary Adventures campaign in Lake Geneva. Hoo-boy, I really miss that game! I've also played Original D&D with him at a convention, exploring a level of Castle Greyhawk (we all got et by ghouls!), and LA...

When I decided to start up Adventure Games Publishing, I inquired with Wizards of the Coast about licensing several lines (notably, Mystara and Gamma World). As Pramas mentioned, they are not currently interested in licensing anything out; no reason was given, simply a standard "We are not...

The whole "Kill the gods" thing comes from the sword & sorcery side of literary game influences. Conan was killing "gods" left and right in the tales, as were most adventurers in pulp tales of the day. The same was true in a lot of pre-Christian era tales, where the gods were immortal (i.e., did...

If you want them to be fairly common, say, along the lines of Castle Waiting style, do the following: 1) Back in the days when the Oerid and and Suel first invaded the Flanaess (cs. late 1st and early 2nd centuries O.R.), the Flan developed spells that created animal-men guardians...

Early D&D was influenced as much by science-fiction as it was by fantasy, so a lot of the themes from classic novels, stories, and movies the likes of "The Blob That Ate Poughkeepise" and "The Fungi Masters from Targov IV" entered into the thoughtstream. These kinds of stories also provided...

Wow, does this thread bring back some memories! Dungeonworld was one of the first products I ever wrote for as a freelancer. A major learning experience, both good and bad. I've learned a lot about RPG design for publishing since then... A few notes... One of the reasons the setting seems...

My review is in Scrye #104. Very, very positive. It's an amazing setting if you like classic campaign settings like Greyhawk, Mystara, Wilderlands, Aerth, or early Forgotten Realms. Of the campaign settings currently available, I put it on about equal footing with the Wilderlands (and note I...