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This is awesome to see.

While I started playing in middle school in the early-to-mid '90s, my first game was using 1e. I didn't get into 2e until I got involved in the RPGA in the Raven's Bluff setting, but I generally spent the most time playing 2e through there - I then had a massive dry spell through most of 3e and...

I wonder what this is going to mean for the Free League Twilight 2000 game.

I'd go with having the jar not be particularly airtight (and also with small enough holes that the bugs can't get out of them - maybe including bugs that could crawl up to the underside of the lid - allowing a perception check to notice the bottom of the lid had some of the bugs on them. If...

If they're normal sized insects, I'd agree to run it as a trap, with the player(s) having to describe how they're getting past or rid of the insects.

In Magic: The Gathering - Dominaria had a magical nuclear apocalypse in the form of Urza detonating the Golgothian Sylex at the conclusion of The Brothers' War, complete with a magical nuclear winter.

You can change the sliders to adjust who gets what proportion of the money.

And we didn't get all of them back - I still haven't gotten my OG Gangbusters back.

Yeah, I ended up stumbling across a used copy of Creative Campaigning at Powell's, and later got it signed by Janelle Jaquays at PRGE (I couldn't find my copy of Quake 2)

I backed Tales of the Valiant - it looks good, but I haven't had a chance to run it yet.

I should clarify my viewpoint about Lorraine Williams a little bit. I intensely dislike her, but it's a dislike at the level I have for Phil Ballmer, or other corporate executives whose actions, while beneficial to their company, were harmful to the industry (and in this instance art form at...

The OGL itself was fine - and if TSR hadn't been so litigious it probably would still have come about. Two of the reasons for it to exist were making sure D&D could never die, and helping to encourage third party publishers to make the kind of content that didn't necessarily make a lot of money...

Well, I thought I was out, but I do have a slight clarification - there were two TSR vs. Mayfair Games cases. The initial one for the Role Aids line, in 1984, was pre-Williams and the settlement from that case set conditions for which Mayfair could state on the packaging that those products were...

Before I bow out myself, one final point about the lawsuits. The lawsuits that TSR filed under Lorraine Williams time as head of the company - particularly the ones against GDW and Mayfair Games, left deep lingering scars on the RPG industry. If those lawsuits had not happened, the OGL would...

And the lawsuits are in none of those buckets - that's my very strong objection. Because those happened, and Shannon Appelcline documented those extensively in Designers & Dragons in the entries for New Infinities Productions, GDW, and Mayfair Games. Plus the Cease & Desist letters sent out...

I feel like the whole core concept of this thread was to say she wasn't deplorable. She was. She absolutely was. She wasn't as deplorable as Gary was, or certainly not as Kevin Blume was, and that is certainly worth mentioning. But she definitely was deplorable, and the legal tactics TSR engaged...

Pulling TSR out of the Blume and Gygax Death Spiral is a laudable act. Singular It doesn't mean she's a laudable person. It doesn't outweigh what came after. Hell, even selling to WotC isn't something I'd consider laudable. It's a smart business decision, but it's also the logical one. It's...

Except that's just being good at being a CEO - that doesn't make her worthy of praise. Does it make Kevin Blume and Gary Gygax worthy of more condemnation? Sure. But the complaints about the lawsuits, the mistreatment of creators, etc, don't go away. Even if those policies were perpetuating...

In my case, I generally consider Gary, Kevin Blume, and Lorraine Williams to all be terrible for different reasons. I never moved in the circles online where the insults about her appearance and weight were going around, but I did observe the "They Sue Regularly" complaints, including from...

This in particular probably plays worse now than it did at the time, especially considering how TSR would go on to treat those originals in the bankruptcy. Also, if the lawsuits against GDW and Mayfair were to happen now from WotC/Hasbro, there'd not only boycotts, there'd be calls for GenCon...