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Sure. Fast Learner should certainly look into the World of Greyhawk.

AD&D came out of miniatures wargames, but the fact is that the Lake Geneva campaign didn't much use them, and the rules don't assume their use, whereas 3E does. Rear and flank attacks don't require miniatures, just the DM having an idea of who's facing whom. I dare say that their recommendation...

Yes, it's deliberately ambiguous in the film. I tend to think it's another of Palpatine's lies, myself. Midi-chlorians aren't an explanation of the Force any more than the existence of neurons explains consciousness.

Told you it would be! Likewise the orientation of the current non-setting D&D books puts me off.

It's probably those most attached to 3E who're most likely to use miniatures; the AD&D rules aren't so suited to them as with minute-long rounds characters' exact position is assumed to vary during each round, and the movement rules aren't so fiddly-precise. Gary Gygax himself rarely used or...

The "high magic" nature of the Realms is more to do with variety than quantity, and while it might turn out to be too high-magic for you as written, I wouldn't take that for granted. The other "issues" I suggest you consider if and when anyone actually experiences them. In every setting, NPCs...

I treat both the original AD&D planar structure and the 3E Realms one as partial, fallible mortal maps of the infinite, unfathomable planes.

Basically, Glorantha is the fantasy world a brilliant Californian hippie shaman who hadn't read Tolkien would create. I think it's unrivalled among secondary worlds except by Middle-earth and Tekumel. This isn't quite true. Glorantha predates Steve Perrin's RQ rules and its development was never...

T1 The Village of Hommlet (1979) was incorporated into T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil (1985) with a few changes and redrawn maps. S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and WG4 The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun (not 'Tharzidun') are two adventures, set in the Yatil Mountains far north of Hommlet...

Not a problem I've had. Be careful with 'most'. This is the same question as 'Why would anyone use anything other than [optimal weapon X]?' or (pre-3E) 'Why does it matter if a haste spell ages me a year?' It matters if the game is set in a world and the characters aren't psychopaths. It...

As you say, S'mon, but I would say 'vogue' rather than 'mainstream'. I'm still not quite yet with HoMP!

I think (and I think the same when Gary Gygax says it) that this is (a) a statement of (simulationist) personal approach which you shouldn't feel the need to project as the Natural Way of Things and (b) a definitional quibble: i.e. if the aspect of most stories that they're preplanned and told...

Scott, this is officially the idea. From Paxi Sylo's entry in the starwars.com Databank:

No, not for certain. As an editor of non-game books, some of which I've salvaged from unpublishable messes, I'm glad that authors get credit for their own books (!) in literary awards. I also work on RPG books and appreciate very well the roles of developers and editors, but I think the pros of...

But individuals don't seem to have been nominated. Why are the books listed with publishers given but not authors, artists, etc.? Don't we want to promote excellence in design and not just publishing, and help recognition of talented creative people and not only brands and logos?

Always loved the Realms, the unfolding of Realmslore, new stories and little histories and customs and connections I hadn't realized before. Very mixed feelings about how it's been presented by TSR and Wizards of the Coast.

The fullest description of Ironfang Keep is in The Moonsea, plus the usual scattered references. Plus Ed:

'Cthulhu', if you don't want to go to the effort of pronouncing it close to right (as in freebfrost's quote), in any case case has two syllables, not three. 'Cth' is a single complex consonant, not a syllable. In 'Faerûn', the circumflex over the 'û' makes it a long 'u' sound, so Fay-roon...

You're quite right that the practical situation matters as well as the technical one. If you were to take one of the hundreds of postings Ed's made in the last couple of years, most of the time you will find that -- it doesn't contradict the letter or spirit of any published lore -- on the...

To be clear, these are separate points from the 'is evil winning' question. Rich was obviously unaware of the agreement when he wrote his response. It takes more than that to cast doubt on Ed Greenwood's word. Ed's Realms differs from the official Realms in certain specific, defined ways that...