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My thoughts too. My guess is Leeds has: 1. An MBA 2. Never played D&D prior to taking his new position (and maybe still hasn't) 3. No concern what happens to the hobby, only what WotC's bottom line is during his tenure. I'd be delighted if it turned out that points 2 and 3 were wrong but I fear...

I don't have my D&D books to hand but I believe that attacks of opportunity originated not in the PO books but in 1E and they were described in those words. You took an attack of opportunity when you fled from a melee opponent and turned your back on him. Admittedly, the PO rules for AoOs were...

Very cool chart. :cool: Just a few points... I was going to say that or something similar. :) Perhaps the PO books should have their own box off to the side of 2E with links to both 2E and 3E in addition to the existing direct link between 2E and 3E. I'm also not sure that there should...

Within certain criteria, I have every book about RPGs. Dr John Kim's bibliography is the most complete one online though it's missing a few references. Another good source is RPG Studies which includes some academic papers and print media articles. HTH ;)

Even online? Really? I didn't know that. Sorry! :eek: Isn't there some way round that (that doesn't involve travel to the UK!), i.e. some way of fooling the BBC site into thinking you're in the UK?

BBC 4 has been running a series on fantasy titled "The Worlds of Fantasy". The third episode subtitled "Through the Looking Glass" looks at fantasy literature of the last few decades and fantasy gaming. The programme features a segment on D&D including footage from the early 80s of (British)...

A small Post-It note will do it - either a pre-cut one or one cut to size. You can stick it to the underside of a mini's base so it protrudes and write a letter code on the projecting tab to indicate status, e.g. "B" for bloodied, "P" for poisoned. Alternatively, you can colour-code the...

If you use this method, you don't need to keep track of how many diagonals have been moved but you can still move diagonals with little spatial distortion. You do need to be able to add halves though which you may find distracting. YMMV.

I've already decided to table-rule movement so that diagonals cost 1.5. Unlike 1-2-1, you don't need to keep track of the number of diagonals taken. You just keep a running (no pun intended) total. As with the rest of 4E, total movement halves are rounded down, e.g. 6.5 squares (2 orthogonals +...

I'm happy for you, lasergreger. I too had a look through my old 1E books and reminisced. I have to say though that this thread belongs more in the General forum than here in 4E. ;)

My regular D&D group meets every Saturday in a function room at a pub. One of our members bought a bottle of champagne from the bar on Saturday evening. The bar staff provided champagne flutes and we all toasted Gary with a cry of "To Ernest Gary Gygax!". It was very cool.

Gary's view was that games in general, not just RPGs, simply appeal more to men than women. Dr Michelle Nephews who has a PhD in authorship and RPGs has argued in a chapter of Gaming as Culture that RPGs match male wish-fulfilment needs closer than they do female ones. Although I don't agree...

Michael, Thank you very much for this lovely gesture. With regards to Angelsboi and Chairman Kaga, I can't talk for them with authority as I only knew them from these boards but judging from their posts, I imagine that they would very much approve. As such, I think it's appropriate that they...

A positive article on D&D's influence on popular culture over at the BBC site.

Thank you, Scott. You're a gamer and a gentleman.

I'm very deeply shocked and saddened to hear of Gary's passing. I never had the pleasure of meeting him in person but in the contact I did have with him via these boards and by e-mail, I found him incredibly approachable. I'm very glad now that I had the chance to return a tiny fraction of the...

I felt it. I was watching Underworld on telly at the time. I lived for a while in Japan where quakes are common so I knew what it was when it happened. I also remember feeling the Folkestone earthquake a few years ago. I was once in a pretty strong quake in Tokyo. Plaster came down from the...

I don't know if this belongs in the OT or General RPG forum, so I'll post it here to be safe... EN Worlders may be interested in Beasts & Beings, a new magazine about fantasy creatures, magic items and mythical places. Each issue comes with a painted plastic figurine. Issue 1, for example...

Twenty-something years ago, I played in a 1E mini-campaign in which English was Common and French was Elvish. As the DM was bilingual but portrayed NPCs who couldn't speak Elvish, he sometimes had to pretend he didn't understand what was being said by the players. It would have been better if...

'Tis true. Many of the 1E FF monsters originally appeared in a White Dwarf column called Fiend Factory. I remember when Zvarts (later spelt Xvarts) was published. We loved killing them in droves, back in the day! :D