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I have The Evolution of Fantasy RPGs. Got it when it came out and recall enjoying it. Then again, I’m a bit of a sucker for hard copy books about RPGs, RPGing, RPGamers and the industry. I reckon I have more titles on the subjects than the Library of Congress, British Library and Bodleian combined.

What a great piece! Thank you, Mr Ward, both for this and all you have done for the world of RPGaming. You're a luminary! I am very much looking forwards to your inside line on Deities & Demigods. I bought the re-titled Legends & Lore in 1985, but a few years later in the '90s, I bought two...

What a great piece! Thank you, Mr Ward, both for this and all you have done for the world of RPGaming. You're a luminary! I am very much looking forwards to your inside line on Deities & Demigods. I bought the re-titled Legends & Lore in 1985, but a few years later in the '90s, I bought two...

You might imagine that being an Origins Award winner automatically qualifies you to be an Academy member or at least to have some say on future winners, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I won an Origins Award a few years ago and, as far as I know, no particular privileges flow from that. :.-(

Hmmm... I have a feeling that Baba Yaga has been statted in a previous edition of D&D. Can't remember where though. And here's her theme by Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5p-gNyVlo

I've always had a soft spot for the FF. The coolness of some monsters and the wackiness of others made it both useful and fun. By the way, in the piece above: '...the text was ledigble [sic]'. I reckon 'ledigble' should be the name of an FF-style monster that confuses characters, driving them...

Sure there was. Ravenscourt Park station was round the corner. I used to go to GW on Dalling Road by tube very frequently in the '80s. Could just about get there after school without my mother realising that I hadn't come straight home!

Last Sunday (17/12/17), the Sunday Times published an article in their Culture/telly listings magazine on the resurgence of D&D and the increasing people who play it. You can find the piece here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/culture/dungeons-dragons-makes-a-comeback-zcsfmjrwj I don't...

Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy that Philadelphia's gamers are getting together. But I'm baffled that this is "news". As Angus points out above, UK gamers have been meeting in pubs for ages. I run the London D&D Meetup ( https://www.meetup.com/London-DnD/ ). We have been going just over 11...

Although not an exact match with D&D's fireball, Gandalf casts something like it against the goblins in The Hobbit. Also, the spell described by Howard in The Scarlet Citadel is more like D&D's Melf's minute meteors or the fire version of chromatic orb than fireball.

Starting at 14th level, an evoker (wizard) can overchannel a 5th level or lower spell (minimum 1st level) to do maximum damage. How does overchannel work in terms of game mechanics? Do you have to declare that you're overchannelling before you know the outcome of the spell? For example, if...

The contents seem fine. I find the conditions are what I refer to most on the current screen, so I'm glad they're on the new screen. The red dragon artwork is spectacular but not practical. If you're sitting a bit to the side of the DM, you can see what? A wing tip? Maybe the design works where...

Nope. Saw the film yesterday. Not spoiling anything by saying that the gold people aren't from the idyllic planet.

As both a D&D and LEGO enthusiast, I'd be thrilled if this submission went into production, but I don't think it will for various reasons already alluded to. The main one was mentioned by Sammael. LEGO already has a line that it considers the successor to its Castle/fantasy era lines: Nexo...

I believe that WEG's SW RPG clarified and codified a lot of the SW milieu. But I'm not sure that Lucas himself and the writers of Ep I - III took it as canon. In the RPG there was an "Alien Student of the Force". The Emperor seems to have been one hence his pride at recognising Luke's light...

Very sad to hear of the passing of Joe Dever. I had no idea he was in poor health. My first ever 'geek' T-shirt was a Lone Wolf one I bought in the mid-'80s. I still have it along with my Lone Woolf books and miniatures.

I have considerable respect for Jon Petersen and greatly admire the assiduousness of his research in Playing at the World, but I have to question a couple of his attributions in the article above. "Psionics" as we use it in D&D owes much to the concept pioneered by influential science fiction...

That's true. No, I didn't say he was motivated by sincere beliefs that he was saving people. We agree about that. I didn't say Chick wasn't immoral, just not necessarily as much as one might imagine. I wouldn't. If he genuinely hated {insert group targeted by Chick here}, that's worse than...

Jack Chick wasn't anti-D&D. When confronted some years ago by evidence showing that gaming was not in fact dangerous, he admitted that he continued to print Dark Dungeons for the publicity it generated, not because he genuinely believed that gaming posed a threat. I suspect - but don't know for...

Sage Advice has opined that Conjure Elemental works with Planar Binding: http://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/10/14/...ure-elemental/ . I reckon that if it works for elementals, it works for demons too.