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Thanks for the advice so far. Sorry if this decends into intense gamer navel-gazing. And good suggestions for charity give-aways, I kinda imagine all those soldiers on tour are out there rolling dice in a tent somewhere. It must be a bitch to get funny dice in some theaters of operation. I...

Hey folks, I have a quick question to ask: What is the most effective way of shrinking the physical size of your game collection? I gues the obvious answer is to "get rid of it". But how do you personally do it, if at all? How do you choose what goes and what should stay? Do you sell on ebay, on...

Also note that when you go to Compleat Strategist on 33rd, you can go across the street to Papaya Dog and get 2 hotdogs with mustard & kraut, and eat them in the dingy little public space across the street from the store and gaze upon the Empire State Building. It's not a great tourist...

I will totally be a shill and suggest reading my article I wrote on my group's blog a while back. All my beginner advice is in there, and maybe a couple comments that are not in other tutorials on the internet. anybody can paint minis, part:)one The Mule Abides anybody can paint minis: part...

Go to the source and ask a Broo (goatkin) yourself: Glorantha: A Personal View of Broo Culture Runequest beats out D&D and Warhammer for the first bad-ass nasty goat-men: Broo or Goatkin are creatures with the body of a man and the head of a goat, or some other animal. Broos are filthy...

I respectfully disagree mister bear. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ARE used by a wide spectrum of people. Linux IS used by people. Like I said upstream, the agreements for change would be very slow and suffer for committee politicking like everything else. Trusting in a benevolent dictator just means...

Sorry for the giant rambling post, my intentions are pure :) Point-blank I would rather have the rules of play of D&D watched over by an organization much like a governing body like other sports. I think company monetization should happen with play-organization, digital tools & social networks...

I am kinda of the opinion that Old School style play requires a rules and mechanics lite method of playing at the table. A system that involves mediation between the DM and the players that is not always set in the rules. I think the Old School primer by Matt Finch does a good job of explaining...

You are probably thinking of a desktop publishing program to format your text into a "layout". The most common software to do this is an expensive item named Adobe InDesign. There are free desktop publishing packages like Scribus, but they all take some practice. You can check around for the...

I don't know where you live but no, pre-made archival frames are not very expensive. They will say "archival" or "acid-free" on the packaging. And to be perfectly clear, it is the matte-board (thick paper board) that touch the artwork that is the acid-free, archival part of the frame. The wood...

Ah, I fully support you in the buying of original art from creators. Those sales of original artwork does much to supplement illustrators income and the somewhat marginal amount they make living as a freelancer. My friend Ryan Browning is the primary artist associated with the Adventurer...

I think the definitions of commercial interaction between the players and a business can encompass a lot of things. For example: What if in an alternate universe, RPGS were only played in "dens" or establishments or franchises that controlled the rules and all materials and experiences related...

Lingua Fracas? Well I guess one of the roots of it is that there is the possibility of myself moving away to a gaming "desert" from my current gaming paradise in NYC. So I am somewhat fixated on: A.) Possibly moving obscenely heavy stacks of books across the country and B.) Having to cope...

Exactly. Well not exactly. More like replace them with books I will have a better chance of using over a long period of time with a possibly wide variety of people. I would hope that my buying habits and value of the game would line up. And honestly the poll and thread title are up front about...

Yes, I too have re-bought back game books that I once got rid of. (Oh Car Wars, how could I be so thoughtless?) But My Shame, as I refer to my loads of game books in filing boxes, tends to crowd once in a while in my NYC apartment. And I have a hard time purchasing or reading new game books...

I think it has been my own long term experience with out-of-date rulesets that has further driven my desire for one core iteration of everyone's favorite rpg. (Moldvey Redbox weekly and OD&D monthly for almost two years straight. And we did an AD&D 1st campaign recently as well. So much fun...

I think the argument could be made that it is much easier to use older 3rd edition stuff with Pathfinder than it is to make it fit with 4E. Indeed I think that is one of the primary intents behind PF, keeping the selection of players and written material "mostly" compatible. The reason for...

Hmm, what? No, I am for reals. Who do I sound like? I earnestly have two crates of 4E books sitting in my apartment that I fret over actually ever playing. I always kept on telling myself that I would start to DM a short campaign soon, but it appears the horse that I put stock in is going...

This is always a ligit argument when a rule is changed, but the whole impetus behind my question is based on the assumption (unstated, sorry) that I may want to play and share with people outside of any immediate circle. It seems a more tame order to tell people that we will be playing PF or...

Yes I suppose I was revealing my bias against the play style who like to continually integrate product, buy material, and enjoy rule-reference one-upmanship. Are there really a lot of those types of groups around though? And I don't mean char-opt or tactical groups. I mean the buyers and...