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I did this. A buddy of mine (Matt of the White Box) had asked me if I knew what Dungeons & Dragons was. "Yes," I replied smugly, "It's a game. Americans play it." "Ha!" he replied even more smugly. "Well that's where you're wrong - I'm not American and I play it." Bested by his superior...

The entire world and everything in it (including the PCs) is the dream of a dying god. Life is just a dream on the way to death and you are the figment of someone else's expiring imagination.

They got a posse together in my town and burned all the copies that they could lay their hands on, along with a really bad effigy of Gary Gygax. Those were ugly days, man. Ugly days.

Love spelljammer to bits - it has been a part of all of my games since its release and I have incorporated it into my current homebrew. Some nations have spelljammer technology and use this to dominate the airspace (coming into conflict with a dragon empire in doing so), operating within the...

I played in this under 2e rules back in 1989 or thereabouts. I was using my Paladin Ramiel (one and only instance of an 18/00 in all my years of gaming) and the game was set in the Forgotten Realms so I chose Torm (god of duty) as that struck me as a particularly obnoxious religion and, hey...

My default setting is that I roll everything, with the choice that players can roll whatever they like, if they choose. I try to create a statless environment for the players (they don't roll dice, don't know their own stats, or even their levels usually) and most players prefer to let me take...

Izandor is the light of heaven itself and falls to earth when God falls into madness. God is unable to reconcile the thoughtless acts of his most favoured children (humans) with the divinity he used to create them. He cannot understand how he could have created something so vile and forgets...

Somewhere to poo. I know it has been mentioned, but my uberfighter forgot about these when he built his Fortess To End All Fortresses. My sis was DMing and, oh how she laughed and laughed. And laughed. So also don't forget a bath-house of some kind unless you want to live in Stinkybum Keep...

The Known World map did indeed appear in X1 - it has the maps to the pirate lair and the general cave maps on the back (maps E2, E3 and E4 for the pedantically challenged).

City by the Silt Sea - yeah, that has two or three sunken cities in it, plus an adventure - all detailed in a decent boxed set. Anything that has a 40+ level undead dragon in it as the BBEG gets my vote.

D&D acid house. Awesome. :) A buddy and player in my group bought this and its sequel and worked them together into a single adventure. We then devised a set-up whereby I would TPK the group and have them wake up in the shaft tumbling into Dungeonland, which my buddy would then run...

I played in this under 1e long before I ever ran it as a DM. The module had just been released and my DM had played in it himself and suffered a TPK at the hands of Strahd. So, naturally, he wanted to try it out on me. It hurt. We were completely duped by the false reflection of Strahd and...

I played in this one back in 1e - we went in there with our Evil Party to go get us some bitchin' weapons and stuff. Tim, a player in my regular homebrew was DM - it was his first time out as DM and he had just bought the module. None of us knew it and so we were all keen to encourage him and...

Ah yes, but let us not forget that these are abstract systems meant to represent numinous qualities in the form of polyhedral dice rolls. A "hit" in combat is best seen as the most successful strike from a number of minor feints, thrusts and ripostes. In the same fashion, wasp encounters are...

It's OGL - check out the Pocket Players Handbook from Mongoose - that has the 3.5 xp chart in it. I figure it's best to go with one chart (3.5 makes sense as there are more classes that use that) and then just keep the AU characters balanced by having the monsters pick on them, killing their...

When multiclassing between 3.5 and AU classes, what would be the best way to handle the differing XP tables for the two systems? AU characters require a little more XP to advance than 3.5 characters, after all. Say you have a level 4 Rogue with 5000 XP who wants to multiclass into Mage Blade...

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Actually, the special adhesive was invented in 1968, although an application for it was not found until 1974, when legendary pastor-DM Art Fry used it to make bookmarks for a hymnal. 1974! Coincidence? I think not!! And have you ever seen Gygax and Fry in the same place at the same time...

Like a lot of other folks, I got this as part of the old Expert set. Its campaign map was immediately incorporated into my homebrew - elements of it still persist to this day. The first time I ran it was as part of a treasure hunt. McGuffin Artifacts #1 and #2 were these Blades of Power that...

Covers? Covers?? Luxury! As a veteran gamer with three hundred years' gaming experience I can only laugh at this munchkinist faddery. Back in the day when we played the Post-It edition of D&D we didn't have covers (the legendary precursor to both Chainmail and the Fantasy Game, PID&D...