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I don't recall the exact name but I'll drop my friend an email and see if he remembers. I too am originally from Brooklyn, the Kensington Area near Prospect Park (End of Ocean Parkway). I live in Manhattan now and have for the last 20 years or so. Your quite right about cross cultural...

In one of my earliest campaigns my players encountered a Lurker Above and then later on a few adventures later a Trapper. Not knowing what the latter was called they identified it a Lurker Below. They still call it that to this day. :p AD

An old friend of mine from junior high school and a professional comic book artist and inker is originally from Burma and identified the Dragonne image right away as a creature from the folklore of Burma/Indochina and similar to the Shi Shi/Foo lions. He said there was once a winged Shi Shi Lion...

I completely agree. I think in D&D we tend to imagine a human-centric world because 1) we assume Humans outnumber or out-adapt most other species and 2) D&D is based on folklore, myth and other human centered literary fiction. In sci-fi its a little trickier. Nothing bugged the geek in me more...

I wasn't advocating it so much as asking if anyone used that thinking in their respective universes. I was actually pointing it out because some have put forth just such of view in regards to Humans beating down on Elves or other non-humans. I love this explaination of why there are different...

Various threads over the last few months on Elves, Dwarves and the other staple denizens of medieval fantasy RPGs had me thinking about how my own campaign(s) may drastically differ from those of most other GMs (so what else is new?). In the vast majority of my games, regardless of system or...

Bugbear was a general term for a goblin or bogie in various parts of England. At one point it was used to describe big, hairy goblins not unlike the germanic Trolls. This one is very curious. While it definitely has SF roots, Asian mythology, specifically Chinese and Japanese, does depict a...

I have not used, don't use and probably will never use the cosmology depicted in 'official' material. I have used similar designs in some campaigns but most of the time the other planes are handled either more mythically or more akin to the infinite earths of DC comic books. In one of my...

QFT While I would love to see great art in the next D&D books, I'm very likely going to depict things the ways I always have. I'll collect drawings and illustrations from any source I enjoy and then my players and I will crank out a mess ourselves. I have not been a big fan of the artwork for...

Thanks so much gang. Yes, he's a kitten, about 5 months old right now. I've had a few cats in my life but never one as problematic as this guy. I'll see if I can combine a few techniques to at least get him to settle down a little with the biting and scratching. I miss my first cat who we...

I was wondering if anyone out there can help me out...I love dogs and know a great deal about them and how to train them but cats...not so much. My new cat is a terror. He has small intervals, roughly 3 minutes or less in length, where he's cute and cuddly and the rest of the time he is...

These days my average is a year, though I've gone much longer in the past and as little as 3-5 session lately :( . My longest was a 1e/Homebrew D&D campaign that lasted 4 years. AD

Not just Heroes...SUPERHEROES! The PCs in my homebrew are not just Heroes, they're Superheroes, far beyond the ways of mortal men (and women, and elves, and elven women, and dwarves...you get the idea). For example, in my world/universe, about 10% of the population is gifted with magical powers...

I don't think this website has enough bandwidth for me to list all of the non-D20 games I've played, do play or will play ;) But seriously, D&D play has decreased more and more with my group(s) over the years to the point where now (within the last year or two) we've only actually played D&D...

I'm a very visual person so the 'look' of my game changes dramatically from campaign to campaign. My mainstay DnD campaign was very superheroic, with over-the-top combat, flashy armor and weapon designs and magic that is brighter and more colorful the more powerful it is (Magic Missile starts...

Indeed, I too am beaten to the Loc-Nar! :eek: Actually my first thought was of an NPC in one of my old D&D campaigns who found a similar glowing, talking gem that fused to his hand. The end result was a medieval parody of Lensman or Green Lantern. Not long after I ran a slightly modified...

It's all a question of creative spell use and interpertation. In the right hands almost any spell can be a deadly weapon. Off the top of my head... Two guys fighting on the deck of a ship. Cast passwall under your opponent's feet. Cast shield and convince an orc to take a light pot-shot at...

My main campaign world utilizes a vast array of spells for construction and maintenance with the majority being handled by Dwarves. Spells used in this manner include but are by no means limited to: Heat metal, Mend, Rock to Mud (and the reverse), Stone Shape, Wall of Stone and similarly related...

I use an unusual subtext with some of the Elven cultures in one of my campaigns. Elves are often depicted as quite promiscuous but at the same time a very long lived species with few children born to their people. IMCU this is because many Elves are 'joined' or 'linked' to some other Elf in a...

Two words...Ars Magica. That is all. That is...the way. AD