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I know what you mean. I recall you said you found grodog to be younger than you expected, and I found that to be true also. The guy is about 4 years younger than me, and here I was expecting someone maybe a decade older! Anyway, yeah, I'm a mountain of a man, and I was sleep-deprived, and I was...

Yes. It can be listened to on your computer. The interview was interesting, but there was a lack of follow-up questions in many cases. Too often Pramas, the interviewee, had to come to an awkward and uncomfortable halt as his answer ended and there was silence on the other end. Plus, the whole...

Jolly, since "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" characters have become stat-less (in large part), I was wondering a couple things. First, would you guys consider making a collection of the HackMaster statted characters available, along the lines of the magic items I was asking about above...

Wow. I can't imagine HackMaster without the Fraims. They've defined the look of HM, in my strong opinion. It would take a lot of the life out of the game books.

Pretty much everything you mention is essentially the same as 1e/2e. The stuff introduced with HM - honor, the crit charts, penetration damage, etc. - can be ignored, if you don't wanna fuss with it. You could use the classes, races, and stuff like the hit point kicker for HM "flavor."

(insert Fred Flintstone-style ratza-fratza grumbling here) It doesn't pay to be such a fan that one already has bought all the HackMaster products!

Just to clarify, I'm not calling for the rant to be cut. I know people like it. I was just saying that I, personally, don't have any use for it. But I'm not narcissistic enough to think a magazine has to tailor itself to my taste on every page. That's why I like KoDT - it covers a broad...

My guess is that it's popular because there really isn't anything else like it. If and when a truly good, professional-caliber writer starts doing a gamer-focused movie column, you'll see a waning of interest in the rant, unless it rises to the challenge. Which could happen, since competition...

Oh, it absolutely is. The original isn't bad, but Little Keep is just plain better.

I can't imagine anything to do with a game ever making me angry.

Y'know, this type of sniping is inappropriate for this forum - it skirts along the edge of a political debate. Circus Maximus, for example, would be much more conducive to a discussion which wouldn't involve warnings or bannings.

Leave out the humor, and it's not HackMaster. It would be pointless to make a HackMaster module without the humor; it'd be just a module for AD&D. If that's what you want, fine, but don't rely on HackMaster to provide AD&D modules. If it gets to that point, then I'd have no interest in...

It also came with the Iron Heroes battle box.

That's a good assessment. Movies are first and foremost about entertainment. If they entertain, then even if they're bad, they're good. That's what that columnist seems to forget, and he keeps going on and on like he wants to somehow show us all the light regarding how bad the movies we love...

Well, I'll concede you that point. The way I figure it, though, is that if one is going to adopt such a style, one had better have the chops to withstand such comparisons. The "Gamer's Rant" suffers badly in comparison to MST3K. Very badly. Even many of the amateur reviews in Shock Cinema show...

I just don't find his writing to be even close to the same league as MST3K. His analogies and references are pedestrian and fall flat more often than not. If they want that style of review, maybe they should see what Seanbaby is doing (and I find Seanbaby very funny).

I'd like to see adventures from old issues of Dragon and Dungeon converted over to the current edition of D&D, or, in the case of those old Top Secret (and maybe even one for Traveller that i remember) adventures, to d20 Modern/Future. I'd like to see plenty of NPC stat blocks, from the...

Chesley Bonestell is one of the true greats of space art. I've loved his stuff since I was a kid. I discovered that another of my heroes, Carl Sagan, was also a Bonestell fan and collector, which made me an even bigger fan of Sagan, oddly enough.

I love KoDT, mostly for the comics. I buy it every month at a local shop. I like the HackMaster material, especially items or monsters the Knights have run across in the comics. They have one (pdf) collection out of this stuff, specifically monsters, and I'd love to see a collection of magic...

Personally, I want the game to be very much like what the characters play in KoDT. The current version comes pretty close. Remove the humor, and the game has no point except as a retread of AD&D. And if that's what you want, there are other versions out there, from the original to OSRIC.