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Virgil Finlay...ah, that shows good taste. Any opinion on Kelly Freas? I recall that you were reading the recent collections of Robert Howard's "Conan" stories; how have you liked the illos in those? The similar collections of Howard's "Kull," "Solomon Kane," and "Bran Mak Morn" have also been...

I thought I remembered reading something about animals from the past being literally brought to the future. Genetic engineering makes sense, and I don't dispute it, but given that time travel does actually figure into the story as a whole, that also seems a possibility.

I don't really have a problem with that. I don't see any reason why items like a wand of fireballs should scale. But neither would I object if they did.

I think he's just joking and saying someone somehow stole or tricked him out of the time that passed by. The definition, from dictionary.com: she·nan·i·gan n. Informal 1. 1. A deceitful trick; an underhanded act. 2. Remarks intended to deceive; deceit. Often used in the...

Depends on how you look at it. I'd love to use it, but haven't had a game since well before it was released. At first, I was put off by the penalties associated with most of the items, especially the penalties to saves and BAB. But the more I look at them, the more it seems that the penalties...

Yeah, I really, really love that book. But then, I loved all that kinda stuff in the 1e DMG.

The Book of the New Sun is set in a very far future which bears some resemblance to Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" in that the Sun is getting dim. The strange and prehistoric creatures were evidently brought from the past by time travelers.

I'll second this praise for Game Empire. It's pretty much the best game shop I've been to, and I've been to quite a few over the years. The two most impressive things about it: the game room with quite a few tables for both minis and RPGs, and the fact that they are open late, especially Fridays...

The problem is knowing what "cheese" is. What you think is cheese may not seem so to me, and vice versa. Personally, my own definition of cheese is a setting that severely limits magic when using D&D in order to be more "realistic." In my opinion, in a game which is pretty much based upon magic...

Giants in the Earth was perhaps my favorite regular feature of Dragon back in the day. While the DMG's "recommended reading" list gave me a good start on the best fantasy fiction out there, GITE helped add to that list. Plus it was always fun to see stats for characters I'd enjoyed reading about...

Good, good. Wolfe has a proficiency with the English language that reminds me very much of Dunsany. I'd say Wolfe's style is more difficult; densely worded, yet ultimately rewarding. He breathes new life into old words, the kind you'd enjoy seeing in use again, the kind that don't appear in...

Personally, I'd compare him to Jack Vance and Lord Dunsany. Those are the only two that immediately leap to mind. Ursula LeGuin...I don't see the resemblance.

Gary, I know you said you don't have much use for fantasy fiction of the most recent couple of decades, but what about Gene Wolfe? His "Book of the New Sun" and "Wizard Knight" books, among others, are as good as anything I've ever read in the genre, bar none. If you haven't done so, I'd highly...

Oh, come on. How about making a more fair comparison; replace the "Showing up at the game with a copy of the magazine in your hand, everyone leaning 'round to have a look" after someone asks "hey, didja see issue 72?" with "Umm, yeah, y'see, I dumped a bowl of Cocoa Puffs on it, and now the...

Now your points hit much closer to home with me. This is the very reason I've been thinking lately about finding a new hobby - a paucity of gamers my own age with the time to game. I've been drifting more towards computer games like Nexus: the Jupiter Incident simply because it's easier to...

The only place I see this divisiveness is online. In real life, the gamers I've met have been, to a person, nice, reasonable, and willing to be flexible. Pay less attention to message board flame wars would be my advice. I'm 41, been playing since 1979, and I'm not sure there's anything wrong...

Hey, thanks! You're on my list. I've met Teflon Billy, and it'd be cool to meet up with him again. Others I'd like to meet are: Eric Noah, Cyberzombie, Piratecat, Col_Pladoh, mearls, Erik Mona, Orcus, MerricB, grodog, Buttercup, Squirrel Nutkin, Margo Schreck, and Crypt King. A few are blasts...

d20: Medieval Players Manual, Black Company, Testament, Northern Crown. If i had to pick one...I'd say Testament. OGL: Iron Heroes, Conan. If I had to pick one - Conan, no question.

I'm willing to wait and see. The potential is interesting, but WotC needs to get on the ball and actually tell us something substantive concerning what it's all about.

Will the updates of classic modules to the current edition of D&D continue? Will they be part of this digital initiative?