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Wow, thanks for the suggestions! I'd been having a bit of "DM's block," and this is really helping. Any other thoughts would also be appreciated.

I think 4e would make a great base for a Middle-earth game. It would have to be modified to give it a Tolkienesque "feel," but the basic system is a good fit. 4e's elves and eladrin model Tolkien's elves really well, much more than they did in previous editions. I'd tweak them a bit, possibly...

That's an interesting suggestion. I think tossing a horde of minion zombies at them would be a good way to get the ball rolling. Maybe a simple "track down the necromancer" type of adventure would be in order?

I've been trying to bring together as much of my gaming group from the 80s and 90s as I can. Two of them have expressed definite interest, and one of them has a 1o or 11 year old son that would like to play, also. I was always the default DM, so they told me to try to get something together and...

I'm inclined to believe you. Can you divulge any future such releases? I'm very interested in collections of "utility" monsters like the ones in these supplements.

These are the kinds of supplements I find most useful. My guess is that this was being worked on and finished before Adventurer's Vault, since the rhinoceros and triceratops both appear in that book (EDIT: as do giant lizards, and elephants (not sure about the latter; my book isn't handy)). It...

Unearthed Arcana was a PHB2 (and DMG2, as well) for 1e in everything but name. Gygax, despite misgivings about it that he discussed on these boards and elsewhere, touted it (in his Sorcerer's Scroll column in Dragon magazine) as the official rules expansion (and clarification, in some cases) for...

No, he really didn't, Sett. If he did, then you certainly are doing the same thing here.

That's an interesting suggestion (though I'm sure you'd agree it doesn't necessarily remedy whatever motivated cheating). It's too bad the Amber Diceless RPG (whic I get the feeling you might have had in mind) isn't currently in print, or I'd suggest it as the perfect type of game for the player...

OK, let me ask this: what if someone in your group was cheating, perhaps blatantly so? What if I sat at your table and no matter what was rolled on a d20, obviously and out in the open, I called it a 20 (or simply any number that meant success)? No doubts, no equivocation, just flat-out...

When I get treated like that, yeah, I leave, and usually make it clear I didn't appreciate such rudeness. I'm not a doormat for somebody just because I want to buy something from them. I don't often get such treatment, though, because most salespeople I've run across have been pleasant. I can't...

Weird. I just moved back to the Cleveland area after living in San Diego for the past almost-five-years.

Where the heck are you? I started a Yahoo Group (see my sig) because I'm trying to either find or build a community of SF&F fans (and genre fans in general, really). I know you're out there; let's band together so we can share our obsessions with those who are similarly obsessed!

I appreciate the offer, and I may very well take you up on it. Currently, though, I'm trying to re-assemble at least part of the group I gamed with years ago. It's a little tough tracking some of them down. I'll let you know. I'll understand if the slot closes up because you find another player.

I've just moved back into the area after being away for five years. I'd kind of hoped, when I saw your location, that it would be a game in Elyria (I'm in North Ridgeville). I'm still settling in, so I can't commit to driving out to the east side until I get everything straightened out, but I'm...

This hits hard. What awful news. I'm saddened I never got to meet him in person. I did, however, get to converse with him here on these very message boards (and even managed to flame him before I was tipped as to who "Col_Pladoh" really was...hoo boy was my face red) and a few other internet...

It's absolutely scifi. Again, it's a genre of ideas, and the classic paradox idea of scifi, along with the notion of alternate parallel universes created by such paradoxes (and not the dystopia of the later films; the universe Marty leaves and the one he returns to in the first film may very...

Exactly. Scifi is a genre of ideas, pure and simple, not just spaceships and aliens.

I read and re-read it, and I didn't see anything self-aggrandizing in it at all. It sounded like something a real businessperson, with an actual grasp of business principles, would write. Love 'em or hate 'em (and Mongoose has produced a lot of material I love and I hate), Mongoose's business...

Frazetta is pretty much the ne plus ultra of fantasy artists. I'd suggest looking at more than one single online gallery so as to have an informed opinion, as the examples posted by others have obviated your objections. Perhaps browse the http://frazettaartgallery.com/ff/index.html or view the...