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I just leafed through the Hawkmoon RPG by Mongoose, which uses the RQ engine. The artwork is vastly better than that of Lankhmar. Beyond that, I can't really evaluate anything else; I didn't have that much time to look at it.

One character is portrayed that way. Just one. Do all the characters have to be portrayed exactly the way you describe? No variety at all?

Two passing references that are pretty qualified ("Western European flavor, and a moderately historical basis" "Though the default cultural assumption for most D&D game worlds is medieval Europe") [emphasis mine] don't really constitute a ringing, iron-clad commandment, in my view.

Twice =/= countless

Just click the link. It was right there.

Guys like Tolkien (a philologist) and Gene Wolfe have a knack for finding and using obscure, archaic words. More often than not, if I don't recognize a word they've used and can't find it in any of the dictionaries I have access to, it'll turn out that it is, indeed, a word so old and unused...

Yeah, I saw it in several shops in both Ohio and California. I'm quite happy to still have my copy. By the way, Jolly, I've asked this before, but I'll ask it again as a nudge...but howzabout that B.A. Felton campaign guide? Plus, as I've mentioned before, I hope you guys collect a lot of the...

Out of curiosity, and not to threadcrap on the general E6 system, but what about using the NPC classes for a less power-oriented, grittier game? I don't think one would have to cap levels with them, as they gain power much more gradually, they harken back to the less complex character classes of...

While this isn't precisely in keeping with the subject of the thread, I thought it came close enough to discuss here. I'd like to see a collection of classic monsters that cleave much more closely to the real world legends and myths that inspired them than many of the versions that ended up...

I completely disagree. As I said, my experience, though anecdotal evidence, stretches across decades of time, a continent, and dozens of different gamers. If I'm experiencing this first-hand, it's not a myth (that it's a myth; my meaning was unclear as I tried to be clever). Re-read what I wrote...

I still hear people do this as much as they ever did, and I started playing in 1979. The main difference now is that in addition to such descriptions, people also talk about the nuances of their character builds, because character creation and advancement is so much more detailed than before...

I agree. I think C&C is a fine game, a good melding of d20 smoothness with older edition tropes. It could very well fit the bill for the original poster.

Someone should make a macro.

I would never even think of going back to 2e. OK, first, I think absolutes are kinda silly. Of course if I ran across someone running a 2e (or earlier edition) game, and they were cool and the game looked fun, I’d play. Being hard-nosed about playing a game, which is essentially just a way for...

I think late 2e products were often quite imaginative. Return to the Tomb of Horrors, Night Below, Tale of the Comet, A Paladin in Hell, Axe of the Dwarvish Lords...these and quite a few other products had some great ideas. While I could see C&C being used to adapt them to a d20/OGL baseline, I...

I kept using "Thieves World" up there when I meant "Thieves Guild." Sorry for the confusion. I have both. Another thing I remember being kinda different about Thieves Guild as compared to baseline D&D of the time was that in Thieves Guild, there were more racial options. I specifically...

The Thieves World stuff was, as has been said, basically a D&D knock-off. That doesn't mean it was bad stuff, by any means. What was interesting about it was that it focused pretty closely on thieves, as you might have guessed. At the time I first got Thieves World and Haven in the early 80s, I...

I read your whole post. I basically reiterated what you said since you seemed to be answering your own question. You were comparing this EN Publishing effort with a Goodkind novel. Regardless of your explanation of being willing to buy it to support EN World, you still seemed to be making the...

Yeah, and that Goodkind novel would be a mass-market paperback, printed in the thousands. This book is more of a specialty or boutique item. Big difference in cost to print, so a big difference in price.

I really think the slavery thing may have been from one of the non-Howard pastiches. But I admit I could be wrong. Where's Vincent Darlage when you need him?