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Encyclopedia Magica is a fantastic product. It remains very browsable, even by non-gamers. It's still fun to drag out a volume of it and just read.

I'd swear I saw dao referred to in real-world mythology, too, but I can't for the life of me remember where I read about them outside of D&D. I have to agree that I also missed the missing genies, including the jann. For that matter, there are tons of Al-Qadim creatures I like a lot and would...

I'm in no urgent need for critters, but I like having a selection of monsters to choose from. I'm digging this request thread quite a bit. The butterflies above got me to thinking about something that fascinates me - prehistoric creatures. I'm a big fan of dinosaurs and prehistoric critters. I...

Nice! More monsters than I expected.

I haven't seen it in person, but I did see the guys on the Totally Rad Show open a box they got for review. It has player and DM info in it; it's meant to start off a whole group and take them to 2nd or 3rd level (I forget which), as the Holmes edition (the one I started with) did. I can't say...

No, they didn't. The elves that stayed in Aman were the Vanyar. The Vanyar were the elves who traveled to Aman right away, with no hesitation, and were descended from the first elf to awaken. They also were the smallest in number, but the greatest in power. They stayed closer to the Valar and...

I think it might have helped to mention WG7. Then it would have clicked a bit better. I go back far enough that just saying Castle Greyhawk doesn't automatically bring to mind the module you referenced (I have it, but long ago dismissed it as irrelevant), and more recent gamers would only recall...

Tell that to my players who had a TPK in their first encounter. All of us had played D&D for around 30 years. I'll take the blame as DM; I thought the much-vaunted hyperpowered 4e PCs could handle a half-dozen giant frogs... :/

As a DM, I've always loved having both "stock" NPCs (such as those found under the "human" entry in the Monster Manuals) and legendary heroes and villains ready-to-use. I know the DDI has these, but I was wondering if there are any fan-made efforts out there? Feel free to post links to them...

I had to delurk just to post "rock on!" I played back in "thenadays," and the original post seems like pure old school fun to me, the kind of stuff that made me fall in love with D&D way back then.

If I gave up on an edition of D&D everytime the players did something stupid, I would not have played D&D after 1979. EDIT: And to answer the question posed in the rep: Yep, 1979 was the first year I played.

A true giant has passed. Few, if any, artists so defined a genre as Frazetta defined swords & sorcery.

The original post is dead-on accurate, and many of the subsequent posts have added a lot. There are two things I haven't seen specifically mentioned. 1. Don't badger customers to buy something. There is a difference between asking someone what they're looking for, showing them you have...

See, that was the stuff I liked about it. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for in Baba Yaga's hut, and I liked Moore's version quite a bit also, but I dig wild & woolly stuff like that. Plus, I've always liked the idea of wizards having libraries filled with books from across time and space.

As I mentioned to Allan elsewhere, the Holmes edition of D&D was my intro the game, and to RPGs in general. It helped shape my views of what gaming was, and everytime someone speaks of old school gaming, my mind immediately leaps back to the Holmes edition of D&D. The look and feel was all at...

I made my above post before I got to yours. I'm glad someone else has noticed how good The Shattered Circle is.

The ones you name are good candidates, and I'd add A Paladin in Hell, Axe of the Dwarvish Lords and Return to the Tomb of Horrors to the list. I think they all came so late in 2e's run that they could never get the traction to be viewed as classics; the advent of 3e overshadowed them. A...

That's a take that predates D&D. It's the take that a lot of mythologies take - the gods run around in the world, but happen to be much tougher and possessed of greater powers than ordinary people. They seem a lot like high-level D&D PCs. They don't usually directly interfere because other...

Regarding point #2, about the podcasts, and I'm sure it's the Penny Arcade/PvP podcasts that are being pointed out, I have to say I disagree. Those podcasts are, as others have mentioned, specifically labeled as having coarse language. In addition, as others have mentioned, some of the players...

I really like this super-adventure. I think it'd benefit from conversion to a more recent edition in order to give the encounters more variety. As others have noted, the place is swarming with goblins. Thematically, I like it a lot - the traditional arch-enemies of dwarves giving them a run for...