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It's very much an AD&D-ism. With 1e, alignment was pretty much a cosmic template for the assumed default setting. That said, Gary needed something to populate the chaotic, neutral, and lawful planes of evil. Demonic monsters have always existed in folklore, so he split them up in as logical way...

First you must calculate falling damage for the force of you hitting the lava, which is based on the sum total mass of your character and whatever it is carrying multiplied by the gravitational acceleration of your game's planet (taking minute adjustments into account for gravity's weakening as...

Well, to a lesser extent at least. Basically, you cannot use the lore behind illithids. Their physical design is blatantly derived from Cthulhu and his spawn, which is in public domain now. Their lore is an original work though. Heck, if I wanted to make a mindflayer race for my own ogl game, I...

Low charisma doesn't automatically imply ugliness, or even a lack of being likable. It implies a lack of personality. That handsome guy in class with a vapid expression and the personality of a rock? Low charisma. That really nice teacher everyone likes but is really soft-spoken and kind of a...

Temba, his arms wide!

I'm no lawyer, but I don't think you need the OGL for this. Common sense application of fair use principles (or your country's equivalent) and proper APA or MLA citations should suffice. If you want to cover your hide and use the OGL anyway, have a section to your blog where you post the OGL...

Hasbro selling off one of their IP's? I laughed heartily. That's the only thing Hasbro execs care about with respect to D&D. WotC is a blip on their financial radar, but Hasbro would rather sit on the IP for ten to twenty years and reboot it than to ever sell it off. They will probably license...

I see it as a good thing. Atari is allowed to finish on current projects as a consolation, but once those games are done the license can go to a higher-quality publisher. I felt the vanilla NWN games were rushed and of poor quality due to Atari's meddling. It was the expansions that made those...

I vote yes. Famously, Record of Lodoss War started as a Replay (a recorded game transcript) of a D&D game in 1986. It was published in the japanese magazine Comptiq. Replays do have their niche market even today. Not quite novels, they are simply transcripts of what went on in the game that...

I have a friend that swears by Area 51 in Grapevine. I might have to check out Mothership sometime.