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Arcanum, Torment, BG, and now this week GOG's got ToEE! These guys are killing me; I don't have time for this! I never played ToEE when it came out, 'cause of its buggy reports, but I'm hoping that the GOG edition will be patched up.

On the upper levels, there will be gangs of salvagers working to try to strip the wrecks of anything valuable -- including possibly wood, depending on the needs of the neighboring kingdoms. Tides wash through the graveyard on a regular basis, flooding certain areas then draining them and likely...

I started gaming as a board wargamer (Avalon Hill, SPI). When Metagaming's MicroGames showed up in a local shop, I bought 'em all -- including Melee and Wizard. This was my intro to RPGs. D&D came later.

I'd like to do this again. I was in college and running an active 1e campaign when Autumn came out. I loved it! I wonder how it would hold up for me now.

I'll second the vote for Alternity. I adore this system. Reading it, you scratch your head over the mechanics and terminology that seems confusing and counter to a lot of RPG standards. Plus most of the interior art in the core books sucks. But it's an elegant thing in play.

I'm certainly planning to make it, though I never know what's likely to happen to my schedule between now and then.

In a box somewhere, I have most of the issues of Adventure Gaming, Tim Kask's excellent but short-lived magazine from the early '80s. I don't recall how much there was in the way of D&D reviews in those, but as I find the time in the next couple weeks, I'll dig 'em out and look.

I hope this turns out successful and you get to run it again next year. I can't make it this time, but I'd love an excuse to run Original Top Secret, Alternity, and Runequest II next year.

I was captivated by the detail in Arms Law and Spell Law when they first came out, but short of attempting to integrate the mechanics into an otherwise AD&D game, I never played the system or bought anything else of it. I was thinking about buying some Rolemaster stuff a few years back on ebay...

I've been thinking about grabbing this one as a generic space opera system. What didn't you like about it?

You need to go to the ConsimWorld Expo's Monster Game Con. It's a convention of board wargame junkies, and one of the features is playing these massive old SPI games. Terrible Swift Sword is the longest I've ever played. Carl

I have always shared this belief. Coca-Cola used cane sugar. Coke Classic uses high fructose corn syrup.

Blue Planet An sci-fi rpg set on a waterworld that's been colonized by humanity. It was written by a marine biologist and the setting was very internally consistent and an interesting read. But I could just never figure out what to do with it in terms of adventure design.

As other posts have indicated, playing old D&D does not make you a grognard. Playing stuff like this will make you a grognard: As to your question: I've got lots of out of print rpgs I still love and play regularly.

I still own both these games on disk, but I'll be grabbing them from gog just for the convenience of it. While I'm certain Icewind Dale and BGII will be in the upcoming gog lineup, I'll really hoping for a cleaned up copy of ToEE, which I never played.

Don’t script your ship combat. There are plenty of good rules systems and ways to adjudicate combat without everybody either waiting around or turning it into a wargame. For starters, I recommend crafting moveable maps of the decks, so that the players can move around the ship, but the whole...

I've been debating over investing some tiles. I love the breadth of options in all the available pdf tiles, and on the surface the prices seem great. But then I think about the cost of printer ink, mounting boards, mounting spray and time spent making 'em, and I wonder if I'm really just better...

Something has bonded with the gray render. (Perhaps a member of a flock/herd/school of creatures that another render had once bonded to). The parts being found on the road are prizes like a cat bringing mice to its master. The key to making this more than a nuisance is to posit an intelligent...

I second this. The old "campaign-starting-in -the-tavern" trope takes on a new twist when the PCs are the inn-keeps. What will happen when word gets around that they are the new owners?

NPCs The drunk/nut who used to be somebody, and still knows a LOT. But the players have to learn to believe in him to get the value of it. I love the Walter Bishop character on Fringe.