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Here's how one might go about giving D&D mass appeal: About four years ago, I watched Yu-Gi-Oh devour the attention of the middle school, and then, through the process I call the juvenilization of cool, it trickled down to their little sibs in elementary school and devoured us all. (I'm a...

Sure. There's Afghanistan d20 and Somalia d20. How's that for real? When I was a mere stripling of a grognard (is that even possible?), a man by the name of Peter Rice published a game called Follow Me!. It was half way between an RPG and a tabletop minis game. Each player controlled no more...

I've passed on my notes to Gareth at Adamant; he's going to write it and AFAIK release it before the end of the year.

A fair question: in the language of the moment, what's the core story? Well, the free adventure Caves of Chisca is a dungeon crawl I wrote to assure new players that NC doesn't necessarily require them to give up some of the comforting adventure formats found in other d20 fantasy games, but can...

Yes, Northern Crown has rules for firearms and artillery from about 1600-1700. They include accurate reload times, rules for misfire, gun-related feats like Take Aim, Both Barrels, and Hair Trigger, and cinematic gun tricks like shooting the ram rod, double-shotting, and improvised small shot...

The round-the-world voyage of the Lorelei comes to mind. The PCs raced a Français pirate to the discovery of the Northwest Passage, and found that the crucial strait was controlled by the descendents of the Welsh prince Madoc, who had preserved some pretty powerful magics from the previous age...

I'm on board if anyone wants to ask me about Northern Crown. Sorry to join the thread late; I just spotted it. The original campaign was called Septentrionalis, by the way. It was available on the web as a free PDF about five years ago. As for the fencing rules, they are pretty much the same as...

I think their good gaming habits are an extension of their general academic and civic rigor. Things were pretty smooth right from the start. They certainly do play outside school -- one of them just announced that they have started a Northern Crown campaign. The two groups like to do PC vs. PC...

Janet Aulisio. She did great stuff for Space:1889, Shadowrun, Earthdawn, and Cyberpunk, among others, but seems to be MIA lately. Janet, come back! As far as folks who have done little or no RPG illustration, I'd have to include Charles Vess, Alan Lee, Enki Bilal, and Jean Giraud (Mobius).

Let's take the guesswork out of it, shall we? There's a simple formula for this stuff. Multiply the square root of your eye height (in feet) by 1.17. The result is the distance to the horizon in nautical miles. So if you're about 6 feet tall, the horizon is about 2.9 nautical miles away. The top...

I think it depends on who your players are. If they like the kill-things-take-stuff style of play, they might not want to play in your Jane Austen-Regency England campaign, but they might really like being Viking raiders. I think whether a campaign is historical or fantasy is secondary to the...

Yeah, great band; Under the Big Black Sun is a good disc, too. OK, how about Dead Kennedys, if we're going to talk about LA punk?

I'm assuming you mean old-school UK punk, rather than any LA hardcore punk from the early 80s or more recent "punk-lite" bands like Green Day, Rancid, and Offspring. My contribution: Buzzcocks The Clash The Damned pre-synthesizer Gary Numan (with Tubeway Army) Killing Joke, especially the first...

Sometimes, it's just three or four rounds of combat, but you'd be surprised how much you can get done. We try to do all the housekeeping stuff, like levelling up, outside of game time, usually during lunch/recess -- that saves time. Out-of-game chatter is verboten. The players are incredibly...

Charter school (for those of you who don't know what that is, it's an independently administered public school that receives a charter from the state government to operate, subject to periodic review).

Wargaming ---> D&D

Northern Crown: New World Adventures (Atlas Games) Northern Crown: The Gazetteer (Atlas) Northern Crown: The Caves of Chisca (Adamant Entertainment)

Whew, that's a lot of questions. Here goes: We play D&D 3.5e, but we'd be open to playing other games -- a couple of them want to play Northern Crown this year, for some reason (heh). We have a core group of about 6-8 students who play after school, and another 10 or so who play during a...

Art teacher at an inner city middle school-high school. Starting my sixth year there -- I love it. Officially report back on the 29th, but I have two meetings/roundtables already scheduled for this week. Students start a week later. Looking forward to revving up the school RPG club again. We...

I have a special request: I wasn't able to go to GenCon this year because I'm Mr. Mom to a six-month old this summer, but I'd really appreciate it if someone could post a pic of the Atlas Games booth, especially anything Northern Crown-related. Thanks in advance for the vicarious thrill.