Search results

After 20+ years in the hobby, I have finally gotten my foot in the door of the RPG industry, and my first job is a doozy. Troll Lord Games has hired me as a freelance editor, and I'm working on the "Castle Zagyg" supplement, authored by the one, the only, Gary Gygax. It's just an amazing...

I may move to Wisconsin.

This puts me in the mind of a grinder that is, currently, searching for meat.

Well, it is one way to get ahead.

These days kids'll make a bong out of anything. Back in my day we used two-liter soda bottles.

Archaic usage galore. Huge amounts of useful detail in only two or three sentences. A city so well described I didn't need the map to know what he's getting at. Quite fun, actually. It's like reading the 1st ed. DMG.

Thanks, Man!

Yes, I buy them and paint them. But I also buy pre-painted when they're worth it to me.

Oh, not much. Just editing "Yggsburgh" by Gary Gygax. (That's right. I'm freelancing for Troll Lord Games. 20 years in the hobby and finally--! A job in the industry!)

Any game using dice ought to have some randomness. I let my players re-roll ones (ad infinitum).

Okay. Can anyone tell me why they sent one helicopter and two guys to retrieve the FOOTBALL?!? I kept waiting for the Special Ops guys to come pouring out of the other two copters, seal off the exits, swarm in and blast Marwan's goons to bits. No excuse, except that the innocent bystanders...

I own the em-4 modern minis, but I wouldn't recommend them...unless you're good with modeling putty, and don't mind putting in the work to make them look good. Yes, they are pre-painted, but unlike the Dunwich detectives, the modern minis need to be mounted on their slotta-bases, and no, they...

Is the D20 Modern book Critical Locations, scheduled for release later this year, going to be part of this line?

Recently, in fact. In my D20 game (see link in sig), the PCs have a TARDIS. They arrive at a secret Antarctic research base to rescue one of their own, only to find the base utterly destroyed. No bodies remain. Evidence points to an assault by lots of badass things--all the bullet holes in the...

Just so you know, the above qualifies as "backtalk." ;)

Kind of a tangent, but statements like these strike me as so disingenuous. Yet I see them all the time. As a thought-experiment for the DM, the ongoing milieu that persists with or without players is interesting. But the most important facet of the game, the thing without which there would be...

In my game there are three classes of offense punishable by TXL (Total XP Loss): backtalk refusal to buy alcohol for the group refusal to pay for the GM's share of the pizza In addition, complaining that the GM is constantly throwing excess d20s at you is punishable by PXL (Partial XP Loss...

Looks like we cross-posted, John. And you're completely right. :)

Romantic vs. non-romantic wasn't really the point of my post. You see people complaining all the time about "one-trick pony" players who always play the same character in a slightly different guise. Why is it any different for two players to always be related, but in a slightly different...

As far as how you handle gender issues in game, that's really up to you. Just struck me is all. Nope, not at all. I don't think people should censor themselves. I'm just trying to offer an alternate viewpoint. But isn't the statement "it was very clear that my wife's comment was not directed...