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*shrug* That's what the DM said happened. I wasn't there.

Charged in and slaughtered them all. Still not sure how we got away with it. Of course, we were very drunk at the time. No, although the DM kept egging us on to try it, the swine. I ran the same adventure for a group who went to great lengths to avoid the shrine entirely. You'd think it had...

Darker Days Episode #13: Halloween Special! Darker Days Podcast Welcome to our thirteenth episode! Lucky for some - this week we have not one, not two but three special guests. Chuck Wendig, Eddy Webb and Stew Wilson rejoin us for 1hr and 45 minutes of horror goodness. After the Secret...

The reimagined dray sound like they've taken some inspiration from the ssurrans. The ssurrans were a heat-resistant lizardman race from the region around Athas' Lava Gorge. They were traders, nomads, packrats, clannish - in short, many of the things that the new dray are. Interesting...

Darker Days Presents: The Darkling Podcast Episode #3 Darkling Podcast The Darkling Podcast is Darker Days' 15 to 20 minute podcast focusing on material created by our listeners. Episode #3 features Demon: the Return, a conversion of Demon: the Fallen for the NWoD rules system. Written by...

Darker Days Episode #12: The David Hill Project! Darker Days Podcast Welcome to our twelfth episode, featuring special guest host and White Wolf freelancer David Hill! This week the Secret Frequency looks at the Tunnel People beneath Las Vegas, we explore some alternate origin myths for...

I'll second Tigana. A fantastic book, stand-alone, and with a wonderful story and ideas. The Fionavar Tapestry is also excellent, and generally very uplifting. However, there is a scene (at the end of the first book, iirc) that reduced me to tears and is quite shocking. Don't want to spoil...

Easter Sunday 2001 - 18 years to the day since I played my first session of D&D ever, and also final session of a campaign that had been running all those years. B/X D&D would have been around the same time - a one-off session that we ran for a hoot one weekend. Would happily play or run...

Darker Days Presents: The Darkling Podcast Episode #2 Darkling Podcast The Darkling Podcast is Darker Days' 15 to 20 minute podcast focusing on material created by our listeners. Episode #2 features The Book of Nod in a segment recorded by Beckett, who details how to use the "vampire bible"...

Darker Days Episode #11: The Big One! Darker Days Podcast Our biggest show yet, with almost three hours of fantastic content! Episode #11 focuses on all things Mage, featuring our special guest, elite White Wolf freelancer Malcolm Sheppard! This week on the show: the Secret Frequency visits...

Yes. My first rpg was one I wrote myself. I had heard about D&D and knew a few of its conventions, and so with my wholly inadequate knowledge decided that I would make my own version. It was called Castle. It had two stats (Strength and Power), a sprawling map that players (ie. my sister...

Count me in as another one who thinks that having an entry fee (however you disguise or justify it) to a Game Day is a bad idea. Back in the mid-90s I used to run the rpg and games department of the American Book Center in The Hague. (In fact, it was during the exact period of TSR's decline...

Darker Days Presents: The Darkling Podcast Episode #1 Darkling Podcast The Darkling Podcast is a new release from the Darker Days team - a 15 to 20 minute podcast focusing on material created by our listeners. Hosted by Mark and Vince, the Darkling Podcast looks at submissions from our...

Darker Days Episode #10 - Steve Wilson, American Hero? Darker Days Podcast The boys are back with another monster show - almost two hours of podcasty goodness! And we're joined by special guest host Stew Wilson, gentleman, scholar and White Wolf freelancer. After our regular Mail Call, White...

There is also a fair amount of WoD fans who are keen on taking the "best of both worlds" - swapping rules, fluff and ideas between OWoD and NWoD, depending on their preferences. I count myself in that camp - I play OWoD but treat NWoD as a source of awesome ideas and respect it as such. And...

For me, there are several reasons: It's nice and big, with several different districts (including cliffside noble enclaves, a haunted market district, and the awesome Plain of Burning Water. The Shadow King is a great ruler. Frequently rumoured to be demised, he has a hands-off policy towards...

Firstly, BoXM gives all characters bonus hit points equal to Constitution. Then it divides hit points into Health and Grace. Health is equal to all hit points derived from Constitution, plus one per Hit Die (so 1 point per hit die, plus your Con bonus, plus those bonus hit points equal to...

Low dice? More like no dice :) The core system uses a standard deck of cards and some poker chips. I know nothing about Twilight at all, but Primetime Adventures would be my suggestion as well, simply because it models the concept of a TV show/movie series perfectly. The best fun gaming I...

Post-regicide Tyr for me as well (although I'm running a game at the moment set in pre-regicide Tyr, which is also great fun.) It's clear from the first boxed set that Tyr was intended to be the city where the SK gets overthrown - it as much as says it outright in the description of the city...

Fantastic column, Erik. Actually very heart-warming :). Just love the idea of sending your junior high-era campaign notes into TSR - exactly what lots of us dreamed about doing but never had the guts to chance. Excellent. No explosion dogs though, eh?. Maybe next time? :D