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I looked on Clark's announcement as hopeful news, because I think highly of some of the NG adventures, but have zero interest in 4e. I'm one of those guys who would like to see "1e feel with 1e rules" (or any retro-clone rules, for that matter) from NG. NG shifting away from 4e makes that more...

Sometimes, we'd start big fights in taverns just to use the DMG unarmed combat stuff. We looked at it more like a "mini-game" within the game, though. :) The unarmed combat system from Unearthed Arcana was one of the few rules additions/changes that I ended up adopting from that book...

Blue Rose with a Ted Nugent style pregen PC and an introductory adventure named "Magic Venison…" ;) I'd be tempted to run Trail of Cthulhu or Fear Itself for a one-on-one game. (Probably because my interest in GUMSHOE is high, at the moment, and I've had good results with one-on-one Cthulhu...

Now I feel guilty for squandering important gaming technology. :p C'mon man, people having fun is bad for gaming? Dr. Philotomy recommends a beer, some perspective, and an evening of gaming with some friends (it won't hurt my feelings if you play 4e).

Weird; I could've sworn that was a copy-n-paste. Anyway, fixed now in my earlier post.

The Garden of al-Astorion (d20) The Spire of Iron and Crystal (Swords & Wizardry) Systema Tartarobasis (C&C)

Nah, 4e kicked in the door of the false tomb, and went away satisfied... ;)

I suspect that D&D was envisioned as a humanocentric game, so limiting the non-human races fit the "fantasy concept" and also seemed to fit in with the issue of game balance. Level limits were constraints, but not crippling ones, when the "level scale" of the game was considered, with "name...

Yeah, very possible. I think the RM/MERP module, The Court of Ardor influenced Monte's Crater Ridge Mines thing in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, too. There was a fortress in The Court of Ardor that was almost exactly the same (i.e. in the "big picture" layout of the place, not details).

:blows dust off thread: Uh...a new session is up (Session 9)... Lost City Sessions (With thanks to my wife for her excellent notes, because otherwise I never would've remembered some of the details.)

Huh. That's no longer true. The group I'm in, now, is all men.

I remember seeing the ads (probably in Dragon) and wanting to try the game, but I never did.

One of my first reactions upon checking out 3e was "wow, they have a lot of RM ideas in here, but 'slimmed down,'" so I can definitely see that. I still see 3.x in that light, to some degree: "D&D meets RM-lite."

Was that the oversized box with the picture of the winged humanoids (or something) fighting? That's what I started with (it had the blue cover Character Law, a combined Arms Law & Claw Law, Spell Law, and the World of Vog Mur. I bought it from a friend. Later I added the 2e stuff (combined...

There's also a review on Grognardia.

There's a review thread for Monsters of Myth on Dragonsfoot. Monsters of Myth is definitely worth getting. I got it in softcover, and after reading and using it for a bit, was kicking myself for not getting the hardcover. It's full of good stuff. I find myself picking it up all the time when...

For those who have been waiting, looks like OSRIC is now available in print.

Yeah; *I* always pick a random character, but I can't convince my wife to do that. And hey, she's my wife...what can I do? :erm: (She does the same thing when we play Arkham Horror, although she has two characters she likes.) I love the Dungeon for exactly this reason. My wife hates it...

How much Mutant City Blues have you played? I'm intrigued by the GUMSHOE approach, but haven't tried it, yet. MCB probably wouldn't be my setting/genre of choice, but I'm still interested in how the investigative system works in play. I'd like to start a GUMSHOE game with a Fear Itself...

My wife *always* plays the Prophetess. She never struck me as unbalanced, though (could be I'm just used to her being in the game). For me, Talisman suffers from the same problem as many similar fantasy board games: they go on too long and make me wish I was free from the board-game...