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Gamma World has always been of two minds. Even 1e. It was extremely deadly and desperate. With rifle-toting fluffy bunnies. It was a weird world of strange plagues and abandoned starports. And a giant chicken. Etc.

I guess combat in Mongoose Traveller must be different from combat in Classic Traveller. My first one shot I ran, the evil ecoterrorist took one shot at a PC with a body pistol and dropped him. And then was promptly splattered by a shotgun from the other side (fight in the engine room). In...

As Ardoughter mentioned upthread, if you question this gentleman's judgment about the subject of D&D, you should see what he says about Catholics. :eek: Just pointing out that Mr. Chick has other conspiracy theories besides just about D&D. So it's not like he's picking only on gamers. Too bad...

I ran a couple one shots in Classic Traveller pretty recently. What kind of adventure are you shooting for? I think if you give us some details you can get more specific advice. For inspiration, I usually think Outland, Alien and Firefly.

I rather like the box itself. It's a cool box and I'll probably stuff it with a Compendium and Heroes of the X books. Also dice. You can never have too many. Also tokens. They're pretty cute. The maps are OK if you don't already have them (Crossroads and Monster Lair). A free PDF adventure to...

Well, I'm still offering sweet, sweet Gamescience dice and/or Arcane Power.

Maybe the Druid will return to its, um, roots? And have some healing? I'm not so concerned about the theoretical lack of psionic classes, since I (as a personal problem) hate psionic classes and am happy with just sticking with wild talents anyway. I guess we'll know more as the Heroes books...

I also think that they should have included a very brief conventional character creation section. I don't think it would have added too many pages to the back of the player's book and it would make the whole thrust of the game much more clear. They could have even basically limited it to the...

So, how will Dark Sun interact with Essentials? I've gathered up all the sweet Dark Sun stuff now (well, the Free RPG module and the 3 commercial products). I've got the Red Box but that doesn't do much beyond what it is in itself. Suppose I end up with all the Essentials products. Now I have a...

Sadly, game stores get rarer when people shop online. :.-(

Wow... sounds... just the way I would do it. Rock.

Cool. I also have a used copy of Arcane Power I found at a used bookstore, if that's of interest.

Do you have access to Gamescience dice? I went on a buying binge a while back and so have a number of sets of gently used (I mean, I had to use them!) Gamescience polyhedrals. Mostly opaques but I do have a crystal set. They're not super-rare or anything but if they don't have them in your neck...

I find this box interesting. $40 does seem like a lot of money, but you clearly do get a lot of stuff in it. You get the re-whatevered version of the DMG (and DMG2 also?)... I'm guessing it's all you need besides monsters to be a 4E DM? You get two adventure books, which is pretty nice. You get...

Didn't see a thread on this: YouTube - Dungeon Master's Kit Unboxing Thought y'all would be interested.

I enjoyed reading your musings.

The perfidy of game distributors having run its course, I finally have my red box and can now stop whining like a crybaby. Unboxing it was a fun experience, and while I'm still digesting the contents I'm liking it. It seems like an excellent introductory set: it is inexpensive, the player's...

My first box was the Moldvay magenta box with the awesome (still my favorite piece of fantasy art) Erol Otus green dragon cover. That (due also to the interiors) will always be the "Erol Otus edition" to me, and it really shapes what I find interesting and cool in fantasy. Weird. Mercenary...

Was it Alliance? I'm pretty sure that's the one my FLGS uses.

My local Premiere store in the Austin area doesn't have the Red Box yet (!), but had the Dark Sun stuff early. Maybe you have to be super-duper-premiere to sell the Red Box early? Or maybe they're snoozing? I dunno, but I don't have my box yet.