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A lot is going to depend on how you imagine your historical civilizations. Are they developed, like the Romans? Are they random tribes? What is the present like, and how did it get to be that way? For instance: Maybe elves introduced arcane magic. Before their arrival, everything else was...

Heh ... important clarification, thank you Riley. Yes, I am planning on using legos to represent troops (and to build terrain, etc). We'll probably being playing out on the living room floor. I was thinking about Battlesystem. I haven't played it in probably 20 years. I wonder where the heck...

I'm planning on running some battles directed by PC warlords. I'm not worried about low level PC actions (fighting versus opposing champions, spying etc.) but can anyone recommend a good battle resolution system? Ideal: something with just enough detail to make it feel like the PCs' decisions...

I'm a huge fan of R&K.

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Isn't there an enworld thread (or isn't one created) of folks that will be attending? Based on that alone, you can have some folks to hook up with and meet.

The cool thing about going alone is that you can set your own schedule. You don't have to wait up for Billy because he is waiting in line for the limited edition dark elf figure, or, conversely, lose your place in line because the group has reservations for dinner. You can follow your own nose...

Exactly this. You will have no problem finding folks (finish up a FR session then go to the Ram!) to hang out and drink with. And despite there being 30 bijillion people in attendance, somehow I end up seeing the same folks in the hall and on the street and in the bagel shop. It is a great...

lol Actually the inverse: We came for the nymphs, but stayed for the rot grubs.

If this is true, this is terrible news. Edit: Wikipedia is supporting it, and it looks like news outlets as well. Frazetta is/was, bar none, the finest fantasy painter we have ever seen.

FWIW, a teleporter that only sends part of something is just as deadly as a disintegrator. I can imagine a PC ending up on the other side, cut into 100 narrow fillets as his momentum carried the already dead body through the maw. Bad choice, either way.

Agreed. But for every day we are further away from Keep on the Borderlands, that IP becomes less and less valuable. (To me. YMMV.) Five years from now I might still buy a "memorial Gygax Castle Greyhawk." But ten? Twenty? The gamers that love Gygax and his work are growing older, and --- like...

Minor quibble, but FWIW, Recruiting Jeff was NOT a snafu in my book. And while I don't often agree w/ Mark, I think in this case he is right. Patronage/ransom is the way to go.

FWIW .... Awesome thread.

Muhahaha! Made my Will save and did not watch.

It's got to be Castle Greyhawk. Not "classic" by any stretch, and the worst bit of dreck ever to receive a stat block. After that, any "classic era" module for character levels 20+. Even Isle of the Ape was terrible in this regard.

Sign me up as well as a FO lover. But a Caldwell cover and an isometric map of a ruined keep went a long way in those days.

So any advice to first time NorTex-ers? what should we expect? Wasn't there something about Bad Mike serving margs at the after party? :)

I do this pretty regularly. I feel cheap about it, but – when done subtly – the players come away with some satisfaction. "See? I was right! There WERE ninja-sharks in the water!"

I recall something like this, too. (But maybe it was Arneson?) Where he was feverishly making the dungeon just a step ahead of the explorers ....