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Absolutely 100% Yes, and I hope WotC-2007 realizes this (because I don't think WotC-2000 or WotC-2003 really did...).

S&S may well not be for you. But before you give up on it altogether, try at least to read more Conan stories (but only those actually written by Robert Howard, not by anyone else, including "posthumous collaborations" -- Del Rey recently released a 3-volume series of Howard's original Conan...

FWIW OD&D doesn't explicitly limit class-changing to humans, it's just that since the only non-human race with more than one choice of class in the boxed set is elves, and they all switch classes automatically, it's de facto a human-only option. But, once the thief class is added in Supplement...

I've said it many times before and since the topic keeps coming up I'll say it again: TSR had it right in the early-mid 80s with two parallel D&D lines: the "Classic" (i.e. Basic/Expert) game suitable for kids, beginners, and casual players, and the Advanced game for the experienced hardcore...

David "Zeb" Cook, I suppose. He was credited as author of both the 2E PH and DMG, plus the Planescape setting.

Personally I'm still hoping that WotC (or perhaps some enterprising 3rd party publisher if the 4E OGL allows it?) will take my suggestion to extract levels 1-10 and publish them as a separate stand-alone game...

Played DL1, 2, and 8 all the way through (including all the Battlesystem stuff in the latter). I'm pretty sure we started but never finished DL3 and 7, and might have done the same with DL4 and/or 6, but I can't recall exactly (so I voted yes on DL3 and 7 but no on DL4 and 6). Definitely never...

Seriously: buy this for $4.00 (or, if you prefer hardcopy, you should be able to get one off of ebay or amazon for $10 or less). This edition is easy to understand for players and DMs alike, and by the time you've exhausted its possibilities 4E will be released and you can either move on to it...

Yarth is also the name of the world in Gardner Fox's Kothar series, which clearly isn't the third, but could be the same as the first or second, or could be yet a fourth Yarth...

Not really. What was popular in fantasy in the 70s was fifth-rate Conan knock-offs (Brak the Barbarian), Tolkien knock-offs (Sword of Shanarra), John Norman's Gor novels, and Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. D&D ignored all of those and went instead with an idiosyncratic mix...

At the time I began playing D&D (at age 9, in 1984) I too had never heard of the Gray Mouser, Holger Carlson, or Elric. My idea of fantasy, to the extent I had one at all, was pretty much limited to He-Man toys and Disney and Harryhausen movies. And yet I still found D&D appealing and...

Only the first 3 (WG4 as part of campaign-play, WG5 & 6 as one-offs). I owned WG7 and 8 but never ran them because they were terrible (especially WG7); the latter (2E era) ones I never even bought -- I scanned them briefly in-store and could tell they weren't anything I wanted a part of. My...

Hi Gary, One more quick thing on the AD&D DMG "Inspirational Reading" list, if you don't mind: in that list, you single out the anthology Swords Against Darkness III (ed. Andrew J. Offutt), but not the other volumes of that series (which ran to 5 volumes in total, though I believe the last...

Michael Moorcock has climbed a bit since your list in the AD&D DMG (which included Merritt and Lovecraft but not Moorcock on the list of "most immediate influences"), and I'm also a bit surprised to see Fred Saberhagen so high on the list (above other "usual suspects" like Burroughs, Farmer, and...

The problem (at least for me) is that the H series modules just aren't very good. I remember (and it's been ~20 years so I'm foggy on the exact details) H4 as being particularly rancid. I spent a great deal of time after buying H2 trying to perform surgery on it to make it into something I'd...

Role-playing, augmented by ad-hoc dice rolls (based on my judgment of the likely chance of success, modified by the character's stats, the player's described actions, and the vagaries of the specific situation) at key junctures: After I make sure that the distant relative of the lord can't...

Ran L1, played in and later ran L2; ran N1, played in N5; ran all of the S series; ran the "Assassin's Run" portion of H3 as a RuneQuest adventure (I actually ran the Dragon magazine version, but gave it a vote anyway). Owned but never played in or ran H2, H4, N2, and N4.

Almost all of them, many of them more than once. C4 and 5 are the only ones I never owned. Nitpick: despite its title and the fact that about half its page-count was devoted to designing and organizing RPGA tournaments, C6 also includes 2 complete adventures ("Honor Guard" and "The Long Way...

Not only would I happily play a version of D&D without a skill system, I'd be very reluctant to play one with a skill system. Race, class, ability scores, common sense, and ad hoc judgment should be able to cover everything a skill system does with a lot less bookkeeping and rules-memorization...

Fie! Everyone knows that a first level PC is in fact a "medium" (or perhaps a "prestidigitator," if you're new-school) and if anyone says otherwise I'll have to call out the Diaglo :p EDIT: and FWIW I think the name "warlord" is probably the least lame thing about this class, which probably...