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The relevant part from the interview: "The new D&D is too rule intensive. It's relegated the Dungeon Master to being an entertainer rather than master of the game. It's done away with the archetypes, focused on nothing but combat and character power, lost the group cooperative aspect...

What, you never had lesbian strippers entertaining players before a game started? Am I alone here? Next thing you know, somebody will be telling me most others gamers also don't sacrifice a puppy to Satan before starting a session! :p

Thing is, that's exactly what "real-world" western ceremonial magic assumes. In books like the Greater Key of Solomon, the operator is using so many different implements he requires assistants! "Modern" occultists tend to pare down the formal implement list to four: a wand (or staff), a dagger...

Oh sure, go and make things simple why don't you? :o

Aren't those a core class in 4th edition? ;)

I have to disagree in the strongest possible terms with your assessment of C&C's art. I think it has a perfect "modern classic" feel that evokes exactly what makes C&C great. The editing is indefensible, however. :) For the record I'm a AD&D player & DM who found exactly the update of D&D I...

Judging from his response on his Q&A thread, if he was doing AD&D now it would look something like Castles & Crusades. In fact, since he's writing for the Castles & Crusades system now, I assume it would look a lot like C&C.

IMHO the basic D&D game should be a simple ruleset that assumes a generic traditional Western fantasy setting (based heavily on actual legends and the classic fantasy authors). Other styles of play (wire-fu & anime, science fantasy, dark gothic fantasy, historical earth, etc.) should be...

You forgot lesbians, and strippers! The ultimate RPG/movie/computer game: In an age of adventure... In a world gone mad... A boatload of sorority girls must fight for their lives (and virtue) from: Lesbian Ninja Stripper Pirates!

From what I remember, in High School the people who played D&D bought both kind of magazines!

What I love about C&C is that is essentially D&D with cleaned up mechanics. It's exactly what I was hoping 3rd edition was going to be. I actually stopped playing 1st ed AD&D because I felt like AD&D was too rules heavy. I skipped over 2nd edition altogether, and was mostly playing Vampire in...

Excellent work, Whizbang! I love your take on Gnomes. Gnome love is good love!

Gnomes are a huge part of all my campaign worlds. Of all the D&D races, they are the ones that are actually based most directly on real-world folklore. Of course, I'm talking about pre-3.5 edition Gnomes. In my current campaign, Gnomes are the bankers, doctors, lawyers, and sages of the...

3.x edition Dwarves always struck me as too powerful. Dwarven Cleric seemed to me like the power combination from hell. I never saw one played, however.

You know they don't like to be reminded of that....

Myself, I prefer to relegate Dwarves to the NPC role. Nobody I've ever DMed for ever wanted to play one, and I have zero personal sympathy for them as usually presented. I tend to only use them for comic relief.

In Irish folklore, there is the idea of the Hollow Hills. The realm of the Good People is literally inside the hills, and the hills are larger on the inside than they are on the outside. Inside the hollow hills everything is an illusion, and time itself is different. That's how I see Gnomish...

Oh c'mon. What's the fun of talking to people who all agree with you? A conversation is most enjoyable when it includes people of differing points of view. For the record, I'm not some kind of 1st Edition grognard. I wanted a new edition of D&D, to fix its accumulated crud and streamline its...

Exactly. 3rd edition was bad enough. Now WOTC feels empowered to go whole hog and p**s all over the campaign world of any DM who doesn't want to go along with an over-the-top wire-fu idea of fantasy. And if a DM wants to do something that directly contradicts the official rulebook, he or she is...

I was always uncomfortable with Paladins having spells per se. The laying on a hands bit was OK, because there is a tradition in medieval folklore that righteous Kings and noblemen are able to heal (it's were Tolkien got his "hand of a healer" bit from for Aragorn). I never really needed to...