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If it were me, I'd decline for a reason having nothing whatsoever to do with her gender. When I play with kids, I have too much of a tendency to act like a know-it-all based on my age. Nobody wants to play with someone like that. I stick to players my own age unless I'm the DM (where it's your...

As the Primer's author, just a couple of points: 1) I'm glad that people aren't still reading it as a polemic against later versions of D&D. The reason I wrote it was in response to a flood of posts here on ENWorld, years ago, that ran roughly like, "We tried OD&D and it was just like 3e, but...

No, I didn't think you were - I was just correcting the statement that OSRIC doesn't use the SRD. I agree, it doesn't necessarily reflect a change in opinion, especially if his comment was only based on the idea that anyone can sue for anything, or on a fact-type assessment rather than a...

I think you might be conflating the SRD with the d20 license. There's no reason to use the OGL except for the purpose of using someone's open game content (which wouldn't necessarily be the SRD, but it usually is). Once you've got the OGL in place, you can use IP from the SRD. OSRIC uses a...

If you already know that you're going to have one "base" game and use the other as a supplement, pick which game's artwork is the most inspiring, and use that one as the base. Seriously.

Does SW have a supplement with spacecraft, or are you just winging that? ...erm, "winging that" ... sorry. Wing, spacecraft, wings. Never mind.

More installments of Slumbering Tsar.

+1 to this! A vote for fat Orcus! Definitely Orcus is supposed to be fat and disgusting. It gives him that medieval-demon feel, not a comic-book villain image. The super-villain look makes it appear that he's really physically active ... but when that physical power is hidden under the slabs of...

I played 2e and 3e myself before starting a journey back to the roots of the game - I don't want to portray myself as someone who never shifted editions. I think it does give a different perspective on the open-ended game to have played a more rules-comprehensive game. Even back in the day...

Very true, and also the fact that Necromancer Games maintained the highly-visible motto of "Third Edition Rules, First Edition Feel." Those two mottos continued to remind people that older editions remained unique in terms of rules and feel rather than simply being identical but flawed versions...

It's looking that way, at this point -- if it were just the hardcovers, I would have mentally tucked it away as nothing more than a lot of people buying a collectible book. But now the softcovers are sold out as well, and a third of the second print run of softcovers is already sold, even though...

Yeah, we sold out in 10 hours, even with the sales button shutting down and people buying by email/paypal. BIG underestimation of the demand for it. I don't have official confirmation that another hardcover run is being done, but that's the plan - we just have to change the cover to remove...

Actually, it's not entirely apples to apples, but the difference has nothing to do with gaming: Boot Hill and Top Secret are relatively generic titles (Boot Hill less so), compared to "Gamma World" and "Metamorphosis Alpha." The first two are less valuable titles in terms of intellectual...

Toddler + DDG (Cthulhu Mythos). I feel your pain.

I do think you're seeing a tendency. Only a slight tendency, though.

If anyone has played or read the Swords & Wizardry version of FGG's Fane of the Fallen, please give me some feedback on how well the different background and villain-motivation work. The S&W version is very different from the Pathfinder version in tone (much darker and more Clark Ashton Smith)...

I would say either GURPS or Shadowrun. Gurps is a tighter system, but more complex than I like. On the other hand, it is more adaptable to the particular type of tech you want. Tech can be interpreted a whole lot of different ways, and at a whole lot of tech "levels," so you have to keep in mind...

They are still working on a website, and I haven't heard of any preview material yet. There were a few copies of Tim Kask's module write-up printed for North Texas RPG Con, but as far as I know those were sold, mostly to collectors, and aren't "in print" in any form yet. Summary: I don't think so.

Cool! :) /heads off to download it

From talks with Frank and Tim, I think they will come out with good material; this is an element of the business they know how to do. I can't speak as to Jim Ward or anyone else, but I've talked with Tim and Frank. When they started this project a year or so ago, I also think that they (Frank)...