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At the moment, the pile of CDs next to my PC consists of the following music: Nightwish - Once Midnattsol - Where Twilight Dwells Kate Bush - Hounds of Love Opeth - Deliverance Loreena McKennit - The Mask and the Mirror Evanescence - Fallen Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga Thomas Tallis - Spem in...

On a personal note, I think that 1e does a better job than 3e of simulating the elusive 'feel' of classic Swords & Sorcery fiction. The restrictive character classes actually help to enforce genre conventions. 3e wins hands down if you're looking for a game system that lets you customize your...

Everquest 2 and Matrix Online. I never really got into WoW for some reason... I've also been fooling around with a few D&D MUSHes.

I recently launched a campaign for a party of evil Drow PCs. Contrary to my initial expectations, the game has worked out extremely well and has become a favourite with the players in my group. I have deliberately played down the whole 'sexy evil badass' angle and have developed a slightly more...

I'd have to agree with those who say yes. There's plenty of older d20 books that I'm interested in, but simply don't know enough about to make an imformed decision. Some of them are sitting in the bargain bin of my FLGS.... :D

Although I am a huge admirer of OpenOffice, I wouldn't recommend using any word processor as a substitute for a proper desktop publishing application. The obvious advantages of OpenOffice in the desktop publishing world include its sane use of document styles (in comparison to MS Word and...

I bought the PDF of Blue Rose as soon as it was released on RPGNow and I'm very impressed with the product so far. I would strongly recommend it even to D&D players who aren't particularly interested in the Romantic Fantasy subgenre because I think that it provides an excellent 'rules lite'...

I'm currently working on a new campaign setting and have been giving a fair bit of thought to how I want to depict the various non-human races. For the elves, I wanted to get away from the noble elves of Tolkien and his imitators -- but I still wanted my elves to feel 'authentic'. I didn't want...

In Old English, the term 'orc' is used to refer to a category of demon or ogre. It first appears in Old English glosses of about AD 800 and in the compound word orcneas ("monsters") in lines 112-113 of the poem Beowulf: Thanon untydras ealle onwocon eotenas ond ylfe, ond orcneas, swylce...

I just got this issue of Dungeon and I am *very* impressed with the work that has been done to update and expand this classic adventure. It's definitely an old-school dungeon crawl, but it's not just a hack'n'slash adventure -- there are plenty of opportunities for puzzle solving and...

I love that book! It's a real classic..... I still use some of the stuff in it today.

A quick update: Steve Jackson Games have just announced that their forthcoming online e-23 online store will NOT use DRM. Here's the relevant passage from the announcement on their website: "Will the PDFs you sell be user-limited with some sort of digital rights management scheme? No, they...

I find it interesting that White Wolf is the parent company behind the implementation of DRM at DriveThruRPG. Recently, I have started to realize that White Wolf has an ambivalent attitude towards other people's intellectual property rights. White Wolf is quite happy to produce d20 material...

Gotta love trollbait..... :p

I suspect that many players are familiar with Conan through the movies or the old Marvel comics version rather than the original stories.

I have noticed a definite shift in the expectations that new players have of the fantasy genre. When I started playing around 1980, most of the people that I was playing with were dedicated readers of fantasy fiction long before they became D&D players. These guys had read most of the classic...

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I look forward to reading his response. I like most of what I've heard about the C&C rules so far and I am looking forward to hearing more as the release date approaches. I admit that I have a purely selfish reason for asking about the degree of Open Game Content in the C&C rules -- I am...

I have a quick question for the representatives of Troll Lord Games who are following this thread. How much - if any - of the C&C rules will be published under the OGL? Is there any chance that we will see third-party support for the new system?

In a dungeon setting, it's relatively easy to hide the map grid, but this is a real problem for overland maps. The natural landscape is rarely divided up into neat squares or hexes. In this case, the best that you can do is leave the grid out or make it as faint as possible. Its a delicate...