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It depends on the assumed playing space of the pcs - when and where are they acting, who are they portraying, what are they assumed to be doing - but I could see Gandalf-type characters, and possibly even Aragorn-type characters being NPCs.

Absolutely! I DOUBLE DOG DARE you!!! Make me eat crow. Make me take back everything I've ever said about you. Do it. I know you wanna.

About 9 months ago, WotC pulled all .pdf's for sale, both new and old editions, from all licensed vendors. The announced reason for this was due to piracy concerns. It caused a pretty major Internet poo-storm. How and why these piracy concerns affected OOP .pdf's is an open question, never...

Heroscape is a really good game and the D&D themed set will be the first "D&D" product I buy from WotC since the 3.5e PHB came out.

I think the end of WotI leaves a very weak Thyatia in control of many of the former Alphatian provinces, and that many of the the timelines in the Almanacs deal with the rebellions of the Alphatian provinces, as well as a number of the Thyatis' outlying areas - Pearl Islands, Ochalea, the...

<me being pedantic>Contradiction in terms</me being pedantic> Sorry, I know it blows some of the 20-something minds on this board, but I just can't call any D&D product that came out in 1987, "old school." <me being pedantic>That's paradigmatic proto-2e mid-school D&D if there ever was such...

Me too. I'm just not sure how it reconciles the old school with the new. For what it's worth, I liberally steal maps from all over the place. I keep the old 3e-era WotC map-a-week archive bookmarked and go to google maps all the time for real-world city layouts and cool terrain features. A...

I don't think so. It came out in 1992, about a year after the Black Box Basic set and the Rules Cyclopedia came out. A few years ago, Bruce Heard relatively famously disclosed the planned product list for the RC version of Mystara through 1995 before D&D was essentially scrapped as a supported...

I can see it now... Giant ruby eyes, spouting flame traps for the unwary, and a ten foot spiked pit hidden under a pile of leaves.

Implies? That's not implicit. That's explicit. What's implicit - mainly in the arguments on pg. 266 as to why minis are a good idea, thus implying that some don't use them - is that you don't actually need miniatures or counters, but I'm not sure how a newbie who'd never been exposed to...

The issue is one of the Giant Campaign Changing Event that TSR did so much of back in the late 80's and 90's. I personally hated them for a number of reasons, and in particular, I thought the changes wrought to Mystara were for the worse. I'll admit that I do not entirely remember which of the...

As a proud member of the OSR, allow me to be the first to say... "Huh?" Nice map, though.

More to the point, what does the original statement have to do with the what the OP was discussing?

I have and love the two Points of Light books. I am very much looking forward to the Dungeon Alphabet book. I posted my conversion of DCC #11 to B/X D&D right here. Anyone who looks at that conversion I did will see I'm pretty nit-picky with my conversions. I don't like to eyeball it. For...

I agree with this. The TSR products of the mid-80's into the early 90's certainly pushed a more "heroic" mode of play. While some of it, I'm sure, was spurned on by sensitivity towards the Mad Mothers, I think it had more to do with following the style of the epic quest fantasy literature that...

In my Known World campaign based in Karameikos, slavery was a very big deal, as slavers out of the Black Eagle Barony had depopulated a good portion of the pcs' homeland. Finding the slavers and tracking them back to whence they came, and eventually trying to liberate many of the slaves was a...

I find the number of "I had x first, so that's the one I'm voting for," to be interesting. But then, as there are no real differences between the rules, I suppose that's as good a reason as any. The question is more akin to whether you like the original covers or the orange spine covers of the...

The rules differences between the two basic sets are completely negligible. Many sections of the Moldvay rules are copied word-for-word in the Mentzer rules. The presentation between the two is radically different. I prefer Moldvay's more concise, traditional, straight-forward presentation...

I have played a lot with the random monster and treasure placements found in the 1981 Basic and Expert rules and the 1980 compiled version of the Monster & Treasure Assortments (which are different from the 1977-78 individual versions). First, it is important to remember that these methods...

To complete my thought from the last post... I don't feel that one type of campaign is better or worse. One won't serve a genre as well as the other. But then, it's hard to play a supers campaign using Call of Cthulhu, too. Different tools for different projects, and all that. The problem...