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I'm not sure if the Buck Rogers property would have been a hugely returned item, as I think bookstores have to make returns in the first year or so. It would have had to been sold in bookstores. Was it a novel? Was it something bookstores might have bought like Spellfire? The Buck Rogers...

It could be one or two over-ordered books that caused that problem. If I remember correctly, one of the key things that hurt GDW in a big way was a huge order that was returned. EGG told me that it was just one product, and while he didn't identify the product, I believe that one product was...

Of course, now that leaves us with inflated prices and if Hardcover is the default now there needs to be a different way to weeding out the wheat from the chaff. I just hate to see a high-priced format over-used. I remember in comics when the "Prestige Format" books were really something...

I'm not sure where this printing obsession with hardcover format has come from. This has also infected the comic book industry, with most trade paperbacks coming out in Hardcover first, where before the only Hardcovers were prestigious graphic novels or things like the Marvel Masterworks...

This reminds me, if you ever got the LA rules from Hekaforge, Gary had a whole page devoted to insult names for the various races, along with other races' terms for humans. It was pretty funny. No halflings in his milleu though, or else I'd share a few...

It's okay to pontificate back and forth about what TSR should have done. But what we really need is to get a historical perspective on it. People who worked at TSR should be interviewed, people who were major retailers should be interviewed, people who acquired the company should be...

Curley Greenleaf--who according to Gary's notes was actually a character played by Gary in his campaign--appeared in the Greyhawk Adventures books "Saga of Old City" and "Artifact of Evil", then later in the Gord the Rogue Novel "Come Endless Darkness". He's a supporting character, since the...

If you ever played the Action RPG Borderlands, I suspect that's where they're going with this--satisfiable as a single player game, a little more fun if you have a full team. Although I suspect the co-op comes at the price of a very tight story-driven RPG akin to what Bioware produces.

Well, speaking for myself, the reason I brought up Piers Anthony was because he is a much more respected author than a "gaming writer" like Ed Greenwood, and from what little I read of his work, he was a little more overt in sexual references than anything I read in Greenwood's novels, and I...

Part of the problem is the double-standard RPGs have over fiction. The way TSR treated the realms, it was both a game and novel experience. Also, Greenwood has stated he used it as a world to write stories in before adding an RPG campaign to it. I sometimes think people judge the RPG setting...

See, I still have a concern about that. You're making the following assumptions. Elminster is a direct wish-fullfilment persona for Ed Greenwood. The character of Elmister gives you psychological insight into the mind of Mr Greenwood. A lot of commentary seems to come from the over-use of...

I was addressing others complaints, your quote fell right it. Creepy, how so? Then it's not relevant to the discussion, and you should draw the line at making that aside. Not to mention it was quite rude. If he was a member of this forum you wouldn't be able to get away with that personal...

No. See, this is where I draw the line with critics. I can understand people having their own personal judgments of the campaign, but I like to draw the line when it comes to people trying to conduct armchair psychoanalysis of the writers themselves. When people say "I think...

Out of curiosity, did anybody do any research to see if he was having a bad day or something? Does he still share that opinion today? After all, this was almost 10 years ago. I'd hate to condemn somebody for something they said 10 or 20 years ago.

To be honest, I suspect it was more aimed at Hackmaster being a parody game that sort of made fun of AD&D. Why should a game that more or less is seen as a parody win the awards and all that. So on that level I understand where he is coming from. The rest is just vocal ranting I dismiss a...

Just to correct people, all of Neverwinter Nights 2 was Obsidian, not just MoTB. Anyway, I don't see anything wrong with standard tropes. It's only the jaded and cynical gamers who have played numerous games who really complain about that stuff. This is always somebody's first game, and the...

I don't think this is anything new at all. Back in the early 1980s, Gygax had stated in one of his columns that there were 5 million D&D players, but only about 100,000 who were regular subscribers/purchasers of Dragon. And he suspected most were Dungeon Masters. Replace Apazines and official...

I think you mean "John Carpenter". Cameron did Terminator 1-2, Aliens, The Abyss, Titanic and Avatar. Carpenter does stuff like that and Big Trouble in Little China, Halloween and Escape from New York, along with the Lovecraft Inspired In the Mouth of Madness.

She will renew it, she was out of town when the expiration occured.

I wanted to also add, rather than visit a gaming store, you might want to visit a place called the Higgins Armory Museum. If you play any fantasy games and want to know all about arms and armour you really should check this out. Higgins Armory Museum EGG got scheduled to be a guest speaker in...