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Well, I don't remember that at all, although admittedly it's been many years since I read the original trilogy and the first few of the "Lost Swords" books. I always thought Wayfinder was the most interesting of the swords, especially in the way that it would find a "path" to get what the...

I haven't examined any of the recent books myself, so can't really comment on any specifics, but I just wanted to mention that "thinner paper" is not, in itself, an indication of a drop in quality. Paper quality is made up of much more than just its weight (thickness). The classic example I...

I try and stay focussed on what will enhance my currently active games. I browse titles and quick descriptions of new products, read reviews where possible on those that look like some direct relevance, and make a note of the stuff I think I'll like. There's a method to it all, but it isn't...

Uh, no. There is a type of dwarf mentioned in The Silmarillion called "petty dwarves", who aren't really very clearly defined anywhere but they're basically a type of dwarf and not really anything at all like D&D gnomes. Tolkien's pre-Silmarillion writings used the term "gnome" specifically...

I'm currently running a 3.5 Midnight campaign, so this doesn't even fall into the category of "optional" as far as I'm concerned. :p The original book(s) work OK with 3.5 for the most part, but there's a few little niggling bits here and there that a true 3.5 revision should solve. I'm also...

I don't understand what you mean by this statement. How does making an adventure fit into a generic setting "dumb it down"? A "Greyhawk-specific supplement" -- one that could only be set in GH and nowhere else -- would require, what, exactly? And what would make it worth the effort? More...

A different sort of defeat, but humbling enough. In my Midnight game, the PCs are sorting out an Orc camp and come across an orc concubine, chained to the wall for the orc chieftain's pleasure. By this point all the other orcs are dead. One of the players is a Dwarg, an orc/dwarf cross-breed...

Let me guess -- Hastur got drunk, kept making loud comments during the Best Man's speech, vomited on the cake and then passed out in the middle of the dance floor?

http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/tm/tm-tomb.htm

I always liked JG Verbosh -- not strictly an adventure, just a setting with several mini-adventures and "places of interest", but nicely put together all the same. Caverns of Thracia is a true classic, however. Well put together and lots of fun.

No, JG had (first) one licence to produce OD&D adventures, and then later another to produce AD&D adventures. They didn't release all that many AD&D adventures, and of the ones they did release, Dark Tower was by far the best (judging by its reputation), but it was not "accidentally" labelled as...

I'm guessing that would be the additional capability of the customer being the one paying for ink and paper to print the thing out. I know there are people who run everything electronically and don't need to print anything out -- and more power to them. I, however, am not one of those people...

Note that the B3 available for download from the WOTC site is the recalled and extremely rare "orange" version, not the widely-available "green" version. The two are very different (I think the maps are about the only element that's common between them). Personally, I think B3 is a pretty...

The first-ever sheets were published in 1975, apparently, although whether they were "class specific" I don't know. "Class specific" sheets might not have appeared until 1977 or 1978. http://www.acaeum.com/DDIndexes/MiscPages/Character.html

Not a thing. What's the SFGA?

Chalk up another from Melbourne. Currently playing in a RuneQuest game (heavily modified v3 rules) and running a Midnight d20 campaign (v3.5). In the past have played and/or ran many game systems. And since someone asked, I'm 41 and have been role-playing since 1981 .... (Originally I was...

Caverns of Thracia

Sure it matters, if you also have to track time for some other purpose. A simple example might be "There's a bomb in the room that's set to detonate in 5 minutes. A squad of suicidal bad guys are determined to keep you in the room so that you'll die in the explosion. You have to fight them to...

I guess you haven't checked the 3.5 errata file recently ....

Definitive? > Finally, on the Foot Chases front, expect to see a new release very soon that offers full-blown rules for foot chases, So, er, "Hot Pursuit: the Definitive Guide to Chases" isn't actually all that definitive, then, if it needs another product to cover the stuff that it left out...