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The Queen of Elfland's Son always makes me smile - both a riff on Dunsany's "King of Elfland's Daughter" and a subversion of the tired old "Male Professional's Female Relative" trope.

I have an idea that Goodman Games's Morningstar was a submission https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3039/morningstar Rich Burlew (of Order of the Stick) was one of the three finalists. I think he's mentioned that the published version of Eberron includes elements from the other two...

I'm still buying DVDs. Of course, the last one I bought was The Big Chill (1983), so it might take a while for me to get to the studios' more recent releases.

Yes, I remember it as $100,000 as well. Plus the glory, undying fame and lots of freelancing work for WotC, including the chance to write novels for them.

Thanks for that, I was in two minds about backing this, but the Judges Journal does seem interesting so I've taken the plunge.

Thanks for that, that was beautiful. Are you familiar with the Waterboys version of that poem? I'm not really sure how to embed media, so in case it doesn't work Stolen Child

Depending on how I set the filters, I have between 50 and 90 items in "My Library". The true figure is in the thousands. EDIT going back to the old version, I have 7,012 items. That seems like a lot.

They were straight out of the Monster Manual.

Yeah, I've made the most innocuous-looking generalisations about how D&D games go, only to be shot down by somebody who insisted they never played that way. I once criticised a wilderness encounter with 40 Wights in a published (3rd edition) D&D adventure for 10th level characters, on the basis...

I find the various "GM's Guide" threads on the Paizo website to be invaluable when preparing to run one of their adventure paths. They point out potential pitfalls, suggest alterations and generally allow me to take advantage of other GMs' experiences in running them. They are usually not things...

I also played it as part of an ongoing (3rd edition) campaign, and it did feel kind-of shoe-horned in. However, I'm not sure what practical impact that had, since we were very much the wrong group for a "funhouse" dungeon anyway. The relative novice player in our group was fine, but the two...

One of my friends still occasionally mentions a fight with an animated rug, even though it happened the best part of 20 years ago. The rug attacked the wizard, and was suffocating him. The wizard somehow managed to break the grapple (for which the odds were very much not in his favour), and...

The reason is in case the PCs elect to sack the keep. There's presumably a reason why the adventure isn't called "The Caves of Chaos"

We do sometimes struggle to be on the same page when it comes to the fiction. In our last session: Room 1 DM: Tentacles emerge from the water and attack everyone Me: I didn't think I was near the water? DM: You asked for more information about the shiny things on the bottom; you'd have to be by...

Lots of good discussion about Dune in this thread. Has anybody else read the Dune Encyclopaedia? It gives the "scientific" background to lots of the elements of the books, from Frank Herbert's notes. So I don't consider Dune to be fantasy (although I used to). If I had to pick one book for this...

I backed the Harn Kickstarter (ages ago) and given the extra time and expense it took to actually get hold of some 3-ring binders in the UK (we use 2-ring, or sometimes 4-ring) I found the subsequent change to books to be pretty annoying.

I did once play a half-orc barbarian called Mhorc. He was a lot of fun. In a Call of Cthulhu game set in the 1980s I played a professor at Arkham University called Lawrence Hagman. He really, really hated being called Larry. I can only name one professional hockey player, so my games could...

I love Tigana, and I enjoyed Magician the first time but found it hard going on a re-read. The Empire trilogy is great, I still re-read it from time to time. Janny Wurts seems to be still writing the interminable Wars of Light and Shadow series (book 11 publication date May 2024, apparently)...

I think I've only had 3 out of 120 not fund (and one of them was non-rpg related, where they emailed me and offered the reward anyway if I sent them the money, which I did). It's the ones that fund and then don't deliver that are depressing. I went through a very bad phase where of the first 15...

I agree. (And I'm still in the "prior to 5e phase".) For instance, I played a Druid in Pathfinder who never prepared Rusting Grasp - apart from when a bunch of freebooters turned up in an ironclad ship and started throwing their weight around. The next day the hull of their ship mysteriously...