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What's different now is that the latest event will significantly cut into their ability to produce new products, in a year that is supposed to see the launch of a new edition and an in-house VTT, something very ambitious for a company whose history with developing D&D online services has been a...

I actually do agree with the statement. Which makes the whole think even funnier.

YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF STRICT TIME RECORDS ARE NOT KEPT.

I only just noticed that the cover image in my post had been altered. The original says "Basic Game Adventure". :LOL:

Here's the whole debacle: https://spriggans-den.com/2023/02/20/this-has-to-be-the-most-ridiculous-adventure-premise-ive-ever-seen/

People give plenty of probably deserved naughty word to The Forest Oracle. But I feel the depth of terribleness of Journey to the Rock is rarely fully appreciated. That thing has so much nonsensical backstory for a void of actual content, and the module goes out of its way to make sure the players can...

My attachment to D&D is to an edition of rules from 40 years ago (actually preferring retroclones over the original books) and Forgotten Realms books from 30 years ago. D&D as a product line has lost me about 2007.

I stopped liking the d20 system. The D&D 3rd edition PHB looked amazing compared to AD&D, but after 10 years I had such a laundry list of significant issues that I got fed up with the whole d20 engine.

If I stopped using a game system because it has 3 things I don't like, I never would be running anything. It's not a matter of how many flaws a game has, but of how well the game as a whole is suited for the kinds of campaigns I want to run. If the game is a great fit in general, I can endure...

Having recently done a deep dive into the region, there certainly are some stylistic similarities. They are not drastically different. But I never made any connections between the East and Hyborian Age before. Thay and Stygia I can very much see. That could have been an inspiration. Narfell and...

Having gone through the whole thread again after sharing my own perspective based on just my own memories, I think while Gygax probably wasn't much of a Howard Fan, it very much looks like Zeb Cook was. Dwellers of the Forbidden City is the most Howardian D&D product I can think of. The one...

Having read a lot of Howard, I actually don't think there are really that many elements from his stories that have something similar in early D&D. There's one Conan story with an abandoned city in a desert, where the remaining residents are passed out on drugs, and there's a shadowy monster...

My minimum base line is that it must not be a railroad. What happens in the adventure and how the adventure ends has to be a result of the decisions the players make and the actions the players take. If the events of the adventure are already predetermined and the players' participation makes...

How is this supposed to work? We're only allowed to say that all the influence was positive and can not disagree with other people's opinion?

Though actually, there are no jackals in Egypt. (At least now.) But there are hyenas in Turkey and Azerbaijan, which is fascinating.

Depends on the players. But it also depends on the cost of a replacing a character. If you can be back in the game in 15 minutes, it's very different from if you'll resume play only in a week or two. And it will depend on how much more the old character could do compared to a new character...

The issues of nobility and the problems of high level politics never had any interest to me. I don't mind if any characters are aristocrats, but in a game I want to deal with things that are immediate and feel important.

Pages assumes a degree of organization and concreteness that goes well beyond what I managed to do in 10 years of working on the setting.

Keith Parkinson Followed by Jeff Easley. That's a very small looking selection of the whole crowd to pick from in the poll.

Though we really can't blame Tolkien for that. He did nothing wrong, in that regard at least. We would have gotten uninspired knockoffs that copy the form but not the substance from any fantasy book that made a big breakthrough. "Clonan" is a term Sword & Sorcery fans actually occasionally use.