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I'd be curious, as well. I've heard that Dancey got a few minor facts wrong, according to at least one TSR employee...but that he had the majority in right. Having no direct experience, I couldn't say either way. A quick googling shows that Monte Cook, in his interviews with lots of former...

I thought the entire point of the OP was the the very concept of graveyards needs to die in D&D because it's a trope, particularly in that adventurers often find themselves travelling to them to fight the undead. His argument was that given that undead can and DO happen in a fantasy setting...

Glad to be of help! My thinking is that there are several ways you can do it. Given that the brother has knowledge of life after death, perhaps he has contracted with the undead...more specifically, GHOSTS. Not violent or angry or dangerous ghosts, but ghosts nonetheless. They must be...

Equally important is the fact that they were literary characters, just like Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser themselves (who, it should be noted, used magic when it suited them, Mouser having been a Sorceror's apprentice, iirc). They were not balanced on a character sheet, nor were they intended to...

Personally, I think the trend to try and classify EVERYTHING as a trope is what needs to die. I loathe TV Tropes, which tries to shoehorn every single concept every thought of by man as a 'trope', no matter how much effort it takes to force it in there. I recognize that D&D has plenty of...

In absence of any information of one direction being better than the other, my party usually (but not always) chooses Right. Why? "...Because Evil is LEFT-HANDED." True story.

And so it came to pass that our heroes managed to locate the fabled Deep Library. Once the repository of the collected knowledge of the Suelwyn race, a heretofore unknown cataclysm of unimaginable power sunk an entire continent beneath the waves of the place men now call The Last Land, leaving...

"So, you come to me seeking not just a favor, but a favor that asks much of me and my family. Certainly, you are not lacking in hubris, though whether this is borne of love or ignorance, I could not say. If I do as you ask, which is no small thing...you will take from me something precious and...

It was a little hard to follow, but I think I got the gist of it. I think what I got from it was the following (and correct if I've misunderstood): D&D was once a fad and fads are good, due to the burst of revenue. Fads fade, sometimes very quickly. The only way to continue a fad is to...

Personally, I don't see the big problem. The Monk, as a class, is clearly inspired by the various kung-fu movies of the 70s, from the Shaw Brothers and certainly from the American TV series. I'm not sure how that makes it racist, personally. An individual player portraying a stereotype...

I'd actually recommend using Dread for this. It's pitch-perfect, allows for great character versus character fighting and works best on one-shots. Recommendation: make sure you develop the 'battlefield' properly. There should be ample items on the island to be used as weapons (a map and a...

Concerning the Call of Chthulu Model; the core rules has had the following editions: Call of Cthulhu, 1st Edition (1981) Call of Cthulhu Designer's Edition (1982) Call of Cthulhu, 2nd Edition (1983) Call of Cthulhu, 3rd Edition (1986) Call of Cthulhu, 4th Edition (1989) Call of Cthulhu, 5th...

First, a nitpick: Monopoly has multiple editions, it's true. But it bears keeping in mind that many 'editions' of Monopoly are UNLICENSED. Monopoly was developed in the Public Domain and while there was some controversy, there was a IP court case that eventually determined that while Parker...

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Speaking for myself? Maybe. As others have said, it would depend on the tool. I use DDI for three things: Quick Monster Stats/Game Prep Character Building Rules searches And truth be told, it's just not worth $70/year to me for that functionality. I like Dungeon and Dragon, but they are...

Do you mean you want to rip DVDs to video files or that you have video files and would like to watch them on the iPad? There are apps to do both; depending on how much money you'd like to spend or time you have to devote to it, it can be free or cost a good deal. If you just want to watch...

I have one, but I'm likely going to let it expire. $70 is just far too much for the amount of use I get out of it. There has been talk amongst my group of possibly pooling money for an account that the group would share.

I'm not sure what you're pointing out, there. According to that report, seen here, they're determining statistics about the probability of a lot of things...but divorce rate is not one of them. If you mean that as evidence of 'marriages end in divorce', the stats don't actually say that. For...

Wow. I guess it's been a while since I've posted any maps to ENWorld. I should fix that. For tonights game, a map that PCs have come into: This map is 2000 years out of date, and most of the land masses here have sung beneath the waves. They hope to locate the Deep Library. What they'll...