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I could be wrong but I think I heard it said by Robert A. Heinlein that "Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins."

TWILIGHT:2000. The last time I ran it the group I was with literally had no idea what to do. Should they flee western Poland? Should they attempt to scrape together an ad-hoc infantry and armor company and attack Soviet strongpoints? Should they (etc.) They had no idea what to do. I...

Close but no cigar! (Honestly, hidden treasure is specific to AD&D? Is it...not...kosher in later editions to have it hidden? And calling the gems by type is a stylistic thing, ultimately.) The point is that it works with every edition of D&D. Every single one. Except, I'm told, 4e...

Here is a thing: 10. ORC GUARD-ROOM This is a dingy, 20"x30" room with a "table" consisting of two barrels side-by-side with a plank nailed on top of them. Eight orcs (H.P.: 9,8,7,5,5,3,3,3) are lounging here; two at the tables are playing a game of knucklebones. All are wearing chainmail and...

Buy beg borrow or steal a copy of THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS by Poul Anderson. Not just because its a damn fine book, it is the model for many things D&D: paladins, trolls, the swanmay, some ranger-ish stuff, alignment, elves' (and other certain races) inability to be resurrected but also...

Hey awesome, you're a mind reader?

Nostalgia is crap. Nostalgia is a 50's themed McDonalds with fiberglass '57 Bel-Air front-ends bolted to the wall that tortures its employees with 10 songs from 1955 playing on a tape loop. Nostalgia is some poor 44 year old bastard in an f-body Camaro with a beer gut and thinning pate...

In my opinion, no. People talk a lot about the great stories of the UK series, but there's nothing there that has the sheer punch of S4, WG4 or any of them. For me modules aren't about stories. Players create the stories. G1 is a titan of a module, yet it l clocks in at like 5000 words and...

The godawful job done on the T1 VILLAGE OF HOMMLET tells me they'd botch any attempt to do that without just wrecking :):):):) up. I mean, holy balls, they turned the moathouse dungeon into this 20' wide arena for crying out loud. Had the people responsible ever actually seen the original...

When John Bonham passed away, ATLANTIC didn't discontinue all Led Zeppelin albums. When Robert Plant did solo work, they didn't. When Jimmy Page does solo work, they don't. In fact, sales of one helps drive the other. I hope WIZARDS OF THE COAST finally recognize this and are driving towards...

There is an entire hobby segment dedicated to book-scanning, good sir! These guys have turned non-destructive flat page scanning into an art and you can do it with junk you have lying around your house.

Jim and company from BASTION PRESS did OK with what they had; I think a lot of their "volunteer" books were in poor shape to begin with*, but towards the end, yeah, there were plenty of scanning problems. "Oh, hey, I didn't realize that CONAN UNCHAINED had unicode and cyrillic control...

[font=century gothic]They need to not do "Hollywood Records reissues" though; back in the early 90s when Hollywood Records secured the QUEEN back-catalog and started re-releasing it they clogged up the CDs with 12" remix this and special guest artist version that. Granted, I can press SKIP...

If I may recommend, the book THE WORLD INSIDE by Robert Silverberg has much to offer in terms of "city of the future". It is neither a utopia, nor a dystopia; it has several interesting aspects; some of the social mores are not for discussion here (grandma rule).

FROM HERE. I...I don't know...I don't know what to say. I'm literally dumbstruck. As RPG news goes this is the biggest thing since...I really don't know when. If they do this as actual real products I will buy core AD&D books from them assuming they are at scale market price. And yes, I...

If that's so then DWARVEN FORGE (stoppit firefox, "Dwarven" is too a word!) is eye-seven-course meal with appetizer, dessert cart, amuse bouche, aperitif and brandy and cigars by the fire afterward. :D

I'm not gainsaying your decision to use minis but remember with a good campaign they're tabletop dressing; they give a rough idea of where things are and what's happening. You can be abstract with minis. Although I think going completely mini-less can be fun, too!

The best character modeling tools are the players imaginations. (Now there are plenty of people who dislike me who are breaking their left mouse-buttons clicking REPORT right now because they think I'm being a smug dick (AGAIN, HARRUMPH HARRUMPH) but let me explain :D ): Way back at the turn...

Hm, I could've sworn those were AD&D stats for the monsters on the back. Good lord, that candy was made and marketed by a company called AMUROL. I don't know that I should've been eating something that sounds like it was made by a company that specialized in emetics...

Both HOLISTIC DESIGN and E4M MINIATURES make and sell pre-painted miniature sets. I have a great many of both and they are all quality. Later this fall, PAIZO PUBLICATIONS is slated to release pre-painted plastic minis. REAPER MINIATURES has a line of miniatures called LEGENDARY ENCOUNTERS...