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Monte Cook had a great way to talk about it. The difference is between a gaming product, and game materials. A game product is what you buy --- the book, the boxed set, etc. Game material is what you actually use. For instance, let's say you buy "Song and Silence". That's the product. Call it...

I'm not price sensitive I am, however, extremely value sensitive. What has low value: any of the splat books. 32 page modules (unless I have a specific use for them). Games that I can't find anyone to play with (i.e., just reading material) Yet Another Campaign Setting. (If you can't do better...

conversion on the fly vs. pre-done conversions Ok, I have definitive things to say about converting on the fly. There are a lot of things that get missed by a conversion on the fly. Here's an example: what is the DC of a diplomacy check against a key NPC to get him to divulge some important...

Bah! Read Ryan Dancey's response: http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=72 Basically, they rushed-jobbed their d20 conversion, and got a poor market reception. Surprise. Take a look at the sales figures for CoC d20 at Amazon.com, and you'll see...

I wrote chaosium 1. They did request that fan conversions, etc, not be posted or diestributed. They did point to the "no open content" part of the copyright notice. (Front page) 2. They asked if I'd like to get the conversion I was working on published as part of the next printing. They'd...

Here's what I learnt It is WAY easier to get people to play a d20 game than the BRP game! It's NICE having other systems ported to d20. You can read stat blocks and have a clue what's going on, and despite what anyone else says, even escalating Hit points can be used to model relatively...

Ok, maybe we should stop being so cynical I just popped over to their web-site and read this page: http://www.chaosium.com/company/staff.shtml It seems like Chaosium has a lot of debt from the collectible card games, and that damned near wiped them out. So I'll cut them some slack.

depends on the game When I'm playing D&D, I like the D&D magic system. It's simple (and I have a life, so I don't spend a lot of time playing), easy to remember, and I can pick up a Sorceror or Wizard and immediately know how to play her by the spells she has in her spell book. The resource...

http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=72 Ok, so he calls Jonathan Tweet a Mechanic, and Skip Williams "The Voice of Experience". What does that make Andy Collins and Eric Mona?

don't worry I didn't play for 12 years, and did eventually come back to gaming when my life turned in that direction again. So it is possible to leave and return. But whatever you do, don't spend money on a trip when you're in debt. Get rid of debt first. If you can save money now and sock it...

converting BRP Converting BRP to d20 isn't hard if you're willing to do a sloppy job. But if you want to do a good job (i.e., keep the levels and skills d20 rules compliant), it really starts to suck. Especially with the magic system being different, you have to really work it. I know. I'm...

That's probably true, though I've found new rules and source material to be somewhat like a treadmill --- your players get more powerful items, you get more powerful monsters, and so on and so forth. In the long run, for long term play, it's better to just disallow any non-core rules and...

Here's the deal, it depends on how much time you have right now. For instance, right now you have time to write and build your own campaign, so you only look for adventures here and there to slot into your story. I barely have time to assemble props. I lean on pre-made campaigns heavily, such...

$100 I'm pretty sure minis wouldn't be a big component of a $100 product. They're too expensive, and if they form too big a component of the product, they'd turn away people like you. I don't buy city supplements. I don't know why, but they seem to be just more campaign setting. The setting...

adventures don't sell David Kenzer writes: David, to be honest I think that it's more a matter of packaging than a matter of your adventures not selling. I've been participating in one of Noah's giveaways, so let me tell you that the content is pretty good, but seriously, who would buy a 32...

what's amazing to me.. ... is that it seems like most d20 publishers have given up on modules/adventures as a money maker. I disagree. I think there's a lot of potential in these, if done right. More so than with junk like campaign settings. The way I see it, campaign settings, no matter how...

levelling vs. slow advancement I've played slow advancement games such as GURPS. Yuck! 1 feat or skill point per session? It's not substantial enough to get excited about. Especially compared to D&D, where there are certain key levels such as 5th level for Wizards, and 6th level for fighters...

Bah. $28 on Amazon.com. Get together with 4 of your friends and shipping is free, and no sales tax either. That's what we did at our gaming group.

accessories Game accessories are already expensive. Battlemaps and miniatures don't come cheap. But to me, they're not essential to the RPG experience.