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Just picked my copy up - great layout, and the production qualities are amazing! The rules look cleaned up (and I liked 'em before, too). How backwards compatible do you feel it to be? -Tyler

Wave To clarify - me and my pals play Wave real time, not as a pbp substitute.

This is the future of gaming... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrY7MWEkwE Technology! Dark Tower the game, which somehow was timetravel-ed back to the 80s from the future...

Wave My pals and I have tried Wave a few times. Some notes on what worked and what didn't, here: Tyler is Gaming...: First Try at Using Google Wave for D&D Short version, it's slow but getting there. If Skype-ing seems funky, this can be a fun way to play. -Tyler

I think a lot of DMs took note of his concept of not describing the horrors that confront the players in detail, and instead hinting at them. That makes things more terrifying! :)

Am scheduling time with a buddy to try out the video chat - it doesn't appear to be any competitor to using other services, from what little I've seen, but we'll see what happens. That said, my friends and I did try out using it for a substitute for a tabletop game, today. We hit a slow jag on...

The UI itself worked like a charm, and the apps that you can add are awesome, but we found it running reaaallly slowly, when my pals and I tried it for a d&d game, today. Notes here. Let me know if you have any ideas about how to handle the speed issue? Or just wait it out? Tyler is...

Let me know if you end up using Google wave for this, and how it works. Tried it out today, and there was some really promising stuff, but it was pretty slow. Leveraging a chat server in parallel is a great idea - just unfortunately defeats part of the benefit of Wave. Hoping it gets there...

I lean towards 96-120, but that's primarily because that was the heyday of my readership - certainly stuff with Wormy and other earlier stuff like Phil and Dixie loom strong in my memory, but I found myself using the Marvel RPG, Forgotten Realms and DragonLance stuff from this era in the pages...

Bingo. (enough with the other stuff about what will replace email and cell phones - this is worth noting for online play...) With a few open source developed add ons like a dice roller, and integrating an online game mapping tool, this becomes an easy way to do an online table top. This is...

WOLVERINES!!! WOLVERINES!!! Sorry - couldn't resist. Back to topic...

Loving this thread. Just put more updates on my NetFlix queue in one night than I have in a long time. Regarding the above, one of my gaming groups has done something along these lines quite a bit. We played d20 modern with a post apocalyptic setting, and we'd watch a different post apoc...

Oooo! Do the videos include those commercials from the 80s?!? ;) Seriously, I think the flow of the site and organization is fantastic. Well done! -Tyler the Hobo Tyler is Gaming...

RuneQuest (Mongoose Edition), Dragon Warriors My RuneQuest game goes on, and I'm really enjoying the Mongoose revamp of the rules. I've also started experimenting with Dragon Warriors, which I got hooked on after the freebie at Free RPG Day, this year...

I usually spend a ton of time combing through the campaign setting guide that is appropriate to the adventure - if it's a homebrew adventure, though, I'll still look through a lot of 3rd party plot/campaign stuff to get hooks and things. I'd like to think I'm clever enough to do it all from...

Definitely "hearing" your players is the most important thing. I've run many a game where the party derailed things really quickly, but instead of taking umbrage, I rolled with it (OK, you don't want to clear the keep of monsters, but instead want to set up a mercantile operation in the...

The model for selling the product hasn't changed, even if the price is higher. Pretty much every kid's "welcome to college" kit from companies in the states includes a free Mach 3 (or Mach 10 or whatever they're up to now), and there are still plenty of freebies of the razor itself sent via...

I realize you're quoting the author's logic, which is largely sound, and applying it to the core books, but my take from a marketing perspective would be that WotC (and even TSR back in the day) is applying the "Give away the razor, sell the blades" model that Gillette has applied to their...

Glad to hear all of the fond memories with this. My primary group is, largely, not a bunch of sticklers on rules - more beer and pretzels with enough guidance to keep the game manageable. Sounds like this will be a good fit! We've been playing RuneQuest lately, and most folks are really...

Say, did anybody else get turned onto Dragon Warriors (Mongoose/Flaming Cobra/Magnum-Opus-Press) off of the Free RPG Day booklet? Or were you playing it before? (Or heck, did you have the 6 novel-sized rule books from the 80s?) I just ordered it from my Friendly Neighborhood Gaming Store...