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Say, in another thread I started about games with an "old school" feel (or at least a re-release of an old school game), I asked about RuneQuest and HARP. We got off on some tangents - rightly so, and well explored - about C&C and other games. But, my curiosity keeps coming back to the...

Oh, we certainly do play a lot of CoC. We were looking for something of a fantasy clone of old school games that's currently supported. No doubt we can just crack out the old books, but we were looking for something "new" that felt "old". ;) Sounds like a lot of votes for C&C...

That's a drag... Wonder how long until they convert the remaining stuff to two magazines, one geared towards players and one geared towards DMs, and sell them in book stores and gaming shops and...oh...right...

1e/OSRIC is definitely on the table. We're just curious about other games we could give a shot. Just found two good links re: mongoose's retooling of runequest here: RPGnet : Review of RuneQuest (Mongoose Edition) RPGnet : Review of RuneQuest and RuneQuest Companion What do you think of...

So, my buddies and I all started during the 1e and 2e days, played a TON of 3.5 and have recently converted to 4e. We keep coming back to "wow, I wish we could play something that was more like first edition..." It may just be that we play 4e with some of the "first edition feel" modules and...

This is true, and the "boss" battles are now much more rewarding and exciting, but we have taken note that even the benign encounters like plowing through some orcs take a long time, too. Not that it's a bad thing, but, it's requiring that we start altering the expectations of some players...

Say, in our weekly game, the DM and I were talking about the length of time we spend on 4e encounters, vs. the amount of time we spent on 3.5e encounters. Usually, we'd plow through 4-6 encounters for 3.5e in a 4 1/2 hour session with plenty of time for roleplaying and exploration, too. In 4E...

I for one welcome our new ant overlords As a volunteer who runs games at shops, I've got to say that most folks showing up to play RPGs at shops are showing up to play RPGs. When I ran D&D Minis games, there was a disproportionate number of folks who showed up just to win free minis and kind...

I for one welcome our new "old setting resurrecting" overlords.

I've played some of K.R.'s earlier games, and am eagerly looking forward to my copy. The art for this game is great. :)

I guess in a way that makes you part of that group of folks who furthered the mythos after HPL's passing, then! :)

Can you elaborate on the Lovecraftian influence on mindflayers? I mean, there is a connection to Cthulhu as hinted at in the original DMG, right? (or are all of us Lovecraft fanatics just reading too much into things?)

Gotta agree - didn't the third Drizzt trilogy jump ahead about 15 years or something, if I remember right? All while the D&D timeline stayed closer to where it had been at the time of troubles. Who's to say the Salvatore isn't doing the same thing again? WWEGD? What would Ed Greenwood Do?

None of the 3E support materials really worked for me as a "campaign setting" - I generally had to dig deeper into the realms of old school stuff, and even then - very few of the campaign setting products were as thorough as what we've come to expect from the past 8 years...

Yep, not to drag the discussion out past what you've already laid out as the endgame, but I look around the shop sometimes when a newbie comes in to join a game that they see underway, and when they ask "Can I play?" it should be simpler. If I hand somebody a character sheet (whether they're 12...

Hard words to hear, but as a fella who runs open games in a comic book shop for newbies, stuff that sounds pretty accurate... :\

Curious about your take on con-meltdowns by players who get upset about their characters dying. Has that always been a mainstay, or do you attribute it more to the recent edition and peoples' obsession over their characters, attributes, munchkining? Or am I not putting enough words in your...

Little anecdote here. I use campaign settings as a base. Even in cases like FR where I've picked up a lot of the ancillary material, there's no reason to try to force the players to have to play within constraints of dozens of books that they nor I have read. So, when Eberron came out, my...

Say, I've got the original Iron Heroes, and now I see there's "Iron Heroes *revised*" out. Anybody gotten it yet? Is it worth the cost?

The problem is that many of the older books that are available as PDFs predate digital piracy concerns. Since there's nothing explicit protecting Staples when they go to copy this stuff, they can't risk having some attorney at a publisher decide to interpret the "Do not photocopy" clause as "do...