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I run one very regular and one semi-regular eberron campaigns. I've got many of the books, which are by and large quite good - some are extraordinarily weak on player content, though. It certainly has its weaknesses, and I've found some of the adventures kind of weak, but as a setting it...

Dad, a grognard into lead miniatures and wargames, bought my "big" brother the blue Basic set (prior to the red box, but after the brown box) in the 70s. He took to it like a duck to water, and soon invested in the AD&D books. I guess I always grew up around the game - he was running a...

Speaking as someone who's worked in publishing in one capacity or another for almost a decade, while there are pamphlet / small paperback houses that do just that and do fine (on a small scale), big publishers don't think in terms of 64 p. $10 pamphlets. The amount of effort into a 64 p...

Thanks, Gary. I realize, too, that whatever's in the works is likely early in the planning stages, based on what little's been leaked over the past few days. No worries - just hoping for some detail that might put some of the fraying flamewars on the other threads to rest. ;)

Yeah, the 4E rumors have begun in full force - more than just the trickle that had populated the boards over the past few years; the dam has broken, folks... Gary, can you elaborate on what you've heard? I know it's 2nd or 3rd hand, but whatever you can say might help guide some of the...

Fwiw, I just saw the following posted on Gary Gygax's thread (and yes, I know, he is in now way associated with WotC as a designer/editor, but his insight seems consistently wise...): Just read a short analysis by James Mischler of what is likely to happen in regards to 4E. If he is close to...

I remember running it as a 12 year old, or thereabouts. Young DM. For me, it was great - everything was mapped out. I and my players had a blast. Would it stand up now? Meh, probably not, but it would make a great NWN mod... ;)

One of the best ever, in that it trained a DM how to use the info it provided - here's a town, make it live. Sure, some of the qualms about copyediting above may be true, but the fact of the matter is that it is the language and layout that makes it what it is - a dense, hook-filled campaign...

Me likey sidebars.

The Scout rocks - come on! :D

I'm currently running two campaigns; both set in Eberron. Previously, I'd run 2 greyhawk campaigns, each with different groups - one a group of late 20 early 30 somethings who lean towards beer and pretzels roleplaying, and one of folks in their late teens who lean towards munchkinism...

I said "no", but I see the points of a lot of folks on this thread. That said, even if the only way you play it is as a kid who reads the monster manual and plays elaborate games of let's pretend (as James Wyatt said he did, in a recent article on the WotC site), I see it as playing a...

(FWIW there were gods and a very loose pantheon in the Gazetteer series in the late 80s, but yeah, I always found it odd that characters were clerics of a nonexistent pantheon.)

Hi, Gary, I'm sure it's been asked before, but how did you (and TSR) feel about the slew of D&D-inspired video-games that came out in the early 80s? (Tunnels of Doom, Ultima, Wizardry, etc.) Not from a legal perspective - I'm assuming you can't comment on that - but from a perspective of how...

I'm loving that Dio was just cited as a case example of Macroeconomics...

I'm pretty sure that DT just gets a percentage, but the arrangement varies based on volume. You can bet your bottom dollar that DT would do anything to house these rather than lose out to rpgnow or somebody, though.

Uh...there's all sorts of cool PDF content from Dungeon and to a lesser extent from Dragon available from the paizo website. No, it's not the whole issue, but as a DM, I'm really jazzed that the Dungeon handouts, maps, etc. are available as PDFs.

Using prepainted minis is fine, too, but I do really enjoy spending a lot of time painting minis - especially if they're minis I can plan to use in an upcoming adventure. I read in one of the Ptolus journals that Monte Cook apparently paints minis as armed for his games - e.g. if he's going...

All hail the return of Gord the Rogue Hiya, Gary, I just wanted to drop an "Attaboy!" your way, after reading the new Gord the Rogue story that was released with K.R. Bourgoine in the pages of the Dragon 30th Anniversary issue. Great stuff! I hope we'll be seeing more of our favorite rogue...

I think it's more of a question of what do you prefer in your game - highmagic, or tokienian-a-few-wizards-with-a-handful-of-spells, or Nordic sagas where there are very few instances of magic, and when they occur they are breathtaking, etc. (man, I just *destroyed* grammar and structure)...