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The cover is spectacular! During this period (late 70s), I'd say White Dwarf was hitting a home run with it's covers more often than Dragon magazine was.

Agreed... I can see both pros and cons with having someone purely from video game land. It's going to be pretty fascinating to see who they hire (assuming they announce it)

One of the requirements is "5+ years of professional experience in narrative design or worldbuilding". But experience with tabletop RPGs is only "nice to have". There are a lot of video game designers looking for work at the moment. We could see someone in that role who was former Sony...

I think it's a pretty useful class, sitting in the fighter/thief space. If you didn't have a thief in the party, having one of these as a henchman would be a good compromise. Like Mon, I immediately thought about creating a 5E subclass based on it.

Thank you - it's great to be able to see the insert! One thing that strikes me is that 80% of the monsters were written by either Ed Greenwood or Roger Moore. That's a surprise, given the editorial made much of the fact that these were "reader submitted" monsters.

The list of books that Lew Pulsipher reviewed was pretty interesting. I found a few of them on archive.org, and I'm tempted to try and pick up some old hard copies.

My grammar is modest, but I thought the article was the subject of that sentence. The article is a critique, but the writer of the article is a critic.

Dragon Publishing released Dragon #89 in September 1984. It is 112 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features the Creature Catalog, special shields, and medieval war! The cover is called "Check" by Denis Beauvais and shows a brain-in-a-jar robot playing chess with living...

This is important to highlight, and I think a lot of creators are confused by this. Obviously, WOTC will act to stop gross violations of it's IP, but (I strongly suspect) they have no interest in the nuances of the DMs Guild agreement. That is a contract between you and Roll20, and it's up to...

A few of us asked about this in the early years (perhaps 2017). The OBS rep at the time said that they would not allow you to publish substantially similar products on both the DMs Guild and DTRPG. I can't recall the exact language, but the way he spoke suggested a very strict and narrow...

Kelsey Dionne is the best example of this strategy. She gave away the excellent "Secrets of Skyhorn Lighthouse" on the DMs Guild and used it to build a mailing list via in-document advertisements (something I desperately wish I'd done back in the day). It is hard to build an audience on the...

I can't recall saying that specifically, but it's not a bad rule of thumb. I do notice that some folks are reluctant to pay above $20 for a PDF. They really want a lot of value.

What an excellent discussion, and I look forward to listening to the interview when I have a few moments. There has been a lot of discussion about the DMs Guild. Given my history with the platform, I have thoughts. Mike Shea and I have discussed this endlessly in other forums. For an...

It's great to hear from you, Steve! Regarding Arn's gender, when I was writing the article, I googled and found his obituary. He sadly passed away in 2008 at the youngish age of 47. Obituary of Arn Ashleigh Parker: Arn Ashleigh Parker

I've enjoyed the discussion about falling damage greatly - it takes me back to 1985! We used to agonize over such matters ("why can my 10th level fighter survive a 100 foot drop onto rock? that's ridiculous!"). And then someone would find a story about a WWII pilot who somehow survived a 3,000...

Dragon Publishing released Dragon #88 in August 1984. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. The cover is by Jim Holloway, one of my favourite RPG artists, and depicts a rogue hiding from an orc patrol. Interior artists include Keith Parkinson, Jeff Butler, Brian Born, Roger...

Apologies - that was my mistake. I just checked, and the review says that the treatment of time dilation is inadequate - not that it is omitted entirely.

It would be about $50 in today's money. That is still pretty cheap, but if you look at the components, they were fairly simple: The Forever War