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I've had Roquefort (just the 10° I think), Chimay, Orval, Westmalle, and La Trappe (which I understand isn't a Trappist beer any more). Chimay Triple is probably my favorite, but I can't make a fair comparison as I haven't had any of the others on tap! Roquefort and Orval are also very good; I...

Indeedy, it is Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) who have brought us Chimay and Orval, among others. I would imagine that a monastery would be populated mostly by . . . monks. Some will be lay brothers and some will be priests. I would not expect to see experts, warriors, or...

The top module sellers for 1e were T1 - The Village of Hommlet, S1 - Tomb of Horrors, and I6 - Ravenloft, at least according to Gary, and all sold in six figures. Another bestseller was B2 - Keep on the Borderlands (but that was for Basic D&D and was included in many boxed sets). Goodness knows...

I would actually recommend using the B/X or 2e initiative rules when running AD&D 1e.

I wonder how many of the books in the warehouse were DJ/Mythus books?

Well, in the case of TSR and the 1e books, there was a way to tell how much -- the orders for the books being placed by the distributors. It might have gone something like this: TSR Staffer #1: "Hmmm, here's an order for 10,000 PHBs. How do we fill it? That's a good chunk of change, even for a...

Yes! I say stab 3e all you want!!! ^__^ Or did you mean something else? :p

OK, then let me rephrase. Allow halflings to ignore their highest class as long as it is Fighter or Rogue. Otherwise it cannot be ignored.

Not necessarily since there's no guarantee that those still buying the 1e books would buy the 2e books anyway, and no guarantee that they might not buy the 2e books later on in any case. TSR did lots of silly things but I don't think this was necessarily one of them. If they had continued to...

I voted for Fighter, but here's an interesting thought. Suppose halflings, who are much like humans in any case, are flexible enough to have two favored classes (or, I should say, a halfling PC could choose one of two): fighter and rogue. There's already a kind of precedent: half-elves can...

My point was that as far as RPG core books are concerned, it's cheaper to reprint than it is to develop a whole new version. So if there are sufficient numbers still interested in an earlier edition, then there's no reason not to sell it to them. I don't think TSR had any intention of...

Well, who knows how many of the 1e buyers would have bought 2e books anyway? or how many of them might have bought it eventually after all? There were at least two printings (16th and 17th) of the 1e PHB after the 2e PHB was released. Surely not even TSR would have made the same mistake twice...

I think core RPG books might be the exception. It takes, what? at least a year to write, develop, and edit a core RPG book? That's a lot of money.

Why not sell something that people want? The only costs incurred by T$R to reprint the 1e books would be the printing costs.

Fighter. Why make them different from dwarves?

Yeah, it would be teh awesome. :p I wonder if it will include Hurin and Morwen's meeting at the grave of Turin?

What an inappropriately titillating title for that article. I strongly doubt that 'The Children of Hurin' will ever be filmed.

Vigilance, I think you and I agree on the Star Wars. You have said it far more eloquently than I have, however. I believe that the prophecy of 'balancing the Force' is fulfilled not only in the eventual destruction of the Sith (which seems to take place at the end of ROTJ), but also in the...

Even assuming that this is true, Luke goes against their wishes (they wish for him to stay on Dagobah to complete his Jedi training), and the movie portrays this as an act of virtue. So Luke rejects this manipulation. I don't think so -- for the sole reason that the Jedi leading armies into...

Why, if that was part of the reason that the Jedi were virtually destroyed in the first place? As wrongheaded and naive as it might be, the movies clearly favor modern-day democracy over any other political system.