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The funny thing is, the examples you gave of games that haven't changed -- chess, Monopoly, Life -- actually HAVE changed. There's an article in the August issue of Dragon that very, very briefly touches on the history of chess, giving its origins as India, evolving in the Middle East, and...

Three games currently...playing in one D&D tabletop, running one D&D online, and running one Star Wars Saga Edition online.

For those who don't know, the Star Frontiers creatures were reproduced for D&D in the Spelljammer campaign setting. Yazirians became hadozee, dralasites became plasmoids, and vrusk became rastipedes. In addition, sathars were introduced to D&D as psurlons in Planescape for 2E, and in the 3.5E...

My pics are a little different. I run an online game and use the Gametable program to keep track of character/monster position, then I upload a pic to my website at the beginning of every round. Pic 1: The party battles some plant people at the portal to the Beastlands in Faunel. One of the...

The seventh layer of the Nine Hells is Maladomini. http://www.planewalker.com/encyclopedia/encyclopedia.php?intEntryID=67

Pick any energy spell and convert it to water. In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Kitara's waterbending slices through stone. You could have scalding ray instead of scorching ray, a waterball that deals impact damage instead of a fireball, etc., etc. Someone mentioned a wave that bull...

Dude! We named our youngest daughter Zoe as well, umlaut and all! Of course, where we live, no one knows what the umlaut is (or diaeresis), and so we have to constantly correct people calling her 'Zoh.' :\ Our oldest daughter is named Corina...just a variant spelling on an old name from...

I think players can appreciate the beauty and complexity of the Planescape adventures more if they're used judiciously and are interwoven with "normal" adventures adapted to the setting. As I mentioned earlier, my heroes are currently going through The Great Modron March, but that requires the...

I'd like the credit to go to planewalker.com and all its members as a whole...there's a wealth of useful material there that deserves recognition and use. I'm just lucky enough to have had some of my stuff published. I think the approach I took to my campaign as a whole might have contributed...

I've run a Planescape campaign since 2001, starting as 2E, morphing into 3E, and now firmly entrenched in 3.5E. Recently, it's moved to a message board game, as the players are scattered throughout the U.S. and the world, and we can't coordinate a time where we can all meet to play. You can...

My campaign is planar, so my party is a little more eclectic than most. Male fey'ri rogue 6/keeper enforcer 4 (homebrew prestige class) Female air-touched human sorcerer 9/elemental transcendent 3 Female human barbarian 6/champion of Gwynharwyf 6 Male hybrid t'kel/tiefling druid 12 Female high...

I originally wanted just Oracle on the Wizards of the Coast chatsite, but Peter Adkison's screen name was Oracle. So I adopted Kajal the Southern Oracle, with the Southern Oracle part from The Neverending Story and Kajal from an old Milton Bradley card game. Plus, I live in the South...

Happily married 14 years to a wonderful gamer grrl. She started playing when I met her in high school (I was the DM), and continued as a regular member of my group until we married. Kids took her out of the action for a little while, but now the girls are old enough (13, 9, 7, 3) that we can...

"Don't Cha" (to the tune of "Don't Cha" by the Pussycat Dolls) Ooh baby Ladies Fellas Are you ready? Let’s post Baby (ooooh) I know you read me (I know you read me) I know you do (I know you do) That’s why whenever you log on I’m the homepage for you (I’m the homepage for you) I know you...

Congrats on your impending fatherhood! I've got four girls myself, ages 3, 7, 9, and 13, and we have a family game every so often, using the D&D Basic boxed set (for 3.5E). My wife and I are avid gamers, and we're both heavily into the fantasy genre. As a result, the girls have their own dice...

My wife and I have four kids ages 3, 7, 9, and 13. When she worked weekends, I would take the kids to the local game store to game, keeping the littlest in her carseat to sleep (she was 1 then). When my wife wanted to start playing, we moved the game to our house, and the 13-year-old is now in...