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2e Greyhawk Ruins doesn't really have much in the way of a feel beyond dropping a few easily changed names, it's just three big dungeons that once belonged to a crazy wizard. It would've worked just as well in many other settings. If the 3e product has any Greyhawk-specific feel, it'll be added...

I played in a campaign - way back when 2E was young and fresh, 1989ish - where each character started with a level-appropriate magic item that would increase in power as we learned more about it. All were eventually artifact-level in power (and associated nastiness), and linked to the end of the...

Cats are OK, I personally prefer dogs. Threads like this one tend to mystify me - I can't fathom the near-religious fervor some folks have towards a preference for one type of pet or the other - but then again I like both cats and dogs in general better than 90% or more of the humans I encounter...

I've never actually played in the Diamond Throne itself. When AU first came out, I created my own setting that included pretty much all the setting-type stuff mentioned in the rulebook, and used that to run my game. Even after DT came out, I liked mine better, though of course I pilfered various...

Perhaps not, but OTOH I don't really think Greyhawk shows much evidence of such knowledge being applied. Hommlet, for example, doesn't look much like a medieval farming village. In fact, the first D&D "towns" I ever mapped out followed the general layout of the various neighbourhoods where I and...

"Four of you have tried to kill me. One of you succeeded." Cap'n Jack Sparrow gets the nomination for most lines I wish one of my PCs delivered. I liked PotC 2 better than most, and the first one was also pretty entertaining. I'm looking forward to this one, too.

Of the games currently on my shelf, I'd use HeroQuest. Extended contests with lots of narrative stunts would lend themselves well to this kind of action. I might try also Iron Heroes, but it sounds like the stunts would require some pretty high level play, and that can be a bit of a pain to...

Like I said earlier, a company called Dark City Games has released a mechanically compatible ruleset via PDF, called Legends of the Ancient World. It's a free download at their website (the link's on the left hand side, under 'Rules'). Their schtick is to sell adventures for the ruleset. I can't...

Looks pretty decent, I might get a chance to use it in the not too distant future, and if so I'll let you know how it went. Some random notes on reading through: - there's no actual river on the map. I'm guessing Grass River is named for a creek or stream? Might be worth including it on the...

Dreamz or Lisi, I'd imagine. I'm thinking Rocky probably goes next from that team, he doesn't seem to have thought the politics through all that well. The other team is kinda interesting, it looks like the factions are going to break down as Earl plus allies vs. Boo plus allies, but voting...

It's an organization that seeks to make creative works freely available, they've come up with a few licenses that creators can use to release material for public use. If you think of it as a wider version of the OGL you won't be too far off (in spirit, at least). Here's a Wikipedia article on...

Well, comic books have been doing the same concept long before Heroes, too - often in very different ways. So have other related media (the Wild Cards novels, the Aberrant RPG, and so on). There's lots of room inside that concept for a unique take, and I'm pretty sure Mr. Kenson is familiar with...

I'm not, and I have. Various medieval records show that European feudal kingdoms operated with a population density of about 30 to 120 people per square mile; the former would be something like the Scottish highlands, the latter was found in the richest farmlands of France. Medieval Britain had...

Hmm. The main thing I disliked in the original folio was the population figures. They're generally too low for the land area given by a factor of at least 10. Some of the cultures were a little odd, too (why did the various nomads remain nomads, when they're hemmed in by city-building...

The current Gazetteer advances the timeline beyond FtA and resolves some of the FtA nastiness, so if your plan is to have your PCs do that kind of thing I wouldn't recommend much beyond the FtA set. Going that route, you can find Ivid the Undying, an unpublished supplement that covers the mess...

I think you kinda need to treat Greyhawk Wars and From the Ashes separately; the former was a big world-changing event, and played out in a fairly railroady fashion. The latter looked at the setting after that event, with at least as much scope for DM's to customize the world as the early 80s...

If you do mean The Fantasy Trip, I never got a chance to play it when it first came out, but in the last couple of years a company named Dark City Games has published a "compatible" ruleset (in the same sense that OSRIC is compatible with AD&D 1E) and a bunch of adventures. It's a decent little...

Was that the Exonidas adventure? Planet recovering from a limited nuclear exchange? It is indeed pretty cool, I believe the author was actually a novelist who published a couple of books based on his Traveller campaign. That one issue has most of the Dragon Traveller stuff I can remember (that...

Indeed. Fantasy Hero for fourth edition Hero system had a campaign setting called "the Western Shores", and before opening it I thought this thread would be about converting that setting to D&D. But a new homebrew is also cool.

From the subject line, I'm guessing it's a 24th-time con. I know that Pandemonium was around in the mid-90s, when I went to one, though at that time the RPG part was pretty tiny IIRC. Dunno if it's different now.