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This is what really makes a writer. Not so much the quality of the writing, but the ability to write on demand, not just when you feel like it. One of the reasons I started writing reviews was because I wanted to become a more disciplined writer and actually finish a novel. Unfortunately, being...

Rangers were originally a 0D&D class in The Strategic Review meant to mimic Aragorn (and his followers) from LOTR. They lived on the edges of civilization, protecting places from monsters and such. They were added to 1e almost as is (from the 0e version), with basically just the cleric spells...

Well, since you bumped it, might as well answer it. There is a free 2e retro-clone called For Gold & Glory http://www.lulu.com/shop/justen-brown/for-gold-glory/ebook/product-21832476.html There was also a really snazzy neo-clone (not an exact duplicate, but a spiritual successor with...

That's really up to the owner of the IP though (in this case Hasbro/WOTC). Many companies are fine with fan material as long as you don't try to profit from it. Apparently in this case (at least 5e), they are not fine with it. But you never know (until you get a C&D letter), the vast majority...

The thing is, SpaceShipTwo is essentially a rocket, not an airplane (much less a 1960s/1970s era airplane, like the Prowler/Tomcat). Not only that, it's using a fairly unique sort of engine (and probably flawed) that has never really been used before, as well as a new re-entry system...

I don't think it actually is legal. Archive.org will seemingly put anything up, regardless of its copyright status. Remember how they had all those Dragon magazines for several months?

Advanced Adventures #26—The Witch Mounds by Keith Sloan The Witch Mounds by Keith Sloan is the 26th entry in the Advanced Adventures line from Expeditious Retreat Press. Like the others in the line, it's for OSRIC, the 1st edition AD&D retro-clone, and in this case is for six to ten...

I'm guessing because they don't seem to pick developers with a track record of producing RPG Tools. Heck, maybe that doesn't even exist (given there's not exactly a lot of money in it), but maybe they should be picking a database company or something.

It's really amazing, considering that when I was a kid (70s-80s), you had really crappy made for TV quality superhero movies. (With the exception of the Superman movies, I guess) Even in 1990, you had that Captain America movie (which I actually liked a lot, but it was very low budget, like an...

X-Wing was amazing at the time, and then Tie Fighter topped it.

I kept saying that about the Highlander movies and somehow they kept getting worse and worse. Low budget or high budget, how many series actually ever get better? Or at least stay reasonably high quality? I would guess only the James Bond stuff

Novels and games really don't mix. Trying to understand how something would work in a game as it did in a novel is just a way to drive yourself crazy.

You might need to fiddle with the size of the image (or map) you are using to trace. I think it's supposed to scale to the size of the map, but in practice it doesn't seem to. Because it greys out the part of the map that isn't covered by your image. So like if you have a 50x50 map, if your...

I would strongly disagree with the 1st premise. OSR = TSR era D&D/AD&D. Not 3rd, not 4th, and certainly not 5th which IMHO, is less easy to convert than 3rd edition, thanks to bounded accuracy completely changing the ranges for AC and to hit rolls. Up to a certain point, 3e monsters have the...

3 Hearts and 3 Lions by Poul Anderson. Probably the biggest single influence on D&D.

Come to think of it, hasn't there been an awful lot of fiction and stories written about chess? Not about chess players, but the chess pieces themselves? Through the Looking Glass for instance. And at least a few songs (that one by Yes comes to mind). If RPGs are only about story involving its...

There was a thread with Google+ stats on RPG.net with stats for OSR games Which also amuses me, because for the life of me, I can't figure out how to use Google+, yet the OSR community seems to have embraced it.

In the '80s Mayfair put out "Fantastic Treasures" and "Fantastic Treasures II" that were basically this, real world magic items from myths and folklore (and gave them AD&D stats)

There's also Cryptworld, which is basically the Chill rules minus the setting. http://www.goblinoidgames.com/cryptworld.html