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Thank you for posting that! My 4e experience was just a couple of sessions of Keep on the Shadowfell, not long after it came out. The group sort of collectively shrugged and went back to 3.5. My impression at the time was that 4e was a well-designed tactical game that didn't feel enough like...

I have a set of dungeon walls and corridors that stand up by themselves, bring a selection to the gaming table in a cardboard box, and set up encounter areas at the beginning of each fight. That means a little pause before the beginning of combat, but I'd rather have that than try to build an...

You can see the table of contents and a preview of a significant chunk of each issue at RPGNow/DriveThruRPG (my link is to the latest issue, #4). It's not quite flipping through a physical magazine, but should help convey a sense of what it does and how it does it.

One of the things that Jon Peterson's Playing at the World really brought out for me is that gamer arguments have always been overheated, no less so in fanzines 40 years ago than on Internet forums now. Pulsipher's shot at Gygax was nothing compared to what people were saying about him in venues...

The ones that got shut down a long, long time ago?

I've never experienced this particular arms race in-game, but this thread is now reminding me of the letter column in Dragon, a long time ago. :D

Do we know anything yet about availability/pricing for electronic editions? Over the last couple of years, I've developed a strong preference for getting RPG books in PDF format. I figure I'll get the starter set from my FLGS, and the new "Basic D&D" PDF will be a must-have for me, but I'll be...

Given the geography, a river-spirit could make a lot of sense. What did you have in mind for the Reflection Pool? If something there likes the occasional human (or demihuman) sacrifice, and could have extended its influence to the old battleground, that could add up to a pact with some dark...

I knew I'd seen a rule that green slime dissolves cloth and leather instantly, but it took a little while to track it down. Turns out it's from Basic D&D. Nothing in the AD&D lineage ever explicitly addressed the point, but the 1e/2e description says that green slime takes 3 rounds to eat...

I don't currently have a gaming group, and I'm hoping that the 5E release will make it easier to find players for a new one. :D Lately, I've been working on a setting, partly planning a possible future campaign but largely because I enjoy worldbuilding in its own right. I could see using 3.5...

Excellent! I must have still been writing my post when you shared this.

IME, they do take the pre-order price guarantee seriously. I've gotten a couple of things for less than the price listed when I placed my pre-order. Not much less, but less. But they also don't tell you exactly what you're going to pay for a pre-order until it's about to ship. So don't place...

My inclination would be to tie it to the destruction of the evil temple. The commander of the good army said "If we are victorious, may this land know a hundred years of peace", and the gods granted the prayer -- that sort of thing. Or "As compensation for the sufferings of war endured in a just...

As far as some of us are concerned, flumphs never left. ;) (My avatar was inspired by a thread from my first period of participating on this site... which was close to a decade ago now. Wow.)

Not Hallucinatory Terrain, but Massmorph. I have no idea whether that one ever made it into 3e.

I prefer to avoid OS holy wars, so have no idea what's going on in the other thread, and most of the features you ask for are genuinely missing*, but I can help with a couple: Apple added this feature in Leopard. This gets a bit cumbersome, but what you need to do is wrap the shell script in...

The idea of "unaligned" gods doesn't sit right with me -- replacing Neutral with Unaligned for PC's is fine, but having an alignment that means the "I'm just living my own life" version of Neutral for PC's but the "maintain the balance of whatever" version of Neutral for deities irks me...

Moral panics need a popular target -- the '80s panic over D&D was a side effect of the D&D fad -- and even with the 4e launch, I just don't see D&D getting more mindshare than, e.g., Grand Theft Auto.

There's Mega Damage. I'm not too far into the book yet, but so far, it's not terribly different from the old Robotech RPG. There's a bit more in the way of setting background and GM advice, but still not much compared to other licensed-setting games I've seen. The organization of the book is...

I think the fluff is better than the crunch, and the fluff itself is uneven (the "true afterlife" is profoundly uninspired), but the setting has some really evocative elements -- a city on the boundary between the realms of life and death, dwarves guarding a physical portal to the underworld...