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I've never gotten to try it out, and it's probably hard to find since the Guardians of Order went out of business a year and a half ago, but Ex Machina looks promising. Instead of being built around a specific setting, it has suggestions for building your own setting and several very...

That does sound cool. I vaguely remember seeing ads for the Odyssey series in Dragon, but it came out during one of the hiatuses in my gaming career -- that was in the window between my high-school gaming group falling apart and my letting my subscription to Dragon lapse -- so I never checked...

And to add a touch of flavor -- that complements abstract maps -- to the setting, you could have characters use Roman itineraries instead of maps.

Ew. That could also -- ahem -- raise the old question of whether someone can be brought back from the dead after their corpse is animated.

I've wanted to do something like this for a while now. The catalyst was a collection of R.E. Howard's Conan stories, which had a preface that talked about how the order in which the stories were written had no relationship to their internal chronological order, and how Howard took inspiration...

I'm about half convinced that a good splatbook is one that makes the splat more interesting without adding new rules -- problem is, I can't think of a splatbook that doesn't add new rules, so I suspect that all I've concluded is that I personally dislike splatbooks.

+1. I've never owned a copy of 1e Deities & Demigods, I vaguely recall seeing the names "Corellon Larethian" and "Gruumsh" somewhere back in the day (in 1e UA?), but they've never had any connection to any game I've been in or run.

Thieves used to get the ability to cast spells from scrolls at 10th level; I figure UMD is an expanded version of that.

I'm a historian-in-training, not a scientist, but I have one suggestion: after a culture collapses, a lot of the stuff it left behind will be reused for very basic needs. A lot of Greek and Roman monuments were taken apart and used to build houses and fortifications; bronze statues were melted...

The new owner's other shop or shops were in St. Louis. My guess is that over the six months or so he ran the Underworld as "The Fantasy Shop", he decided that expanding from Missouri to Michigan wasn't going to work for him.

I've only read Ghostwalk and never seen how its rules work out in play, but I got the impression that the designers thought ghost feats would be pretty appealing. (At least, I think that's why they wanted to keep PC's from accumulating more levels as ghosts than they had while living.)

The Temple of Elemental evil qualifies, IIRC.

I like the late 1E era Dragon best, but every time this question comes up, I have to stop and wonder for a while how much of my preference is just nostalgia.

Unless you drown.

Nope. TSR even published a module "For Character Levels 18-100" -- H4 Throne of Bloodstone.

Suddenly, I want to write a shaggy-dog story of an adventure about a mysterious marauder of the planes.

What are the city's relations with its neighbors like? This festival would be a good time for allies to show their support and subjects to bring their tribute, making the procession more varied and lavish. A festival of a popular god should be a lot of fun, and include a lot of different kinds...

I played a dual-classed character once, but he started play that way -- as a 1st level MU with a couple levels of Fighter in his background -- and in the long run, the only real difference it made was some extra hit points. I'd guess that the stat requirements for dual-classing were intended to...

The picture your avatar came from? Issue #126.

I don't know how easy it is to find them now that Guardians of Order is a memory rather than an RPG company, but Big Eyes, Small Mouth and its spawn, Tri-Stat, might be worth a look. They take the Hero/GURPS approach of point-building characters with a bunch of possible power ranges, but in a...