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That seems a bit nasty to say. Out of the 100-200 modules that get published, we're identifying about 10-20 or so that are bad... that beats out Sturgeon's Law by a mile, I think. Do you also write your own fiction so you can avoid reading bad novels? :)

Well, I don't think it's bad because it has robots. But it's still not a very strong module. You're wandering up in the mountains, trying to find out where the rediculously strong and weird monsters are coming from. You get three days to wander through a spaceship where most everything is...

Hmm. Interesting. So, I want to select for use. A) Advanced Bestiary <- Lets me square the monsters in the base book. B) Planar Handbook <- Lets me do fun outer plane adventures. C) Book of Fiends <- Let's visit hell! D) World's Largest Dungeon <- For when we want to dungeon craw. E) Call of...

Indeed. I've got a group of D&D'ers who I'm turning to the Cthulhu side of the force. (Well, two of them have played CoC before, in BRP.) On request, I'm running CoC D20 - they already know all the rules and how they work. They also know just how fragile they are, too - these are people who...

Back when I lived in Pittsburgh, I hit a generous serving of fan conventions - there was Balticon (general sf/fantasy/geek), Philcon (ditto), Evecon (Combination sf/fantasy with new years eve bash), and Castlecon (because the Evecon people had too much time on their hands in July). Now that I...

I'd be interested, sure. One year, as an experiment, I ran a Sailor Moon game at one of our local Denver cons. I got 5 kids as players, and I think they were all girls. We had a rip-roaring fun time, and the only reason I haven't done it again has to do with other factors. The only problem...

C. I'll generally read a work on the computer screen, and then print out relevant parts for use in the game.

Currently it's in development. You can get a stripped down version called Basic Role Playing that's about 32 pages in some stores, or you can get their Monograph version, which is basically Runequest 3 with the Glorathana removed. With 3d6, you have the possibility of people rolling up real...

I've been reading the Slayers D20 - I hadn't gotten it for a while ($40 was a bit much for a research book), but I picked it up on ebay recently. The idea is that spells have a DC to cast them. This DC is increased by metamagic feats - which are all now basically sudden. To cast, you make a...

I didn't enjoy it. I played in an online playtest game, and had a lot of trouble with the little funny differences between d20 and Conan - they kept tripping me up. At low levels it really wasn't very fun. But other people seem to think it's great - so I suggest trying it out with the cheap...

It depends. I just sold a bunch of netrunner cards on ebay, and my jaw positively dropped at how high things got bid to. IMHO, it's really the D&D 3.0 and earlier stuff that's been oversold.

Man, Valiant really sunk. Of course, as far as I can tell, they didn't do any marketing for it either.

How farking odd. Was this a Mark of Eberron game? I swear, it's stuff like this that leads to 20-page threads on how sucky the RPGA is.

Personally, I'd be surprised if the situation wasn't - no new books released, all fan sites continue as before, occasional articles in Dragon. I suspect Wizards will let the gameworld lay fallow for a few years before looking into starting it up again.

It reads like someone was taking notes into his laptop during the talk, and then sent the whole thing off to the company. It's neat seeing a little piece of gencon.

In my collection of DM tricks and techniques, I've got one I call 'Bathrooming'. I don't have to use it too often, but it's useful. You use it when your game is going along nicely, you've set up your players to go with option A or B... and they decide to take option Q. You didn't really...

It sounds like what you're doing is moving away from D&D now, and then when 4e comes out, you're going to neglect to pick it up, more than desertion. As for myself, it depends. Right now I'm still having a lot of fun with D&D, as well as with other systems. How I feel when 4e comes out, will...

Well, I love cons myself. Get to try out new things, with different people, and What happens at Gen Con stays at Gen Con. :) But I've got some friends who don't go to the local cons, sometimes. Usually it's because they think it's too expensive - you pay X to get in, and then x more per...

I had some problems with rpg.net yesterday, but I can't get in at all today. I've got to wonder if the staff is off at Gencon, and something's gone wrong back at home. If so, the staff may not even know yet that there's a problem... or if they find out, it may be a lot of work to fix it from...

What premade characters? I'm afraid I don't remember any. That said, I suggest checking out Monte Cook's website - he's got an entire forum devoted to RttToEE. If anyone knows, they would.