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I have a couple of comments from a purely utilitarian point of view (not commenting on how the maps look aesthetically at all). I like the notion of Dungeon Tiles for "off the cuff" adventuring that the DM is more or less making up as he goes along. Plunk down some tiles and have a little...

This times a million. Although in hindsight, the people I was playing with in 1992 were much thinner as a group than the folks I play with now.

Frankly, the experience says exactly as much about the quality of the people in that neighbourhood, town, or country as it does about the people in the RPGA (ie. nothing substantive). lol

I think a big part of it is the "racial memory" of competitive play from the 1980s that Gary loved so much. You say RPGA to anyone who has either been around the block for a while or read a few old Dragon mags, but hasn't actually been involved with the RPGA for at least a decade, and all they...

Regarding Dragonlance, I found the initial DL setting to be perfectly fine and fun and interesting. It was only the advancing of the timeline that I didn't like. It got more and more ridiculous with each advance. If you stuck to pre-War of the Lance stuff, it was a reasonably good, gritty...

I tend to play in a Jasperak-esque way - I get enough complication in Real Life; I like my games to be simple and straight-forward. Very occasionally something different might be fun, but the vast majority of the time things are starkly Black and White. The PCs are the Good Guys, and their...

I'm a FR guy, so I'd pick the Oghma/Gond family of FR gods personally. :)

All this talk of gnomes, and someone mentioning Tolkien, made me think of how HE used the word "Gnome". In his early writings (the period of roughly 1916 - 1930, don't have the books on me for exact dates), material that would eventually be assembled by his son in the Silmarillion, Tolkien...

I've tried many systems once and then couldn't continue. The only games I've ever really played more than once are: 1) Whatever the current version of D&D is (4E today). 2) WEG d6 Star Wars

Is this the first mention of the RPGA in Dragon? I don't remember seeing mention of it in your articles to date.

I use a laptop when DMing RPGA adventures. I usually run a notepad window to track initiative and hit points as well - it takes about 5 mintues to set up at the start of an adventure and runs fairly smoothly. I spend a lot of time partially closing the screen when I need a better look at maps...

Forked from: Laptops and PDA's at the table... what do you use? This just came up with me today, DMing at a RPGA game. Here was my ruling: "Anyone who talks about WoW, starting right now, starts the next combat dazed, save ends." Got things right back on topic. :)

I wrote an RPGA adventure once where PCs in a hurry had to get help from the church of Lendor. It was reasonably fantastic. :)

That's just what I was trying to say on the first page. You can't take a society that is basically medieval/early Renaissance European, add to the mix relatively cheap and easy magic (both wizardly and clerical), and claim that the nature of the society would me more-or-less unchanged...

I'm a bigtime RPGA guy. The analogy that I've developed to describe it is this. While she was a veterinary student, my wife worked as a meat inspector at a chicken plant. She saw over 100 chickens a minute zooming by, and would see about 150,000 a week - over the course of the summer she saw...

Change the name of the monk, and the names of its class abilities. Call it a "brawler" or something similar.

I saw a quote once, regarding a fall from 50 feet. "A mouse is unharmed, a man is broken, and a horse splashes." To be fair, in 1984 this was a reasonably original idea. As far as I can remember anyway, being more a SF guy than a fantasy guy. I suppose if the criticism is from the article...

I think at the core the problem is that it has proved very difficult for developers to produce a realistic, internally consistent, sensible society that would evolve around the ubiquitous presense of magic. The physical effects of magic are easy - the social effects are most definitely not. I...

Since they merged databases between the RPGA (D&D) and DCI (Magic: the Gathering) I've been told it is easier to get a your number online through DCI than through the RPGA. That said, I've had an RPGA number for over a decade, so I have no idea in specific how to go about getting a number.

I kind of like it. Maybe just because I play a couple of warforged characters in the Forgotten Realms. :P I think that saying that fluff should be free and crunch should be subscription isn't really fair. Some of the most beloved articles in Dragon-of-old (see (un)reason's excellent thread...