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Gary Gygax in his introduction to Dungeons & Dragons Vol. 1 Men & Magic said I highly recommend every RPGer read these stories. Let me help you: Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser in Lankhmar: Amazon.com: Lankhmar Book 1: Swords And Deviltry (9781595820792): Fritz Leiber: Books...

I don't have room in my gaming budget for this product, though some board game geek friends are excited about this. I think the booster idea is cool and interesting. It reminds me of the Magic: the Gathering card Booster Tutor. WotC reps are on the record as saying there is really no point in...

Races of Stone has a gnome name generator table. Recommended.

Yes. Unequivocally, yes. The stablock should describe the monster. The appearance of the monsters and where it usually is found is vital. My most virulent criticisms of the 4E monsters is that, especially for the more obscure monsters, and especially obscure monsters without illustrations or...

See my sig. However, I'm a huge fan of D&D in general. I play Rules Compendium D&D/Labyrinth Lord/Tunnels & Trolls houseruled, make it up as you go play-by-email games with my oldest, best friends scattered across the globe. I played D&D and ran 2nd throughout the '90s. I took a break in the...

I believe most Fantasy Flight Games products with tiles interlock like this. I know the Descent tiles do.

The 4.0 set doesn't come with rules for creating characters. I can't remember if 3.0 and 3.5 did the same thing. I think it's really, really dumb and hurts the game even if it helps WotC's sell a few more PHBs.

Any ideas more creative than "the BBEG shakes it off" or "stuns and dazes don't fully stun or daze"? I'm thinking something: * if the BBEG gets stun-locked, the roof collapses dealing massive damage to everyone. Or similar environmental effects. * If the BBEG gets stun-locked, the BBEG summons...

Heh. He actually posted just yesterday with a great answer: Epic-Tier Pitfalls | Sly Flourish Thanks for the tip.

So you create an awesome solo as the climactic finish to this story arc. You're ready with banter and perhaps a short soliloquy. You design an interesting setting for the encounter, with varied terrain, hazards, and lots of room to move. Then the players show up, stun lock the BBEG, and the...

I thought my holding up the module Castle Greyhawk as the apotheosis of the setting would have tipped my hand. Ah, well. Carry on. Apologies to anyone offended.

My FLGS has a large gaming space, including a few private rooms, and has a pretty decent retail location in the revitalized downtown of my town. The reason this store is still open and at least a half-dozen others in the metro area are not is because it knows how to treat its customers. I...

The store owner and I were talking about what makes Friday Night Magic work and what we can bring over to Wednesday Night Encounters. With FNM, the players buy-in for $5 and for a guaranteed pack of the latest set, worth $4 (MSRP). With WNE, the players show up for free, and after an...

So, as the subject more than implies, my FLGS gave all non-PHB, DMG, and MM books a 50%-off clearance sale on Wednesday. Also, D&D Encounters is down from 4 tables plus subs if someone can't show up to one table, which includes 1-2 people who used to be DMs...

Whatever. CLEARLY Paizo ripped off WotC's D&D IP to publish their little pretend RPG game. The only reason WotC hasn't sued yet is because they laid off all of their on-retainer lawyers in early 2009 because of the worldwide economic meltdown. (Wake up, sheep! Read a newspaper!) The only...

Is Greyhawk still relevant to the modern gamer? No, because the modern gamer barely has the imagination to play a pen-and-paper role-playing game. They certainly do not have what it takes to play in Greyhawk. A few posts have called Greyhawk gonzo. That is incorrect, but only because gonzo...

I only read the first five pages of this thread. But are there any sales or revenue numbers to be had at all? What were WotC's sales and revenue from D&D before the 4E announcement compared to 31 July 2010 (to pick the arbitrary date when this thread started). What were Paizo's sales and...

To be fair to the authors, they lose a lot of control over the final form of their adventure once it is sold to WotC. If you read the "Ask the Author" thread at the forum I linked up-thread here, you'll see that the author of the current Dark Sun adventure does care very much. He follows the...

I'm DMing Encounters as well as organizing the events for my FLGS. First, make sure your DM's are following along at the official forums: Whoops! Browser Settings Incompatible They're forgiven for not knowing it exists, because it's hidden in the D&D "group" forums instead of the regular D&D...

I should add that I think the 4E DMG1 and DMG2 are so good they should be owned and read and reread by anyone who referees RPGs.