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I only have the Kalamar Player's Guide (KPG) and Stealth & Style: A Guidebook to Infiltrators and Basiran Dancers. I mainly use them to mine them for ideas. I don't use the setting as a whole. From what I've seen flipping through the campaign setting book at my (f)LGS, it looks very detailed...

Oh... BTW, sorry that you're feeling depressed today.

That sums up my position as well. I've got a long-running homebrew going so I don't run any published campaign settings.

The campaign I play in is a Tolkien-like fantasy (1,000 years after the War of the Ring) with a few elements from Wheel of Time and I some stuff that seaped in from my DM's exposure to Baldur's Gate. It's relatively lower-magic but with "legendary" battles and enemies and such. The campaign...

Fantasy Games Unlimited I remember back in the 1980s that FGU advertised several different games every month in Dragon, stuff that's been mentioned, like Bushido, but there were also ones like Aftermath, Space Opera, and a Pulp/Adventure one (I forget the exact name) and it seems like at least...

Right, but I would say that she was already a "gamer" - just in a different form. She hadn't simply seen an advertisement for D&D and decided "Hey, I want to play that!" I totally agree with you. My point, though, is that this level of interest in older people is more often than not going to...

Wil is the voice of Aqua-Lad. He (Wil, not Aqualad) is a big proponent of gaming and is a really cool guy. He has an e-mail friendship with Monte Cook and is pretty plugged into the gaming scene. That said, I don't think that TV commercials are the answer here. Back in the heyday of gaming...

I have this problem a lot. If you find yourself doing this (putting off playing to write rules that no one is really going to use) then it's time to put down the pencil and pick up the dice! You can always go back between sessions and work on the stuff that you think is fun and adds depth to...

Usually through compliments. "I really enjoyed the last session" or "I like the world that you've developed for our game". Stuff like that goes a long way. Another form of appreciation they show is by participating in the game outside of the actual sessions, such as reading the stuff that I...

Younger demographics are usually the "holy grail" of most products that are advertised. While the gray generation does tend to have more disposable income for things like luxury cars and such, most cars aren't really marketed to them. Look at Cadillac's recent advertising, using Led Zeppelin...

Sure, it's good if you're playing a MEDIEVAL-type game. What if you're not playing that kind of game, though? What if you're playing Dark Sun? Or Spelljammer? Or a homebrew that's not based on medieval Europe? What if, since this is a fantasy game, you'd rather have a completely different...

I had a few questions about some of the things brought up here. 1) Weapon Speed Factors. You guys actually used these? I played in several different games with different DMs, players, and in different states and never once was in a game where people used these. I really never saw the point...

*bump* Sorry for the bump - just curious to see what happened in the last session.

Maybe in theory, but here's an example of the Cleric level titles from 1st Edition: acolyte adept priest curate prefer canon lama patriarch high priest (9th level +) So, apparently it was okay to just mix and match titles from all sorts of religions. I remember in Basic Edition D&D that...

For the group that I DM... Yeah, there is a default leader. It took them more than a year to get to that point, though. By default. The guy who read most of the Adventure Logs (posts I make on the campaign website after the adventure that describe what happened) and did a little more...

So, Regal Worm, how did you session this past weekend turn out? Any improvement from the players and DM?

Check out the Top 20 in the Product Reviews section here on ENWorld and then read the attached reviews. Also, a lot of it depends on your gaming style and type of game. Are you a player or DM (or both)?

So, I'm gathering that there are no "collectors" of the Quintessential books, then? I was under the impression from discussions with other gamers that there were certain people who bought all of the Quint. books to keep their collections intact. I'm gathering that's not entirely the case...

Uh, I'm not sure I want to read about an STD followed by a "break out"...

Two things that have become long-running jokes in our campaign. Like most "campaign jokes", they're really only funny to the particular group involved at the time. 1) Very first session with a group of mostly newbies but a couple of veterans. One of the vets is playing a 1/2 orc fighter with...