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Unfortunately Joshua is running "Swamp-full of Stirges" on Saturday from 2-6pm, so he won't be able to make it to the gathering until the end; the event is also being run Friday from 2-6, so it'd be possible for others to play it and still go to the gathering.

I won't be able to make it, but Joshua from Behemoth3 will be there running a D&D game exploring the Masters and Minions ecology of a stirge-infested swamp. Will point him to this thread!

The Dungeons and Dragons Experience is a well-made, serious & thoughtful documentary about the history of D&D and the people who play it. Very few people have seen it, though, and it's hard to find. Yep, 1 hour slots, beginning 11 am Friday and running until 11 pm, then the same again on...

Since pre-registration for Gen Con So Cal starts tomorrow, I figure it's time to start talking about what events EN Worlders are going to be running at the convention, and what cool stuff you're planning to sign up for. Sang Lee and I are going to be running a "Kill Monsters & Win Money"...

National Games Week is the major such effort I know about.

Bring 'em on! The tournament is indeed planned for So Cal this November; there's a forum set up here for folks to ask questions, form teams, plan strategies, agitate for the kind of pre-made characters you'd like to see, etc. Looking forward to seeing you then!

I vote Vecna because if Venger shows up it means things have gone seriously, seriously wrong and I'll have to start looking for a new campaign ASAP. Plus, you can't do anything cool with Venger's extremities after you kill him. Actually, if there is an artifact you could make with his body...

I used it as the basis for this year's Masters and Minions AD&D tournament, "Horde on the Borderlands", in which the players discover that the Keep (qualifier round) & Caves (championship round) are overwhelmed by monsters from our books, each group of whom are at war with one another. The...

There's a piece of advice for writers: Don't do it if you can do anything else. I heard it first in reference to science fiction, but it applies to RPGs even more. When I read a historical essay by Costikyan about how RPGs were the first kind of game that designers could eke out a full-time...

I agree that this approach is a good way to sell RPG rules -- and I mourn the demise of the plan to introduce kids to roleplaying with the Pokemon RPG, and then follow it up with a series of age-appropriate rules tied to popular franchises for each peer group, culminating in D&D. But one of the...

See the "Kill Monsters & Win Money" link in my .sig. It's inspired by the "D&D for Cash" event Kurt Stoffer of BoneMan Press has run w/great success at Gen Con Indy the last two years. When I spoke to Kurt about doing it at So Cal, he thought it wouldn't work because there weren't enough players...

Thanks for mentioning A Swarm of Stirges and Maze of the Minotaur, DMH; didja know that when you order the books through our webstore, you get full-color illustrations of each monster on cards to hand your players? Also, whether you buy the book from us or in stores, there's a registration...

I'm more of a stats guy; the trend isn't statistically significant (and anyways wasn't there a lot of talk about how the C&GR numbers were meaningless a few pages ago?)

Just came across a mention of the Yeth Hound in a 1896 short story, "Maker of Moons" by Robert W. Chambers (known nowadays mostly for The King in Yellow, which became part of the Cthulu Mythos): "The Yeth-hounds are dogs without heads. They are the spirits of murdered children, which pass...

Listen to every song that's ever asserted that rock will never die before pooh-poohing mearls's death-cult theory -- I think the mistake he made was to limit it to "geek pastime". SF is dying. RPGs are dying. Rock is dying. So are you and I; it's a fact of life. If the corpse of D&D fertilizes...

As a parent, I can vouch that it's easier to scratch my gaming itch by cramming as much play as I can into a four-day vacation than it is to run a regular campaign; the latter often involves paying a sitter, trying to find time when my group (many of whom are also parents) can get together, etc...

I'd posted about filesharing of Behemoth3's Maze of the Minotaur in a thread at the Forge a while back: Insert here the mandatory statement that I don't condone piracy and think creators should be paid for their work; see the post for the reasons I thought filesharing was a good thing for a...

Behemoth3 is happy to follow suit - except that if you win first place, you don't get to choose your PDFs - you just get all three that we've done to date!

The hobby is & will remain that thing we like do with dice when we get together. Every roleplaying company could go out of business tomorrow, and I reckon we'd all go on playing until they pry the character sheets from our cold, dead hands. Hite was arguing that the industry that serves the RPG...

The "Future of the Gaming Industry" panel at Gen Con Indy last year suggested that the opposite was true; price points rise because the market shrinks. The argument that the overall RPG market is shrinking, as the average age of gamers increases and new ones aren't coming in to replace the old...