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Reddist, would you buy an electronic download of new gaming goodness if it were in hyperlinked HTML format? The text of the PDFs of our Masters and Minions books is massively hyperlinked to our online SRD - see here - but presenting it in HTML instead (or as well) would have some advantages for...

That sounds mighty cool! I've always thought Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker books would be a great source of gaming goodness, and am glad to see some expansion into that territory!

Carter, DeCamp, and Conan. Erol Otus. Gygax. Trampier. Ed Greenwood. Each of these immortals put their stamp on the legend of the remorhaz. Now it’s your turn. The latest preview of Masters and Minions Horde Book 3 traces the origins of this classic monster and introduces its new ecosystem. Roll...

That's a shame! Glad to help out; email sent.

Open World Press's Hamlet of Thumble is a great module, in the classic sense that it's both an adventure and a little chunk of situation that you can plug into (or use to start) a larger campaign with a town full of personalities, competing forces, etc. - very like the AD&D [i]Village of...

The great part of Vancian magic is the foreshadowing. In the most Vancian-magic of Vance's stories, "Turjan of Miir," we're told on page 9: "What dangers he might meet he could not know, so he selected three spells of general application: the Excellent Prismatic Spreay, Phandaal's Mantle of...

1980 - Holmes basic set, with chits! Tried to get my mom to make sense of the rules, w/o success; then found some older kids who knew what was up.

That's sad news of a kind that's becoming all too common as the years roll on. Thanks for letting us know.

Ah, that's good to know! I'm in the middle of editing a Masters and Minions book centered on the ecosystem of the bulette; one of the things we like to do is to present the history of each monster, and I'm thus glad to have record straight. I think you'd like Swann. I got turned on to him by...

No books are listed, Krieg! I'm eager to pimp but need something to go on...

It's great to see you around again, Gary! I wonder if I could ask you a few questions about the origins of monsters - please excuse me if these have been answered elsewhere. 1) Can you confirm that the bulette and rust monster were originally a plastic toy that you created a creature around...

I actually did play some on camera with them - at least, I refereed a head-to-head minotaur vs. dwarf match between Riley and Mystika. They're cool folks, really knowledgeable & passionate about the classic old-school modules and with a firm grasp of the most fun parts of D&D. For those in the...

Half-serious comments in this thread about Piratecat videotaping his gaming group & becoming (deservedly!) rich from sales of the tapes reminded me of something I'd been meaning to post about. The other day I was interviewed by a local filmmaker who is making a documentary about D&D. One of the...

We're working on a series of characters (equipped both as NPCs and PCs) that are statted out from level 1-20, so that you can pull just the one you need for any given encounter. The first one, a minotaur barbarian, is here - presented in character sheet format; the next preview will show the...

A set of rules that could do justice to the foot-chase scene in the movie Point Break has been on my wish list for a long time! The most memorable chase in my game for a while now was this: a ranger/necromancer using Track to hunt a fleeing invisible wizard whose ghostly familiar had possessed...

Chris Aylott's Dynasties and Demagogues is super good! I've got plans for a series of short alternate XP systems - it seems like a great niche for an OGC publisher, and lots of people have problems with kill-based XP. Tell me more about what you'd want from a PDF like this!

I saw that add too! I thought, maybe by analogy between "microgame" and "microcomputer", that what you got for your $3.95 was a computer that played the game. Even at the age of 9 this seemed too good to be true - I didn't understand the concept of wargames at all, but I sure did want whatever...

Behemoth3's Elites series presents monsters and heroes with full d20 stats for levels 1 through 20, each complete with stat block cards and character sheets. Need an adversary for an unexpected encounter, or a premade character for a tournament event? Every Elite is presented both as a NPC and a...

I'm gearing up to schedule the events I'll be running at Gen Con Indy (ideally two Masters and Minions tournaments - a 3E "Be the Monsters" event where you play minotaurs, ashmalkins, etc. and beat up on paladins, a 1E event where the fens are infested by stirges, the minotaur maze in the Caves...

And other society-wide factors too. From a post at the Forge: We can attest that the second part of this is true, because one of our founders, Brian Stith, served in Kosovo & organized an enthusiastically-received Ars Magica campaign over there; our donation to the Baghdad Hobby Club was...