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I think this is a very important perspective. Over at the OD&D boards I remember you using the analogy of a classroom, and I agree that playing D&D is like being a student: part of the fun is mastering the knowledge that the teacher has and you don't. Let's imagine it's a history classroom, and...

Chzbro, I agree that even back in the day, I'm certain lots of people had a storytelling approach, just like lots of folks used minis, invented crunchy skill systems, and otherwise didn't act like we expect of old-schoolers! I'm using it here to say "those things that were part of the original...

Over in the thread I forked this from, there's a discusssion of the Gospel of Papers & Paychecks: and Harlekin points to Piratecat's 4th edition thread as a good example of a storytelling approach. I played in a 4E game Piratecat ran at Anonycon and it was fantastic, one of the best...

Wow, that'd be awesome! There's been a lot of talk about DGUTS at the OD&D boards recently as people unearth Arneson's contributions to the original D&D rules, so I'm psyched to see folks playing it.

Just finalized the first of a couple of game descriptions, and still open for more! - Game Name: Castle Zagyg: The Upper Works - Run By: joethelawyer - Maximum Players: 6 - Brief Blurb: The curse has finally lifted! The most legendary and fabled castle of them all, Castle Zagyg materializes...

International Traditional Gaming Week is coming up on March 21st through 27th! How are you going to celebrate it? I'm going to GaryCon II in Lake Geneva, WI on that first weekend and the Dave Arneson Memorial Gameday at the Compleat Strategist in NYC, NY on the 27th. In Chicago, chgowiz is...

I disagree that you can't run a sandbox module like B1 as a one-shot. The trick, I think, is to give the players something like a partial map that will lead them to interesting areas if they choose to follow it, but doesn't restrict their freedom of action the way tournament modules usually do...

Glad you like it! This one came out of things I tried to talk the DM into while playing a shaman. Uses I remember are getting unconscious characters into range of my healing, and pushing a small boat we were piling in to get us offshore and escape from monsters.

I wrote that one (and also Risky Shot)! Forgive me for geeking out; this'll be my first D&D book author credit, and I've been waiting impatiently for someone at Wizards to give the author list so that I can go boo-yah! Rob, Rich, and Eytan all had more impact on the ultimate shape of the book...

I use 100 xp/hd and my players nevertheless scorn combat as a source of advancement. In our last session they killed 52 HD worth of creatures and it still came to less than 700 xp apiece. We start PCs at 3rd, so you're unlikely to survive long enough to hit 4th if you don't learn to avoid...

I took a swing at quantifying this shift by counting how many choices you get during character generation in different D&D editions. Check the comments for some critiques of the method I used, but I think it's not just a generalization to say that making a character in 4E requires you to make...

When: Saturday, March 27th, noon until 5 pm Where: Compleat Strategist, 11 E. 33rd St., Manhattan, NY What: Celebrating Arneson's legacy by playing some of the roleplaying games inspired by his pioneering 1972 Blackmoor campaign (a category which includes D&D of every edition!) Who: Players...

The article I was talking about in that earlier post came out today, and one of the posters at the WotC boards seems to agree with me that authors are getting better at adapting to the shorter format. Hopefully this trend will continue (on my part, that'll require getting another Insider...

I share your desire to do things "by-the-book", which is why I like playing OD&D where even following the rules obsessively leaves many situations where we can creatively figure out what the outcome should be. The Caverns of Thracia adventure my campaign has mostly been devoted to is also very...

I'm very happy with the rituals in Azagar's Book of Rituals. At $15 it's a must-buy if you want to get more out of rituals. (My opinion is biased, as I was a contributor, but all mine are in the travel section so my admiration for the rituals in the rest of the book is pure). Rituals are a good...

I've submitted one 2,000 word piece to Dragon and am working on another. One advantage of the format change is that having more articles per issue makes more room for new voices to be published, which I hope to see more of! I agree that brevity is one of the most difficult things to do well...

Yes, I've already started talking with the other guys about using pdf & Lulu to release some of the other stuff Sang had worked on: a tournament adventure he'd written, the remorhaz book he'd done pretty complete illos for, plus some sketches he'd done for bulettes and mummies. Not being tied to...

I will be dedicating a D&D game to Sang's memory this Saturday from 3-9pm. If you're in NYC, please join me to celebrate some of the good times we had together. The invitation stands even if you didn't have the chance to know him, as I hope this will be a good example of the kind of bold...

Thanks for the support, guys. There will be a memorial ceremony this weekend, and I'll pass on your kind words.

For anyone who ever admired his eyeball-kicking illustrations in A Swarm of Stirges and Maze of the Minotaur or played in his Masters and Minions tournament rounds at DexCon and GenCon, I am heartbroken to report that Sang Lee is no longer with us. At one time or another I was lucky enough to...