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I saw a hard copy of the Tamoachan update, and while I have very little interest in playing 4E, I will want a copy of this for my Greyhawk collection. This looks like quite a high-quality edition, from my page-through.

I put Munkir and Nekir on the cover of Living Greyhawk Journal #3, I believe. --Erik

We will absolutely keep doing metal miniatures with Reaper. We adore their sculpts, and look forward to working with them for years. --Erik Mona Publisher Paizo Publishing

Sadly, no. I barely have time to write my EN World column and run Paizo, let alone run an online game. Sorry! --Erik

These are all a bit rough around the edges, but I really like them, and I've always been missing the fourth adventure in hardcopy. So I just ordered the whole set. This is an incredible price on some deliciously evil old modules. --Erik

Great stuff, as usual, and it's interesting that we've finally entered your interregnum between stints as an active reader. Since I'm not often following along with my print copies, I do sometimes wish you would include the name of the cover artists and editors you criticize. When I did a...

I know novels, Dragon Dice, and general mismanagement ultimately did TSR in, but looking at these product offerings... wow. They really did kind of disappear up their own asses a bit near the very end. That Lankhmar boxed set was pointless, and a lot of these other products are on the bottom...

Sweet! Thanks for the battle report!

I'm very curious to hear what you think of this adventure. I had a really good time writing it, and love to hear people's war stories against the vicious pugwampis! I assume you'll read it with a fourth edition eye, and I'd also love to hear how it might convert to that system. Not the...

I think the most likely reason for this (also not flattering, unfortunately) is that the magazine had just gone through an almost complete churn of its editorial staff, so the new guys may not have even noticed the milestone. The little "ribbon" on the cover literally costs nothing above a...

For the record I have absolutely no problem with people referring to me by my last name. If I did I would never have survived junior high. Thanks for your long response. I'm still chewing it over. --Erik

I could never convince myself to barrel through that whole Dragonlance series, and I'm really glad someone else is doing it for me. :) Thanks again for this great thread.

Just out of curiosity, is there a number of rulebooks per year that you would consider acceptable? Fewer than one per quarter is "churning it out," I get that. But what would you say is an appropriate release schedule?

Mona doesn't do a lot of rules clarifications on message boards. --Erik

I absolutely love these threads. I think Das Schwarze Auge deserves a mention in 1984, as it became a dominant RPG in Germany and shows the international spread of tabletop RPGs beyond the English language. There probably were earlier non-English games, but this is perhaps the most influential...

Great thread. I wote a lot about the early origins of D&D in an article for a book called Second Person, published by the MIT Press. It's available on Amazon HERE. Folks interested in the topic might find some useful nuggets there, as I crawled through a lot of the period magazines and...

I don't have easy access to this issue at the moment, but if the article is pimping the "war" storyline regarding a siege of Raven's Bluff by a warlord named Myrkessa Jelan then I remember it very well. It wove through a lot of the backgrounds of various scenarios released throughout the year...

I always sort of looked at this book as a very high point in the creative development of the Forgotten Realms. This thing was used HEAVILY in the RPGA's Living City campaign, and all of the little cultural details in this book brought a lot of life to characters I encountered when traveling...

I think it's also important to understand that Clark's personal life changed a lot during this period, with him taking on the role of a real-life judge. THAT's the main reason he's not more involved in gaming these days, not the OGL, not the GSL, or any other factor. He simply does not have the...

Lots of promises about how robust and fair the new OGL was going to be, for starters. Also lots of stuff about how the game was going to make the DM's job easier, etc. But we never got the new OGL in time (and it fell far short of expectations) and we never got a look at the rules before they...