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Thanks! I've actually been to a few of those: Red Lion Smoke Shop, many moons ago, which I didn't remember as a gaming store, but rather a comic book store. Myriad is about 5 miles from my house. It's a board game store with a few WotC books. Nice fellow running the place, but I'd like it if...

Hello mates, I frequent(ed) many of the stores mentioned in this thread. * Jumpgate in Portsmouth has an excellent selection and I prefer it over the others, presently; unfortunately, it's an hour away from me. * Wizard's Tower in Nashua -- I enjoyed this place, tons of RPGs, though was...

Two years ago I'd reached the end of my tether with the current rules set of D&D, and I longed for those days of yore as many others have and continue to do in droves. Determined to return to AD&D 1e -- though with a decent list of adjustments and house rules -- I bumped into C&C. At once I...

LGGC Rocks! LGGC is great! Man, I wish I could make it again this year, but I'm going to have to settle for Gen Con. Yeah, I do prefer the small and intimate setting. Allow me to give you folks a rundown of some of the things I did: * Hung out on Gary's porch, drank some beers and talked...

Seems like there are a lot of ENWorlders in the Boston area. We should all get something together some day and do a bit of gaming, drink a few beers (providing there are no minors), whatever. I can run a C&C game and show some of those curious folks how fun it is. --Ghul

I love to tinker, and tinker is what I do with my C&C, which is more akin to an AD&D/C&C hybrid. It includes integration of AD&D class abilities with C&C abilities. So, my C&C knight is much like an Unearthed Arcana cavalier, excepting the % raise to stats at every level. It is easy to adjust...

I had an amusing situation this week that somewhat applies to the above. The characters foolishly took into their protection and confidence an assassin (claiming to be a "scout") whose goal it was to spread dissent and cause ruination to the group so as to prevent them from continueing their...

Yes. And yet somehow I'm balder and hairier at the same time. How can this be? :confused: --Ghul

Stirges! By god, I can take out the most powerful party ever assembled with a hungry swarm of stirges. And my love for these creatures was made tenfold when Ed Greenwood did his ecology on them. My favorite of all time, and my players know it. :] --Ghul

I am not a lawyer, but I also believe they (WotC) cannot claim names from folklore as their product identity. For example, I don't see Leprechauns in the SRD. I'm quite certain you can make a Leprechaun in your adventure, as long as you don't copy the text of a d20 Leprechaun. --Ghul

College Method Back in the day, before d20 dice were plenty, we used to often use what was called "college method," which was a d6 and d10 each rolled. 1-3 on the d6 equaled 0, 4-6 equaled 10. Then you added the d10 roll to the first result. As DM, I didn't mind , but it drove me crazy...

The below is part of a Dragon #29 article on alignment by Carlos Parlgreco. Here, guidelines are given for each of the nine alignments. As the author states, “…these aren’t firm restrictions, but open to interpretation by the DM.” LAWFUL GOOD Will keep their word if they give it * Would...

Yggsburgh Fellows, Keep in mind that Gary Gygax's Free Town of Yggsburgh modules will take the core volume, Castle Zagyg Vol. I, Yggsburgh, and flesh it out to completion. There will in total be 19 town modules and 5 suburbs modules, each slated to be about 64-pages. That's an estimate of...

That's too bad. I shop there about once per month or so, and I've always admired their willingness to carry a huge amount of small press publishers. --Ghul :(

Same here. --Ghul. PS: and put a bard prestige class in the appendix. :P

You misunderstand me, Thur. In fact, I agree with most everything you say. A rich setting is quite integral to the D&D experience, and I have in my experience of 25 years DMing employed both commercial settings, homebrew, and amalgamations thereof. What I do not prefer is to DM as a...

Storyteller? Egads. Storytellers and amateur thespianiasm equals boring D&D in my opinion, but of course YMMV. The DM need only set the table, where I come from. Let the actions of the characters dictate the course of the "story". Otherwise, the players feel as though the actions of their...

PandP wrote: In the game I run, the assumptions are: You should have scouted effectively, found the monsters, chosen your battleground, made a plan, and then attacked. If you didn't do that, then any lack of tactical options you have in this fight is your own problem. And: If you don't have...

So, How 'bout dem Bears, Gary? Good defense this year, and that Urlacher is a monster! --Ghul :cool:

Thul-- I have the same brownbook Greyhawk, signed by both Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz. Gary even told me the story of how Terry Kuntz invented the beholder pictured on the cover. It was the only other thing I got signed that weekend. However, it does not have as much sentimental value to me, as...