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Ruins of Greyhawk is not an EGG product. It's a bunch of memories of the original castle put on paper by ex-players of the original campaign and glued together by a bunch of new content. It's not an accurate depiction of the original castle. Neither are any of the later products. My advice...

Tell me you have talked with him about it already. If not... why not?! :confused:

That's really what D&D is meant to be, for me as well. An open wilderness/"sandbox" environment, a mega-dungeon (or three) for the players to explore, with them understanding right off the bat that the goal is to explore whatever they want, however they want, and off they go, forward, to...

Wow. That seriously blows. Good to know. :uhoh:

To know more about the Caller, see this thread on Knights & Knaves.

That would be a completely unrealistic way of looking at it, indeed. Even when rooms are "empty", there's always stuff to look at, an ambiance to witness, some details to find out, a camp to set, some prisoner to drag down there to question, who knows? My point is, it's not because a room is...

Treebore. Talk to your friend and ask him why he is doing this. Don't go in with any preconception or with the goal of flying in his face. Just listen to what he has to say. Maybe there was miscommunication on his part, not yours, or maybe he indeed changed his mind at some point. Talk it...

It's interesting because though the games do have commonalities, the reason why RuneQuest goes into these sorts of setting has to do in part with the lethality of the system. Sure, if you're a skilled player, plan your explorations etc etc you can manage relatively well, but if the crap hits the...

It really depends what you want to do with your megadungeon, and what you want it to look like. Some versions of D&D work best with some particular dungeon set-ups and assumptions: AD&D is more about big levels, with a few keyed areas, whereas 3rd ed tends to have smaller sprawling levels, with...

I totally pull the chain, yes.

LOL French people would look at you like you're either insane, or a perv, for asking them to bite you! :lol:

mmm. Tacos... :p

Gro-nyar , with "ar" as in "far".

It totally was on the Emperor's part. Being a Grognard meant that you were part of the elite, one of the faithful who knew Bonaparte on the battle field and followed him everywhere in war.

LOL but that's the thing, my friend. I know the origins of the word and know what it means. I AM French after all. And I take this denomination as a badge of honor, not some mark of shame.

Hey it's alright, man. I was just talking as far as the true origins of the word are concerned. I agree that, as it is applied to gaming now, the term has travelled a long way since then (though its roots in Napoleonic wargaming are very much there, of course). :)

I'm sorry, but as far as the ORIGINAL context is concerned, you are both wrong. "Les Grognards" was the name given by Napoléon Bonaparte to the soldiers of "la Vieille Garde" (the Old Guard, literally). They were not only the most experimented men of the Grande Armée, but also the most faithful...

In time, those unchallenged line of thoughts evolve, get coopted by other people, then by game designers, and end up influencing the game to such an extent that you're just left with a simple choice: play a game that does not reflect your own inclinations and play style, or leave it behind for...

Nope. Your definition is specific to your own bias, sorry to say. I really don't care much about "serious business" memes that make geeks somehow claim they're "less geek" than "these geeks, you know, the ones who are really geeks, you know?". Whatever. I'm not "normal", whatever "normal" is...

Your definition is thus specific to your opinion, as far as you're concerned. I daresay that in this instance, your opinion does not reflect a consensus on the question of what a Grognard is, and is not. Far from it.