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Sounds pretty good to me. Greyhawkins has a nice ring to it.

It looks pretty close to what I was thinking. E.g., info about Captain Cook barely European contact era to the “Chief of War” era rise of King Kamehameha , including weapons, mana, kahuna, chiefs and other castes, agriculture, trade, religion and prophecy, etc. I don’t know that I’d ever run a...

Thanks. I missed that. I’ll have to go read your Let’s Read in its entirety.

So far as I can tell, there’s slim to none use of Hawaii or Polynesia as RPG settings. Watching Jason Mamoa’s “Chief of War” on Apple TV, I think that’s a shame. All I can find is Razor Coast, which seems to pirates but with a hint of Hawaiian content, and this one apparently indy publication...

It’s really good, in my opinion.

I signed up for the U.S. Army. I failed the physical on Induction day (bad ankles). I was not an orphan raised by wolves. A lot of veterans I know are from reasonably supportive families. And a lot of veterans play D&D. Why would fantasy characters who volunteer for combat be so different...

50 coins to a pound, right? A Troy ounce of gold is worth about USD $4000 now - about double the long-term rate of roughly $2000-$2500 due to a spike of about 50% recently. 14.58 Troy ounces in a pound. So $58,320 a pound. Divided by 50, 1 GP = USD 1166. In 1834-1933, the USD was on the...

“A change is as good as a rest.” - Fred Thursday, in “Endeavour” I took a break from D&D from 1991-1996. I came back knowing what I wanted (AD&D “1e” in homebrew or Middle Earth or Greyhawk, with friends, playing infrequently in person or mostly on email), and I have never stopped since (now...

Most recently formed party backgrounds. Since it’s over email, there’s a wide variety of actual locations and backgrounds, though I know them all outside the game. - Halfling from a merchant family signed up for an arranged marriage for business alliance reasons and ran away with the dowry...

Did anyone quote Tolstoy yet? “All happy families are the same. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Except usually PC’s with tragic back stories don’t even have a family.

Good one for “Winter Tapestry”. Memorable and I’d like to run it someday. I collected the entire print run of Dungeon (filled in those I missed, as I bought it from FLGS’s and never subscribed) and started writing reviews during the pandemic. I haven’t totaled the cost, but I suspect current...

The Hobby Shop in the Bizarre Mall in Mt. Kisco, NY is where I bought most of my AD&D books. They had Tunnels & Trolls, but I don’t think Basic. I bought my PHB at a toy store in my hometown.

3.5e Core Rules (original round of releases only) Best because it’s in the middle of the editions, the “last best” version of AD&D and the first (if you count 3/3.5 as one thing) of “modern” D&D with AC going up, etc. As DM, I can draw from all of Basic, AD&D, 3e, PF1, and 5e fairly easily...

If folks don’t like the way the poll was organized, you could do you own. Maybe: OD&D (all variants and editions including OSR & 3rd party) Basic (all variants and editions including OSR & 3rd party) AD&D (all variants and editions including OSR & 3rd party) 3e/3.5e (all variants and editions...

What’s the difference between the versions of Basic?

I voted 3.5e and 5e 2024. DM: 3.5e email friends campaign #1 since 1998 DM: 3.5e email friends campaign #2 since 2024 Player: 3.5e Zoom/live family campaign. Niece is DM since 2024 Player: 5e 2024 Discord/Roll 20. DM & 2 players I’ve known over 20 years plus 2 guys who are new to me. I...

I’m thinking it’s one big world, but due to the Twin Cataclysms and very low populations in all the sub settings except the Flannaess, they’re almost entirely out of contact. I like that better than “out if area” adventures being only extraplanar. Much like how on actual Earth, civilizations...

As noone requested, trade and contact among the "domains" of my Greater Greyhawk. Isle of Dread: Merchants from Sasserine have set up a tiny colony, and the Scarlet Brotherhood is in the area. Pirate Isles off the Isle of Dread: Sometimes attack and sometimes mercenaries for the Scarlet...

I was thinking it’s about like the domains in Ravenloft, which are mostly separated though in the same overall setting, if I understand Ravenloft correctly. I’ve read a number of Ravenloft adventures and that seems to be how it works. I played a one-shot in Ravenloft (GenCon Online) and I’m a...

I remember seeing Ghostwalk in the store, but never really thinking about it.