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so did I. One of the best books I own for the job is one of the otherwise execrable Conan collection of stories by assorted authors (Conan the Swordsman).... the stories are dreck, but there is a big index in the back that lists every name used in all of the stories by REH and others, and the...

I had a character named Falken, after the professor in War Games. And a cleric named Zamfir, after a musician who played the Pan flute and had ads on late night TV for CDs of his music.

it's been a loooooooong time since I read either, but weren't both the WoG and FR MCs kinda loaded with 'a handful of world specific critters, and lots of others that would fit in about anywhere'?

EGG's additions to the WoG (particularly the gods) were eagerly adopted by those of us who were gaming back in the day... our group used the WoG as it's game world, but there weren't any deities at the time, so our PCs were worshiping random gods out of the DDG book. Once these articles came...

I remember that, and that at Gencon that year, TSR had several huge boxes of corrected pages that they were giving out free to one and all...

I've never played 5E, so a question.... how hard is it to make an NPC based on the PC classes? For example, in 1E/2E it was rather easy to make an NPC fighter of a certain level with certain equipment to face off against the PCs. From what I see of 5E though, character creation is a lot longer...

my active D&D years spanned a decade (1980-1990), so 1E was the edition for most of it. I started when it was all still pretty new, but starting to explode in popularity, and gaming stuff was still pretty sparse, so homebrew was a big part of it. Nostalgia no doubt colors a large part of my...

just got back from seeing it. Not exactly a masterpiece, but definitely a lot of fun.

yeah, that part annoyed me too when I got the module way back when. I redrew a bunch of it for later use (which sadly, never happened), and did similar to what you did, had snakes, lizards, and scorpions replace the nonsensical wolves, sprites, bees, etc. (howinhell would those critters end up...

it's possible that there is some review bombing, but the ones I'm reading aren't 'official' reviews that amount to anything, just comments on Facebook on some of the D&D pages I hang out on....

yes, the negative comments were all like "Just got back from the movie and I hated it!!" Again though, it's only about a quarter of them....

haven't been reading any reviews, but I've seen a lot of comments on the movie on the D&D pages I hang out on at Facebook. They seem to be running about 3/4 positive, with 1/4 of them being rather negative.... strikingly so in a few cases...

I didn't really set out to be a dice collector, but I just ended up with a bunch. First, it was just a set for me to use as a player. Then I started to DM some games and had to get more. Then one of the groups I was in had some players who didn't have enough dice to get by, so I set up...

cover of FR9: The Bloodstone Lands

I started in 1980 in college at a smalllish town in MT. Surprisingly, gaming stuff wasn't that hard to come by, as the toy store in the mall had a big RPG section. Still, back in those early days, there weren't a lot of modules on hand yet, and we tended to run through what there was pretty...

even way back in the day, I'd wondered why TSR was wasting money on getting SPI products and then trying to publish them.... only later did I learn just how much money TSR wasted on assorted bad ideas and litigation. Later, when I read of EGG's wargaming roots, it wasn't so surprising that he...

well, it's not a complete compilation, but didn't one of the 'best of Dragon' issues collect a bunch of them?

while I disagreed with EGG in general on the Conan movie, I thought he had a point on one thing... that incredibly bad "Flower Children of Doom" scene...

I don't think they'd have put every monster published in Dragon in this theoretical new MM.... just the ones they considered 'worthy' by whatever means. As for the Cook vs. EGG, I'm conflicted. I was annoyed at 2E's caving in to the Satanic Panic and nixing the fiends, assassins, half orcs...