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This is why I've proposed putting everything up in PDF/PoD and then stopping new product development. ;)

Are you referring to the whole series? Then based on my memories of reading them a decade back, and starting to reread them this past summer but getting distracted, try starting with The Dark is Rising proper, instead of Over Sea, Under Stone. Well, the authors admit in the Annotated...

You could say the same about Riverwind, who is a ranger according to the game stats. Although he has the excuse that Weis & Hickman heavily sideline him by the time he reaches the level to get those. :)

SAGA's "horrible reputation" comes mainly from people who didn't like the fact that it had to roll with the changes made by Dragons of Summer Flame, didn't like that it wasn't AD&D anymore (after AD&D DL had withered and died two/three years prior), or were exposed to it primarily through...

For the anchorite, it looks like the author Googled "dungeons dragons anchorite" and just used the first result that came up--which is a homebrew Prestige Class.

Agreed. I'm skeptical of Next, but getting a little less so, and I'm willing to give it a look. At its worst, I expect it to be on par with 2E or 3.0--a few rough patches, but a solid game. Unfortunately, what let a game dominate the market in 1989 or 2000 may not fly in 2014, when we have so...

That's not necessarily a bad thing. If this is going to reach more than the hardcore gamers, they'll need to provide support for those who come to the game fresh--and support for those who prefer a more open-ended, sandbox or "PvP MMO" style* and those who like a more linear, "console RPG" style...

The man in charge is also somewhat notorious for having radically shifted on what he says D&D should be like over the years. :) On the original topic, it's the kind of stuff shown off in last summer's demo and the ghoul encounter therein that worries me.

You can find it all here. It's a fascinating glimpse into the origins of DL's mythos.

I have to wonder if the "three points of a triangle" bit comes from Tracy Hickman's famous use of it to describe Dragonlance's Good/Evil/Neutrality (or Chaos) bit, which was in turn taken from Jeff Grubb's OD&D campaign pantheon that was divided between good Lawfuls, evil Lawfuls, and a "Chaotic...

The game that made Luthien Tinuviel a blonde? (Lords of Middle-Earth Vol. II) :D Now, Decipher's Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game--that was made by Tolkien scholars, or at least one, IIRC. John Rateliff worked on that, right? On the list, I was very happy to see that the SAGA Rules...

The FAQ put out by Pelgrane Press makes it explicit that yes, organizations can be Icons. And you can go even farther afield--they also posted a 13th Age of Camelot hack that used chivalric values as Icons.

"Mearls also announced, to resounding applause and loud cheers, the highly-awaited launch timeframe for D&D Next." So what is it? Or is there a blackout on this information?

Maybe they'll actually start showing off the system, then. ;)

I think that beats the copy I got in trade for a copy of FOR2 The Drow of the Underdark back in 1998 (and I'd paid half-price for DotU, too). :)

Holmes is actually the version of Basic that predates B/X, and as I understand, it's an odd offshoot in the evolution of D&D. Reprinting vintage material goes all the way back to G1-3, from a certain point of view. :) Premium products have included the 1999 Silver Anniversary box, the 2004...

Spotted by Alter_Boy over on RPG.net . . . http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndacc/45390000 $150 US, but a solid product for the price, it appears.

The Cthulhu Mythos probably wouldn't be an issue--Lovecraft's stuff isn't nearly as tied up in copyright as it was thought to be back in the early 80s, and Chaosium's been pretty good about letting other people use the stuff they added to it. It's the Melnibonean mythos that might be more of an...

That's SOP for DriveThru's products, and since those are all the cover prices, I don't think you need to worry.

It's varying based on edition. Price seems to be running at around 60% of cover for 4E items, 50% for 3.5 items, and 40% for 3E items. The only 1E items I can see--the Fiend Folio and T1-4--are a flat $10. EDIT: U1 is now on the listing (the Adventurer's Vault has disappeared for some reason)...