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I'd need to take another look at the article, but I wonder if what he meant might be something closer to 'effect-based'. I'm enjoying them--but I'm becoming more and more inclined to believe that he's doing brainstorming and soliciting initial opinions for what will, in 4 or 5 years' time...

I should clarify: I was referring to the card-based SAGA Rules System used for the Dragonlance: Fifth Age game and Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game, from 1996-1999. I'm pretty certain we'll never see any hint of it again, but the one hope lies in the fact that Mike Mearls was a fan. :)

See if you can find a copy of Morgoth's Ring, Vol. X of the History of Middle-Earth series. It includes numerous philosophical and theological speculations of the Professor on elements of Middle-Earth, including the difference between Sauron and Morgoth, the problematic nature of Orcs, and an...

I'll have to pay it a visit--but as a veteran quasi-DL fan, I know that even settings can get divided and hostile. I'm also not certain that attempting to impose a unity on the fanbase by new events helps--it usually winds up privileging some and alienating others. It would--but I think...

3E has the edge in mechanically customizing characters (although it also suffers from the presence of 'trap' options), but 2E, IMO, is more open when it comes to customizing the game itself--the way it unfolds in play.

A supporting witness to this fact showed up in a thread on RPG.net today: I found it an interesting and valuable reminder that, despite the claims of some of the more strident OSR folks, that mode of play is not the only 'old school', or the One True Way To Play D&D As Intended by Gygax...

IMO, unity is more of a pipe dream than anything else. This hobby has never been 'unified' beyond the broadest strokes. Remember all those house rules and variants the game was famous for in the 80s and 90s? I think the only reason 3E looked as 'unified' as it did was due to 2E burning out...

I thought it might be--about a year or so ago, I was doing some random Googling and dug up a post by you from rec.games.frp.misc singing its praises. I wish I'd known it when we met briefly in 2007. :) Any hope of seeing any kind of revival? :)

So which one of you named it? And was Malystryx, the Great Red of the underappreciated Dragonlance: Fifth Age material, any inspiration for the name?

My bets? Elementalist: Wizard or Sorcerer Shugenja: Druid or Shaman Sha'ir: Wizard or Warlock And I'd also guess that part of the reason that they're 'builds' instead of stand-alone classes is a combination of the overwhelming mass of feats and the way the demand for 'support' has...

Amazon has a brief description up. Some people on this thread are going to be happy, some less so.

3E was marketed as a return to 1E-flavored D&D. IMO, that's the main reason the half-orc, barbarian and monk are in the PH (and the assassin was until the 11th hour, from what I've gathered), and Greyhawk is the default setting. Even the first two years of supplements were dominated by redoing...

In reverse order from yesterday to roughly the start of the year: BESM Fantasy Bestiary (PDF) Champions: Book of the Destroyer (PDF) Adventures into Darkness (M&M Superlink edition) (PDF) BESM Dungeon D&D Essentials: Heroes of the Fallen Lands ($6, Borders closeout sale) Castles &...

Makes sense--the term derives from the Greek vrykolakas, and if memory serves, Greek folklore often described vampires as redheads.

13 out of 22--which I consider respectable for someone who's never read Unearthed Arcana. :)

Well, you've got nothing to be ashamed of in this context--your main city has D&D-style dungeons as well as a castle. :) (I spent three weeks in Ireland, Scotland and made it as far down into England as Cambridge. Delightful time.)

I don't own B4, but from the description, I think a lot of it was revisited in the Zargon chapter of Elder Evils for 3.5, so if you have that or could find it cheap, it could be useful. (It used to be really easy to find it dirt cheap, but the price seems to have rebounded in the past year or...

Although not called out as such, it is an extended introduction--this story is a chapter from the forthcoming Dawning of a New Age novel. Don't worry, the rest of the stories will be standalone, although they'll require you have a general understanding of what happened during DoSF. Given the...

Nice summary of nearly every edition change.

From what I was able to find in discussions here, it's over the top with a grain of truth (sort of like my characterizations of Old School :) )--Mearls really does think B2 is lacking compared to other D&D modules that were around at the same time, and was a poor choice for including in the...