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It’s also up to the author what edits they accept. The editor cannot force the edits on the author. The editor’s job is to improve what’s there, not change it. And the house always sides with the author. So if they want that 25-page pointless side quest / diatribe to stay, it stays. Yep. Most...

Picked up Morbidly Curious by Coltan Scrivner, PhD. Basically, a scientist goes through all the relevant research about why people like horror as a genre. I'm just finished with chapter 1 and it's an absolute banger so far. Well worth the read for anyone who's a fan of horror and for anyone who...

I started in 1984 with B/X and quickly switched to AD&D. My brothers were collectors and already had TSR's Top Secret and Star Frontiers along with other games. It wasn't even months before I grabbed up whatever I could find at the local game store. FASA's Star Trek RPG and TSR's Marvel Super...

Yep. Computers are exceptionally bad at "don't include this." Anything with a "don't include this" will inevitably have that thing. Boolean searching only seems to work some times.

At times it seems like the average person's ability to read is greatly diminished in recent years. Simple questions like, "I'm looking for X, not Y" are invariably met with, "You totally want Y."

Yep. When anyone says something is broken the first question should always be if it’s broken in theory or broken at the table. If it’s theoretical, it should be dismissed out of hand. If it’s from actual played experience, more information about context and circumstance are necessary.

Absolutely could be. That’s the one I remember being talked about the most.

I am older and have almost embarrassingly strong feelings about Dark Sun. I'm not WotC's target audience. I likely haven't been for years despite their clear nostalgia bait. I know they won't just reprint the OG boxed set. Of course they won't. I know they will make changes. Of course they will...

Just in case it wasn't already posted. https://web.archive.org/web/20150828234542/http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/july-survey Emphasis mine.

That's the great thing about playing in a grimdark sandbox, any tiny bit of good the PCs get up to is like a shining beacon in the dark. There were, officially, many small villages of escaped slaves. You could easily start in one of those and have an entire campaign about striking out into the...

Just came across one of Justin Alexander's videos. This one on running horror games. Only about half-way through but it's really good and definitely worth the watch.

For me it was Misery. For some reason I can handle supernatural horror far easier than grounded, mundane horror. Carrie and Firestarter? Cool. Fun ride. A mostly helpless man with a psychotic nurse? Gah!

Exactly. Like robots and Nazis, slavers are perennial favorite villains because they can be fought and killed with zero moral problems.

If not B/X or OSE, then definitely Shadowdark. So much lighter and easier to hack than any of the rest and they're custom made for the task.

That perfectly describes a lot of what WotC's been doing for years.

I don't care what WotC does with the setting as long as they open it up to the DM's Guild. It would be great if they did it justice though. Would be the first WotC product I've bought in years if they do even a passable job.

Also, as an aside, this is one of the few consistently positive and enjoyable threads on the site. It would be great if posters here didn't start falling into the general ENWorld culture of endlessly fighting anyone who dares disagree with anything they say. Different people like different...

Yep. Especially when you’re lugging around a few hundred to a few thousand ebooks on your ereader like I do. My wife keeps 2-3 books on hers as she systematically reads what she wants. I just dump them all on my ereader, sort into collections, and read whatever strikes my fancy in the moment...

So many. But I’ll limit it to… WFRP Enemy Within. Any of the big three for Call of Cthulhu. Beyond the Mountains of Madness, Masks of Nyarlathotep, or Horror on the Orient Express. Something sprawling and epic in Dark Sun. Something of a redo of Star Trek: Voyager as an open-world sandox...

This is one big reason I love ebooks. I can just set the font, size, kerning, leading, justification, etc however I want.