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Worlds Without Number didn’t have the OGL in it last I checked. There’s a lot in WWN that people who have played D&D will recognize. It was designed with the core of B/X in mind with a skill system based on Traveller. Heck the core rules are freely available to download.

I agree. I’ve swapped in these versions at my table and each one my players have loved. But the minion rules have been such a great spice to add. But the new vampire in packet 4, finally feels CR13.

The Beedle and Grimm editions were delivered with the errata this past month.

I appreciated that there was a Players version of the booklet with the character rules. Having a separate book to hand out is going to be handy.

I also got the platinum Spelljammer. It’s my first Beedle and Grimm set. Burnside has summarized it well. My biggest wish is that there was some improved way to store everything rather than inside the foam-filled box it came in because it would improve getting at it!

I got it finally. I like this iteration a lot. (I bought the platinum Beedle and Grimm’s version, which was printed with the errata!) My first intro to AD&D was playing Spelljammer. I know people say it is a setting in its own, but I never felt that. As a player I always felt it was a way to...

I like this as an option in a toolbox for trying to add some of a survival horror style that early D&D editions evoked. I can think of more to for such a play style toolbox too.

And only things that reward shareholders by being obviously profitable, not marginally hopefully profitable despite a history otherwise.

It is curious how the Great Man Theory of leadership finds new ways to be reasserted.

The vast majority of my 2e playing years was in Spelljammer games. There was only 1 person ever enthusiastic about ship-to-ship Spelljammer combat, the DM. And one player who went along with what the others saw as a non-D&D diversion. Everyone else either sat around, grabbed a book, or grabbed...

I seem to remember watching a twitch stream of Lord Gosumba where Erik Mona mentioned that the idea of the Isle of Dread appearing in Greyhawk in the Paizo run of Dungeon Magazine came from the idea that Greyhawk places and personalities have been picked over and looted for other settings long...

I’m here for the thought provoking take on Waterdeep. I’ve never bothered to interrogate what is happening there like this. 🤔

You seem to have had the same reaction I did when I stumbled on it, bored and looking for some animation. I came across Arcane right before the third week was released because my news feed is filled with genre news. Suddenly there was this article that this show had some of this highest ever...

Rewatching it I enjoyed it even more. I noticed so many things the follow up rewatchings that had payoff later, or showed extra meaning to events that would happen. Amazing use of “show don’t tell”. Watching the “documentary” of the making on YouTube, “Bridging the Rift” I’m pretty sure they...

Matt Colville once had a Running the Game video up professing his love for Birthright, but I think he must have taken it down. I must say that one of my favorite Dungeon adventures was a Birthright-linked adventure. Seeking Bloodsilver, written by a young Chris Perkins, I filed off the...

With a healer’s kit (or cook’s utensils, if you want this to include tools for prepping freshly killed game), you can assemble automatons from bone, flesh, skin, scales, or chitin. To attach upon the artificer. Take those parts and grow them from the smallest “ingredient” into as much as needed...

True, I have an interior/dungeon in mind.

Yeah, I don’t think I had ever seen that sort of mood or vibe in a D&D cover before, it is very nice.

Yeah. It just does not sell Taladas at all, IMO.

Stephen Fabian’s interior art of the glass skimmers of Taladas. The cover of the Taladas box was dreadfully boring. But Fabian really set the tone for Taladas and this piece of art did its job. So much of Taladas could have used better art, like the gnome citadels of the lava sea, Hithekel...