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agree on his writing skills. But I ended up using the city from the novel as an adventure for my group more or less as he wrote it, and added in some other stuff (like the anthropoid demons from a later novel); it was a pretty good short term arc in the campaign...

I rather liked Sea of Death, as it detailed an area I was always interested in; the Forgotten City/Suel capitol city in the Sea of Dust. But yeah, the series in general is rather hard to read. Still, if you want an idea of what EGG had in mind about Tharizdun, these will do it...

Griff the Ranger, who made it up to about 14th level or so, and ran through the GDQ series as the capstone to his career; this was way back in early 1E days...

If you can find EGG's Gord the Rogue novels, Tharizdun is a major antagonist in about half of them...

a bit OT, but... my niece is one of the many people who got into D&D5E. She already has a pretty good collection of dice. Her birthday is in Feb, and I was thinking of an odd gift idea.... one of those chest shaped dice boxes and some novelty dice (D7s and 15s, other odd ones I've seen out in...

I didn't get any D&D stuff for Christmas. My family doesn't really 'get' D&D. I did get some cash though, so I can buy my own D&D stuff...

Bunnies are infesting Farmer Codswaddle's cabbages, and must be removed. But you can't kill them because Codswaddle's daughter Imogene thinks they're cute and will cry if you do. So you have to devise cunning nonlethal traps and snares to get rid of them. Okay, this one might be best if your...

in 1E/2E, DMs were really tempted to rush the PCs through the lower levels, just to get them to survive. With the 'gp=xp' and 'magic items=xp' rules, you could do that. Once the PCs finally got up to a survivable level, you could slow advancement down too...

never played 5E, but it seems to be a lot more 'time compressed' than the early editions. As in, PCs will climb through the levels a lot faster. 1E/2E advancement could really be adjusted by the DM a lot, with the 'gp=xp' rule...

what's really sad is to read just how much money was wasted by the company pre-WOTC... they tossed money at way too many things they had no real reason to be involved with...

well, if we're looking at older stuff... there's the GDQ series, Isle of the Ape, Nightmare Keep, and the whole Bloodstone series too....

back in 1E days, the highest level adventurers I saw/ran topped out about 14th level... and that one was mainly because we took on the GDQ series when we all hit 10th level or so, and that was one fantastic series that really prompted you to stick with it. But otherwise... yes, campaigns did...

not sure about 5E, but from what I remember about 1/2E... all of the fighter and thief classes got to be a bit meh at higher levels after a while, because they only get better at doing the same stuff they did at first level... fighting or thieving. It's not really an issue when you are pretty...

back in 2E days.... stoneskin. Gawd, I hated that spell. Primarily because in 2E, there were no restrictions on who could receive it. So every PC had it. In response, I had NPCs loaded with them too. Which led to loooong combats as each side fruitlessly hammered on each other, waiting to...

ah, Gencon. The first one I went to was in 1989, and it was an absolute thrill. It was great in those early days. Eventually, signing up for it (particularly when the Internet really got going) got to be way too much of a hassle. The last time I went was in 2000. While I will likely never...

I used Spelljammer twice in a FR campaign. In the first one, the party found a town freaking out because a giant pyramid was floating way up in the sky; later, they found their way to a very old SJ ship hidden in a huge cavern and used it to fly up to the pyramid and take out the mummy lord who...

when I was a DM back in the Stone Age, I used to have one player keep a record of all the loot found in an adventure, and another one keep track of monsters killed... then I could just ask for the latter list and tally up XP, and the players could divide the loot...

D&D has always struggled a bit with neutral dragons... the gem dragons, the oriental dragons from the FF, the 'vapor' dragons from the MM2... none of them ever really caught on...

eh... it was a mixed bag. Along with some pretty good stuff, there were some real dogs. Remember 'Puppets'? Or the Falcon trilogy? I personally wasn't a fan of the whole Greyhawk Wars thing, so every module related to it didn't appeal to me... with the exception of the Scarlet Brotherhood...

so, my story. Way back in 1980, middle of my college years, I first ran across D&D, attracted to it mainly by a huge display of miniatures in a store in the mall. Not knowing anything about the editions, I first bought the Basic "Blue Box" just to figure out what it was all about... and went...