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Does Iron Kingdoms do anything different to the Core Rules? For example, do they resolve firearms combat differently from the Core Rules: roll against AC and that's it. Or do they have DR and stuff like that for firearms? Thanks.

Dear Gary, How many years did you run your Greyhawk campaign? Could you please list all the worlds/dimensions that players interacted with? Murlynd obviously travelled to a Wild West world (was this just Earth?) and, apparently, there was cross-overs to Rob Kuntz's campaign setting. Did the...

The only reason I'd start a DL campaign is if I could start it on Taladas. Is it still going ahead? How are the new DL publications selling? Or, are they going to die like many other d20 campaign settings? You have to forgive me if I'm not finding out all this stuff from the Draganlance Nexus...

Yes, it is acting but the point I'm getting at is that with every time you roleplay or even roll that d20 to strike that frost giant a narrative is unfolding. You are inadvertantly creating a story with the GM.

My sentiments exactly. D&D (all roleplaying games) are games, but they are also heavily influenced by a narrative and in-game experience. Rules should be explained in the setting and vice versa. This is a mark of good game design, I think. If it were *just* a game, then why role play in it...

What the EGG says about story:

Greyhawk's demihuman (& monster) pantheons Hi Gary, In the back of UA there is an appendix with an example demihuman pantheon in it. Was this *officially* given the OK by you to become canon for the Greyhawk campaign? I've got a feeling it wasn't. I felt that it was only an *example* pantheon...

There's a Dragon issue that shows his 3E Deities & Demigods stats. Can't remember which issue . . . Someone else will have to help there. [Vecna's godly stats are in Deities & Demigods.]

Sorry for the derailment. Just asking Gary some Questions and hoping for some Answers.

To me, role-playing games are an amalgum of game and story-telling. If I wanted to play just a GAME, I'd pull out Chess or Monopoly or play Poker.

They don't want to have to retire their character at 10th-level while their human allies continue. They want to continue the epic "story". But level limits are only part of the problem that restricts my 1E AD&D players. There's the issue of multi-classing, too. You want the freedom to add or...

What are gestalt classes? Do you mean multi-classing? If so, then, in my experience, multi-class characters are weaker than single class characters.

Just curious as to how folks would like their Assassins . . .

The player is not a munchkin. They like the story idea of a diverse character. They're not thinking about how much stuff they can slaughter at and loot to steal at all. I'm somewhat at peace now. I'm glad to see your stance on this but I'm gonna stick to my house rules (which don't create...

I struggle to picture in my mind how floppy, rubbery, ol' tentacles can force their way through flesh and the skull to extract the brain. Yes, yes, I own the Illithiad and it describes that the tentacles excrete a "flesh-desolving" enzime at its tip, but still I struggle to believe. The skull...

AD&D 1E Questions Dear Gary, Please help me find inner peace. I love 1st Edition AD&D to death, but there were two rules in the game that annoyed the hell out of me and, as a result, I did not abide by them. Here are the rules: 1) Level limits for demihumans 2) Restrictions on picking up...

How many games have I played where the PC Rogue picks the pockets of the other PCs? Do you just let the little kleptomaniac continue to do this? I find that this behaviour can quite often upset other players, but at the same time I don't want to stifle the Rogue playing "his character" --...

Actually . . . the Castle Zagyg project has got some mildly, tingly feelings perculating. It's a pitty it won't be *true* Greyhawk -- circa '83. It'll be an alien world that a Greyhawker must extrapolate from. Also, when Dave Arnesson releases Castle Blackmoor and the City of the Gods, some...

No warm, tingly feelings hear :(

Does the Mother of all Encounters follow the same rules as Core D&D: ie. roll percentile once per hour? Does the MoAET have encounters like you mentioned: bad weather, merchants, minstrels, pilgrims, a singing hill giant? Thanks