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I have played Decipher's LOTR -- one or two brief campaigns, before we drifted back into D&D. Here's my take on it. The production values are very good, the layout beautiful, with still images from the films taking a prominent role. The core rulebook is not very well organized. Character...

IMC it's sometimes known as the Downbelow or the Deepdark. The drow IMC call the sunlit world the Overlight.

Encumbrance -- I agree with the OP, too much hassle. We use an informal system that lets you carry "four hands" worth of weapons (a polearm and two daggers, or a bow and a greatsword, and so on). As for potions & scrolls, a dozen of each. Other stuff? We don't sweat it. Material Components --...

Speak of the devil and he will appear ;) I have nothing to add concerning product identity, but I can tell you that putting your campaign on the web for free doesn't kill the market for a pdf or print version, as long as the pdf/print version is significantly bigger or more complete than your...

I just had this conversation with our upstairs neighbor this week. I described D&D as improv theater with rules that put limits on what your character can do, and a director (DM) who sets the scene and plays everybody from "central casting."

Yep, for those of you who have been bugging me to do a Europe supplement for Northern Crown, there it is, basically.

Well, I like alternate history or history-with-magic settings. Something like Fulminata or Skull & Bones, but maybe Napoleonic or early Victorian era instead. I'm always up for a traditional high magic fantasy campaign, but I can make that stuff up myself -- I don't need help from a published...

I just read the review. This is a game I would love to DM or play in. I'd be a renegade thrill-driver like Kowalski in Vanishing Point or a free-spirit biker thug a la Easy Rider. You've done something dear to my heart -- taken a historical period and successfully mythologized it. I think the...

Ooh, I have one of those. He's a tiefling named Lord Juzco. He's a cross-planar merchant and one-man rumor mill. Even though he's screwed the PCs over several times and often has to be rescued from scary entities whom he's swindled, my players love him as a character, because he's a fun-loving...

Yeah, that's a common fate of the Gandalf archetype. Merlin, Gandalf, and Obi-wan all leave once the hero gets going. Piratecat, your Gandalf is one of the PCs? How does that work?

That's pretty cute. My friend Tom had an NPC in his game named Monty Python, a friendly flying serpent who who would appear to get Tom's little sister's PCs out of hot water.

Does your campaign have a Gandalf? You know, the mysterious character who shows up to warn the PCs of a great danger threatening the land, or reveal their special destiny? Usually a Gandalf is disliked by respectable folk, often referred to as "that crazy old beggar" or "troublemaker." He may...

STR 9 (don't go to the gym or do much to build muscle mass) DEX 9 (good manual dexterity and good aim, but terrible in any sport or activity requiring body awareness/balance/speed) CON 10 (out of shape; can be as high as 13 when I've been exercising regularly) INT 17 (come on, I had to give...

If it's not impolite to ask, and feel free to decline to answer... How old are you, Rob? I can imagine a very different game coming from someone who was an adult during the 70s, came of age during the 70s, was a kid, or was just a Seven-and-Seven-fueled gleam in their parents' eyes.

I use D&D, because my sf games have a science-fantasy rather than a hard-science or space opera edge. I'm starting a new sf campaign tonight, actually!

From my own experience with Northern Crown, I would say that if you want to have your setting published, first give it away for free. I maintained a web site for my campaign world for several years, and it eventually led to being noticed by several established freelancers who could put me in...

DCS was able to capture the essence of D&D much more adeptly than the more technically proficient artists who followed him. His work is evocative, spontaneous, and charming, which is 180 degrees away from much of what I see these days. He was a player's artist, someone you could imagine doodling...

Awesome. That sounds like a great dad-son moment. As a middle-school teacher who's introduced dozens of kids to D&D over the years, I know that feeling of seeing a child's imagination catch fire when they realize that their character can try to do anything and that the story potentially never...

The problem is that burning her face off is an extremely cruel and destructive act. A neutral character could have: threatened to go to the local authorities (lawful neutral response) thrown the garbage right back at her or joined right in throwing it at other people (chaotic neutral response)...

The teacher in me wants to write a rubric for grading adventure modules. I'd rank them in each of these categories: Design The adventure is a moderate challenge for characters of the stated level. TPKs are possible through patently foolish or rash decisions by the party as a whole, and...