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City of Thieves was always my favorite, but Forest of Doom and Scorpion Swamp were my second favorite. The Dungeoncrawling ones were frustrating. I've never understood why The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is considered a classic. I read it once and then threw it in a box in disgust, never to pick...

Do you want a D&D variant or a Glorantha variant? With the caveat that Glorantha back in the day was just a D&D variant itself?

"Original" varies by region. I'm still sad that I got rid of my American version, because it seems almost impossible to find, and I refuse to accept any other trade dress.

Like I said, it's a tangent for another discussion.

Huh. Having read Red Nails and the original B4, I have to admit that I don't find the set-up particularly similar other than the idea of a lost city that's semi-depopulated. One of these days I'll have to address the tangent that D&D and Sword & Sorcery aren't really very much alike, even in the...

Yeah, that probably would have been better. Regardless, I've got a long enough list of things to read for now.

Of course, but none of that is encapsulated in the term "skilled play." Just because you don't know or don't acknowledge the definition of it doesn't mean that there isn't one, or that it means more than just skilled + play. Skilled play in the context of D&D is a pretty well-defined playstyle...

You don't just parse the words skill and play. Skilled play is very well known to the people who are fans of it, and they know exactly what they mean by the term. The idea that we don't understand what the entire tournament module scene even meant is not true at all. People who aren't fans of...

Should I queue up DJ Wag & MR, or Pulsedriver & Rocco, or old school David Bowie?

Games that I've run: Pirates of the Mezzovian Main - a campaign I ran during the 3e period... I think 3e was still the current version of the rules, but maybe it was when we were still playing 3e during the 4e era. It was less open piracy and more sailing around from port to port and dealing...

Yeah, these 5(?) sagas seem to be exactly what I'm looking for, and of course, they seem to be almost completely unavailable anywhere. Sigh. Maybe if I just reach out to Sandy he'll help a guy out and point me in the right direction or something. I don't seem to have too many other options.

I would really love to get my hands on these if you can remember who's actually selling them. I've having a devil of a time locating them. Of course, internet searches are useless the last several years, but this one is kinda ridiculous. EDIT: Actually, were they even released? I was able...

Because I'm wary of scope creep. I'm already familiar with Cthulhu campaigns, Paizo adventure paths and, of course, like I mentioned, The Enemy Within and other stuff. But I want to limit the suggestions to 3pp 5e campaigns. Good call; that's one that I'd heard of but had forgotten.

Is Iron Kingdoms Requiem a campaign? I thought it was an update to the setting.

I use the Angry GM strategy, also published by Bardzilla as Improved Travel. It replaces the random encounters mechanic and works for any system.

I probably wouldn't run one just because I want to use my own stuff too much. But I recall (vaguely) seeing some developer thinking that when he was younger, he considered his Dark Sun games to be Dark Sun rather than D&D, even though of course they used the D&D rules. How much a game can vary...

I'm going trawling through campaign books and adventure path like things, looking for some to read. There's obviously a bazillion of them out there. I'm looking to winnow down the list of ones I might want to read, however, to the best of the best. Couple of caveats: my tastes lean towards...

I'm still trying to figure out if I roll for effect or affect...

Obviously I'm not, or you wouldn't have to engage is such ridiculous semantic hair-splitting on definitions to maintain your point. Even before you made it, it was pretty clear though. Anyone who starts discussion with pedantic nitpicking doesn't have a strong case for whatever it is that...