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Hmm, thats interesting spin, to put it mildly. "In order to finance the publication of D&D in 1974, he and his partner Don Kaye had brought in a friend named Brian Blume, whose father, Melvin, was willing to invest money in the company. Kaye died in 1976, and Brian got his brother Kevin named...

Well, then the success of the company oddly correlates to gamers in charge. Such as the mid-80s when Gygax convinced the lender to give him control of the campany, it did so, then he turned the company around from near bankruptcy to financial success. And while the company may have come about...

Gamer CEO's The executive leadership of TSR/WotC went something like this: Gygax/Kaye Gygax/Blume/Blume Blume/Blume Gygax/lending institution Lorraine Williams Peter Adkinson Hasbro During the Gygax/Kaye era D&D was first published, print runs of 1000, then 2000, then 3000 then tens of...

These may help Part One: http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/lynch01may01.html Part Two: http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/lynch17may01.html Part Three: http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/lynch25may01.html

Some of Gary's wisdom From RPGnet http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/lynch25may01.html ... RPGNet: Any hard-gained nuggets of wisdom you can share with us as a parting measure? What's best in life, and what do we have to do to get there? Gary: Here is some of the wisdom I have garnered...

It was supposed to be genuinely funny, aside from a few minor points. This thread has become ridiculous already. Whats really funny is how angry people become about such insignificant things. It would be different (IMO and in all seriousness) if I was a designer for a new edition, and thereby...

Only those who actively played during 1st Ed. AD&D should participate in this poll, but even if you never played D&D before, feel free to reply since the results will be just about as meaningful. So, in 1st Edition...did you...assume that Corellon Larethian put out Gruumsh's eye?

To address a topic of actual substance here: the eye patch in Dragon Magazine is a good point. Lets look at what else the artist screwed up: look at the armor he is wearing. Only a generous interpretation would call that "gleaming black platemail". Scale mail possibly, more probably splint...

Nothing is wrong with it, you are just playing Call of Cthulhu. :lol: But seriously, you should demand that your DM run a Cthulhu game. Thats basically what he is doing. I think transferring the mentality to a ruleset that is designed to support that style of gameplay, and being exposed to...

d20 Fields of Blood / Book of War is really good, especially if you augment it with bits from Heroes of Battle that you like. Of course, you do have to run a game that includes a lot of warfare and estate management oriented situations, for it to be that useful. Also, Unearthed Arcana for 3E...

No, I don't, and I never wrote that. But I am tired of explaining myself. If you can't understand what I wrote, tough.

Has Mongoose made a statement about what they are planning for their Conan line? Especially in light of 4E. Thier latest stuff is: Conan RPG - Second Edition ...ehhh I might pick it up Return to the Road of Kings ...probably not Player's Guide to the Hyborian Age ...definitely not right now...

First, apparently the poster needed needed the detail to understand the point. Second this is not about an error, as I already said repeatly. It is about an attitude, revealed by the error. As for melodrama, read whatever you want into it. And you obviously care enough to post yourself...

Yeah, you have it right. The thing is, it is first stated here as a negative...being denied by the orcs. Even the idea of Gruumsh having lost an eye to Corellon is raised as a possibility here for the first time. Later, this is syncretized with the Dragon 62 article to this: "In a past time...

OK, so I guess I have to be pedantic now. The qualifier changes nothing, since the statement is completely wrong, and the full statement, including the qualifier, supports my assertion. The accurate qualifier would be "none of the campaigns", not "just about all". The origin of the...

From the front page... "This has always been true to some degree; even back in 1st Edition, just about *every* campaign every DM ran assumed that Corellon Larethian put out Gruumsh's eye..." Eh? What? As a 1st Ed player, that would have been news to me... "His name is never spoken by...

There is an interesting historical example of such a thing happening with the phalanxes of antiquity. From wikipedia: "The natural tendency during battle would be to drift towards the right side, or even for both lines to "wheel" as one side gave ground and the other advanced. This is because...

I guess this question is aimed in my general direction, so I'll give my take... First, I don't hate SKR or anything like that. From what I remember, he was their "web rep" type guy...sort of a proto admin in some cases, IIRC. It was sort of an intern-like position I think, and basically he...

I remember reading a description from somewhere, probably Dragonlance, of the characters on the scroll flaring into brightness as they are read, then disappearing. I guess that means once you start reading a spell, you finish it or it is wasted.

Oh, and I guess I do? Gimme a break. I rarely think about it, but neither have I forgotten. I'd like to see one hate-rant I have posted on this board (or any other) in the last 5 or 10 years on Lorraine Williams. What I just wrote above is by far the most I have ever written on the topic, and...