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Which I swiped from E.E. "Doc" Smith (see Kinnison's first meeting with Helen of Lyrane in Second Stage Lensman). (And yes to be honest, it is pleasing to open a D&D book and see my work in it.)

Hey, what can I say -- I was only 17 at the time!

I started with D&D about when it first came out in 1974. It has been a part of my life for so long I suspect I'd have been an entirely different person without it. In that time Gary has always been there. I didn't know him well, but we had several spates of correspondence over the years. I'll...

Any plans for a print edition?

Hm, if it's going to be a smallish book, I wonder if it would make sense to print it in 6"x9" format like SWEE or the Green Ronin player's guides? Have everything that is in 1E but not 4E? The 1E Illusionist hasn't really had a strict equivalent since then , really -- now how would you go...

This explains many things about taverns in RPGs...

Up to fall '76 (while I was in Jr. High and High School), all of my D&D was played at the MIT Strategic Gaming Society's club space, which pretty much eliminated any chance of music background and kind of limited snacks at the table (we'd just make occasional meal runs). Once I was in college...

Interesting. I just ordered $20 worth of discounted GR products from Paizo (I don't have shelfspace for any more than that!), and they threw in free shipping.

That is, of course, true this week. You did choose that screen name for a reason. :)

Except the setting material is already in there, it's just that the setting is D&D, which is widely admitted to be its own genre of fantasy. Look at any of the books that adapt an existing fantasy universe to D20, such as The Black Company Campaign Setting, The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game or...

And at which point you've discarded or changed so many things, that getting rid of the rest of a default setting wouldn't be that much extra work ... Understand, I always make my own settings, (that being one of the pleasures of GM'ing for me) so a default setting would be something for me to...

It seems to me that some people are underestimating the amount of setting material built into the current (3.5e) D&D rules, including (but not limited to):The classes (the existence of Druids, Clerics and Bards in particular say a lot about the world); The races (another biggie); The languages...

Hm. This looks to be a bit of a turn around from when we discussed this issue in May on the True20 boards (in the armor & encumubrance thread). :) There, you said: Unless, of course, I misunderstood you.

Hm ... sounds a little bit like you locked D20 Modern and True20 in a closet and waited nine months ...

They are from different literary sources: The Vorpal Blade is from The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, while The Sword of Sharpness is from Jack the Giant Killer.

And I will note that in The Dying Earth, Excellent Prismatic Spray was an autokill against someone without a defensive amulet or counterspell -- no saving throw or hitpoints here! It's a pretty different situation. Mind you, I like Vance's writing a lot, but he's pretty much su generis when...

In fiction, a spell caster runs out of magic when it is dramatically necessary. In a D&D expedition, it is seldom dramatically necessary or desirable for them to run out of magic.

Without knowing that method it is hard to be sure what qualifies, but Tales of the Caliphate Nights, which is a setting for True20 is in full color. However, it requires the True20 core material, which is in B&W.

Between getting married, and my kids getting interested in RPGs (on their own, without encouragement!), about 15 years (~1990-2005).

I suppose it's because, to some extent, when everything is weird, nothing is weird. Which, come to think about it, might be an issue with Tékumel...