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What an incredible effort on your part for these spotlights. Kudos and thanks!

“Shattered Tower works on the peculiar D6System we created.” ROTFL! What marketing prowess! Next!

I owned all of the Castle Zagyg stuff at one time. I was dubious then as to how much of the material was “original”, and how much Gygax (and others, perhaps?) added from scratch in the 2000s. Not being a huge TSR historian, I never was captivated by the mystique surrounding Castle Greyahwk...

Thanks so much for this! I hope to see more! Your concern about Spelljammers being able to dominate a world are exactly like mine. I love your solution. I also love the visual of magic carpets being used as skiffs!

“Likableness”. I like it: a simple, one word description that makes my mind apply it to all sorts of PC, NPC, literary, and real-world folks for a test fit. You’ve given me something to think about! Good show!

It is a stacked discussion, to be sure. I honestly thought that, for example, “SJW”was an actual term used by social activists and not a pejorative. To throw out biased “articles” like these, and then control the responses of those opposed isn’t “fair”, and it is disingenuous if one is opening...

Tempest, meet teapot. Again, I’d have no real problems with these “posts” if they weren’t cloaked as articles. All of these - especially by this freelancer - have a definitive position. They should be marked as editorials if they are to be placed in the News section.

Just want to thank everyone for making this a great thread. Each post has some great insight, ideas, and opinions. I’m definitely bookmarking, and probably printing it out for future idea mining!

XXVc is totally, freaking awesome. I’ve even got a Yahoo! Group devoted to it. The TSR comic modules give the best example of tone, in my opinion. I’d say they are as essential as the RPG material. The setting isn’t without some unresolved problems, but I love it. The AD&D 2.5 lite rules...

It’s like trying to distill Shakespeare into a math formula. Most - if not all of this - should be handled narratively. Good grief.

I agree. I never liked the idea that when an adventurer on Oerth looked up at the night sky, he was really seeing gems set into a crystal sphere instead of actual other stars - or whatever that particular crystal sphere had instead of stars (e.g. elementals, etc.). The phlogiston could still...

Yet another tidbit that makes me think we are all being played to an extent by the selection of some the articles highlighted here over the last several months or more. Throw red meat out, and watch the comment section explode.

Preach on!! Less "ruled" options, and more imagination, please.

Preach on!! Less "ruled" options, and more imagination, please.

My sentiment as well.

You’re in good company.

Personally I’d like to thank the authors of Oriental Adventures. Before I got that book as a teen, I didn’t particularly know a thing about Asian culture other than the “ninja/martial arts craze” in the US in the 1980s. Eventually, I took the history of China and history of the Far East...

I have Ascendancy, but have never played. Are three starbases per faction enough? Would one need multiple packs?

Bingo. It’s not hard to understand players pining for that next level or two, then the next, and the next, so they can unlock feat trees, class abilities, etc. It feeds into my nascent theory that 3e + games with their myriad character options actually are more restrictive. Example: Twenty...

Low magic AND low levels both combine to make my favorite combination. A natural “governor”, though, is low level. A level cap of 6 (like in the old d20 E6 game variant) or 10 will naturally curtail some of the magic shenanigans. I like the resource management aspects, hirelings... and the...