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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gus L" data-source="post: 9543565" data-attributes="member: 7045072">there are a lot of rumors about the guy - I don't know if they are true. Rumors about incentivizing students to give his books high ratings and such as well.My own experience is that I have read Barrowmaze (decent for its era with some really nice bits and pieces) and Dwarrowdeep.  Dwarrowdeep is bad - it is everything not to like in the sort of pure nostalgia style of RPG design - basically its a long series of raids on underground fortifications in the sort of blandest manner possible.  It's unfortunate, because it also could have been really cool - there's a lot of nice art in it, but MERP's Moria from the 80's does a better job for example. I wrote this long review of it if: [URL unfurl="true"]https://bonesofcontention.blogspot.com/2022/08/spectral-interrogatories-iv-dwarrowdeep.html[/URL]My point is that his work hasn't impressed me much since Barrowmaze, and that's enough for me to ignore his B/X clone. It's not as if there aren't plenty of other B/X clones with free editions and really B/X itself is a cheap PDF. Just stop making B/X clones people.  Make setting book instead. One that's not about 800 AD Europe or Vikings etc.  At least someone would find a bucket of B/X rules for Napoleonic seafaring useful. 1920's space adventure?  Muppets battling giant vegetables?  I don't care - but no one needs another "Gygaxian" B/X clone in 2025.</blockquote>