Recent content by Thulcondar

Apologies! Not trying to circumvent anything; it was just easier to copy it in from other places I've used it. Won't happen again, and I'll go through and edit it out upthread. Of course, but just because a book is about someone doesn't mean that their name is used throughout constitutes a...

I don't have a copy, so I don't know the answer to this, but by whom was it published? Is there a trademark statement somewhere on the inside of the book? I know that the proceeds went to the "Gygax Memorial Fund", and such was stated prominently on the cover, but that's very different from...

According to the TESS search on the USPTO website, "Gary Gygax" is not a registered trademark, nor is "Gygax". That doesn't mean it can't be used as a trademark, just that it's not officially registered with the USPTO. However, in order to do that, it must be used in commerce, and as far as I...

And thirty years from now, we can blog exhaustively about the content of the magazines. I KID! I KID! Joe

Seeing the additional information from Tim Kask makes my optimism somewhat less cautious. I do wonder at the economics of starting a print RPG magazine given the current state of the economy and the gaming hobby/industry as a whole, but there certainly are options that can be used to make it...

I'm also very intrigued by this. With all those members of the Old Guard involved, I am cautiously optimistic about what this magazine could produce. Very much looking forward to hearing more. Joe

Hey all! Just wanted to let everybody know that the Kickstarter for my Adventures Dark and Deep™ Players Manual is now live. It's my answer to the question "What if Gary Gygax had been allowed to keep developing AD&D?" Based on exhaustive research of Gary's articles in Dragon, online postings...

I disagree. The timing of the announcement seems pretty obvious, being 30 days away. Unless you're saying they moved up the start of the open playtest as some sort of distraction from the news of Cook's withdrawal? I'm not sure I'd buy that.

The hard-and-fast rule is, if you're not being fair as the DM, you're players leave your game. I don't need a rule to tell me "if your players have X levels, you should only throw Y monster hit dice at them, and when you do, make sure you have Z magic items". Sometimes my players face things...

I disagree. On the one hand, the combat-as-war approach does allow spell-casters, especially at lower levels, to actively participate in combat situations beyond what they might otherwise be expected to. For instance, a first level magic-user might cast grease to impede the movement of the...

I've got to say, this makes me a bit antsy. It almost feels like the attitude is that those poor benighted grognards who don't want lots of options when they first roll up their character will be enticed by all the superfunoptioncandy and finally "see the light" and want to get options for their...

Only if Ryan Dancy has his way...

Apologies for resurrecting this thread from the hoary mists of time, but just for the benefit of anyone else who might stumble upon it (like I did) while searching for the name of the heraldic symbol that appears on the shields of all the members of the Iron League in the World of Greyhawk, it's...

And, to make things easier, the whole set is available as a .zip file here: CotMA.zip Joe, I cannot thank you enough for your efforts with the maps. These things are amazing! For all those who have downloaded the original dungeon, these poster maps aren't any new information, but seeing them...

You're quite correct. Adventures Dark and Deep isn't a retro-clone of 2nd edition so much as a reconstruction of what it might have looked like had Gygax still been in charge. So it has the new classes he mentioned in 1985 (mountebank, bard, etc.), streamlined combat, changed up monsters, etc...