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Are you currently working on any projects for Dungeons & Dragons that you are allowed to talk about? If not would you ever be willing to work for D&D again?
If you mean by that doing work for WotC, the answer is no. I do have some number of d20 works in process of publication. anthough the advent of 3.5E is likely to mess that up a good deal.
My ability to be creative using 3E is limited, for I find the rules inhibiting. so it is not easy for me to write for the system. I prefer to do my creative work using my new system, and thereafter something akin to OAD&D, as I can think and be innovative in those game terms freely.
I don't want to get into a political debate because this would be one of the worst threads to close down, but i will be happy to express my oppinion and answer question over e-mail about my oppinions on the second amendment. I will say though that the second amendment doesn't actually give people anything, it only reaffirms the rights that the founders thought where god given and bestowed by nature. So they where the rights that everybody already had and will always have. Even if in some places and times in history they are denined.
There we are of one mind in regards to rights of the People
Politics aren't allowed on my games list, so I have a seconf one for such subjects. Seems that there's usually some cross-over despite that. Better to cut it out here, so as to keep the thread going.
Pardon me for getting it started on the wrong track by responding to a post that questioned firearm ownership. I won't respond to any further posts of that nature, and please don't any others carry on with the off-topic discussion.
Your D-trilogy of modules are my favorite AD&D modules. Legalities aside, do you have any interest in finishing detailing all the encounter areas on the large-scale map? It should only take a dozen or so more modules. It would be doubly cool to have them printed in the same font as the D trilogy, and have monochrome/pastel covers.
Shifting gears to your latest love, when is Hall of Many Panes scheduled for release? It sounds intriguing!
Your D-trilogy of modules are my favorite AD&D modules. Legalities aside, do you have any interest in finishing detailing all the encounter areas on the large-scale map? It should only take a dozen or so more modules. It would be doubly cool to have them printed in the same font as the D trilogy, and have monochrome/pastel covers.
Shifting gears to your latest love, when is Hall of Many Panes scheduled for release? It sounds intriguing!
Sure! It would be fun to goi back and flesh out more of the Drow underground, but that's pretty unlikely to come about
your mention of format of the modules is something that you can count on seeing from one to two publishers soon. It's been discussed recently on the www. Dragonsfoot.org boards too.
The HALL OF MANY PANES should be ready for release at GenCon as a premier--at least that's the current plan of the Trolls, I believe.
I'm sharing some old time stories from the early days about my first DM/GM in another thread and it'd be great if you could pop in and share some of yours too.
And, if you hadn't already heard, please know that you are also invited to jump on board for the March Fo(u)rth for GM's Day! movement. We've got a growing, grass roots movement to promote the first gamers' holiday and I think you'd enjoy being a part of it.
Originally posted by Mark CMG Good afternoon Poppa G!
I'm sharing some old time stories from the early days about my first DM/GM in another thread and it'd be great if you could pop in and share some of yours too.
And, if you hadn't already heard, please know that you are also invited to jump on board for the March Fo(u)rth for GM's Day! movement. We've got a growing, grass roots movement to promote the first gamers' holiday and I think you'd enjoy being a part of it.
Heh, and son Alex is want to call me "Papa G" now and again
The accounts of the old time D&D games I have are pretty well told already, or will be, in the DRAGON Magazine column I do, "Up on a Soapbox," so I have to pass on the kind offer.
I hadn't heard about March Fo(u)rth for GM's Day. Sounds an excellent idea. Hope it gets a great turnout. I'll not be marching much of anyplace, though, what with my bad leg...
Originally posted by Lord Zardoz This is related to politics, but thankfully, not to firearms.
What non US country do you admire most, and why?
And on a more game related note:
What D&D Villian did you create that you are most proud of?
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As one of the very select number who are members of the Zardoz Film Fans, how can I not respond?
Actually, from my historical interest perspective, I admire many other countries for one or more reasons. Which one I admire most is a very difficult question for me to answer. The criteria are manifold, so without some specific bases for selecting one, I can't name a special one.
I will mention that Ancient Egypt holds a special place in my heart, for it lasted so many centuries, and the people of the land wanted the afterlife to be no more than a continuation of their fleshly existance there. That's quite a nod for living under pharoah's rule.
From a gaming standpoint, my all-time favorite is Obmi the dwarf. All of the players who encountered him rapidly came to despise Obmi and want to see him extirpated. Of course, that was why he kept coming back.
Most of the others were sort of uber-NPCs, and not as much joy could be had from thwarting the PCs' desires in regards to their expunging them.
Cheers,
Gary
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Originally posted by Col_Pladoh I do have some number of d20 works in process of publication. anthough the advent of 3.5E is likely to mess that up a good deal.
Oh, don't let 3.5 stop you, Gary. There are always many who are willing to aid in translating your adventure designs, or more generic "gygaxian fantasy" material into the specifics of the latest D&D incarnation.
Of course anybody who tires of keeping a strict catalog of errata and revisions to "official canon" can try out Lejendary Adventure with its emphasis on the Game Master's primacy as the final arbiter on which rules (or even updates) to use or toss.
Granted there is such a "Rule Zero" written in the new D&D, and yet there remains a great concern with what is Official. This a common obsession, never discouraged by Wizards, regardless of conventional wisdom concerning DM fiat. LA hammers home the point that the Game Master is ultimately responsible for the success of the game, the fact intrinsic to its very design it would seem, based on its "rules-light" nature.
Back a while ago, you did that poll in Dragon on the various aspects of RPGs - very illuminating and thought-provoking, I must say!
Which aspect do you find easiest, and which do you find hardest as a DM to handle properly?
Personally, whilst I love role-playing, I find it extremely difficult to pull off, especially when I'm not getting good feedback from the other player: instead of feeding off each other, it turns into one person doing all the work. "I am Sir Malkonian, lord of these lands. What are you called, adventurer." "Bob." "Why have you come before me." "Need work." "Is there a reason that I should hire you?" "..."
Conversely, finding quests for the players seems relatively easy to me, though at times it turns into quest overload. "Can't we have some down-time?" "But there's a dragon about to eat your castle, and you need to find the Sword of Magnificence to kill it! No, you can't rest, now!"
It would be doubly cool to have them printed in the same font as the D trilogy, and have monochrome/pastel covers.
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