Recent content by Desdichado

That's extremely debatable.

Steel is the great equalizer. Orcs are like Neanderthals in being bigger, meaner (but admittedly probably not greener) than people, and yet, there are no Neanderthals today. Humans can last just fine against orcs, just like Romans lasted just fine against Gauls, while admitting that individual...

Frankly, I think that in order to fight dragons, except for exceptionally small ones, you should have some kind of fantasy ordinance, like ballistas with magical or blessed bolts or something like that, and large weighted nets to hamper its ability to fly, and otherwise a whole host of special...

I've got, I believe although I need to check, the entire 3e run of FR products. I'm not even all that excited about that, but certainly I have all of the FR material that I ever need right there. Even if I were to play a 5.5 version of 5e, I wouldn't need a 5.5 book on it. Setting stuff is...

No, I meant the "New Shield Lands", which is a small rump state of the original Shield Lands, and claims the rest of the territory once occupied by the "Old Shield Lands". Nentir Vale being a frontier territory in this area that Critwall would like to peacefully reincorporate makes perfect sense.

I also discovered just now after looking that they only published about 20-21 or so in the original US print run. The later titles never got US releases. So I guess I was more familiar with the full run for my region than I thought.

I don't run games in the Forgotten Realms, because I only ever really run games in my own homebrews, but I do have a strange love-hate but more love fondness for the Forgotten Realms, and I've recently embarked on a project to read (or re-read, for many) every single 3e Forgotten Realms product...

I never got out of the lower numbers, because by the time we were in the upper teens in terms of book titles, I was kind of moving on. I'd discovered the unfortunate but brilliant TolkienQuest books by then, and Lone Wolf, which were probably my last forays into gamebooks before I kind of moved...

1. Eberron: Near Yrlag. Kind of remote, on the borders of Droaam, the Eldeen Reaches, the Shadow Marches and even the Demon Wastes. Alternatively, near Stormwreck Bay on the other side of the Continent, where you can get Mror, Lhazaar, Talenta and Q'barra all involved. 2. Golarion: Somewhere...

You can summon them, you can ally with them, you can pit them against bad guys. But mostly, it's because Gygax was at heart a simulationist, and his "Gygaxian naturalism" as it's been called, meant that he had to have the rest of the world statted out, or at least an idea on how he would do it...

City of Thieves was always my favorite, but Forest of Doom and Scorpion Swamp were my second favorite. The Dungeoncrawling ones were frustrating. I've never understood why The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is considered a classic. I read it once and then threw it in a box in disgust, never to pick...

Do you want a D&D variant or a Glorantha variant? With the caveat that Glorantha back in the day was just a D&D variant itself?

"Original" varies by region. I'm still sad that I got rid of my American version, because it seems almost impossible to find, and I refuse to accept any other trade dress.

Like I said, it's a tangent for another discussion.